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Comment Re:Imagine (Score 1) 278

by resignator on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:09PM (#55728513) Attached to: Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th

Why not just install iOS on an intel based system if you hate win10 so much? It's much cheaper than buying overpriced apple hardward and you can upgrade anything you desire. There are a few methods but Unibeast works like a charm for legit purchased copies of iOS. All you need is an external HD and internet connection.

Comment wildstar, eq classic, eq next (Score 1) 669

by resignator on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @01:56PM (#46287907) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing?

I am desperately waiting to get into EQ Next beta. I still occasionally play EQ classic on an emulated server (project99). Wildstar beta has been eating up most of my time lately, though. The game is great fun so far minus some minor class balancing issues which isnt out of the ordinary for a RPG. From the Wildstar wiki: "WildStar development started in 2005, after 17 former members of Blizzard Entertainment founded Carbine Studios. At the time, the seventeen former members of Blizzard Entertainment had a desire to "do anything but WoW","

Submission + - Are You a Competent Cyborg?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @02:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Beyond your smartphone screen lies an infinitely more interesting world, if only you could get past the myopic app view you're currently bound to. Glen Martin ponders the existential unease lying at the root of the Internet of Things "We're already cyborgs: biological matrices augmented by wirelessly connected silicon arrays of various configurations. The problem is that we're pretty clunky as cyborgs go. We rely on screens and mobile devices to extend our powers beyond the biological. That leads to everything from atrophying social skills as face-to-face interactions decline to fatal encounters with garbage trucks as we wander, texting and oblivious, into traffic.
So, if we're going to be cyborgs, argues Breseman, let's be competent, sophisticated cyborgs. For one thing, it's now in our ability to upgrade beyond the screen. For another, being better cyborgs may make us — paradoxically — more human."

Comment huh? (Score 1) 87

by resignator on Saturday August 11, 2012 @05:51PM (#40960205) Attached to: UCLA Scientist Discovers Plate Tectonics On Mars

Forgive me, IANAPG but didnt Mars cease to be geologically active long ago. Which is why we see no active volcanoes and very little atmosphere (no shielding from solar winds). Also, if earth is the only planet with active tectonics why is Venus literally covered with active volcanoes and an atmosphere thousands of times denser than earth?

Comment Debian+openbox+thunar (Score 1) 319

by resignator on Friday March 02, 2012 @06:36PM (#39226277) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Distro For Linux Lessons?

You simply cannot go wrong with Debian, openbox WM, and a lightweight file manager like thunar. Fast, easy to use, access to the entire Debian repository for software, and great user support.

I also highly recommend Crunchbang (a lightweight Debian based distro). No need to even install Crunchbang to learn the OS...just boot off the live CD and tinker away.

Comment What's next? (Score 1) 1

by resignator on Friday July 22, 2011 @12:58PM (#36847812) Attached to: Did an Unholy Trinity Kill Jesus?

Theorizing if Humpty Dumpty's fall was sufficient enough to break a normal egg? Did Humpty have a pre-existing genetic condition that made his shell extremely brittle? Perhaps, farmers at the time were using a pesticide similar to DDT? Someone needs to ask these tough questions about imaginary beings.

Comment Re:Explained by a Simple Formula (Score 1) 944

by resignator on Friday October 23, 2009 @04:02PM (#29850663) Attached to: When Libertarians Attack Free Software

"but the USA didn't seem to do too hot without one before the Great Depression"

-The Federal Reserve was created December 23, 1913.

-The Great Depression lasted from Oct. 24, 1929 until about 1940.

So how exactly did the Fed save us again? You do realize many people believe that the Fed actually created the Depression to consolidate power for themselves right?

Comment Re:Questions for Someone who knows this stuff... (Score 2, Funny) 205

by resignator on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @06:59PM (#29523463) Attached to: HD Video From The Edge of Space, On the Cheap

Looks like I spoke too soon. Escape velocity does decrease with altitude. At sufficient heights it can even approach zero.
*punches himself in the balls*
There, that'll learn me.

Comment Re:Questions for Someone who knows this stuff... (Score 1) 205

by resignator on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @06:44PM (#29523313) Attached to: HD Video From The Edge of Space, On the Cheap

You need to reach escape velocity which is about mach 34 (6.96 miles per second). In other words, same power as the space shuttle minus 18.9 miles of fuel in the gas tank.

Submission + - Court IP addresses not "personally identifiabl (mediapost.com)

Submitted by yuna49 on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @10:32AM

yuna49 writes: Online Media Daily reports that a federal judge in Seattle has held that IP addresses are not personal information. "In order for 'personally identifiable information' to be personally identifiable, it must identify a person. But an IP address identifies a computer," U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones said in a written decision. Jones issued the ruling in the context of a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers against Microsoft stemming from an update that automatically installed new anti-piracy software. In that case, which dates back to 2006, consumers alleged that Microsoft violated its user agreement by collecting IP addresses in the course of the updates.

This ruling flatly contradicts a recent EU decision to the contrary, as well as other cases in the US. Its potential relevance to the RIAA suits should be obvious to anyone who reads Slashdot.

Submission + - ESA and NASA establish a joint Mars exploration in (spacefellowship.com)

Submitted by

Matt_dk

on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @10:26AM

Matt_dk writes: "At the bilateral meeting in Plymouth, the executive board recommended NASA and ESA establish MEJI spanning launch opportunities in 2016, 2018 and 2020, with landers and orbiters conducting astrobiological, geological, geophysical and other high-priority investigations, and leading to the return of samples from Mars in the 2020s. The Director and Associate Administrator agreed, in principle, to establish the Initiative and continue studies to determine the most viable joint mission architectures."

MediaDefender's Parent Company Joins P2P Market 40

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 04, 2008 @08:19AM from the playing-both-sides dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news that ArtistDirect, the company who acquired MediaDefender, has launched another company called PiCast for the purpose of P2P video distribution. The reader says: "This is a strange twist for a company which last year set up a video-sharing site called Miivi in an attempt to entrap users uploading copyrighted content, and was caught launching a DoS attack against Revision3, which we discussed earlier this year."

6.7 Meter Telescope To Capture 30 Terabytes Per Night 67

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 04, 2008 @02:09AM from the very-large-yet-very-small dept.

Lumenary7204 writes "The Register has a story about the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a project to build a 6.7 meter effective-diameter ground-based telescope that will be used to map some of the faintest objects in the night sky. Jeff Kantor, the LSST Project Data Manager, indicates that the telescope should be in operation by 2016, will generate around 30 terabytes of data per night, and will 'open a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects.' The end result will be a 150 petabyte database containing one of the most detailed surveys of the universe ever undertaken by a ground-based telescope. The telescope's 8.4 meter mirror blank was recently unveiled at the University of Arizona's Mirror Lab in Tucson."

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spawns Real-Life Car 93

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 03, 2008 @03:54PM from the and-i'm-sure-it-will-be-affordable dept.

Car Analogy Please writes to tell us that a new car unveiled at the Paris Auto Show was modeled after the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue car. GTbyCITROËN is the first car that has been designed in tandem with a video game to then spill out onto the actual pavement. "The GTbyCITROËN is the product of a partnership built up during the creation of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Takumi Yamamoto, from Citroen and Kazunori Yamauchi from Polyphony Digital Inc, the games developer were inspired by each others industries to design a concept car for the game that then flowed further into the real-world. The game version of the car mirrors the real-world performance of the concept."

Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates 410

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 03, 2008 @12:19PM from the hundred-years-of-blah-blah-blah dept.

roncosmos writes "Science News has up a feature on the first use of sound recording in a presidential campaign. In 1908, for the first time, presidential candidates recorded their voices on wax cylinders. Their voices could be brought into the home for 35 cents, equivalent to about $8 now. In that pre-radio era, this was the only way, short of hearing a speech at a whistle stop, that you could hear the candidates. The story includes audio recordings from the 1908 candidates, William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft. Bryan's speech, on bank failures, seems sadly prescient now. Taft's, on the progress of the Negro, sounds condescending to modern ears but was progressive at the time. There are great images from the campaign; lots of fun."

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