Comment Re:It makes sense really (Score 1) 325
Someone has never seen the No More Heroes intro movie.
Comment Re:It makes sense really (Score 1, Funny) 325
Nah, No More Heroes 2 is going to be way more interesting.
Fuckhead!
Comment Re:You know what I've always wanted? (Score 1) 170
Wow. This has to be the best AC post that I've ever seen.
Mind if I steal this and use it elsewhere on the site?
Mind if I steal this and use it elsewhere on the site?
What Will Apple Do With Swedish Eye-Tracking Technology? 170
andylim writes "An article on recombu.com explores the possibility that Apple is gearing up to launch eye-tracking technology soon. Citing a patent filed in 2008 that mentions 'gaze vectors' and a recent purchase of units from a Swedish eye-tracking company, the author suggests that the inclusion of eye-tracking tech in the company's forthcoming tablet would be Jobs's magnum opus. 'What better flourish to a career that began with the popularization of windows, icons, mouse and pointer than to usurp them all?'"
Comment Re:Common in the UK, good way to loose an ear (Score 1) 350
Sure you do. The only difference is that with TCP/IP, you have to cut another ear off once you realize the first one was lost.
Embedded OS RTEMS Turns 21 54
joelsherrill writes "RTEMS is a free real-time operating system for embedded systems. The project is celebrating the 21st birthday of RTEMS today. RTEMS supports the single process with filesystem POSIX profile on over a dozen processor architectures. To just be entering young adulthood, RTEMS has had a busy life. It has been a Google Summer of Code project twice (Thanks Google!). It has been to Venus on the Venus Express, circles Mars on the Electra radio, powers Herschel and Planck, is on its way to the asteroid belt aboard DAWN, and has been a key part of physics discoveries at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center."
Comment Re:Doesn't look like they got all of them. (Score 1) 605
The early stories on itgrunt.com were really, really entertaining to read. I had to stop reading when his site became... well... that.
Comment Re:Fail (Score 1) 284
She's a pilot now.
Comment Re:Thank you Karma (Score 1) 284
That's not a TLA, it's an ETLA (Extended Three Letter Acronym).
Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast 274
sgunhouse writes to let us know that, following a leaked internal build over the weekend, Opera Software has now released their official 10.5 pre-alpha. There are no Linux versions yet. And an anonymous reader adds, "Opera's 10.5 pre-alpha includes the Carakan JavaScript Engine. Benchmarks now show that Opera is competitive with Chrome, beating it in Sunspider and other tests. Safari, Firefox, and IE are all behind. This is still pre-alpha, so further speed gains should be expected."
Comment Re:the sky is falling! (Score -1, Redundant) 314
Yikes, I think you hit a nerve there!
Comment Re:Please (Score 4, Informative) 752
Even better, TFA is a page for a C++ web toolkit. It's just spam.
The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook 752
Kensai7 writes "Recently, Facebook provided us with some information on their server park. They use about 30,000 servers, and not surprisingly, most of them are running PHP code to generate pages full of social info for their users. As they only say that 'the bulk' is running PHP, let's assume this to be 25,000 of the 30,000. If C++ would have been used instead of PHP, then 22,500 servers could be powered down (assuming a conservative ratio of 10 for the efficiency of C++ versus PHP code), or a reduction of 49,000 tons of CO2 per year. Of course, it is a bit unfair to isolate Facebook here. Their servers are only a tiny fraction of computers deployed world-wide that are interpreting PHP code."
Comment Re:Remember when smartphone meant something? (Score 1) 214
Interesting. I even have mod points, so I'm giving you a +1 in spirit.
Comment Re:"REMEMBER TO DRINK YOUR DECAF" (Score 1) 206
I really wish I had mod points. :(
