Comment Re:I, for one... (Score 5, Funny) 270
Please forget what i just said. I am wrong so so wrong.
Comment I, for one... (Score 3, Funny) 270
cannot wait until everyone's walking around saying "pebibytes". Thou some people will call them pebeebytes and that will annoy me to no end.
Comment Re:Next week article. (Score 1) 380
If their goal is to get windows for cheap, then yes this course of action will work. Only time will tell if it's all a ploy. I hope they do adopt FOSS, maybe other countries will follow suit.
Comment Re:Next week article. (Score 3, Insightful) 380
And a lot of people will not be happy that they can't do X like they did before.
I don't think the people working for the Government of Vietnam are going to be very vocal about this.
It boils down to money, and national security. Why would they want a proprietary (foreign!) system like Windows when they can have something for free that their army of programmers can tweak and maintain? Their support will come from within, while creating a competent programmer workforce.
Comment Duck! (Score 1) 743
Duck!
"Where? i don't see one.."
No, Duck! We're gonna hit that Moose!
Seriously,
a campy 1950's education program in all our schools that teaches the youngn's of Canada DUCK DUCK MOOSE. Some silly amusement for the kids,yyes, but that stuff becomes ingrained, and the end result is less moose and moose-like object related deaths.
Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 743
It did before you replied.
Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 743
If politics were based entirely on weather, you would be correct. Canadians would have ATV spec tires on their vehicles (moosedozers) with 6" (15cm) titanium spikes protruding.
Canada, however, is not yet officially a state of your great country; we have some wacky laws. I think this particular one has to do with road wear. I would hope if you were backcountry the legality if applicable would be overlooked for practical reasons. There is an easy solution for the city folk: chains are legal.*
When comparing our 2 sets of laws, Canada to the US, I would take the former. But I'd happily trade up.
*IANAL
Comment Here Here (Score 1) 640
Or is it "Hear Hear!"?
Russia
I hear is switching their education system to linux. Much cheaper than American Windows. Wait 15 years and we'll be scrambling to catch up.
Comment Re:Leap second (Score 1) 480
I just assumed everyone knew it was the leap second causing a problem when the author said "some 2008/2009 rollover issue going on here?"
Comment Re:Har har har (Score 1) 855
Mods, how is the OP offtopic? He's relating his distaste FOR the topic.
While I agree "mocking them" is lame, since a feeling of superiority will only alienate a person further, it's still good to make light of these situations. Naive users honestly try hard, hilariously at times, but they are not "dumb".
Comment Re:Doesn't matter. (Score 1) 115
and they're too late, the damage is done.
Submission + - Karl Rove's IT Guru dies in small plane crash
MarkusQ writes: Mike Connell died in a when the Piper Saratoga he was piloting crashed. Known as "Karl Rove's IT Guru" /. readers may remember him for his involvement in the missing White House e-mail backups, or that his company, GovTech Solutions, created Ohio's 2004 election results computer network, or the story of how his gwb43.com was used to skirt records laws which came to light in the US Attorney scandal, various e-mail mining schemes, the controversy over setting up Congress's firewall, and so many other tech-meets-politics stories that some have dubbed him "the high IQ Forrest Gump."
After multi-year battle he was finally compelled to testify before a federal judge last month, and was scheduled to provide additional testimony in a few weeks. 19 Action News in Ohio is not calling it murder but notes that Connell had recently voiced suspicions that his plane had been sabotaged.
After multi-year battle he was finally compelled to testify before a federal judge last month, and was scheduled to provide additional testimony in a few weeks. 19 Action News in Ohio is not calling it murder but notes that Connell had recently voiced suspicions that his plane had been sabotaged.
Comment Re:Film and TV producers also call for action (Score 1) 619
Please, it's called "Engrish"
seriously thou, nice rebuttal.
Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model 260
holy_calamity writes "Engineers at Polytechnic University Brooklyn have discovered that digital snaps shorn of any metadata still reveal the make and model of camera used to take them. It is possible to work backwards from the relationships of neighboring pixel values in a shot to identify the model-specific demosaicing algorithm that combines red, green, and blue pixels on the sensor into color image pixels. Forensics teams are already licking their chops."
Dead Space Wants To Scare You 195
Kotaku recently ran a story questioning whether the survival-horror genre still exists, and how Dead Space may or may not fit into it. With reviews for the game starting to come in, Ars Technica reports that the game is, indeed, both scary and good. Gamespy wrote up a Dead Space survival guide, and Gamasutra has a lengthy interview with the game's senior producer. In the production of the game, the developers studied things like car wrecks and war scenes to increase the level of realism. They also want the game's sounds to terrify players, including appropriately timed silence. The launch trailer is also available, though it does contain spoilers.
