Comment Does not compute! (Score 1) 337
Any Dev AI exposed to actual end users requirement documents would promptly crash and lock-up, much like the Norman android or Nomad probe of Star Trek.
Comment Re:Can it be used... (Score 1) 43
Looks like Dr. Nichols finally figured out the dynamics of that matrix.
Comment Re:old news (Score 1) 74
"PLAID CARTRIDGE LOW"
[And *that* is my Spaceballs reference for the day.]
Comment Re:Crap! Trouble now (Score 1) 187
13.7us means about 4km of position error, so yeah, a big deal.
How One Company Is Bringing Old Video Games Back From the Dead (fastcompany.com) 106
harrymcc writes: Night Dive Studios is successfully reviving old video games — not the highest-profile best-sellers of the past, but cult classics such as System Shock 2, The 7th Guest, Strife, and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. It's a job that involves an enormous amount of detective work to track down rights holders as well as the expected technical challenges. Over at Fast Company, Jared Newman tells the story of how the company stumbled upon its thriving business. "Kick didn’t have money on hand to buy the rights, so he scraped together contract work with independent developers and funneled the proceeds into the project. ... Some efforts fall apart even without the involvement of media conglomerates. In early 2014, Kick tried to revive Dark Seed, a point-and-click adventure game that featured artwork by H.R. Giger. But after Giger’s sudden death, demands from the artist’s estate escalated, and the negotiations derailed. ... But for every one of those failures, there’s a case where a developer or publisher is thrilled to have a creation back on store shelves."
Comment Coat of arms 'special' lion (Score 2) 93
Is it going to have satwcomic's 'special' lion with a sword thru the forehead?
Comment Re:Gravity ... (Score 2) 242
Mars Landing Hoax.
Watney is playing all that in a soundstage somewhere in Nevada. That's why gravity is all wrong. It's all a plot to increase NASA funding and to stick it to the Russkies.
I'm sorry, that was the plot to Capricorn One. Carry on.
Comment Re:As opposed to... (Score 1) 215
I could see a lossy algorithm for HTML / JS that eliminates lengthy tags and inefficient structures, perhaps even perform code optimization on heavily JS-infested pages, while rendering identically to the original.
The result of course would look nothing like the source and couldn't easily be reconstructed.
Comment Re:"Other types of electromagnetic radiation" (Score 2) 529
Radiotelescopes do not work that way!!! Good Night!!!
Comment Re:No, this is absolutely normal SOP these days. (Score 1) 299
Oh, like TransCanada / Keystone XL Pipeline is trying to do...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
Comment "Do you feel like I do?" (Score 1) 51
Yeah, but can she make a Les Paul talk like Peter Frampton?
Comment I work at a fed site in Ottawa 7km away from downt (Score 5, Informative) 529
We are in a total lockdown. No one gets in or out.
Comment Nexus support for flash drives (Score 2) 183
Other android smartphones flash drives with OTG cables out of the box, why don't you?
Comment FL100 (Score 1) 406
Your stuff stays stowed below 10,000 feet so you don't get tangled up in your earbuds, tablet, Ken Follet paper brick as your trying to exit the plane should the unthinkable happens.
It's not the safety drill that is the issue here.
Comment Who runs bartertown? (Score 1) 82
Apparently, some scientist from UK and Finland.
