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Comment parents should chose (Score 1) 342

by elmosdaddy on Monday November 08, 2010 @05:00PM (#34166036) Attached to: Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow

you know that this has been tried for different media such as comic books, music, movies, etc. it is what one adult who thinks that there is only one way to raise children and think that parents are not responsible enough to determine what is in the best interest of their children. As a parent and a gamer i think that i know when my kids are mature enough to play certain games.

Fine-Structure Constant Maybe Not So Constant 105

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 05, 2010 @06:49PM from the variety-is-the-spice-of-life dept.

Kilrah_il writes "The fine-structure constant, a coupling constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction, has been measured lately by scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and has been found to change slightly in light sent from quasars in galaxies as far back as 12 billion years ago. Although the results look promising, caution is advised: 'This would be sensational if it were real, but I'm still not completely convinced that it's not simply systematic errors' in the data, comments cosmologist Max Tegmark of MIT. Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., acknowledges that 'it's a competent team and a thorough analysis.' But because the work has such profound implications for physics and requires such a high level of precision measurements, 'it needs more proof before we'll believe it.'"

Shakespeare In Klingon? 80

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 30, 2010 @10:15AM from the you-have-not-experienced-Shakespeare-until-you-have-read-him-in-the-original-Klingon dept.

stevegee58 writes "As if the Klingon opera described recently here at Slashdot weren't enough, here's an interesting offering for Shakespeare buffs. The Washington Shakespeare Company (based in Arlington VA) will soon be performing selections from Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in Klingon."

Comment Re:Maybe Apple Wants This To Happen (Score 1) 468

by elmosdaddy on Tuesday May 20, 2008 @05:26PM (#23482774) Attached to: Mac Cloner Psystar Ships First Service Pack

I agree that part of the problems of instability with any OS be it Windows, Linux, or MacOS, has to do with shody drivers and or hardware, but at this point that only is with specialty devices that are on the fringe and in niche markets. where as most of the mainstream hardware in now only made by a few vendor, take graphics chips (AMD, or NVIDIA) or SoundCards (Creative, AC97, HDAUDIO) so reltive stability should not be a problem and being that DARWIN is opensource i am sure that the mainstream drivers will be real stable!!!!

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