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Comment Point Missed (Score 1) 464

When you go to the movies, you're not paying to see the movie: you're paying for the right to walk into the theater. You simply buy a ticket that says "I'm going to see Mission: Impossible".

Every cineplex in my area now, you can buy a ticket for ANY movie you want and then walk into any other movie they're showing on their 20+ screens. This is why the price is the same for "Mission Impossible" and "Generic Indie Flick 12".

It's also why it's idiotic to pay extra for IMAX/3D movies. Show up for the Indie flick, walk in the IMAX flick. They never check tickets at the door to each screen anymore (because that requires STAFF!)

Programming

Submission + - Learn Coding Online (wsj.com)

JoeMerchant writes: Online services like CodeCademy and Treehouse are making a business of teaching programming online. Despite the fact colleges are churning out more programmers, many fast-growing Silicon Valley companies say they still can't find enough of them.

Do you think that the online schools will add anything to traditional self-teaching of programming skills?

Medicine

Submission + - 17yr old creates cancer-killing nanoparticle (geek.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Angela Zhang has just been awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project was entitled “Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells.”

Her creation is being heralded as a “Swiss army knife of cancer treatment.” Zhang managed to develop a nanoparticle that can be delivered to the site of a tumor through the drug salinomycin. Once there it kills the cancer stem cells. However, Zhang went further and included both gold and iron-oxide components, which allow for non-invasive imaging of the site through MRI and Photoacoustics.

Comment Re:FP (Score 2) 1797

In what perfect world do you live?

1.) end federal guaranteed student loans.
2. college enrollment goes down.
3. Universities blame Ron Paul. Ron Paul blames universities.
4. catch 22 persists for 250 years as the world rolls on towards "Idiocracy"...
5. In 2261, no one goes to koledge or spels*)or properly use pro-nunk-u-ay-shun.
6. Ron Paul's utopia is reality!
7. Profit?

Data Storage

Submission + - Western Digital introduces 3TB My Book Studio (geek.com)

An anonymous reader writes: External hard drives are available in a number of different guises to suit an individual need. That includes drives specifically designed to not look out of place next to the aesthetics of a Mac computer or laptop.

Western Digital has designed its latest external drive specifically for that purpose. The My Book Studio is a desktop storage solution that places a Caviar Green hard drive inside a brushed aluminium casing. This combination not only makes for a gorgeous exterior, but also allowed Western Digital to leave out any fans for cooling. So it looks good and is completely silent except for the whirring drive inside.

As this is a drive mainly aimed at Mac owners you get both USB 2.0 and Firewire 800/400. Of course, it’s compatible with PCs too, but then the lack of USB 3.0 may be a deal breaker for most people. The lack of Thunderbolt may also be a let down for Mac users too.

There’s three models of the My Book Studio offering 1, 2, or 3TB of storage. Software shipped with each drive includes an automatic backup solution, password protection options, and hardware encryption. Western Digital has been shipping a 3TB My Book option since the beginning of 2010, so you can buy with confidence that they’ve got the formula right by now.

IBM

Submission + - Flash Obsoleted by IBM Breakthrough in PCM (smartertechnology.com)

An anonymous reader writes: IBM claims to have refined phase change memory (PCM) to put it on track to replace flash within three years. PCMs will be 100-times faster, last 3000 times longer and achieve densities that make flash look like an antique. We've heard these claims before, but this time it looks like they've got the deep-pockets and architectural changes to make it work.

Comment Netflix still doesn't do captioning (Score 2) 333

Netflix having so many customers demonstrates a viable business model. One that has more or less destroyed the Blockbuster empire. I would have no problem with being a Netflix customer myself, except that Netflix still demonstrates they have no desire for DEAF customers. They insist on pretending that Closed Captioning is an arcane and difficult technology to implement.

So, while I applaud Netflix for their massive customer base, I do NOT welcome these Netflix overlords, because they insist on treating me as a second class citizen. Shape up, Netflix!

Comment Re:libraries (Score 1) 98

Really? For everything in that post, you focused on the Fox News comment?

To clarify: Informational Literacy means ALL SOURCES. Currently, many news sources are guilty of reporting OPINION as NEWS. Fox News is extremely fond of this. MSNBC is as well.

Thank you for playing "let's miss the point entirely"

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