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Comment Re:Yeah, so why are they better? (Score 2, Interesting) 423

by kage.j (#28568211) Attached to: Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed
Linq to SQL/Entities(on your entity provider) has it's benefits and downfalls.

But damn, Linq to everything else fucking rocks faces, and anyone who says otherwise seriously needs to buy a linq book and actually use the shit. Linq to XML/collections .. I don't know where I'd be without it. And I don't want to know!

Yeah, linq is handy with Entities, but you run into a whole messuh problems if you don't be careful with it. (And people who don't understand relational databases should stay away from it.)

At least, that is my opinion...but don't take it too seriously

Comment A note on bioshock: (Score 1) 473

by kage.j (#28539637) Attached to: On Realism and Virtual Murder
You can save the girls! I mean, are you just gonna let them sit in the game and die?

I beat it once by saving them, then out of curiosity I went in and "extracted the worm" from them (AKA KILLED THEM)

I may be desensitized, I couldn't kill them the first time around...but the second time was easy ; )
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Science Unlocks The Mystery Of Belly Button Lint 161

Posted by samzenpus from the extreme-navel-gazing dept.
After three years of research, including examining 503 pieces of fluff from his own belly button, Georg Steinhauser has discovered a type of body hair that traps stray pieces of lint and draws them into the navel. Dr Steinhauser's observations showed that "small pieces of fluff first form in the hair and then end up in the navel at the end of the day." Chemical analysis revealed the pieces of fluff were not just made up of cotton from clothing. Wrapped up in the lint were also flecks of dead skin, fat, sweat and dust. Unfortunately, further study has failed to yield a hair or fiber that would give Dr. Steinhauser the last three years of his life back.
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Submission + - 64 bit Menuet 0.59 available

Submitted by Michael135
Michael135 writes: Menuet is a fully assembly written OS for x86. Menuet 0.59 beta includes pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading, ring-3 protection, responsive GUI with resolutions up to 1280x1024, Editor/Assembler for applications, TCP/IP stack with Loopback & Ethernet drivers, simple http/ftp clients, free-form application windows and real-time data fetch. Menuet64 is released as freeware and Menuet32 under GPL.
Quickies

Submission + - High School Student Builds Fusion Reactor

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deblau
deblau writes: "In 2006 Thiago Olson joined the extremely sparse ranks of amateurs worldwide who have achieved nuclear fusion with a home apparatus. In other words, he built the business end of a hydrogen bomb in his basement. A bright plasma "star in a jar" demonstrated his success. "The temperature of the plasma is around 200 million degrees," Olson says modestly, "several times hotter than the core of the sun.""
Space

Submission + - Prototype telescope completes key test

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Matthew Sparkes
Matthew Sparkes writes: "Two prototype antennas for the world's largest array of millimetre-wave telescopes have passed a key test, working to track and image Saturn for more than an hour. Ultimately, ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is expected to resolve details 10 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope when it is completed in 2012."

Feed Congress Tackles Patent Reform (wired.com)

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Experts tell lawmakers the broken patent system chills innovation and feeds lawyers and trolls. Will something finally be done? Luke O'Brien reports from Washington.


Biotech

Submission + - power of the MUD

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justelite
justelite writes: "This clock is powered by earth, no batteries or other power needed. Just mud... We need more mud for a computer powered by mud."
Communications

Submission + - Toshiba puts fingerprint readers on cell phones

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An anonymous reader writes: As if it wasn't enough to have fingerprint scanners on laptops, Toshiba has gone and put them on two of its latest smart phones. The Toshiba G500 and G900 feature fingerprint scanners on the back of the handsets, allowing users to access their phone by simply sliding their finger over the scanner. This is supposed to provide a better level of security than using a code of some sort. Of course it also means that someone is more likely to chop your hand off if they desperately want your data.

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