Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 756
Your college required you to buy a tablet pc?
Thats amazingly unfair.
Comment Re:Queue the Complimentary Office 2k7 Licenses in. (Score 1) 198
After a huge lawsuit from Sun!
Comment Re:Queue the Complimentary Office 2k7 Licenses in. (Score 1) 198
Their version of Java(jvm) being a good example.
Comment Re:This is wonderful! (Score 1) 354
Now fusion energy is only 10 years away!
And will be for the next fifty years.
Submission + - Is there a lava tube on the moon? (agu.org)
tenco writes: J. Haruyama and coworkers discovered on pictures from JAXA's moon orbiter SELENE what may be a lava tube. It's about 65 m in diameter and it's 80 to 88 m deep. It's surroundings are covered by a thin lava sheet which is 20 to 25 m thick. Due to the protection astronauts staying on the moon would need, a lava tube like this would be a good spot to build a moon station. Since it's still uncertain if this is really a lava tube, the researchers hope for sharper pictures from NASA's LRO.
Submission + - CubeSpawn - OpenSource Manufacturing at Home (cubespawn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Ever wanted to mass produce little series of industrial grade stuff at home? Wanted to create a run of SMD soldered electronic devices at home? Sell a hundred? Or more? Want to drill your comuter cases yourself? Go full DIY? Along with hundreds of thousands of others? Soon you may...
Open Source Hardware steps into fully automated fabrication at home.
By using simple building blocks James Jones will build a toolchain of small scale industrial machines, that anyone could have in his basement. The first building block will reproduce itself several times. And then you have the base for the next step. Equip it with tools, Arduino type microcontrollers, get some open source software from the web, install it and there you go. Automatic SMD soldering, CNC drilling and so much more may soon happen in your basement. Check out the main website and also the project over at Kickstart
Open Source Hardware steps into fully automated fabrication at home.
By using simple building blocks James Jones will build a toolchain of small scale industrial machines, that anyone could have in his basement. The first building block will reproduce itself several times. And then you have the base for the next step. Equip it with tools, Arduino type microcontrollers, get some open source software from the web, install it and there you go. Automatic SMD soldering, CNC drilling and so much more may soon happen in your basement. Check out the main website and also the project over at Kickstart
Submission + - SPAM: MSI Ready to Launch iPad Alternative 1
itwbennett writes: Underwhelmed by the iPad? Don't give up on tablets just yet, says blogger Peter Smith. MSI has a tablet coming in the second half of 2010 that measures up on price and size and addresses a lot of the iPad's most noted shortcomings. 'The iPad runs iPhone OS while the MSI runs Android,' writes Smith. 'That means the MSI will multitask of course, and Flash support in Android should be a given by launch time (though that isn't certain). It has a camera. It's running on an Nvidia Tegra2 chip which Ars Technica suggests puts it on par with the iPad's A4 as far as computing horsepower. And of course Android doesn't live in a walled garden.'
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Submission + - Has Apple Created The Perfect Board Game Platform? 1
andylim writes: recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform'. The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games on at home and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What's really interesting though, is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, "Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone." Now that would be cool.
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 735
One of the smartest guys in my year at school made that same mistake. For our high school english final exam, we were given a choice of twelve questions and asked to write about only two of them. This guy wrote about all twelve and handed in probably 25/30 pages of answers.
Submission + - Denmark chooses ODF (google.com)
Seahawk writes: "Friday morning Denmark decided to choose odf over ooxml from Microsoft. For now the decision is only effective for govermental institutions but regions and municipalities will most likely follow some time in the future. The decision have taken four years to come to and many open source advocates have feared the worst, but it looks like the minister finally caved in and listened to what alot of people were saying."
Comment Re:A sound plan (Score 4, Insightful) 450
Totally agree, my only niggling worry about using private companies is the greed factor. But maybe a little greed and more competition is really what the space industry needs?
Comment Re:More than likely. (Score 2) 162
Which is exactly what I meant by not seeing whats changed from their point of view.
Comment More than likely. (Score 2) 162
Sounds like typical MS style. Plus they've got to great lengths before to get the chinese gov to use their software. Don't see whats changed from their point of view.
Comment Re:As a recent graduate... (Score 1) 844
Sorry meant to say I thought £25K was roughly equivalent to $35K?
No attack taken as you're correct about my writing skills, its takes me a while to write out a properly punctuated cover letter without grammar errors! Probably something I should work on.
Comment Re:As a recent graduate... (Score 1) 844
Pretty damn good for a starting wage! Congrats. Yeah, problem I found is that getting that foot in the door, most companies want experience and to get that you sometimes need to start low and move about when the time is right.
Got to love that someone modded my pay 'funny'.
