Comment And somewhere across the pond... (Score 3, Funny) 334
... an EADS executive is laughing with glee...
Submission + - Microsoft 'update' breaks Office 2008 for Mac (channelregister.co.uk)
yumyum writes: A week ago the MS Office 2008 install on my MacBook Pro notified me that there was an update available, Service Pack 2. I dutifully granted it permission to do its business and update my MS Office 2008 stuff. However, today I found out that I could not open a PowerPoint presentation. The message I got was that perhaps the file was corrupted. Other files exhibited the same behavior. Checking online, I found this article letting me know that I was not alone in my problem. In it there is a link to a MS help topic that mentions some, frankly, stupid workarounds for those of us afflicted by this "cannot open" issue, and a faint glimmer of hope that sometime in August there will be a fix for what MS broke. So, for those of you contemplating installing MS Office 2008 Service Pack 2, two words: DON'T
Comment Re:Glad I left that shithole (Score 1) 301
It's Arpaio, by the way. My favorite antic is what he's been doing against New Times staff... I still wonder why he hasn't been arrested yet.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 2) 301
But we're in the land where supply-side economics is king. Raising taxes is BLASPHEMY! :(
Comment Re:Arizona is worse than California (Score 1) 301
I get your point, but do you really want these people to stick around any longer than the bare minimum?
Comment Re:Wrong! (Score 1) 189
Plugging that into Google Maps (which Apple conveniently uses for the map and provides a driving directions link for) shows that the two locations are separated by 8.5 miles. So they're not even close.
However, in Phoenix terms, that's 10 minutes of driving. Everyone drives in here (widespread suburbia, awesome freeway network, horrible public transportation outside the central Phoenix-Tempe-Mesa corridor, and oven-like temperatures), and someone from Scottsdale won't particularly mind driving down to the Chandler location if he wants to get his dose of Apple for the day. Also, consider that both the Scottsdale Quarter and Fashion Square are near the Pima Freeway -- State Route 101L -- so they really aren't as far as the map says they are.
Comment Re:Laws Of Technology..... (Score 1) 519
Now it's not fair to assign the blame for those penmanship incidents to doctors replacing penmanship with typing. Doctors have always had horrible and illegible handwriting, since they have to digest a horrible amount of information being recited at them in the shortest amount of time possible (as a doctor friend of mine told me). So, their handwriting degenerates to a modified shorthand, which they retain after leaving med school...
Submission + - A to Z of the Social Media Landscape Reaches P (ulitzer.com)
jg21 writes: Only a brave soul would attempt an A-Z of the social media landscape but John Ryan has attempted just that at Social Media Journal. He begins with A-H and has already reached Part Two (H-P). Ryan adds market research based on Alexa, Compete and Quantcast, and both parts have some intriguingly eclectic choices. Worth glancing at to see if there's something out there you're missing...like CouchSurfing for example. [From the article: "If the stickiness [of a particular site] really impressed me, I issued the Social Glue Award to the site."] Such awards are given to, for example, Bebo, Fotolog and LiveJournal, but not to Digg, Ning or Orkut. When he gets to S, however, Slashdot should be safe in the stickiness stakes.
Submission + - iPhone & Pre locked to UK's patchiest 3G netwo (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: "Ofcom has published detailed maps of Britain's 3G mobile data coverage — and they make grim viewing for owners of the iPhone and the forthcoming Palm Pre. Both Apple and Palm have decided to lock their devices exclusively to the O2 network. But as Ofcom's network-by-network maps show, O2 has by far the patchiest 3G coverage of any of the UK's five mobile networks. Even parts of London and the Home Counties are not covered."
Submission + - Google reveals Chrome hardware partners (itpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: "Google has announced the hardware partners for the Chrome OS — so we can expect to see netbooks running the operating system next year from the likes of Asus, Acer, and HP, as well as Toshiba. Dell didn't seem to make the list, at least yet. Google also said it had teamed up with Adobe, which could mean Google is looking to include the Acrobat.com web-based software suite in some way."
Submission + - human-edited twitter directory with moderation (twitwho.net)
Vasiliy Kiryanov writes: "I would want to provide you with URL to new twitter directory: http://twitwho.net/
There is no spam thanks to moderation, and we use tree structure to reduce complexity for users.
thanks"
Submission + - How Microsoft has changed without Bill Gates (silicon.com)
mightysquirrel writes: It's been a year since Bill Gates left Microsoft in his official capacity. At the time many speculated his departure would spark a significant shift in Redmond. But how much has really changed during Microsoft's first year without Gates?
Submission + - What Extensions for a FoxOS? 1
Daengbo writes: "If you had to try to create Chrome OS using only a basic X setup, a WM, Firefox, and extensions, what WM and extensions would you include? Would you use FF3.0 or 3.5?
How do you leverage everything on the net without a file browser or local apps? Without downloading, saving, and uploading to a new service?
These last two are probably the kinds of questions that Google engineers have been asking themselves and something I struggled with last year as I tried to make it 30 days without any apps but a browser."
How do you leverage everything on the net without a file browser or local apps? Without downloading, saving, and uploading to a new service?
These last two are probably the kinds of questions that Google engineers have been asking themselves and something I struggled with last year as I tried to make it 30 days without any apps but a browser."
Submission + - SpaceX's DragonEye to Fly on STS-127 (quantumg.net)
QuantumG writes: "Shuttle Flight STS-127 Detailed Test Objective 701B will test the sensor SpaceX's Dragon vehicle will use to approach the International Space Station. Called DragonEye, it will use a flash Light Intensification Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), which provides a three-dimensional image based on the time of flight of a single laser pulse from the sensor to the target and back. It provides both range and bearing information from targets that can reflect the light back such as the Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 and those on the nadir side of station's Japanese Experiment Module. SpaceX also will perform a ground-based space qualification program to ensure the sensor can withstand the rigors of launch and operation in a space environment, including tests such as vibration and thermal-vac. No-one seems to be reporting this, so I am!"
Submission + - Los Angeles City Website Crashed by MJ Memorial (latimes.com)
Spy Handler writes: "The City of Los Angeles spent $1.4 million to provide security for Michael Jackson's memorial service on Tuesday, mostly in overtime pay for approximately 3000 police officers. Since the city was already in the midst of a severe budget crisis, it actively sought out donations from MJ fans, by asking them to go to the city's website and sending them money. (there is a prominent link at the top of the home page that says "JACKSON EVENT DONATIONS")
Unfortunately the website simply could not handle the surge in traffic and crashed repeatedly on Tuesday and Wednesday, one of them lasting for 12 hours. As of Wednesday the city has only received $17,000 in donations.
A quick check of the city's website reveals that it is running Sun Java Web Server 6.1"
Unfortunately the website simply could not handle the surge in traffic and crashed repeatedly on Tuesday and Wednesday, one of them lasting for 12 hours. As of Wednesday the city has only received $17,000 in donations.
A quick check of the city's website reveals that it is running Sun Java Web Server 6.1"
