Comment Re: Dammit... (Score 2) 49
Get a PhD
Comment Same with DB dumps (Score 2) 185
I once saw the same issue when a db dump was edited.
A user 'bend' was replaced with 'ainsleyj' globally - hilarity ensued.
Comment can it run android? (Score 1) 206
Would it be foolish to buy one hoping to be able to put android on it?
Comment Re:Passwords are for philistines (Score 2) 167
Agreed! - this seems like the simplest tweak to bypass brute-force attacks -- After all why attack a server that isn't listening on port 22 when so many are?
Comment Game Developement (Score 3, Insightful) 416
Try a different kind of development? - maybe Game Development?
You man still deal with the same issues - but at least it's more light-hearted and the business rules of the app are still arbitrary but more fun.
Comment Re: All natural (Score 1) 343
you actually wrote a letter to your pollycritter
Where did you pick-up this word? I tried to goggle it and got 2 results.
Feed BT trialing motion-powered computing (engadget.com)
Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds, Laptops, Peripherals, Tablet PCs
As if the influx of products like the Wiimote, SIXAXIS controller, and DoCoMo D904i series of handsets hadn't yet convinced you that motion control is the future of PC input (well, either that or knuckle rapping), BT is currently field testing a USB dongle that promises to bring the excitement of gaming to boring computing tasks. Like other implementations before it, the so-called Balance technology uses a small accelerometer to translate various tilts and movements of a connected laptop or UMPC into certain commands, letting you violently shake your expensive gear to do something as simple as empty the trash. Actually, the current trials aren't meant to enable an even lazier lifestyle for your average geek -- at least in the short term -- but rather to give disabled individuals a way to hop on the mobile computing bandwagon without having to deal with finicky trackpads, control nubbins, or onscreen thumbboards. While no specific plans for a commercial launch have been made, BT anticipates that a product stemming from this research will hit the market in two to three years, just in time to be replaced by the thought-controlled input devices that are once again being trailblazed by the cutting-edge gaming community.
[Via Reg Hardware]
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Feed Talk on the phone through your ear (cnet.com)
New earbud microphone from Japan picks up speech from the ear, not from the mouth. We're not kidding. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
Has Open Source Jumped the Shark? 250
AlexGr writes to tell us that Jeff Gould has a somewhat jaded look at the commercial push of Open Source and what that may be doing to the overall Open Source movement. "I've been a Linux fan for years, but lately I wonder if the drum beating from the big IT vendors in favor of open source hasn't finally slipped over the edge from sincere enthusiasm to meaningless — or in some cases downright hypocritical — sloganeering. The example that brought this gloomy thought to mind was a recent IBM press release touting a 'new open client solution' as an 'alternative to vendor lock-in'. Wow. Imagine that. An alternative to vendor lock-in."
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