Comment Re:Not Tonight (Score 1) 67
Goddammit. I blame Feedly for putting this article in my "Today" feed.
Comment Not Tonight (Score 1) 67
Better get in your time machine, 'cause the AccuWeather article talking about "tonight" is from April 13.
Comment Gene Hackman tought me... (Score 1) 259
All you need is an empty potato chip bag.
Comment It's a Lens Flare (Score 2) 472
It's a lens flare. Your photo was ruined by you pointing your camera at a very bright light source. Any other camera would've also ruined your picture with a lens flare, just not a purple one. Ruined with purple or ruined without purple, your photo is still ruined because you suck at photography.
Comment Where will soda get its kick? (Score 2) 312
I've heard/read that most caffeine that ends up in soda and energy drinks is the caffeine that's pulled out of coffee during the decaffeination process. If all coffee growers switch to naturally caffeine-free coffee, won't that drastically reduce the supply of caffeine as an ingredient, causing its price and therefore Mt. Dew's price to spike? Uh....
... gone to stock up on Mt. Dew ...
Comment Off the Shelf Not Good Enough? (Score 1) 215
Was there no off-the-shelf software good enough? Not for $60M? Really?
Comment Re:If left up the crowd (Score 1) 143
Try drying them first?
I have nothing of value to contribute to this thread, but I just had to say thank you for making me laugh out loud. Mod parent up!
Comment Re:What's in it? (Score 1) 1698
Isn't that what U.S citizen do to Canada now?
Yes, as
and wasn't America built on immigrant labor?
Yes,
Comment Re:Prehistoric Gene FTW! (Score 2) 360
My kingdom for mod points! Cursed booty... ha! I'm a sucker for pirate speak.
Comment Re:TCP? (Score 1) 536
Mod parent up. My first thoughts were JMS, MQ Series, or Tibco Rendezvous. In my experience, MQ Series is freakin' bullet proof, and Tibco Rendezvous is a poser in comparison.
Submission + - Historic shuttle spacesuits to meet fiery end
collectSPACE writes: "While some museums bid for retired space shuttle orbiters, the real prize may be the spacewalking spacesuits, at least if NASA's plans for them hold true. The now-reusable extravehicular mobility units (EMUs) are soon to become disposable, allowed to disintegrate as they reenter the Earth's atmosphere inside spent cargo ships."
Soviet Video Games from the 70s 66
vigmeister writes "A group of Russian kids have uncovered and rebuilt some arcade games from the Soviet era. These games apparently offered free play when someone played well, but no list of hi-scores. Roughly 32 of them have been found and although they are based on other arcade games, I hope these games were unique enough to offer playability for the present day arcade game lovers. 'Based largely (and crudely) on early Japanese designs, the games were distributed -- in the words of one military manual -- for the purposes of "entertainment and active leisure, as well as the development of visual-estimation abilities." Production of the games ceased with the collapse of communism, and as Nintendo consoles and PCs flooded the former Soviet states, the old arcade games were either destroyed or disappeared into warehouses and basements. It was mostly out of nostalgia that four friends at Moscow State Technical University began scouring the country to rescue these old games. '"
Submission + - MIT powers lightbulb wirelessly
kcurtis writes: According to the Boston Globe, MIT Researchers lit a light bulb remotely. The successful experiment to lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source two meters away, with no physical connection between the power source and the light bulb. Details about WiTricity, or wireless electricity, are scheduled to be reported today in Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.
Submission + - Man sues Gateway because he can't read EULA
Scoopy writes: California resident Dennis Sheehan took Gateway to small claims court after he reportedly received a defective computer and little technical support from the PC manufacturer. Gateway responded with their own lawyer and a 2-inch thick stack of legal docs, and claimed that Sheehan violated the EULA, which requires that users give up their right to sue and settle these cases in private arbitration. Sheehan responded that he never read the EULA, which pops up when the user first starts the computer, because the graphics were scrambled — precisely the problem he had complained to tech support in the first place. A judge sided with Sheehan on May 24 and the case will proceed to small claims court.
A lawyer is quoted as saying that Sheehan, a high school dropout who is arguing his own case, is in for a world of hurt: 'This poor guy now faces daunting reality of having to litigate this on appeal against Gateway...By winning, he's lost.'
A lawyer is quoted as saying that Sheehan, a high school dropout who is arguing his own case, is in for a world of hurt: 'This poor guy now faces daunting reality of having to litigate this on appeal against Gateway...By winning, he's lost.'
40% Efficiency Solar Cells Developed 357
gtada writes "A story published at Physorg.com discusses recently published research into the fabrication of solar cells that surpass the 40% efficiency milestone. Such devices would be the high water-mark to date, and hint at the possibility of even more effective technology. 'In the design, multijunction cells divide the broad solar spectrum into three smaller sections by using three subcell band gaps. Each of the subcells can capture a different wavelength range of light, enabling each subcell to efficiently convert that light into electricity. With their conversion efficiency measured at 40.7%, the metamorphic multijunction concentrator cells surpass the theoretical limit of 37% of single-junction cells at 1000 suns, due to their multijunction structure.'"
