Comment Re:Robotic Plane... (Score 1) 312
Actually Autolands are not the norm, they are used in certain situations, but far more common is the old fashioned manual landing with pilots in control
Comment Re:Good Riddens (Score 2) 990
And thats exactly what the "ban" does. It provides efficiency targets so efficient incandescent bulbs should they exist would be allowed
Comment Re:More misinformation. (Score 1) 354
While hosting a server is not illegal, if you are knowingly supporting criminal activity with said server then it is actually illegal
Comment Re:There is a good chance code will be revealed (Score 1) 250
Right, futures should be illegal, so people cant do things like hedge future exposure against adverse events? Farmers cant lock in prices at the beginning of the season - airlines can't lock in fuel prices as a hedge against rising prices, etc, etc.
Futures have a great many useful and very legitimate trading scenarios - traders who just gamble without hedges are not going to survive for long.
In my prior statement, I was referring to investors, who buy a stock, hoping it will rise on the long term, so I do admit my poor choice of words distorted my meaning somewhat, but otherwise I couldn't disagree more with your other statements
Comment Re:There is a good chance code will be revealed (Score 1) 250
that's a complete misrepresentation of HFT - HFT is more about leveling pricing, and it's effect on the individual investor is positive, by providing a more liquid market with tighter spreads to people who do want to bet on the direction of a stock (HFT is not about betting on the movement one way or the other)
you may be referring to the 'flash order' issue, where participants try to gain insight into the market by probing so called 'dark pools' where market data is not published, but to caracterize HFT as a whole with this dubious practice is to misunderstand the bulk of HFT
Comment Re:didn't ask the right people (was: Re:Yes) (Score 1) 646
Speaking for myself of course, being a programmer I normally view text. I still find the glossy screen to be superior in real use conditions to my previous matte screen. More contrast, less eye strain
Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 646
Seconded, I was dubious at first, but I've come to love my glossy screen
Comment Re:100 million line of code total BS (Score 1) 750
Since when do you upload the source code? The binary file would be much smaller in size that the source. Still I agree that it's not likely to contain anything near 100m lines of code
Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies 397
An anonymous reader writes "Develop has an excellent piece up profiling a bunch of average to awful titles that flopped so hard they harmed or sunk their studio or publisher. The list includes Haze, Enter The Matrix, Hellgate: London, Daikatana, Tabula Rasa, and — of course — Duke Nukem Forever. 'Daikatana was finally released in June 2000, over two and a half years late. Gamers weren't convinced the wait was worth it. A buggy game with sidekicks (touted as an innovation) who more often caused you hindrance than helped ... achieved an average rating of 53. By this time, Eidos is believed to have invested over $25 million in the studio. And they called it a day. Eidos closed the Dallas Ion Storm office in 2001.'"
Comment Re:Wait: swallowing the beads???!! (Score 1) 343
I don't disagree that parents have a responsibility to their kids, but you are taking this to an unworkable extreme. No parent can be absolutely controlling of their children, part of the reason we need to raise kids with parental oversight is that they are not capable of making sound decisions like if this toy is safe to leave around the house or not all the time even when they are 10.
The older they get the more self sufficient / guided they can and should be but you my friend are taking the parental responsibility to an extreme standard no parent could ever attain.
The older they get the more self sufficient / guided they can and should be but you my friend are taking the parental responsibility to an extreme standard no parent could ever attain.
Comment Re:Not too bad..... (Score 1) 577
It actually looks quite normal in the latest Opera Weekly Build.
Get it at http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/
Get it at http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/
Classic Star Wars Trilogy Finally on DVD 673
chinton writes "From starwars.com: 'In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie, as well as the original theatrical edition of the film. That means you'll be able to enjoy Star Wars as it first appeared in 1977, Empire in 1980, and Jedi in 1983.'"
Journal Journal: Sveasoft illegally uses OpenWRT 2
Ok I admit it, I have been lazy recently.
Not much had happened in the WRT scene in a while.
OpenWRT now has a great Web-Interface, DD-WRT got better on a daily basis while Sveasofts lost all its developers except James and the quality of their firmware releases declined even more.
Journal Journal: Freeman 1.04 released 1
The new version of Freeman (1.04) is now available for download!
Last time Sveasoft apparently had unintentionally released an unprotected binary on which Freeman 1.02 was based. This time Sveasoft didn't make the same mistake, the MAC protection had to be hacked and removed.
Kudos to the people responsible for that!
Journal Journal: Talisman hacked by unknown group - on mirrors now 3
It was bound to happen. After pissing of the entire open source community with their scam, it was only a matter of time until Sveasoft's latest baby - Talisman - would be hacked and made public.
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