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Comment That's cool, but my one grip still (Score 0) 309

is the miserable battery life. My droid Incredible goes barely a day and a half with little to no good smartphone usage. If I use the internet or video at all the battery is gone in less than a day. I even have all the default auto-running programs deleted. I will probably go back to iphone after this just because of its incredible battery life. I had the 3g and it was amazing.

Comment Re:Its justified price (Score 3, Interesting) 536

The thing I hate most is that for xbox360 (sure it's the same for PS3 but I don't own one so I don't know) every game is $60. Some games definitely deserve it like the huge RPG games with fantastic stories and voice acting and emersive worlds, the great multiplayer FPS games, and so on. Then there's the other games, which probably spent a quarter as much time in development than the much better games, and all of a sudden the developer is like "hurr hurr it's in high def and on the 360 it's worth $60" Games based off movies come to mind first-- usually terrible mock ups hashed together for insta-profit from the movie's success. Some cartoon graphic puzzle games next. And some blatantly terrible games.
Robotics

Submission + - Robot warriors will get a guide to ethics (msn.com) 1

thinker writes: MSNBC reports:

Smart missiles, rolling robots, and flying drones currently controlled by humans, are being used on the battlefield more every day. But what happens when humans are taken out of the loop, and robots are left to make decisions, like who to kill or what to bomb, on their own?

Ronald Arkin, a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, is in the first stages of developing an "ethical governor," a package of software and hardware that tells robots when and what to fire. His book on the subject, "Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots," comes out this month.


Earth

Submission + - Scientists create RNA from primordial soup (sciencenews.org)

Kristina at Science News writes: "The RNA world hypothesis proposed 40 years ago suggested that life on Earth started not with DNA but with RNA. Now a team of scientists bolsters this hypothesis, having assembled RNA in the lab from a mixture that resembles what was likely the primordial soup. "Until now," Science News reports, "scientists couldn't figure out the chemical reactions that created the earliest RNA molecules." The new work started the RNA assembly chemistry from a different angle than what earlier work had tried."
User Journal

Journal Journal: spring - blazeds integration suite

Changed my flex/javaserver application to use the new spring flex integration suite from http://www.springsource.org/spring-flex as well as the spring-security package. It is a real treat to use. Very easy to use, much easier to configure and secure remote destinations than the standard flex config files.

Comment it's a trick (Score 5, Funny) 240

Everyone confirming or denying the presence of MS-DEBUG on their windows machine, is confirming their use of windows, and getting their precious slashdot ID number increased by 50% and a free copy of Windows 7 because MS is tired of having to keep hosting Windows 98 SP 2 updates for every time you reformat

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