Comment Dissovable? (Score 1) 168
I'm surprised nobody commented about the obvious typo in the title !
Comment Whose fault is it? (Score 1) 551
I'm pretty sure the majority of AT&T customers that are using iPhone do not use more data than the plan they subscribed to. I would say it's AT&T's fault for selling more than they can handle!
Comment I'm not sure about the concept (Score 1) 300
Sure, making more process make it possible to run on multi-core and/or multi-cpu. There is no doubt this is the future but there is a way better way of running things on multiple cpu/core. It is not a new invention, they are called threads !
I fully understand they are not protected from each other so if one crash it could bring the whole app down. However I would expect the 8th version of an application like IE not to crash and burn everyday
Submission + - Brain implants allow patient to eat drink and talk (guardian.co.uk)
stevedcc writes: "The UK newspaper, the Guardian are running a story about a minimally conscious patient who spent more than six years in a near-vegetative state. He used to be fed through a straw and communicated through ocassionally mouthing words. He has received a brain implant. He can now eat normally, talk and brush his hair. From the article:
"With the parents' agreement, the man was fitted with brain electrodes that fed into twin regions of the central thalamus and hooked up to a pacemaker implanted under the skin of the chest during a 10-hour operation. He was then treated with electrical pulses for 480 days.....It is the first time the technique, called deep brain stimulation, has been used to treat a patient in what neuroscientists refer to as a minimally conscious state. It is also the first clear sign that it may be possible to rehabilitate people with such severe brain damage that they have previously been considered untreatable by modern medicine.
