Comment Re:Nice one (Score 1, Troll) 226
oooo imagine it, access to literally dozens of Opera users browsing data...
Comment Re:Just like Siri... (Score 1) 402
There is a Swype clone available for cydia, and it mostly sucks http://lifehacker.com/5819207/swype-beta-now-available-for-jailbroken-iphones. It is fun to begin with as a novelty, but dragging your finger around that small screen obscures most of the letters making it hard to actually form words, and it is not that accurate.
Comment Re:How come there are enough apes to take over? (Score 1) 239
SPOILER ALERT the smart monkeys in the monkey pound escape, there must be say 30-50 of them? They then bust some regular ones out of the zoo (another 20-30?) as well as busting some more out of the research labs (100?), then they all escape into the forest via a bridge, and get lucky that it is a bit cloudy and the humans cannot see them to kill them. A few get killed along the way, then I guess the remaining procreate in the forest or something, then take over the planet. I suppose the humans could just nuke the forest or something, but maybe the monkeys would outsmart them again I dunno.
Comment Re:"Open Media" (Score 1) 201
No iTunes equivalent for Android? http://www.doubletwist.com/ has been around for a good while now, I'd say it fits that description...
Comment Re:Interesting Historical Fact (Score 2, Informative) 419
Yeah of course. I was pointing out that NZs first female PM got in without winning an election, just like Canada, just like Australia.
Comment Re:Interesting Historical Fact (Score 4, Interesting) 419
Same as in New Zealand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Shipley
Comment Re:Safari does clean up after itself. (Score 1) 200
http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/12-tips-for-safari-4-beta.html links to an article called "14 Tips for Safari 4 Beta"
Submission + - Researchers Store Optical Data in Five Dimensions (technologyreview.com)
Al writes: "Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria, Australia, have developed an optical material capable of storing information in five dimensions. Using three wavelengths and two polarizations of light, the Australian researchers were able to write six different patterns within the same area. The material is made up of layers of gold nanorods suspended in clear plastic that has been spun flat onto a glass substrate and multiple data patterns can be written and read within the same area in the material without interference. The team achieved a storage density of 1.1 terabytes per cubic centimeter by writing data to stacks of 10 nanorod layers."
Comment Re:The student edition is now $47 more (Score 1) 762
Here's a suggestion...
Find 4 friends, buy a family pack. 4 of my friends at school are doing the same. Thus, $40 apiece.
what is there to stop one using a regular (i.e. non family-pack) version of OS X for multiple upgrades? I recall when i upgraded to tiger there was no serial or activation required, and the disc certainly didnt dissolve or anything after installation. do you get 4 discs or sumthing with the family pack?
Find 4 friends, buy a family pack. 4 of my friends at school are doing the same. Thus, $40 apiece.
Velociraptor Had Feathers 189
Spy der Mann writes "A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. A paper describing the discovery, made by paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum of Natural History, appears in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Science."
Cosmic Rays and Global Warming 548
Overly Critical Guy writes "The former editor of New Scientist has written an article in the TimesOnline suggesting that cosmic rays may affect global climate. The author criticizes the UN's recent global warming report, noting several underreported trends it doesn't account for, such as increasing sea-ice in the Southern Ocean. He describes an experiment by Henrik Svensmark showing a relation between atmospheric cloudiness and atomic particles coming in from exploded stars. In the basement of the Danish National Space Center in 2005, Svensmark's team showed that electrons from cosmic rays caused cloud condensation. Svensmark's scenario apparently predicts several unexplained temperature trends from the warmer trend of the 20th century to the temporary drop in the 1970s, attributed to changes in the sun's magnetic field affecting the amount of cosmic rays entering the atmosphere."
