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Comment Dream Theater predicted this... (Score 1) 72

Their latest album _The_Astonishing_ tells a story of a future time when digital music is generated by "noise machines" and mankind had forgotten what real creative music was. I know this is first attempt for AI but I (one with pretty much zero creativity) could come up with something better than that!

Comment offsetting all the "my CFLs last forever" posts... (Score 1) 990

Bought house 4 years ago. Replaced every other vanity light bulb in master bathroom = 5 new good brand CFLs. 3 years later, all have burned out while the 5 incandescents are still going strong. Waste of money. Same thing with outdoor CFLs that are on 3 hours per night. Incandescents outlasted those too.

Comment Re:It really only threatens the mobile market (Score 1) 93

The DS I still believe to be the superior gaming platform. It's got buttons and some touchscreen capabilities. The problem, for me at least, is that the games aren't really all that much better than the games on iOS but for some reason costs 30x more in some cases ($35 vs $1 games). iOS is killing Nintendo because of price and the real value of their games.
Idle

Iron Baby 139

When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.
Image

Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
Earth

Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed 556

ManicMechanic and other readers sent in news of a tribe of aboriginal people from the border of Peru and Brazil that has been photographed by helicopter for the first time. The images show huts in a village and people in red body paint shooting arrows at the helicopter. The outfit that released the photos, Survival International, works to end illegal logging in the rainforest in order to protect the uncontacted tribes living there. They estimate that 100 uncontacted groups exist worldwide, about half of them in the Amazon basin.
Space

Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary 222

Raver32 writes to mention that 30 years after the original launch of Voyager 2, both Voyager spacecraft are still going strong. Flying away from us some billions of miles from our solar system's edge they continue to be a wealth of information more than 25 years after their original mission concluded. Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object at a distance from the sun of about 9.7 billion miles (15.6 billion kilometers). Voyager 2 is about 7.8 billion miles (12.6 billion kilometers).

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