Comment Re:does it have to be PHP? (Score 1) 227
Flex was Java on the server side, so apparently just not using PHP didn't save the OP.
Comment Re:Not an unsafe language... (Score 1) 145
But it's 2013 now and in my opinion the language should have long been fixed.
Comment Re:Is this legal? (Score 5, Informative) 243
No, MySQL has always required copyright assignment for stuff to be included.
Comment Re:Congress Sucks (Score 4, Insightful) 858
Remember those "death panels" that were such a joke? Meet a victim of one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/2910780/NHSs-refusal-to-fund-cancer-treatment-costs-mother-21000.html
It's true. These socialised health care systems have a horrible tendency to not fund vital drugs like this, just because the clinical evidence shows they don't work.
Comment Re:Let's hear it for the beancounters (Score 1, Funny) 432
You're right! We should all stop buying Apple products because of their tax evasion. Anything else would be blatant fanboy-ism, probably caused by some sort of reality distortion field.
Now I just have to decide which of the many technology companies who gladly pay their fair share of taxes to choose from...
Submission + - Steve Jobs hinted at Apple's abandonment of optical drives back in 2010 (networkworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple's newly released iMacs don't come with optical drives standard. Here's why you shouldn't be surprised. Back in 2010, Steve Jobs responded to a customer email regarding Blu-Ray drives and noted that it will be beaten by Internet downloads. "Free, instant gratification and convenience (likely in that order) is what made the downloadable formats take off. And the downloadable movie business is rapidly moving to free (Hulu) or rentals (iTunes) so storing purchased movies or TV shows is not an issue." That said, Apple's decision to forgo Blu-Ray drives and completely remove optical drives altogether has been in the cards for some time now.
Comment Re:Drupal Logo (Score 2) 77
If you seriously couldn't work out how to produce the equivalent of a Wordpress site using Drupal in six months then - and I hate to be the one to break this to you - I don't think Drupal was the problem.
Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132
An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"
Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 151
I don't see how you can have a sense of acceleration. Perhaps change of acceleration....but acceleration? Categorically NO. We orbit the sun, but i wager you have no sense of angular acceleration about the sun. The other senses are persistent.
And, by the same logic, we cannot possibly see cars as we cannot see paramecium.
Comment Re:Confirmation? (Score 1) 523
The SIIA link to it from their own site on this page
(Check number 01 in the image fader thing on the page)
Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel 523
theodp writes "Back in 1992, the SIIA released Don't Copy That Floppy!, a goofy video in which anti-piracy rapper MC Double Def DP convinces a young lad not to copy a game by appealing to his sense of right and wrong. Now, to address what it calls 'new generations and new temptations,' the SIIA has uploaded a trailer for a new anti-piracy rap video — Don't Copy That 2 — that will be released this summer. To underscore the video's it's-not-just-a-copy-it's-a-crime message, the new film is a tad darker than the original. A smug teen who's downloading files from 'Pirates Palace' and 'Tune Weasel' finds his world turned upside down when automatic weapons-toting government agents break down the door and take his Mom away in handcuffs. The teen finds himself in a prison jumpsuit forced to tattoo shirtless adult inmates who eventually turn on him, physically attack him, and make him run for his life back to his jail cell (image summarizing his plight)."
Microsoft Working On Motion-Sensing Camera For the Xbox 360 68
The Wall Street Journal reports on the motion-capture technology Microsoft is rumored to be working on for the Xbox 360. "Unlike the Wii, the Microsoft camera won't require users to hold any hardware to control on-screen action, the people familiar with the matter said. The camera would sit near the television and capture when players move their hands, legs or head." The Guardian Games Blog points out that we've gotten a look at this technology before, from a company called 3DV, which was reported to be talking with Microsoft earlier this year. Many expect the specifics of this technology to be revealed at E3 early next month.
