Comment Re:Bet against Elon if you like (Score 0) 169
At last some reality and it's scored a -1 flamebait? Groan.
Comment Re:Rax the Tucking Fich! (Score -1) 169
La di dah, Another dem socialist, 'Tax the rich' they yell. Economies decline, the state dictates more and more every year, and what? They either become part of the ruling elite or change their direction towards more freedom and reality. Seen it all before.
Comment Re:Nope (Score -1) 111
Ivermectin a 'magical 'cure? Not magical. Cure for parasites proven. Helping folks survive Covid, demonstrated over and over again, More use come out as we write.
Comment Re:Congrats to Mr. Musk (Score -1, Troll) 315
There is a difference between 'Greed' and wanting to get stuff done, with or without credit. Greed is a term used by lefties as a garbage bin to shove anything successful into. It's the root of their ideology. Do Notthing, let the state do all. Just agree, it's all you have to do.
Comment Re: Mental gymnastics (Score 1) 41
But considering the huge anti Trump&Musk hatred here, it's not surprising the comments are stupidly negative.
Comment Re:AI created executive order (Score -1) 55
He is quite obsessed about both
Even if that's true, it's nowhere near as much as you are about him.
Exactly. The majority here are so TDS'd that reading comments becomes boring. Was better a decade and more ago.
The Least They Could Do: Amazon Charges 1 Cent To Meet French Free Shipping Ban 309
Last year, we mentioned that the French government was unhappy with Amazon for offering better prices than the French competition, and strongly limited the amount by which retailers can discount books. Last month, the French parliament also passed a law banning free delivery of books. Ars Technica reports that Amazon has responded with a one-penny shipping rate on the orders that would previously have shipped free. Says the article:
This is by no means the first time France has tried to put a damper on major US tech companies dabbling in books or other reading materials. In 2011, the country updated an old law related to printed books that then allowed publishers to impose set e-book pricing on Apple and others. And in 2012, there was the very public dispute between French lawmakers and Google over the country's desire to see French media outlets paid for having their content pop up in search results. At least for now with this most recent situation, an online giant has found a relatively quick and easy way to regain the upperhand.
Comment Re:Heh. (Score 0) 256
Actually, ColdFjord's first reply was informative and unemotional, and had more worth that twenty posters hurling insults. Nex
Comment Ms Rover (Score 0) 256
The Mars Rover is now a She? Could it ever have been a He?
No. The Rover is an It.
In the frenzy to be politically correct, mistakes are made I guess.
Comment Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog (Score 1) 1065
Cooperation between two allies against somebody who put lives in jeapordy? Don't forget Assange is just as much against the UK as he is the US.
As for the 'storming' mention, it's never going to happen because the UK is not Iran. What is going to probably happen is that Assange will be taken when he leaves that embassy. Nex
Comment Re:But what use would I have for it? (Score 1) 266
Boards back in the day were pretty-much divided into two kinds, or a mixture of them: download boards and conversation, or convo boards. I used both, but hosted a purely convo board for 8 years (Walden Commune BBS in Montreal) back in the 80's mostly. I think the first poster's nostalgia concerned boards with lively message bases, while you're talking about download boards. Most had both, but they usually ended-up being either one or the other. Nex
Comment Re:Cant compete, but sue. (Score 1) 412
Funny, it's available for sale in the US. Goodo on the American marketplace. Nex
Submission + - Easily Distracted People May Have Too Much Brain (gizmodo.com) 1
fysdt writes: "Those who are easily distracted from the task in hand may have "too much brain".
So says Ryota Kanai and his colleagues at University College London, who found larger than average volumes of grey matter in certain brain regions in those whose attention is readily diverted.
To investigate distractibility, the team compared the brains of easy and difficult-to-distract individuals.
They assessed each person's distractibility by quizzing them about how often they fail to notice road signs, or go into a supermarket and become sidetracked to the point that they forget what they came in to buy. The most distractible individuals received the highest score."
So says Ryota Kanai and his colleagues at University College London, who found larger than average volumes of grey matter in certain brain regions in those whose attention is readily diverted.
To investigate distractibility, the team compared the brains of easy and difficult-to-distract individuals.
They assessed each person's distractibility by quizzing them about how often they fail to notice road signs, or go into a supermarket and become sidetracked to the point that they forget what they came in to buy. The most distractible individuals received the highest score."
"Farming" Amoebas Discovered 49
Researchers from Rice University have found a type of amoeba that practices a sort of "primitive farming behavior." When their bacteria food become scarce, the Dictyostelium discoideum will group together and form a "fruiting body" that will disperse bacteria spores to a new area. From the article: "The behavior falls short of the kind of 'farming' that more advanced animals do; ants, for example, nurture a single fungus species that no longer exists in the wild. But the idea that an amoeba that spends much of its life as a single-celled organism could hold short of consuming a food supply before decamping is an astonishing one. More than just a snack for the journey of dispersal, the idea is that the bacteria that travel with the spores can 'seed' a new bacterial colony, and thus a food source in case the new locale should be lacking in bacteria." It's good to know that even a single celled creature is not immune to the pull of Farmville.
How Zynga's CityVille Drew 70 Million Players In Less Than a Month 101
An article at Gamasutra takes an in-depth look at how Zynga's new browser-based social game CityVille managed to accumulate tens of millions of players in the relatively short time since its launch early this month. Quoting:
"The Facebook interface induces a high degree of user blindness. It does not do a great job of exposing new games and applications, and lacks a directory or a 'Featured in the App Store' style of editorial (as Apple does for the iPhone), which means that for most developers there are huge problems in getting their games in front of users' eyeballs. With all of the free advertising channels on the platform now constrained or dead, this has meant that the Facebook economy has been acquiring an increasingly Darwinian shape. Where it used to be an egalitarian environment in which any developer could strike it big, over the last year it has become top-heavy with larger developers accruing exponential success, and cutting off oxygen to smaller companies by default."
