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Comment One reason why I've burnt this on a DVD (Score 1) 156

by cafelatte on Friday July 16, 2010 @01:58AM (#32923436) Attached to: OpenSUSE 11.3 Is Here

Is that is comes with LXDE as one of the desktop environment options. My system is taking 90mb of ram with nothing running while using LXDE. Also it comes with the virtualbox drivers and kernel modules. I can enable seamless mode in virtualbox without installing the guest additions.

Comment How to combat online piracy (Score 1) 323

by cafelatte on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @07:19PM (#32659742) Attached to: White House Cracks Down On Piracy & Counterfeiting

With a scimitar! Whilst wearing an eye patch and using an Irish accent. Yaaahrrrrr me maties!

Comment Re:Anonymous Coward (Score 1) 380

by cafelatte on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @10:38PM (#31681868) Attached to: NASA Summoned To Fix Prius Problems

Actually, they're going to foot the bill.

Comment Re:Why the tech? (Score 1) 518

by cafelatte on Sunday March 28, 2010 @07:29PM (#31651524) Attached to: Are Consoles Holding Back PC Gaming?

I'm not buying another game until they start including the bullet's shadows!

Comment Re:Library of Congresses per second (Score 1) 281

by cafelatte on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @11:52PM (#31422800) Attached to: Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router

I much prefer the Astley as a unit of measurement.

Comment Re:Four in six claims (Score 1) 406

by cafelatte on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @07:00PM (#31177756) Attached to: Owners Smash iPhones To Get Upgrades, Says Insurance Company

Maybe he should've used the Euclidean algorithm to find the highest common factor first.

Pluto — a Complex and Changing World 191

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 04, 2010 @09:57PM from the can-imagine-quite-a-bit dept.

astroengine writes "After 4 years of processing the highest resolution photographs the Hubble Space Telescope could muster, we now have the highest resolution view of Pluto's surface ever produced. Most excitingly, these new observations show an active world with seasonal changes altering the dwarf planet's surface. It turns out that this far-flung world has more in common with Earth than we would have ever imagined."

Virtual Currency Becomes Real In South Korea 203

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @02:29PM from the license-to-print-money dept.

garylian writes "Massively is reporting that the South Korean Supreme Court has stated that virtual currency is the equivalent of real-world money. For those of you who might not be drawing the link, the core there is that selling in-game currency for real money is essentially just an exchange of currency and perfectly legal in South Korea. This could have sweeping implications for RMT operations the world over, not to mention free-to-play games and... well, online games in general. The official story is available online from JoongAng Daily."

Comment To all those who think pi may have a pattern (Score 1) 432

by cafelatte on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @11:39PM (#29128837) Attached to: Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits

Sorry to burst your bubbles but pi is an irrational number so it's impossible for it to have a pattern.

Comment Re:Remember this one? (Score 1) 367

by cafelatte on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @02:12AM (#28937073) Attached to: Emacs Hits Version 23

Could you please post the long version? I'm looking for a cure for my insomnia.

World's Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed 100

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 09, 2009 @01:33AM from the up-and-at-them dept.

tugfoigel writes "Built by "Kevin" for a contest, this computer-controlled alarm clock is touted as the world's largest. To be more specific, he 'mounted a large air cylinder to the head of [his] bed and a valve, controlled by a computer, which [he programmed] to wake [him] up in the morning.'"

Comment Mobilo (Score 1) 785

by cafelatte on Monday November 10, 2008 @11:53PM (#25715933) Attached to: Of childhood "building" toys, my favorite is ...

Missing option: Mobilo
This was actually quite popluar for me growing up in Sydney, Australia. I was born 1976. It was like the second most popular construction toy after LEGO.

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