Comment Congrats Bruce (Score 1) 37
Have fun
Comment Already it fails. (Score 1) 658
Just tried to sign up to give this a go for a month.
Already, it tells me my credit card number is wrong, and it can't process my payment. Uhhh wtf Adobe. I've bought lots of stuff from you before. This doesn't bode well...
Researchers Use Google's Search Algorithms To Fight Cancer 52
MatthewVD writes "German scientists have modified Google's PageRank algorithm to scan tumors and learn more about how cancers progress. PageRank orders results based on how other web pages are connected to them via hyperlinks; the modified algorithm, NetRank, scans how genes and proteins in a cell are similarly connected through a network of interactions with their neighbors. This approach could also yield new therapies to help combat tumors."
Comment Perfectly on time. (Score 1) 264
My last flight couldn't have been better - it left as soon as possible after I arrived, and landed precisely when I wanted.
That kinda comes with being the pilot, though.
(ok, in-training, but still stands :)
Failed MMO APB To Be Resurrected As Free-To-Play Game 90
Two months ago, we discussed news that Realtime Worlds' action MMO APB closed its doors only a few months after launch, when it became clear that player interest and subscriber numbers couldn't begin to recoup the massive development cost. A few days ago, a company called Reloaded Productions, owned by free-to-play publisher GamersFirst, acquired all the rights and assets to APB. The company plans to relaunch the game as APB: Reloaded in the first half of 2011, abandoning its unusual business model in favor of free-to-play accounts supplemented by microtransactions and premium services.
The World's Smallest Legible Font 280
hasanabbas1987 writes "From the article: 'Well 'technically' they aren't the smallest fonts in the world as if they were you wouldn't be able to read even a single letter, but, you should be able to read the entire paragraph in the picture given above... we did. A Computer science professor called Ken Perlin designed these tiny fonts and you can fit 500 reasonable words in a resolution of 320 x 240 space. There are at the moment the smallest legible fonts in the world.'"
Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex 397
An anonymous reader writes "According to OK Cupid's survey of 552,000 user pictures iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners while female iPhone users have had 12. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6. As the blog's author's wryly observe: 'Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f*@ked by Apple.'"
Inmates Escape As Guard Plays Plants Vs. Zombies 87
dotarray writes "Everybody knows that there's a certain risk one takes when playing addictive, engrossing games can be trouble when you're meant to be doing something else. The prevalence of awesome games on the iPhone hasn't helped that risk. A Plants Vs. Zombies loving police officer has learned this the hard way after an escape."
Data Center Raid About Unpaid Telco Fees 174
craig writes "CBS11 News reports that the raid on Core IP networks is in the result of an investigation into unpaid telco access fees paid by CLECs and VoIP carriers to terminate calls on their networks. They also report that this raid is linked to the March 12th raid on Crydon Technology's datacenter, which also hosted VOIP providers. Anyone in the telco business will tell you access fees to other carriers are a total mess and lots of carriers have unpaid balances out there. It gives you the feeling that the FBI is acting as a collection agency for AT&T and Verizon."
Comment Re:mac != unix (Score 2, Insightful) 699
plists are xml. If you don't count those as human readable, you may as well not count *any* text files as human readable.
Comment Re:Only Meta-Data was damaged (Score 1) 231
Same - recording data-only to the disk, and the error correction worked OK there.
Comment Re:Only Meta-Data was damaged (Score 1) 231
And it's not a problem when that happens. The blank section is error-corrected around, and the disc works fine.
Here's one I did, with a huge oily fingerprint purposely put on a DVD before recording, it was burned, and the 'shadow' of the fingerprint shows up as a huge unburnt patch after the original print has been wiped off.
The disc worked fine afterwards, and worked fine for quite a while until I lost it.
Comment Re:Cloning the Mac vs. the IBM PC. (Score 1) 606
Actually, IBM made it a point of making it an open system when they released the IBM PC in 1980, because at the time, the Apple II family (][ and later the ][plus) were the clear leaders, in both business and education markets. With the rest of the 'PC' manufacturers market shared by dozens of other companies with products ranging from the KIM to expensive S100 based systems.
IBM wanted and needed support from other companies. Apple had the clear lead in both software with Visicalc, Flight Simulator, Pinball Construction Set, Utopia Software, Logo, etc. and in hardware with the Graphics Tablet, inexpensive floppy drives ($495), Game Paddles etc. While Apple provided open documentation, including listings of the ROM code in the Red Book, prototype cards to build your own boards, and languages, (Assembler, Pascal, Fortran... ) they never released rights to the system. My speculation is that the two Steves likely would have given most of the rights away, but their VC partner 'Mike' Markkula, made the decision not to, because he was rightfully trying to protect his investment.
IBM by opening up the system together with the power of their name brand ("Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"), allowed them to compete with Apple. Luckily Bills dad was an attorney and likely contributed to or wrote the licensing agreement for MS-DOS that the renegade IBM PC division signed. IBMs failure to buy the ownership of the OS from Bill Gates was their biggest mistake, but it did ensure that the 'PC' would be the clear market leader. Unfortunately for IBM, in the long run it didn't turn out to be the 'IBM' branded version of the PC.
Comment The only thing we found... (Score 1) 474
The only trace of the squirrels found was a hastily-scribbled note reading "so long and thanks for all the acorns".
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