Comment Re:17.5 billion kilometers (Score 1) 245
An interesting conjecture, but wouldn't anything using reaction drives light itself up quite nicely when it moved around? That is one of the conclusions over at Atomic Rockets.
Comment Re:Android... (Score 2, Informative) 716
Try AppBrain. It gives you online searching, an install queue, and user defined lists (which I find quite useful for managing possibilities/recommendations I might want to try later).
Comment Re:Because of the kind of people who buy Apple (Score 1) 595
Largest app store by an order of magnitude (i seldom pay for anything, tons of free stuff available that do what I want)
Just to be a bit pedantic, "order of magnitude" is false. Android's Market has about 66000 applications, Apple's App Store has something just over 200000. So about three times larger. Three times is not an order of magnitude.
Comment Re:Not very good? (Score 1) 240
Hey, how is Jolicloud? I tried to run it on in virtual machine to try it out and something in the install hung up past my desire that day to look into it. What's your first hand review?
Comment Re:Kudos to Opera (Score 1) 284
Extreme love of Jailbreakers?
Comment Re:Look Ma, another layer of indirection (Score 1) 117
It's a pity the advertisers won (at least they seem to have done so at the moment) the race against micropayments for how to fund "progress" on the web. Great swaths of the web falling into TV2 type drivel seems almost inevitable now. [This comment brought to you by Folgers.]
Comment Re:Better name (Score 1) 93
"Potanets"
Comment Foresight on the towel choice (Score 1) 99
Wouldn't it make the problem easier if the towels had some corner highlighting and a pattern to show the orientation? Then the company that sells you the towel folding robot can be sure to have a towel customer for a while.
Submission + - Parrot beats humans in investment contest
Norsefire writes: "A Parrot named Strawberry performed better than many humans in an investment competition. The human competitors were able to select any stock they wanted while the Parrot randomly selected the stocks with its beak. Strawberry had a 13.7% return, the human average was a 4.6% loss. Only two humans outperformed Strawberry."
Submission + - 3D Images Reconstructed of 300M Year Old Spiders
Hugh Pickens writes: "Scientists at Imperial College London have created detailed 3D computer models of two fossilized specimens of ancient creatures called Cryptomartus hindi and Eophrynus prestvicii, closely related to modern-day spiders. The researchers created their images by using a CT scanning device, which enabled them to take 3,000 x-rays of each fossil then compile them into precise 3D models, using custom-designed software. Both spiders roamed the Earth before the dinnosaurs during the Carboniferous period, 359 — 299 million years ago when life was emerging from the oceans to live on land. C. hindi's front pair of legs were angled toward the front, suggesting they were used to grapple with prey, an "ambush predator" like the modern-day crab spider, lying in wait for prey to come close. Another finding from the models is that E. prestivicii had hard spikes along its back, probably as a defensive measure making it less palatable to the amphibians that would have hunted it. "Our models almost bring these ancient creatures back to life and it's really exciting to be able to look at them in such detail," says researcher Russel Garwood adding that the technique could be used to return to fossils that have previously been analyzed by conventional means. "Our study helps build a picture of what was happening during this period early in the history of life on land.""
Comment Re:We use the search engine that goes bing! (Score 3, Informative) 443
Here is the link for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCITMfxvEc
Comment Re:I did it. (Score 1) 220
Very good. Thank you. Can hardly wait till all the Frontlines ever are there.
Submission + - Women's Pay: Lagging From the Start
gollum123 writes: "Time magazine reports on new data that shows women are already earning less than men before the ink on their college diplomas has dried ( http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1 613829,00.html ). The study, which looked at more than 10,000 people who received bachelor's degrees in 1999-2000, found that just one year after graduation, women who are working full time earn only 80% as much as their male counterparts do. The recent graduate numbers includes an apples-to-apples comparison of full-time workers who majored in the same subject, and the discrepancies are jarring. One year after graduation, female business majors are earning 81% of what male business majors earn. Among biology majors, women get paid only 75% as much as men. female engineers make 95% of what male engineering majors do, and women who majored in math earn only 76% of what their male counterparts earn. Part of the gap may be explained by the number of hours women work compared with men. But after controlling for all the factors known to affect wages — including occupation and parenthood — the study found that college-educated women still earn about 5% less than college-educated men one year after graduation and 12% 10 years after graduation. This gap, the study's authors go on to say, "remains unexplained and may be attributed to discrimination.""
Submission + - Pocket-Sized Phone System
anthm writes: "FreeSWITCH, an open source telephony application, announced today that it can run on the Nokia N800 handheld PC.
Now you can carry your phone system around in your pocket."
Now you can carry your phone system around in your pocket."
Submission + - Wii Opera Browser: A Storm In A Tea Cup?
Steve Fulton writes: "We here at 8bitrocket.com love the Wii. We think the the Wii Browser with a Wii-mote is the best internet experience that any game console has been able to create to date. However, what we don't know is if the Wii Opera Browser is just a "storm in a tea cup" that few people will ever experience, or if it will really amount to something worth talking about.
http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.aspx?newspag e=2637"
http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.aspx?newspa
