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Sun Mar 21
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#mcdonalds

McDonald's Japan To Begin Training Employees with Nintendo DS, Software

"Get your greasy fingers off that DS Li—oh, you work here. Sorry about that. Please, continue with your McDonald's training." More »

05:30 PM

By Jack Loftus

#3d

Sky, ESPN, acTVila 3D Programming All Inbound This Summer

It's no surprise given the current hype level, but there are no less than three 3D programming announcements making the rounds today. Two of the three deal with—surprise!—sporting events. More »

05:00 PM

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By Jack Loftus

(Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion 04:59 PM

The image uploading function of the Gawker Comments System 3.5 is #broken once again.

I can't even display any PNGs or JPEGs... anyone else having trouble as well?

Example upload picture: [farm5.static.flickr.com]

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Destronok 04:58 PM

"The Gothic Cathedral Play Set is designed to be modular. Print as few or as many parts as you want. Then assemble them into a configuration of your choosing."

[www.thingiverse.com]

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#quantummechanics

Quantum Mechanics Observed by the Human Eye

Remember when, just the other day, we were talking about the future of storage, and how quantum mechanics is on the pipe dream, it's totally magic list for now? Yeah. Me too. Thing is, shit just got real: More »

04:30 PM

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By Jack Loftus

#comics

FoxTrot Discovers One Comic That Just Won't Work On the iPad

FoxTrot uses the geekiest of comic book humor to rake the iPad and its lack of flash over the coals. Funny because it's true! Pretty brilliant Sunday strip, Mr. Amend, just be wary of visitors from Cupertino. [Foxtrot]

04:00 PM

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(Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion 03:59 PM

Whoa, man, it's like a level of SimCity 4 or something... FROM SPACE.

Speaking about SC....

Where's my SimCity 5 EA!? ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

[twitpic.com]

EDIT: Why does posting images not work anymore? [farm5.static.flickr.com]

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Edited by (Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion at 03/21/10 3:59 PM

(Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion 03:56 PM

Broken again. :/ Reply

Edited by (Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion at 03/21/10 3:57 PM

(Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion 03:52 PM

EDIT: Image is broken. Reply

Edited by (Starman) 258, Brigadier-General of the FireWire Battalion at 03/21/10 3:53 PM

#htchd2

Wal-Mart Already Selling HTC HD2, Early Buyer Unboxes Post-Haste

Hey look, Wal-Mart is selling the HTC HD2 early, and the inevitable unboxing YouTube video has already hit the web. [YouTube via BGR]

03:30 PM

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By Jack Loftus

#ipad

Apple Begins Offering Discounted iPad 10-Packs for Educators

03:00 PM

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#robots

Firegard Robot Concept Slinks In and Saves in Fiery Situations

I could have sworn I killed this thing while playing Mass Effect 2 the other day, but the designer says this is actually a benevolent, firefighting automaton called Firegard that's meant to aid firemen in the field, not kill them. More »

02:30 PM

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By Jack Loftus

#tablets

Neofonie WePad Named Using MS Word Find-and-Replace Tool

I realize comparisons to another "Pads" are unfair, especially given the Tablet Wars I just invented by saying Tablet Wars haven't even officially started, but surely the WePad's name is some kind of backhanded compliment/joke from its creators at Neofonie? More »

02:00 PM

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yoavraccah 01:45 PM

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#apps

Line 6 iPhone Peripheral is for MIDI Masters On-the-Go

Does the iPhone need a mobile MIDI app? Irrelevant question, self, because it has one now, regardless of need or want. Called the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer, it's a low power, portable option for MIDI mixers on the move. More »

01:00 PM

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TomServo 12:47 PM

Here's a great true story that happened to me recently.

I was talking to my Grandfather, who is well into his seventies, on the phone yesterday. He had to help my grandmother with something so he set the phone down for a minute and when he came back I heard, "ARE YOU THERE?"
I said, "Yeah grandpa, I'm still here."

He replied, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU VERY WELL!"

I speak up and reply, "You got your hearing aids on?"

I hear some rustling on the other end of the line then I hear him say, "There we go! I had the phone upside down."

Technology must be a tricky thing for old people.

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njdevil 12:44 PM

Alright Whitenoisers, I'm going to ask for some career advice if that's ok. I'll make it a reply to this so it doesn't take up too much space on the page.

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njdevil 12:44 PM

@njdevil: So I'm American, but in the equivalent of high school in Ireland at the moment. This time next year I will be looking to get into college, and I'm pretty uncertain as to where I want to go/what I want to do.

I have always liked the idea of being a pilot, but it seems a risky path to take in this day and age. I also love media- animation, film, web design, photography, that sort of stuff.

I had this idea of going to college for Multimedia at nearby Cork Institute of Technology, and getting a job with some kind of web design or advertising company to pay for flight training. If being a pilot didn't work out, then hey, I was still in an area of work I was interested in.

Now, I am not so certain. I have an older brother living in New York telling me this will certainly lead to disaster. He believes that almost nobody will be able to get a multimedia-based job in a few years, as the tools to make websites become more user friendly the companies that make them will become obsolete. He also believes that going to a "crap school" like that will make it impossible to get a job with an airline if I decide to go down that route. He suggests I go to Trinity (best university in the country, but has no courses that appeal to me), or a get an aviation-based degree in the America.

The problem I see with that, is that I'm putting all my eggs in one basket so to speak. If the airline industry is so bad in a few years that I can't get a job, then I will end up in an assload of debt, with a degree that doesn't really qualify me for anything else.

I'm sure some of you work in these industries. Are they as bad as my brother would lead me to believe?

I'm still going ahead with my original plan, but now looking at doing multimedia at a better school abroad instead, maybe University of Western Sydney ([future.uws.edu.au])

Any advice or opinions are welcome.

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robooneus 01:31 PM

@njdevil: I've found myself in a (somewhat) similar situation, except a little further along (I am a junior at university); I'm going to school for something completely unrelated to what I enjoy/would possibly enjoy doing as a career (which is multimedia based).

As for getting a job doing web/graphic design, I would assume it to be somewhat difficult. There will be, however, a need for these types of jobs for some time--all you need to do is browse the internet for some short period of time and gaze at the abundance of horribly designed web-pages: generally pages designed through these "user-friendly" web design programs by people with little-to-no design experience. For the multimedia path, what it comes down to is rather simple: are you any good at it? If you are good at something, you will generally be able to find a job doing it (even more likely if you have a degree doing it--that little slip of paper testifying that you know something).

This last little question, however, is obviously the little stumbling block. The best thing you can do, I feel, is just work at it as a hobby now. Design and build a website for fun; find some tiny company with a terrible website and offer to build them a nice new one for free.

As for becoming a pilot. I certainly have no expertise in this, but this seems like a basket in which you must place all of your eggs. I would think that you could go to school for something completely unrelated, and get a Pilot's license afterward. I cannot, however, say what effect this would have on your chances of receiving a job as a Pilot.

I will say that my experience in College has been diminished by the simple fact that I really don't care about what I am learning--there is something to be said for chasing a job that you truly want. One thing I would suggest is looking at more traditional Universities that also have an art/design department; a school where you can mix design and more traditional classes together (maybe pick up a double major.. not sure how that works in Ireland).

My two pennies worth, at least.

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#chatroulette

Ben Folds Takes Chatroulette on Stage with "Ode to Merton"

I've probably seen Ben Folds live a dozen times. And except for the time where he actually got so pissed at people yelling "Freebird!" that he actually played the whole thing, I've never once been bored.

12:40 PM

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By Joel Johnson

#imagecache

SQL Injection License Plate Hopes to Foil Euro Traffic Cameras

Who knows if this little bit of database wizardry would actually cause the traffic camera's picture-parsing computer to drop a table? Even if it doesn't it's covered up his actual license plate. [See Also]

12:18 PM

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By Joel Johnson

#streetview

Revenge!

The other day we learned a Google StreetView car buzzed (or was buzzed by?) a well-fed seagull. Today, it would seem one of his countrymen decided to repay the favor. With poop. [Google StreetView - Thanks, Eric]

12:00 PM

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