Indeed - and even worse, he wasn't wearing wings. Total sponsor fail.

I'm pretty sure the point of her post was that "keepin' on guys" had nothing to do with her job or writing. Geez.

...of a Windows user.

A positive result of this article (for me) is that I downloaded the software and started playing with it. It's pretty cool, although the results on OS X 10.7 look totally different. ;-)

@RedRaider: Exactly - after I posted that, I re-read the article and realized that it never actually said "Windows". Not only that, but it's running a Linux variant, not a UNIX variant. Clearly, posting prior to initial coffee is a bad idea.

Also - the software is free and developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging by the Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging. Granted, they should be more careful, but, again, it's free and developed at an academic location.

What's even more troubling is that these are issues between UNIX variants (CentOS, Mac OS X), and so one would assume it would be even easier to ensure common results. There's not even the added complication of Windows vs UNIX to consider.

Agreed. I don't have a huge problem with variations between versions of the software - as long as they were improvements and bug fixes - but variations across platforms is a huge red flag, especially as this is a UNIX app that should have been able to easily be tested across platforms.

They didn't test it on Windows at all. CentOS and Mac OS.

Just to be clear, the study was performed on CentOS 5.3 (on an HP workstation) and on OS X 10.5 and 10.6 (on a Mac). It was not performed on Windows, and only one version of UNIX was tested. #corrections

Those are different things. Text? Yes, retina quality. Videos and images? It probably depends. I would guess that videos and images will be pixel-doubled in most cases. However, images which normally would need to be shrunk to fit will likely show up in higher res than they would on other displays, even at the same…

@LetTheWookieeWin: That device is called an "arm".

"The Aakash education-focused tablet from India later gave rise to a predecessor, the Aakash 2."

What I find more disconcerting is that his other arm has been replaced by a woman's head, which clearly makes the person on his right nauseous.

It'd be interesting to see if the attractiveness of the man affected the temperature change, and also if women affected lesbians more than men.

It's always a joy to see Jon Stewart interview someone who is at least as smart and savvy as he is.

Well, the atheist in me would have to agree with the kid. He's just being way too specific.

I've spent over 20 years in the software engineering field. Half of my managers have been women (I'm a man). Roughly half of my co-workers have been women. This might very well be because I've always worked in progressive companies and likely would never consider working in some good ol' boy/frat house coding shop.…

I know it's a blast to cut pages out of a thick book and glue them together and build this, but... it seems like you'd be better off just getting a cheap plastic box with a lid that stays shut (i.e., some $3 lockable food container from the grocery store) and gluing it to the inside bottom of a trash bin in your…

The original press release mentions a lot more - health monitoring, etc. Agreed, for a toaster/fridge/microwave, chip power consumption gets lost in the noise. But not, say, for a monitor you wear around your wrist (say, if recovering at home, elderly, or whatnot), something in a battery powered smoke detector, etc.