Comment Funding for the Arts (Score 1) 1
Well I am certainly happy that there was bipartisan support for the performing arts. Clearly this is the biggest performance art project in the history of this country.
Submission + - Jezus change back
hydertech writes: This redesign sucks
Comment Re:A Way To Get Around Regulations (Score 1) 529
Add to this that the Fed's policy of Quantitative Easing (basically printing more money and devaluing the currency) made it even easier to repay the loans and you have the basis for real anger.
Comment Re:Like birds (Score 1) 223
You'd just send stuff via "rail mail".
Comment The proud owner of brianmoynihansucks.us here (Score 1) 249
Bought it using a B of A credit card. Hey Bank of America -- ITS FOR SALE!!
Comment Re:Comcast is blocking access to wikileaks (Score 1) 715
How do you know this? I note that comcast.net is reporting on the wikileaks story: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20101205/WikiLeaks/. In doing a search I find that "comcast blocking wikileaks" has but one meaningful result and that is a person referring to your post.
Submission + - Oracle wins $1.3B verdict against SAP (venturebeat.com)
hydertech writes: One day after receiving the case, the jury returned a $1.3B verdict against SAP for pirating Oracle Software. SAP had admitted the claims and had offered $40M. OOPS.
US Army Develops Tooth Cleaning Gum 160
pryoplasm writes "To help deal with some of the hygiene issues on the battlefield, the US Army worked on a gum to take the place of brushing your teeth. This might be eventually released and marketed to the public. While there are many gums out there that aren't so detrimental to your teeth, this one promises actually to help them out."
Comment Re:it's still in beta (Score 1) 146
You would have thought that before releasing this critter Google would have googled it.
Comment Proud to be an Old Cool Nerd (Score 1) 453
Many moons ago I was a kid who saw his first computer in college -- an IBM 360. I went full tilt nerd. By the time classes started I was working the hell desk at the computer center. I got there early and didn't leave till 3am. By the second year of undergrad study I was taking graduate classes in 360 assembly language and working on the Fortran compiler I/O routines for what we called mini computers (the size of a stand up fridge with "4096 twenty four bit words of core storage"). Shit we were using paper tape and punch cards.
I screwed off all my other classes. Hell, even my comp sci prof's were nuts, I got a 0.0 gpa in one class because the prof went nuts, tried to kill the head of the datacenter, and was locked in a white room unable to give grades. At the end of semester 4 I had a gpa of 0.16/4.00 and was the lead programmer in a successful project to redo the university's accounting setup from Autocoder into COBOL.
Then I got the word....VIETNAM. I had one summer term to get my grades up or go see exotic foreign lands. I say fuck football, the prospect of being shot will broaden your horizons.
Forty years later I'm looking at a 2:00 a.m. conclusion to upgrading 3 linux desktops. I run a small linux based hosting company, but disappear every summer to run a 90' commercial fishing boat in Alaska for 4+ months.
The threat of being shot works best when it comes to producing "cool nerds".
A Look At the Wolfram Alpha "Search Engine" 216
An anonymous reader points out a ReadWriteWeb piece on an hour-long demo of Wolfram|Alpha (which we discussed at its announcement). Stephen Wolfram does not like to call it a "search engine," preferring instead the term "computational knowledge engine." It will open to the public in May. "The hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next 'Google killer' from the makers of Mathematica, has been building over the last few weeks. Today, we were lucky enough to attend a one-hour web demo with Stephen Wolfram, and from what we've seen, it definitely looks like it can live up to the hype — though, because it is so different from traditional search engines, it will definitely not be a 'Google killer.' According to Stephen Wolfram, the goal of Alpha is to give everyone access to expert knowledge and the data that a specialist would be able to compute from this information."
Comment RedHat is already onboard. (Score 2, Informative) 187
A bit of time with the Google reveals Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform which likely is the reason for this being included.
A quick review of the literature shows that several hospital software vendors have been converting their offering to run on a RHL backend.
That's likely where the main open source offerings will appear, replacing mainframes with cheap linux server solutions, and some database apps.
Comment Intel plans US Plants to Manufacture 32nm Chips (Score 4, Informative) 193
Intel announced today that it was investing $7bln to build new manufacturing facilities in the US to manufacture these chips.
The new facilities will be built at existing manufacturing plants in New Mexico, Oregon, and Arizona. Intel is estimating 7,000 new jobs will be created. BizJournals.com
Comment How to Solve It (Score 1) 630
The book How to Solve It by G. Polya is a
classic must read. While it was given to me by one of math
professors in undergraduate school it should not be over the heads of
advanced high school students.
Submission + - Linux.com -- WTF?
hydertech writes: I used to read linux.com each day and generally found it to be one of the more informative sites on linux topics.
Then along came the "secret" revision. The good parts of the site disappeared replaced by a crappy forum. The good people at linux.com promised a great makeover, but they couldn't tell anyone what it was.
Now after more than a month of visiting to see the great new makeover, I tired and pulled the plug deleting the bookmark.
Does anyone have any idea if this site is just dying on the vine? How many other people have deleted this bookmark?
