Comment Re:Sequel? (Score 1) 285
Alien *2* was the bad one.
Comment soon... (Score 1) 72
...blowjob and telepathic dirty talk at the same time!
Scientists Say Toads Can Predict Earthquakes 66
reillymj writes "Researchers claim toads sensed a severe earthquake last year five days before it hit. Last spring's L'Aquila earthquake devastated the medieval city of the same name in Italy. Five days earlier, a group of biologists noticed some toads behaving strangely in a pond nearby that would later be the quake's epicenter."
iPhone-Controlled Helicopter With AR Games 51
andylim writes "Parrot has unveiled a remote-controlled helicopter that boasts augmented reality games. The helicopter is controlled using an iPhone or iPod Touch's accelerometer and touchscreen. There's a camera on the front of the helicopter, which you can use to navigate and to play augmented reality games, including a game that involves fighting a gigantic robot."
Free Wi-Fi For the Residents of Venice, Italy 153
pmontra writes "The City of Venice, Italy, started to offer free Wi-Fi to residents (Google translation from the Italian source) on July 3 2009. Tourists and other visitors will pay 5 Euros a day for the service starting from September. The hot spots are connected to a ten thousand kilometer (6,250 mile) fiber optic LAN the City started deploying in the '90s. The first day of free Internet access has been celebrated with a digital treasure hunt in the channels of the lagoon city."
Comment Re:Cut through the BS (Score 1) 219
it's false
because while pre/post-conditions are just assertion, you just can't code class or method invariants and variants in a classical language without making the code unreadable and unmaintainable. These invariants are what makes eiffel 'design by contract' a good paradigm for building robust programs.
because while pre/post-conditions are just assertion, you just can't code class or method invariants and variants in a classical language without making the code unreadable and unmaintainable. These invariants are what makes eiffel 'design by contract' a good paradigm for building robust programs.
