Comment Life Follows Art (Score 1) 296

by Foozy on Monday July 29, 2013 @09:38PM (#44419067) Attached to: Epic Online Space Battle

Enders Game : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/ Well, soon to be art, anyway...

Comment Re:Somewhere Democrats are praying she runs (Score 1) 767

by Foozy on Monday June 06, 2011 @01:06PM (#36352268) Attached to: Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page

... That makes for a dangerous combination of people who have power, and stupidity.

There, fixed that for you.

Comment Re:Just be sure to use a fast film (Score 1) 810

by Foozy on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:20PM (#34786024) Attached to: Running Your Own Ghost Investigation?

Funniest comment I've read here in quite some time. Well punned!

Comment Do you get it yet? (Score 1) 835

by Foozy on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @08:45AM (#32824644) Attached to: Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy

They are patenting the food chain.
They are patenting the food chain.
They are patenting the food chain.

Comment The real reason? (Score 1) 180

by Foozy on Monday June 07, 2010 @04:48PM (#32488958) Attached to: Hooked On Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

MTV.

MTV videos started the depressing slide into 'attention avoidance' by flipping a scene every 1-2 seconds. At that rate there just isn't time to *focus* on anything. The result is that the brain enters passive mode and just avoids paying attention to anything.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

A whole generation is now incapable of focusing on *anything* for a whole hour.

Comment Wait... (Score 4, Informative) 332

by Foozy on Monday May 24, 2010 @07:36PM (#32330256) Attached to: Google <em>PAC-MAN</em> Cost 4.8M Person-Hours

it was PLAYABLE?? Oh Damn!

Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:03PM from the non-obfuscated dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Using EMP To Punch Holes In Steel 165

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 16, 2010 @12:25AM from the you'll-need-some-big-batteries dept.

angrytuna writes "The Economist is running a story about a group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology in Chemnitz, Germany, who've found a way to use an EMP device to shape and punch holes through steel. The process enjoys advantages over both lasers, which take more time to bore the hole (0.2 vs. 1.4 seconds), and by metal presses, which can leave burrs that must be removed by hand."

Comment Re:Virtualization (Score 1) 73

by Foozy on Friday September 18, 2009 @02:34PM (#29469557) Attached to: DragonFly 2.4 Released

Runs very well under QEMU. I've also tried it on VirtualBox. Works Ok, but VB doesn't support all BSDs equally well. Here's a shot of all 4 BSDs under QEMU

Interesting factoids-

Host: IBM T40 laptop with 1GB RAM. running FreeBSD 7.1-RC1. Guests: FreeBSD 7.1-RC1, (two VMs) NetBSD 4.0.1 OpenBSD 4.4 DragonFlyBSD 2.0.1-RELEASE. QEMU version 0.9.1. AQEMU version 0.5 (01/09/2008)

I'm working on using it for BSD Professional Certification lab exams.

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Jim B.

Comment Sounds a lot like... (Score 1) 121

by Foozy on Monday July 13, 2009 @12:24PM (#28678041) Attached to: ISS Launches First Permanent Node of "Interplanetary Internet"

UUCP - the store and forward network of the 20th century. Will be interesting to see if they come up with alternative naming, and whether Harri's Lament still holds- "All the good ones are taken!"