Comment Re:Certainly Not (Score 0, Flamebait) 709
So is butt-fucking choir boys against their will, but that didn't stop you...
Comment One Word... (Score 1) 458
KARMA.
Comment Re:Waste MORE time!? (Score 3, Funny) 1073
Hmmm...from my experience with hospitals, I thought that all registered nurses studied Stalin as a role model.
Comment Religous Nuts With Nukes (Score 1) 1032
I really think that eventually the Middle East is going to be one large, glowing plateau of molten radioactive glass. And then how will we get the oil out?
Submission + - Java devs are wasting their time (zeroturnaround.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: ZeroTurnaround released a report from a survey of 1100+ Java EE developers, showing that on average, developers spend 3-7 workweeks (40-hours each), per year, waiting for code changes to redeploy, each redeploy takes 2.5 minutes (they show data per container too), and developers redeploy 5 times per hour. Jetty is the fastest, WebSphere is the slowest. Size of apps is a likely influencer. Is this specific to Java or is building/deploying a whale in the room?
Submission + - Mud-Loving Bacteria Increases Fuel Cell Output by (gas2.org)
jerryjamesstone writes: "Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst evolved a new strain of the Geobacter microbe that increases power output per cell by 800%. The hairy mud-loving microbe uses its hairlike filamentsâ"called piliâ"to produce an electric current from both mud and waste water. The pili are only 5 nanometers in diameter (20,000 times smaller than a human hair); theyâ(TM)re also a thousand times longer than they are wide."
Submission + - Cops Play Wii During Undercover Drug Raid (kotaku.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Guns drawn, cops busted down the door of a suspected south Florida drug dealer, then proceeded to kick some ass — on Wii bowling. A security cam captured some playing video games while others searched for drugs and weapons. http://kotaku.com/5364947/cops-play-wii-during-undercover-drug-raid Clearly they just misunderstood when they were told to search the house for Weed.
Submission + - Firefox to replace menus with Office Ribbon (pcpro.co.uk) 2
Barence writes: "Mozilla has announced that its plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up its "dated" browser. "Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away," notes Mozilla in its plans for revamping the Firefox user interface. "[It will] be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon, [which is] now in Paint and WordPad, too." The change will also bring Windows' Aero Glass effects to the browser."
Submission + - Wolfenstein Being Recalled in Germany (ign.com) 1
D1gital_Prob3 writes: "September 22, 2009 — PCGames.de is reporting Wolfenstein, the latest iteration on the classic first-person shooter from Activision, is being recalled from retails shelves in Germany due to the inclusion of the swastika symbol found somewhere in the game. The German version was supposed to have all symbols removed.
Exact details are a bit fuzzy at the moment, as most of this information is coming via translation; however, it's believed Activision is going to make a statement on this matter this week.
As Planet Wolfenstein points out, two developers on the project, Raven Software and Endrant, have both been part of massive employee layoffs recently. If the German version needs to be edited, perhaps another studio will have to do the legwork."
Exact details are a bit fuzzy at the moment, as most of this information is coming via translation; however, it's believed Activision is going to make a statement on this matter this week.
As Planet Wolfenstein points out, two developers on the project, Raven Software and Endrant, have both been part of massive employee layoffs recently. If the German version needs to be edited, perhaps another studio will have to do the legwork."
Submission + - Microsoft's Secret Newton Killer (gizmodo.com) 1
rbanffy writes: "Through Gizmodo, Microsoft leaked today (http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet) some information on its concept tablet computer. The timing seems rather precise in comparison to previous vaporware launches. I say it's fun to watch (http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/blog_en/a-bit-of-vaporware) them showing off non-products like that."
Submission + - There ain't no such thing as a free Windows 7 upgr (daniweb.com)
billandad writes: "Interesting investigation reveals just how much PC vendors are charging customers to redeem those 'free' Windows 7 upgrade vouchers that come with their new PCs."
Submission + - Torvalds: "we're getting bloated" (tuxradar.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: LinuxCon has kicked off in Portland, and one of the early highlights was a roundtable from leading kernel developers. TuxRadar put up some of the most interesting quotes from Linus Torvalds, in which he discusses his love of flamewars, kernel mode setting, and why he gets sad that the kernel isn't as streamlined as he had wished.
Submission + - SPAM: Fruit trees bear at different times of the year.
Submission + - Dymaxion Car Restored (synchronofile.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Dymaxion Car of R. Buckminster Fuller is being restored by the company Crosthwaite and Gardiner. synchronofile.com has been granted the great honor of announcing the restoration of the Dymaxion Car — because our readers are now invited to help in the project. Can you identify the manufacturer for the component shown at the link?
Comment Incompetent, Greedy Management (Score 1) 97
"When you get rid of the real experts, who is going to figure out the new stuff?"
Interesting question. Why not ask the former management of Circuit City?
