Comment Having worked on the terminal codebase... (Score 1) 119
I can only imagine how many FORTRAN shared memory fields were abused to make this happen.
Comment Frequently Bought Together: (Score 1) 129
"What If" and "Frozen (Two-Disc Blu-ray / DVD + Digital Copy)".
Makes sense. I guess. They are both.... I mean the connection is..... Nope. I got nothing.
Comment Project Bar-B-Q (Score 1) 66
Project Bar-B-Q gathers an interesting cast of characters from the interactive audio world every year. The annual reports are full of interesting results from their brainstorming. Which working group report coming out of Bar-B-Q are you the most proud of, and which do you wish had received more attention from the industry?
Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 400
New submitter Cid Highwind writes "If you want to download the latest version of Winamp, you'd better do it soon. According to a new banner on the download page, AOL will be pulling the plug on the iconic llama-whipping music player in a month. 'Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.' Ars Technica ran an article last year detailing how the music player lost its dominance."
Comment Re:If this is the draft version (Score 1) 212
It's the "Trans PACIFIC Partnership". European politicians are not involved, unless Europe has recently moved.
Comment I broke it a long time ago (Score 3, Insightful) 141
I just re-serve the CAPTCHAs on my own popular website. Crowdsourcing for the win.
Comment Old news on old news (Score 3, Funny) 107
4 years ago, Slashdot ran this exact same story http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/03/02/0242224/recovering-data-from-noise about Wired running this exact same story: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_algorithm/all/1
Comment It's like gopher on steroids. (Score 1) 92
Nearly as cool as Gopherpedia http://gopherpedia.com/gopherpedia.com/
Comment Why does it matter when their home was made? (Score 1) 534
Shouldn't the headline read "... bans all technology made after 1986 from their home."? At first read, I thought they were banning ALL technology from their 28 year old home.
Submission + - Universal Genome Sequencing at Birth? (sciencemag.org) 1
sciencehabit writes: In a few years, all new parents may go home from the hospital with not just a bundle of joy, but with something else—the complete sequence of their baby’s DNA. A new research program funded at $25 million over 5 years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will explore the promise—and ethical challenges—of sequencing every newborn’s genome.
Submission + - Crunching the Numbers On Shared Cellphone Contracts (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: The Wall Street Journal has a handy online calculater to help you sort out which phone plan is best for you. But one thing you'll notice is that shared or 'family' plans rarely offer any real savings, or benefits beyond the convenience of having a single bill, says blogger Kevin Purdy, who is bracing himself to propose a phone plan separation with his wife.
Submission + - Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies Of Physical Keys
An anonymous reader writes: The New York Daily News reports that a startup company in Manhattan is putting robotic key copying machines in 7-Eleven stores. The machines can automatically create physical copies of common apartment and office keys. What is more interesting is that they allow users to save digital copies of their keys, which can later be created when the original is lost or the user is locked out of their home.
Comment Re:The joy of flipping pages? (Score 1) 143
Similarly, the smell of newsprint and the act of folding and unfolding each section is very much tied up in my overall experience of reading the paper. I don't think that any e-reader, no matter the spiffy features, could replace all that.
That's exactly why I hate newspapers - they're so fucking inconvenient. Granted, I grew up with free news online, which beat the hell out of the Philadelphia Inquirer (here is just one extremely bullshitty long-form piece I found on their website in about 2.4 seconds, after wading through the four stories about solid precipitation falling from the sky).
On the other hand, I'd be willing to bet that I read more newspaper articles than you. It's amazing how much you miss by only reading one media source. Efficiency and breadth are much more compelling factors for me.
That's exactly why I hate newspapers - they're so fucking inconvenient. Granted, I grew up with free news online, which beat the hell out of the Philadelphia Inquirer (here is just one extremely bullshitty long-form piece I found on their website in about 2.4 seconds, after wading through the four stories about solid precipitation falling from the sky).
On the other hand, I'd be willing to bet that I read more newspaper articles than you. It's amazing how much you miss by only reading one media source. Efficiency and breadth are much more compelling factors for me.
Comment Re:Now, that's interesting. (Score 1) 225
Microsoft's day is coming (see: decline of the desktop computer, where Windows dominates, and Apple's increasing share of the laptop market), and I agree with you that Microsoft should have fallen earlier, but it wasn't because of a lack of antitrust regulations and government bureaucrats poring over code to make sure it's up to their standards. Face it: if you're going to give people monopolies on their intellectual output (i.e., copyrights and patents), the market will coalesce into a monopoly.
Comment Re:What if they had broken Microsoft up? (Score 1) 225
I love the h1'd "My brother is getting married" part. Also, this guy's a terrible HTML coder - he vacillates between using quotes and not, doesn't keep a consistent case in his tags, missed the body end tag, etc., etc.
