Comment Re:Slashdot is not far behind... (Score 1) 264
Where do you hang out now? I haven't found a decent replacement . . .
Comment I noticed a shipping bug too (Score 1) 180
Except I called it the "it's still fucking Java" bug. That bug report didn't go over too well :P
Comment Re:How is it made? (Score 5, Informative) 367
TFA is a poor re-blog of the original article here, which has this video, where you actually hear how it is made: Hollow steel balls are pored into a from, (and presumably agitated to settle them in a uniform matrix), then aluminum is pored over them to fix them there. So yes, should scale up well.
Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."
Comment Re:Pah... (Score 2, Insightful) 430
Merek's problem is that when faced with evidence that their drugs might not be safe they spent over a $100 million a year on direct to consumer marketing. They delibrately concealed evidence that their drugs might be quite harmful and $250 million might not be enough of a penalty.
Comment Now all we need (Score 3, Funny) 262
Get some people working on power supplys and rod logic, and dimond age here we come.
