Comment Also known as Chromecast or Roku (Score 2) 59
Basically, Comcast will rent you a Roku box? Brilliant...
Comment Unpaid time = vacation time (Score 1) 455
Higher salaried personnel also tend to work above the normal 80-hour biweekly standard on which their salary is based, so it's no surprise they also might get more vacation time to compensate.
Comment Re:Investigative study "smells" (Score 1) 528
"They are entry level positions and any who wants more needs to simply look for the next job and find one that pays more"
Right. Because there are as many better-paying jobs as there are qualified people who want them...or not. And I'm just talking about the white dudes. God forbid any women or PoC want to move up in the world, too.
Comment Re:Then.. fine, I'm a racist. (Score 2, Insightful) 572
"It's not like disliking a person because they are brown, or black or whatever color."
Yes, it is.
"The backbone of Islam is based on submission."
As it is in Christianity: women to men, men to God.
"hey... man, I heard that the Quran says that it is OK to hit your wife if she is disobedient or disrespectful."
I'm sure the Quran says a lot of things. As does the Bible. That doesn't make them right, or acceptable, or even representative.
"If I am "Racist" because I won't tolerate their hatred of women, then.. fine, I'm a racist."
No, what makes you racist is the blanket attribution of these negative aspects to all members of a heterogeneous group while living in a country where Muslims are a minority.
Comment Re:Good way to hide your work (Score 1) 135
Given that the publisher doesn't pay for the articles, the peer review or the editing (for the most part), it does raise the question, what exactly is being paid for via those subscriptions.
Glossy paper and ink; proofreading and typesetting; printing and distribution; IT and database costs; archiving; marketing ("reputation management")...just to name a few things.
Comment Plagiarize much? (Score 5, Informative) 172
First paragraph at Wikipedia: "AltaVista was an early web search engine founded in 1995. It was once one of the most popular search engines, but it lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine. On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo! and since then, the domain redirects to Yahoo!'s own search site.[2]"
Second and third lines of TFA: "Founded in 1995, AltaVista was a very popular Internet search engine website. Nevertheless, AltaVista lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003. Ten years later, Yahoo! officially shut down AltaVista in July 2013 and redirected the domain name to its own search engine website."
Hmm...
Comment Re:my library (Score 1) 418
Is not your library if the vendor can take it from you. You didn't buy, just got a limited permission to play it while the real owner is in good mood, and in their own terms.
This.
Let it stand as a lesson to all: You don't buy digital media from the likes of Amazon, you rent it.
Improper generalization. I buy DRM-less MP3 "digital media from the likes of Amazon" all the time, at mostly reasonable prices to boot. I wish I could buy more, but for the channel-controlling likes of certain publishers.
New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying 150
zacharye writes "A new subscription service allows potential gadget owners to test out new devices like Apple's new iPad tablet before committing to a purchase. YBUY, which bills itself as a try-before-you-buy online subscription service, charges users a flat monthly fee of $24.95 for access to a wide range of consumer electronics as well as home and kitchen gadgets. Users can choose one device at a time from YBUY's catalog and trial the gadget for up to 30 days before returning it. Beginning in April, the company's inventory will also include Apple's new iPad."
NVIDIA Gets Away With Bait-and-Switch 336
racquetballguy writes "As part of a December 2010 settlement agreement, NVIDIA agreed to provide all owners of laptops containing a defective NVIDIA GPU with a laptop of similar kind and value. In February, NVIDIA announced that a $279 single-core Compaq CQ56 would be provided as a replacement to all laptops — from $2500 dual-core tablet PCs to $2000 17" entertainment notebooks. Ted Frank, from the Center for Class Action Fairness, filed an objection to the court, which was overruled by Judge Ware today. Once again, the consumers of a class action lawsuit lose."
Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed 1352
A survey of American voters by World Public Opinion shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. One of the most interesting questions was about President Obama's birthplace. 63 percent of Fox viewers believe Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear). In 2003 a similar study about the Iraq war showed that Fox viewers were once again less knowledgeable on the subject than average. Let the flame war begin!
All-Analog DIY Segway Project 141
An anonymous reader writes "One of the zany hacker-makers here at MIT just finished this DIY Segway project (video). Difference from the others: it's all analog. The controller is built without a microprocessor or even digital logic. It does use a gyroscope like the real Segway. The functionality looks fairly basic, but the fact that the controller works at all is amazing. The guy has a ton of other projects on his site too. Definitely worth a read for people who enjoy building things."
Arduino-Based, High Powered LED Lighting Over Wi-Fi 114
Gibbs-Duhem writes "This awesome video was produced by some MIT engineers recently. They've started a fully open-source, open-hardware high power LED lighting project that they designed to be modular enough to control with the Arduino (or any other control system). Using their open-source firmware, you can set up the Arduino to connect to Wi-Fi and receive Open Sound Control packets. Then, they went further and released open-source software for PureData and Python to do music analysis and make the lights flash brilliantly in time with the music! A full Instructable was also posted in addition to the existing documentation for design and assembly on their website."
The Science of Caddyshack 55
astroengine writes "Thirty years after the release of the cult classic comedy Caddyshack, Discovery News has geeked out and gone on the hunt for any trace amount of science they can find in the movie (video). From gopher territoriality to seismic deformation, from pool poop bacteria to the color of lightning, it turns out there's quite a lot of science to talk about..."
The REX Robotic Exoskeleton 53
ElectricSteve writes "When Robert Irving was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, it was the catalyst for him and his childhood friend, Richard Little, to turn their engineering skills to the task of developing an exoskeleton that was a practical, standing-and-walking alternative to wheelchairs. The result is REX, an exoskeleton made of strong, lightweight materials that is designed to support and hold a person comfortably as he moves. Users strap themselves in to the robotic legs with a number of Velcro and buckled straps that fit around the legs, along with a belt around the waist. While most robotic exoskeletons we've looked at, such as the HAL, augment human motion, this is generally not an option for wheelchair-bound users, so REX is controlled using a joystick that sits at the wearer's waist level." The rig is expected to cost $150K when introduced later this year in New Zealand. Gizmag has an obnoxious timed popover subscription nag, so NoScript is indicated.
Comment Re:For serious? (Score 1) 699
Yeah, but you still get to kayak 5404km across the Pacific Ocean when going from Toyko to Sidney. (step number 48)
Don't forget the landing near Darwin...
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