HarukiShinju - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Talk about a pathetic article (Score 1) 600

by HarukiShinju on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @01:11PM (#29517839) Attached to: USB-IF Slaps Palm In iTunes Spat

That's odd, because my "Apple product" seems to work fine when I upgrade to OS 10.6 or iTunes 9. It's the "Palm product pretending to be an Apple product" that might not work so well.

Comment Re:Apple have the WORST warranty repair service (Score 1) 460

by HarukiShinju on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @09:59AM (#29503355) Attached to: Large-Scale Mac Deployment?

Why didn't you just call AppleCare on the phone? They'll diagnose the problem, ship you a box via DHL Overnight, and ship you the computer back DHL Overnight when they're done. The two times I had to send in my PowerBook G4 for AppleCare service it was back in my hands in two days--and these were not minor repairs. Don't use the stores. It'll take way too long.

Comment Re:No, it doesn't. (Score 1) 684

by HarukiShinju on Monday September 14, 2009 @03:37PM (#29417961) Attached to: IPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering

Same as you. I'm on AT&T, downloaded from help.benm.at, with a 3GS, and it still works perfectly.

Comment No, it doesn't. (Score 1) 684

by HarukiShinju on Monday September 14, 2009 @01:06PM (#29415631) Attached to: IPhone 3.1 Update Disables Tethering

I had a mobileconfig downloaded from a website that enabled tethering on my iPhone 3GS on 3.0, and after upgrading to 3.1 it still works. What's the story?

Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation" 501

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @07:30PM from the way-science-should-be dept.

mattnyc99 writes "Esquire is running a a jaw-dropping profile of MacArthur genius Marc Roth in their annual Best and Brightest roundup, detailing how this gonzo DNA scientist (who also figured out how to diagnose lupus correctly) went from watching his infant daughter die to literally reincarnating animals. Inspired by NOVA and funded by DARPA, Roth has developed a serum for major biotech startup Ikaria that successfully accomplished 'suspended animation' — the closest we've ever come to simulating near-death experiences and then coming back to life. From the article: 'We don't know what life is, anyway. Not really. We just know what life does — it burns oxygen. It's a process of combustion. We're all just slow-burning candles, making our way through our allotment of precious O2 until it becomes our toxin, until we burn out, until we get old and die. But we live on 21 percent oxygen, just as we live at 37 degrees. They're related. Decrease the oxygen to 5 percent, we die. But, look, the concentration of oxygen in the blood that runs through our capillaries is only 2 or 3 percent. We're almost dead already! So what if we turn down the candle's need for oxygen? What if we dim the candle so much that we don't even have the energy to die?' " The writer Tom Junod engages in what Hunter Thompson once called "a failed but essentially noble experiment in pure gonzo journalism." If you can suspend your inner critic for a time, it's a fun ride.

Comment Re:I dunno.. (Score 1) 870

by HarukiShinju on Sunday March 23, 2008 @04:47AM (#22834994) Attached to: The Wrath of the Apple Tribe

To be fair, that kind of violent outburst can be seen on both sides of the debate. There are the crazy Mac fans, and then there are the crazy Apple haters, and any thread on Apple (positive or negative) is bound to attract both. Unfortunately, both camps contain some of the loudest members of the tech population and are utterly convinced their "side" is right, so inevitably their back-and-forth nonsense drowns out the quieter majority of reasonable users.

I guess this could be said of nearly any issue, really.

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