Comment Meters to ft error... (Score 1) 138
300 meters is not 384 ft. It's about 984 ft.
Comment HTML5? (Score 1) 316
I want all devices to end up running HTML5 apps or some kind of compatible format. I'm working on a mobile game using CocoonJS. Phonegap is also pretty good, especially now that modern HTML5 canvas are rendering using webgl.
Comment Compromise? (Score 2) 2219
How about keeping Classic
Comment Re: bloat (Score 0) 103
Oh yeah? well he should be shot.
Submission + - Pentagon' Distinguished Warefare Medal: for cyber attacks and drone wars (boston.com)
bios10h writes: "The Boston Globe writes that the Pentagon is create a new medal. "[The] troops who launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy may never set foot in the combat zone. Now their battlefield contributions may be recognized with the first new combat-related medal to be created in decades." A medal for hackers?"
Submission + - Sun's Trading Symbol Going from SUNW to JAVA
Mortimer.CA writes: Straight from Jonathon Schwartz's weblog, Sun is changing their ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA: 'JAVA is a technology whose value is near infinite to the internet, and a brand that's inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability). [...] To be very clear, this isn't about changing the company name or focus — we are Sun, we are a systems company, and we will always be a derivative of the students that created us, Stanford University Network is here to stay. But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category — and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol.'
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They are called computers simply because computation is the only significant job that has so far been given to them.
