Comment Re:Secure? (Score 1) 187
Vicente Fox, the first non-PRI president in recent Mexican history (and the same dude that the GP alluded to) just said the same thing you just said.
Comment On the bright side... (Score 4, Interesting) 155
Those were the longest 90 days ever. Good job to everyone all around, although I imagine it will be a bit weird for the rover team to all of a sudden not have a rover to take care of...
Comment Re:And this is news? (Score 2, Funny) 270
That still makes it a .COM language. As in COMMAND.COM, though...
Comment Re:Goatse Security (Score 5, Funny) 284
Goatse Security: We will show you every gaping hole in your security!
Comment Re:Bad move, Apple (Score 4, Insightful) 284
In the age of Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised that many people just flat out don't care.
Comment Re:Who Cares (Score 1) 439
Andrew? These guys are still ranting about Camille and Betsy for God's sake!
Comment Re:Flamebait (Score 1) 1003
That mirrors my experience as well. Pages is relatively cumbersome to use, but not horrible; Numbers, on the other hand, is unusable. It is trying to force a visual presentation paradigm when all you're trying to do is some analysis. Worse, it beachballs any machine it runs into when trying to plot anything with more than 100 data points.
That said, iWork is still worth every penny I paid for it thanks to Keynote. I just wish the other two would match its quality. Oh, and by the way, OOo is not an option until it can produce real presentation-quality graphs...
That said, iWork is still worth every penny I paid for it thanks to Keynote. I just wish the other two would match its quality. Oh, and by the way, OOo is not an option until it can produce real presentation-quality graphs...
Comment Re:A funnel (Score 1) 379
I haven't had a laugh this good in ages. Thanks for that!
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 319
I didn't know the Spartans used Roman numerals...
Submission + - Buzz Aldrin To Compete in Dancing With The Stars (go.com)
Titoxd writes: In an announcement similar as baffling as Woz's escapade into the ballroom, Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 fame will step onto the Dancing With The Stars stage. His odds of winning are already being set as 100-to-1, but whether he does the Moonwalk or not, let's hope that this expedition ends up in "magnificent desolation" atop the podium.
Submission + - SCO Zombie McBrides New Plans for World Litigation (arstechnica.com)
eldavojohn writes: Years after you thought it was over, both Ars Technica and Groklaw are reporting that Darl McBride (ex-CEO of SCO) has a new company that is buying SCO's mobile business for peanuts but he's also going to get "certain Intellectual Property" with the deal. You may recall that McBride was the brains behind the Linux lawsuits that SCO launched and it appears he may be orchestrating an exit route where he escapes with some intellectual property intact only to wreak havoc once again. Hopefully this is the part at the end of the movie where the zombie comes back to life one last time only to have the hero deliver the final final blow. Upon this news breaking in the investment world, SCO's stock skyrocketed a blistering 11% bringing it up seven cents to a full seventy cents — the likes of which it hasn't seen since 2007.
Photoshop 1.0 Recreated On iPhone 103
Dotnaught writes "Photoshop co-creator Russell Brown asked Ansca Mobile to re-create Photoshop 1.0, originally introduced in 1990, for the iPhone. The resulting app, created in three days using the Corona SDK, was distributed to 50 attendees of an event celebrating Photoshop's 20th anniversary. Programmer Evan Kirchhoff in a blog post explains that Ansca took the project on to prove its claims about how Corona makes iPhone development faster."
Submission + - Cable Companies Restrict Olympics on Net 2
TechForensics writes: NBC won't let you see replays on the NBC site unless your cable operator
gets a cut.
In a slap in the face to all netizens who expect Cable programming
interests to be distinct from those of their ISP, visitors to the NBC
website wanting to see replays of Olympic events get the following
message:
"You have selected a premium video (e.g. live stream or full-event
replay). Please follow the simple process below to view this free
content and ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE TRIP
and other GREAT PRIZES!
To begin this ONE-TIME ONLY process, please identify your HOME cable, satellite or IPTV provider.
NOTE: This is required ONLY for viewing live competition & full-event replays on NBCOlympics.com during the Vancouver Games.
(List of providers)
If your cable, satellite or IPTV provider is NOT listed above, then it's not in partnership with NBC Olympics. Don't worry though, you ALREADY CAN VIEW hundreds of video clips such as athlete features and Torino highlights, and you will have access to event highlights during the Vancouver Games. Click here to watch video now."
Apparently a subscription to MSNBC or CNBC is de rigeur. That is not free if you do not have
a "premium cable package".
What's going on here? Are we to see more of this kind of thing?
gets a cut.
In a slap in the face to all netizens who expect Cable programming
interests to be distinct from those of their ISP, visitors to the NBC
website wanting to see replays of Olympic events get the following
message:
"You have selected a premium video (e.g. live stream or full-event
replay). Please follow the simple process below to view this free
content and ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE TRIP
and other GREAT PRIZES!
To begin this ONE-TIME ONLY process, please identify your HOME cable, satellite or IPTV provider.
NOTE: This is required ONLY for viewing live competition & full-event replays on NBCOlympics.com during the Vancouver Games.
(List of providers)
If your cable, satellite or IPTV provider is NOT listed above, then it's not in partnership with NBC Olympics. Don't worry though, you ALREADY CAN VIEW hundreds of video clips such as athlete features and Torino highlights, and you will have access to event highlights during the Vancouver Games. Click here to watch video now."
Apparently a subscription to MSNBC or CNBC is de rigeur. That is not free if you do not have
a "premium cable package".
What's going on here? Are we to see more of this kind of thing?
UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company? 260
An anonymous reader writes "We're a small company employing ~30 people and we are becoming increasingly reliant on virtual servers. Unfortunately, the hosts they are on don't have redundant power supplies because we simply don't have the capacity. We currently have one UPS per rack, which gives us about two minutes. This may have been enough time when they were put in — they've been there for some time — but it isn't really enough time to shut everything down in the event of a failure. Domain Controllers alone may take up to 15 minutes. So I'm looking at upgrading the UPSs to ones that would preferably give us around 15 minutes of breathing space and send an email or text alert when a failure is detected. Something that could trigger shutdowns automatically would also be nice. Of course cost is a key factor too. so given all of the above, what does Slashdot recommend?"
State of Alabama Fighting NASA's New Plan 340
FleaPlus writes "Alabama politicians have formed a 'task force' dedicated to fighting NASA's new plans to cancel the costly Constellation/Ares program, which is largely based in Alabama. The chronically mismanaged Constellation project attempted to build new rockets in-house and replicate an Apollo-style lunar program with minimal investment in new technologies. NASA's new boosted budget revives formerly suppressed R&D efforts into critical technologies needed for a sustainable push towards Mars and intermediate waypoint destinations, works with (instead of trying to compete with) existing commercial rockets to transport cargo/crew to orbit, and funds a stream of robotic precursor missions to scout other worlds and demonstrate new technologies. The Alabama task force fighting the new plan includes former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and former Ares project manager Steve Cook."
