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Transportation

First Algae Car Attempts To Cross the US On 25 Gallons of Fuel 188

Mike writes "San Francisco recently saw the unveiling of the world's first algae fuel-powered vehicle, dubbed the Algaeus. The plug-in hybrid car, which is a Prius tricked out with a nickel metal hydride battery and a plug, runs on green crude from Sapphire Energy — no modifications to the gasoline engine necessary. The set-up is so effective, according to FUEL producer Rebecca Harrell, that the Algaeus can cross the US on approximately 25 gallons of fuel — a figure which is currently being tested on a coast-to-coast road trip."
Microsoft

Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation 344

darthcamaro writes "Microsoft already had its own open source (OSI-approved) licenses, its own open source project hosting site and now it's adding its own non-profit open source foundation. That's right, the company that is still banging the patent drum against open source now has its own 501(c)(6) open source foundation. Officially called the CodePlex Foundation, it's a separate effort from the CodePlex site and is aimed at helping to get more commercial developers involved in open source. Considering how they continue to attack Linux and open source, will anyone take them seriously?"

Comment Re:Linux gets Yet Another Scheduler (Score 1) 333

Might be slightly OT (well, not relative to P/GP posts), but if this is a scheduler that will prioritize Rhythmbox's hard drive reads over my GIMP swapping, then I'm all for it. Nothing worse than having to turn off the music because your hard drive is being swapped to too much to... stream a 192kb/s mp3.
News

EMC Co-Founder Commits Suicide 538

The Register is reporting that EMC co-founder Richard Egan has committed suicide. The article has an interesting look back at some of his accomplishments. "Egan had an amazing life, encompassing involvement in the Apollo space program, the US Marines, starting and building the most successful storage company on the planet, and becoming the US ambassador to Ireland. Finally, aged 73 and facing a lingering death, he ended the battle decisively and on his terms. He was never a shrinking violet."
Graphics

Linux Port For id's Tech 5 Graphics Engine Unlikely 461

DesiVideoGamer writes "John Carmack, the lead developer for id's Tech 5 graphics engine, does not plan on making a Linux port for the new engine. From his e-mail: 'It isn't out of the question, but I don't think we will be able to justify the work. If there are hundreds of thousands of Linux users playing Quake Live when we are done with Rage, that would certainly influence our decision.' One of the reasons for not making a Linux port was due to the fact that the new engine 'pushes a lot of paths that are not usually optimized' and that the Linux port would have to use the binary blob graphics driver in order to work."

Comment Re:back in my day (Score 1) 785

You sort of missed my point. If I'm in the car at the curb, waiting for my kid, then using jamming means I am unreachable by phone - meaning I have to find a parking spot, go inside, get the office to track down my kid, etc., which disrupts the work of several office workers as well as the class (when the student is pulled out). It would be much less disruptive if we could just use our phones - I text my kid, who quietly ducks out of the room (having told the teacher before class that she'd be leaving).

And where in the U.S. can a child leave class without having to get the office workers involved? Everywhere I've heard of, you need at least two forms filled out before you can leave with your child.

Programming

Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" 909

The Slashdolt writes "After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of the Linux Kernel, stating '...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer can send them to the new maintainer.'" A response to a subsequent post on the list makes it quite clear that he is serious.

Comment Re:how is this a good thing? (Score 2, Insightful) 121

Alright, if I have just exactly the right format I can stream to my 360 or PS3 from any standard server. However, all of my files are in various different formats, many of which (like Matroska) are completely alien to EVERYTHING proprietary. XBMC plays 99% of my media just fine, right out of the box from an xbmsd server on my Linux desktop. I still haven't been able to configure transcoding properly, and out of ~250gb of video, only 3 or 4 files will play on the PS3. Commercial media centers, especially the 360 and PS3, are a fucking joke. It's downright embarassing that a homebrew effort on a 8 year old console beats them in every regard on an SDTV.
Businesses

Amazon.com To Accept Game Trade-Ins 242

revjtanton writes "Amid all the discussion and argument about Gamestop's two-billion-dollar trade-in industry it seems Amazon.com is getting in on the action. Like Gamestop, Amazon asks for the games to be in good condition, however they offer just a few more dollars for your discarded game (Gamestop listed Left 4 Dead for the 360 at $24 while Amazon had it at $26.50 trade-in value). Gamestop had already ruffled feathers in the developer and distribution communities with its practice of accepting used games; does Amazon joining the practice legitimize it?"

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