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Dinosaur Feather Color Discovered 219

Posted by timothy from the horsefeathers-still-a-mystery dept.
anzha writes "Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were? For at least some, that's no longer true. Scientists working in the UK and China have closely examined the fossils of multiple theropods and actually found the colors and patterns that were present in the fossilized proto-feathers. So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns. The work also thoroughly thrashes the idea that fossils might not be feathers, but collagen fibers instead. If this holds up, Birds Are Dinosaurs. Period. And colorful!"
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Living In Tokyo's Capsule Hotels 269

Posted by samzenpus from the living-in-the-hive dept.
afabbro writes "Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 once offered a night’s refuge to salarymen who had missed the last train home. Now with Japan enduring its worst recession since World War II, it is becoming an affordable option for people with nowhere else to go. The Hotel 510’s capsules are only 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide. Guests must keep possessions, like shirts and shaving cream, in lockers outside of the capsules. Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas says, 'It’s just a place to crawl into and sleep. You get used to it.'”

Comment Re:The Man Who Fell to Earth (Score 1) 238

by kewlblue (#29624497) Attached to: GE Developing 1Tb Hologram Disc Readable By a Modified Blu-ray Drive

First of all, if this guy went off to fight in a war because of a single book then he was a fool and fucked up to begin with, it had nothing to do with the war or the military conditioning program.

I think you need to re-read the book, the whole idea was that if you wanted to prove that you were good enough to vote you had to put the needs of society as a whole ahead of your own personal needs. In the "Starship Trooper" universe, you could just as easily jump into a research position rather the front-line fighting. In fact, I believe you don't have to be a grunt in this universe either if you don't want to be.

Also, I know there is some fucked up shit happening in our society today and this system could not possibly work at this point. Although, I do believe it's the fact that a lot of people really don't care enough about anything other than themselves or their close family and friends that they can't\refuse to see the big picture. If you know of a better system to filter out all of this selfish greed that runs rampant in our society today I'm all ears but when I first read this book (many years ago) I thought it was one of the best ideas I've ever heard and I still think so today. It still hasn't convinced me to join the military though!

Comment Re:backwards compatibility (Score 1) 149

by kewlblue (#28407241) Attached to: Activision CEO Warns Sony That the PS3 Needs a Price Cut
While I agree that it was stupid that Sony removed the backwards compatibility from the PS3 I don't ever remember it ever being such a huge problem that the SNES or pretty much any other system in the history of console gaming was not backwards compatible. Yes it is a nice feature but it is just that, a feature. Sony's biggest problem is still lack of a game library. I considered buying one when MGS4 came out but the price stopped me and now that Gran Turismo 5, a slim design and maybe even a price drop I think I'll be considering it again in the near future although with only two exclusive games that I actually want to play it'll still be a tough decision.

Comment Re:Time warner, ATT, next Comcast (Score 1) 279

by kewlblue (#23698595) Attached to: AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, Considers Usage-Based Pricing
Well, for me right now, just idly surfing and viewing every article in the entire /. newsletter, at least for this "Headlines for 2008-06-08" newsletter costs me approximatley 9.55 MegaBytes (less than this but I'm leaving room for error). This of course does not include the extra for pursuing the article more in depth if it happens to interest me or switching the message board to nested if I decide to read it and/or post something. At your 3Mbits (I'm assuming you mean 3Mbps,) it takes me an entire 26 seconds (approximatley) to download all 13 articles. So for my 26 seconds of 3Mbps bandwith usage, I get (at least on good nights like tonight) upwards of an hour of reading, posting and pursuing articles more in depth. Obviously, /. isn't the only thing I do online but for the past 49 hours I've used a total of 785.71 MBs of bandwidth, both directions but less then 5% being up. Anyways getting to the point, let me appologize to you, King of buying something and apperantly never using it, for being an idle surfer and that I used 35 minutes of your time (at 3Mbps) which is obviously intersparsed with the time it takes me to check my e-mail, to read my articles, download ophcrack-xp-livecd-2.0 iso and generally just idly surf! I have an idea for you, take that money you give to your ISP and walk down the street to your local dealer and buy some of that THC you so obviously love. It'll save you the aggravation of have "idle surfers" (by the way, idle means not engaged in work or activity) like me waste all your bandwidth and saves me the time of having to deal with people like you!

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