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When I was a kid growing up in rural Kansas both "kraut" and "jerry" were indeed considered offensive by German-descended American WWII vets and their families in the area. Even "jerry-rigged" was insulting (no need to bring up jury-rigged, I know). Of course, they had a severe double-standard...

Now well into its second season on Space, it's something I enjoy every week, though it's not must-see. The TV-MA rating is overkill: there are maybe 3 episodes so far that push boundaries a bit, but otherwise it's tame.

The Daily Mail (in the UK) managed to word news of her death very poorly: At Last singer Etta James dies at 73 after battle with leukaemia They managed to fix it a bit later. (You can see the before and after here if you wish.)

I knew nothing about it in advance and so had the opportunity to be pleasantly surprised but I really wasn't. I don't find it to be bad, but it just hasn't grabbed me yet. Here's hoping it does so.

I noticed this at one point and actively made a point to do it the other way in order to try to get used to it but never succeeded (I'm a righty with my left-hand index finger on top). Similarly there is a mudra, a symbolic hand "pose", used in some Buddhist and Yogic meditation called the...

Indeed, and patents are even being granted on gene sequences, as well has knowing what the sequence means, how to detect it, and how to alter it. I can at least understand the arguments for the latter three: you did the work figuring out what a particular sequence does, figured out how to...

FWIW, that's how I'd define 95%* of software patent litigation. * being generous

Doesn't seem likely since LG signed an agreement three days ago. That's the one that brought the total to 70% of manufacturers, with Motorola being the only major standout.

Aye, and it's my understanding that the current Google TV boxes run x86. For development purposes, though, I'd want to test on what the common hardware.

Such a device would have to be dual-processor as well, ARM and Intel x86, which would make it somewhat goofy, though I suppose not entirely. The alternative would be full Windows 8 running on ARM, the status of which is currently unknown; some believe Microsoft's ARM-porting statements imply...

That's how I read it. "Windows becomes the premium OS of choice" on tablets is what I am predicting won't come true. I don't think we're talking about the same thing, unless you mean "buy a mobile device with Android pre-installed". Manufacturers who produce Android mobile devices -- Samsung...

I predict that not only will this not happen by the end of the year, it won't happen ever. It will be interesting to review a year from now. Microsoft makes $5-15 off of 70% of Android devices sold due to patent licenses. While Google might not charge device builders, they certainly pay.

I'll clarify: I shouldn't have said that Holmes was never wrong, but that when he was -- and this is only from memory, it's been a while -- it didn't drive the stories to dead end paths or have the plot following red herrings for more than a few pages. With the exception of the story I noted, I...

While it's not Razer's market, per se, I think they would have been way better off creating controllers for existing tablets instead of insisting that people buy theirs. With Bluetooth LE on new Apple hardware, for example, you don't have to get a special hardware license from Apple or...

It's worth noting that Holmes primarily uses inductive reasoning, not deductive (despite Holmes himself referring to it as deduction). He doesn't consider all possibilities and then whittle them away until only the right answer remains: "if not a or b or c then d". Instead he connects logical...

Not "starting to", there's a multi-year history of obscure death notices here. I felt the same way at first, but have come to appreciate being introduced to interesting people that I never even knew existed.

Good opinion piece on io9: Why did Terra Nova take a whole season to start living up to its pilot? Does a fine job of pointing out all the dumb stuff in the episode, while praising the good points. She nails it with her first sentence: "You could watch the pilot of Terra Nova and last night's...

Do you have any specific about their lack of corporate control concerns? Companies have the ability to push apps from their servers, require complex unique device-locked passcodes for all manner of use, remotely wipe any iPhone, set secure access to all manner of corporate resources, configure...

"Hollywood/Media Types"? Don't you mean "most heroic fiction for the last 100 years"? Was, say, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond stories in the 50s and early 60s a "Hollywood/Media Type"?

I'll argue that Windows Phone 7.5 is quite good. It's not tablet-ready yet, and they certainly could blow it with Win 8, but as a mobile phone OS, I think they're already there.