Comment Re:Yay!!!! (Score 1) 158
It is also out for the Wii. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5Npu9fjRw
We play it at family gatherings, it is pretty funny and even my parents love it.
Comment Re:Some hardware needs them (Score 1) 558
Our family business has an embroidery machine that reads patterns from floppy disks. We also had to buy USB floppy drives for the PCs were patterns are created.
The Big Technical Mistakes of History 244
An anonymous reader tips a PC Authority review of some of the biggest technical goofs of all time. "As any computer programmer will tell you, some of the most confusing and complex issues can stem from the simplest of errors. This article looking back at history's big technical mistakes includes some interesting trivia, such as NASA's failure to convert measurements to metric, resulting in the Mars Climate Orbiter being torn apart by the Martian atmosphere. Then there is the infamous Intel Pentium floating point fiasco, which cost the company $450m in direct costs, a battering on the world's stock exchanges, and a huge black mark on its reputation. Also on the list is Iridium, the global satellite phone network that promised to make phones work anywhere on the planet, but required 77 satellites to be launched into space."
Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 589
The Dune series was the biggest test for my "if I start a series, I finish it" rule.
Then you should never, ever, under any circumstance, read any of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books.
Has Apple Created the Perfect Board Game Platform? 531
andylim writes "recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform.' The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games at home, and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What would be really interesting is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, 'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.' Now that would be cool."
Comment Re:I'm glad SOMEONE is saying it... (Score 1) 360
I've never had problems with WPA, but I've had serious problems with WEP. They have to do with the password length - basically, if the password is not 5 or 13 characters in length, it will only work on Windows, but not on OSX. That happens to me at the university, I have to use bootcamp in order to get on the wireless network. And the network admin can't change the password at this point, even though he now understands the problem.
Apple has a KB article about this problem here.
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