Comment Leslie who? (Score 2) 42
Leslie LAMPORT, creator of LaTeX, was the last winner. Glad to see there's editing here.
Comment Re:The genius of EPIC (Score 1) 240
Well, I know a lot of people who work for Epic, and I even spent a summer or two there myself. I have to say that this myth of burning people out is just that, a myth. It seems to be coming from a very vocal minority. Nobody I've spoken to seems to feel this myth is true and in fact most people genuinely enjoy working there.
Yes, sometimes people work 60+ hour weeks. But I think that's true just about anywhere you'd look when you're coming up to a release or a large bug. Nobody seems to mind. I know people who have been there for 10+ years and they have no plans to move on. I worked with veteran programmers and fresh college grads.
Epic's not as bad as public opinion of it seems. If you're ever in the Madison area, I recommend stopping in for a tour - the campus is incredible.
Comment That Title... (Score 1) 93
It took me several tries to figure out what that title meant...
Comment Old news? (Score 3) 87
I seem to remember ~5 years ago seeing a program that could turn your run-of-the-mill webcam into a 3D scanner. It was even open source too!
Don't know if this this was it...
Comment Re:Adobe Reader for Android? (Score 1) 138
Then why does Chrome for Android display a scare bar for PDF downloads even on a platform to which Adobe Reader isn't even ported?
Comment So let me get this straight... (Score 1) 214
Federal government wiretaps Google, no problem. Google "wiretaps", federal government throws a hissyfit.
Comment Grammar? (Score 1) 458
Doesn't anybody check the articles for grammar anymore?
Comment Re:and yet... (Score 1) 151
I've seen only 2 HTCs in the wild.
My carrier (U.S. Cellular) has several HTC phones, including the one I have (HTC Merge). So far, my experience with it has been great! Sturdy as a rhinoceros...
But at least in the Midwest, HTC phones seem to me to be wildly popular.
Comment KDE? (Score 1) 798
Am I the only one who uses KDE anymore? The latest in the KDE 4.x line is plenty stable, and imho it's the best, most usable, most stable, etc. desktop environment out there.
Submission + - Sludge in Flask Gives Clues to Origin of Life (sciencemag.org) 1
sciencehabit writes: In the 1950s, scientist Stanley Miller conducted a series of experiments in which he zapped gas-filled flasks with electricity. The most famous of these, published in 1952, showed that such a process could give rise to amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. But a later experiment, conducted in 1958, sat on the shelf--never analyzed by Miller. Now, scientists have gone back and analyzed the sludge at the bottom of this flask and found even more amino acids than before--and better evidence that lightning and volcanic gasses may have helped create life on Earth.
Submission + - Google spends $1 million for throttling detection (arstechnica.com)
foamrat writes: Google has awarded $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers so that they can develop simple tools to detect Internet throttling, government censorship, and other "transparency" problems.
Submission + - Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! (wired.com)
gregg writes: Today another geek legend celebrates a birthday. Best known for portraying Captain James T. Kirk, William Shatner has cemented himself into geek science fiction lore forever. Today he begins his ninth decade on this planet — yes, Captain Kirk is now 80 years old.
Comment Minority Report? (Score 1) 96
Sounds like a precursor to Minority Report-like technology. Like we haven't heard *that* song and dance umpteen times before. Still, it sounds neat. And expensive. Damn student salary.
Comment Re:Soccer Ball (Score 1) 571
Outlawing CO2 would solve ALL the problems! There'd be nobody left to cause them.
Comment Suicide? (Score 1) 785
Maybe that's why mine jumped in front of a moving car...
