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Submission + - Apple’s iAd: What Developers Think (wsj.com) 1

Nemilar writes: "It’s been about a week since Apple rolled out its new advertising platform, and developers of iPhone apps are watching the earliest returns to see how much money they can expect to make from these ads. One developer reported Thursday that he earned $1400 in one day for his flashlight app. The amount iAds pay is “a high number when you get it, but you don’t get it very often,” said Dave Yonamine, the director of marketing at MobilityWare. The article discusses revenue potential in relation to the only other mobile ads platform, AdMob for Android, and claims that iAd paid $148 for the same number of ads as $1 on AdMob. What's Apple up to?"

Comment Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F (Score 2, Insightful) 494

There are lots of views on morality, but for me personally, I'd say yes, cheating is ALWAYS bad, because above all, it's dishonest. More than that though, you are cheating yourself, and your professed parter, and even your person on the side out of a chance at a real love relationship. If you have real and significant problems with your spouse, get those issues out in the air. If they can't be worked on between the two of you, get some counseling, or get some papers filed. It's really that simple. "Staying together for the kids" only teaches the children that abuse and unhappiness are okay as long as you can justify it to yourself. Besides, they learn almost everything about love relationships by watching their parents. If you don't love someone, but you're staying with them anyway, expect your kids will do the same until or unless they learn better. It's a complex problem to be sure, mainstream media has stressed the fairy tale courtship, where the magic of love is all about finding the right person. Unfortunately most people find out falling in love and living in love can be rather different. If you find the right person though, and you inspire each other to each be the right person for one another then you may wake up every day feeling like you are the luckiest person alive.
The Courts

Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time 299

shadowbearer writes "SF writer Peter Watts, a Canadian citizen, whose story we have read about before in these pages, was sentenced three days ago in a Port Huron, MI court. There's not a lot of detail in the story, and although he is still being treated like a terrorist (cannot enter or pass through the US, DNA samples) he was not ordered to do any time in jail, was freed, and has returned home to his family. The judge in the case was, I believe, as sympathetic as the legal system would allow him to be."
Biotech

Wake Forest Researchers Swap Skin Grafts For Cell Spraying 123

TigerWolf2 writes with this excerpt from a Reuters story carried by Yahoo: "Inspired by a standard office inkjet printer, US researchers have rigged up a device that can spray skin cells directly onto burn victims, quickly protecting and healing their wounds as an alternative to skin grafts. ... Tests on mice showed the spray system, called bioprinting, could heal wounds quickly and safely, the researchers reported at the Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum."

Comment Re:Love the lack of Windows support ! (Score 2, Insightful) 370

I use MySQL and PostgreSQL every day and whenever I have a choice, and if it makes sense for the project, I reach for Postgres. MySQL may have better GUI tools and I'm sure that's important for some people, but PostgreSQL just works more like I want / need a database to work. For the kind of work I do (non trivial queries with a significant degree of write operations), it's as fast or faster than MySQL in any area that matters. If you don't see any perceived benefit to using a more robust, more compatible SQL implementation, then you probably aren't using a lot of what most RDBMS systems have to offer. And that's fine! There are plenty of places where people are using a database as a glorified storage box for object persistence where any fancy SQL stuff is almost a waste and that's a place where something like Drizzle makes a lot of sense.
Space

Submission + - Star Trek-style shields for the Space Station?

EnderGT writes: "Scientists hope to mimic the magnetic field which protects the Earth to protect astronauts from radiation. They argue that magnetic shields could be deployed around spacecraft and on the surfaces of planets to deflect harmful energised particles."

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