Comment Re: No surprise here (Score 1) 46
The AirPod pros can use your measured audiogram. I wonder why the researchers didnâ(TM)t use that feature.
Comment I think they deserve more -- $115,000 more (Score 1) 222
In the form of a Hellfire missile...
AT&T To Allow VoIP On iPhone 220
Toe, The writes "On Tuesday, AT&T announced it will allow Apple to enable Voice over Internet Protocol applications, such as Skype, to run on its 3G wireless data network. Apple stated, 'We will be amending our developer agreements to get VoIP apps on the App Store and in customers' hands as soon as possible.' And Skype, while happy over the move, also stated, 'the positive actions of one company are no substitute for a government policy that protects openness and benefits consumers.'"
Interview With Brian Kernighan of AWK/AMPL Fame 117
Reader oranghutan brings us another in Computerworld's series of interviews with icons of the programming world, this one with Brian Kernighan, who helped popularize C with his book (co-written with the creator Dennis Ritchie) The C Programming Language, and contributed to the development of AWK and AMPL. In the past we've chewed over a few other interviews in this series, including those with Martin Odersky on Scala and Larry Wall on perl. "In this interview, Brian Kernighan shares his tips for up-and-coming programmers and his thoughts on Ruby, Perl, and Java. He also discusses whether the classic book The Practice of Programming, co-written with Rob Pike, needs an update. He highlights Bill and Melinda Gates as two people doing great things for the world enabled through computer science. Some quotes: 'A typical programmer today spends a lot of time just trying to figure out what methods to call from some giant package and probably needs some kind of IDE like Eclipse or XCode to fill in the gaps. There are more languages in regular use and programs are often distributed combinations of multiple languages. All of these facts complicate life, though it's possible to build quite amazing systems quickly when everything goes right.' 'Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.'"
Comment Re:Good SF is not Sci Fi (Score 1) 705
Anonymouse, just because your tv has been telling you something for forty years doesn't mean it is true or cool.
Comment Good SF is not Sci Fi (Score 0, Troll) 705
Generally, the use of the phrase "Sci Fi" indicates that the speaker is a clueless outsider who would never read, watch or appreciate Science Fiction. True aficionados use SF or Science Fiction.
Comment Now I know what NASA stands for... (Score 1) 901
Need Another Space Agency.
Seriously, just burn it down and start from scratch. The shuttle is such an economic disaster. It isn't even close to being competitive. Why would we possibly want to build a new one?
And as far as anyone trying to do physics in Imperial units... it's just braindead.
It's mind-boggling that they say it could cost $370,000,000 to convert the drawings. Aren't they stored in electronic form? The cost should be almost zero if they are. If not -- well I don't even know what to say -- it's just unbelievable.
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