Comment Re: Then I guess it doesn't survive (Score 1) 96
Have you seen Slashdot comments lately?
Comment Re:It can't generate good guitar solos (Score 1) 52
A classic!
Comment It can't generate good guitar solos (Score 4, Funny) 52
Because it always adds too many fingers...
Sears To Convert Old Auto Centers Into National Chain of Data Centers 167
1sockchuck writes "Sears plans to convert dozens of Sears Auto Center stores into a national chain of server farms, saying it wants to be "the McDonald's or Starbucks of data centers." The strategy is an evolution of Sears Holdings' previously announced plan to turn old Sears and Kmart stores into IT centers. Instead, it will focus on the more than 700 Sears Auto Centers, which include many stand-alone cement buildings on mall perimeters. Ubiquity Critical Environments, the data center arm of Sears, will team with Schneider Electric to turn these sites into data centers. They'll use repeatable modular designs to add power and cooling infrastructure, targeting at least 23 smaller cities where there currently aren't many options for IT outsourcing."
Comment Re:catch me up now someone? (Score 2) 130
The best benefit I find is the need for only a single heatsink. One giant radiator and a single large, slow case fan, and you have an extremely quiet system.
Comment Finally, the savior of the PC (Score 1) 54
With all the fancy touch enabled UIs floating around on tablets and phones, the PC can finally make a similar evolutionary advancement. Touch screens on the desktop or a laptop are annoying to reach for, but a device sitting in the keyboard is even closer at hand than a mouse. Windows 8 doesn't seem so silly now.
Comment Re:Everyone gets a planet.... (Score 2) 142
Asimov's Spacers tried that, and look how it worked out for them...
Comment Exactly what Windows 8 needed at launch (Score 2) 108
This turns any computer into a touchscreen. It should have come built in to all windows 8 keyboards: the metro tiles would finally make sense.
Comment That's why Qt is awesome (Score 1) 418
It does the job, but over and above that Qt has excellent and thorough documentation. Trying to move to other frameworks can be frustrating when their docs are terse or missing entirely.
New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox 774
KentuckyFC writes "If the universe is teeming with advanced civilizations capable of communicating over interstellar distances, then surely we ought to have seen them by now. That's the gist of a paradoxical line of reasoning put forward by the physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. The so-called Fermi Paradox has haunted SETI researchers ever since. Not least because if the number of intelligent civilizations capable of communication in our galaxy is greater than 1, then we should eventually hear from them. Now one astrophysicist says this thinking fails to take into account the limit to how far a signal from ET can travel before it becomes too faint to hear. Factor that in and everything changes. Assuming the average communicating civilization has a lifetime of 1,000 years, ten times longer than Earth has been broadcasting, and has a signal horizon of 1,000 light-years, you need a minimum of over 300 communicating civilizations in the Milky Way to ensure that you'll see one of them. Any less than that and the chances are that they'll live out their days entirely ignorant of each other's existence. Paradox solved, right?"
Comment Just blend the web and local programs (Score 1) 431
Qt took the step by allowing webkit and widgets to commingle... you can have local code running inside your browser, which can render local or remote content.
I like C++ better than Javascript anyway :P
I like C++ better than Javascript anyway
Comment Bah! (Score 2, Insightful) 141
True fans will shell out whatever monies are necessary to get their hands on the ambrosia that is Team Fortress 2.
Submission + - Police objecting to tickets from red-light cameras
caffiend666 writes: "According to this Dallas Morning New article, any "...Dallas police officer in a marked squad car who is captured on the city's cameras running a red light will have to pay the $75 fine if the incident doesn't comply with state law... Many police officers are angry about the proposed policy. The prevailing belief among officers has been that they can run red lights as they see fit." How is this a case for or against governments relying on un-biased automated systems? Or, should anyone be able to control who is recorded on camera and who is held accountable?"
Journal Journal: Anyone know of a cheap dedicated hosting company? 2
My current hosting company wants to put their prices up. I currently have a Mac Mini running OpenBSD colocated with them. I am looking to move, and have the following minimum needs:
- 1GHz CPU,
- 512MB of RAM,
- 1IP,
- 50GB/month of transfer,
- OpenBSD or FreeBSD.
The Platinum Age of CRPGs 112
Matt Barton writes "I've just posted my third (and final) installment on CRPG history at GamaSutra: The Platinum and Modern Ages. This article covers the many classics released between 1994 and 2004, including Fallout, Planescape: Torment, Ultima Underworld, and of course Baldur's Gate, Diablo, and The Elder Scrolls. It also discusses why WoW and other MMORPGs aren't descended from these CRPGs (but rather MUDs). The Platinum Age produced the finest CRPGs ever made — but the future of the stand-alone, single-player CRPG looks grim."
