"herd/read" Nice pun! :-D

A new format with technically sophisticated features that doesn't seem to be quite in tune (pardon the pun) with what most users want... I was reminded of this when I saw that someone had tossed a case of 7 mini discs into the recycling box today. There was no post on the company "for sale" board, even for free - they were simply deemed useless. I think there will be a "digital album format" eventually, since many think the general concept is nice, but it will take a few design rounds to get it right.

Isn't Hadoop an open version of part of their back end?

Open Privacy! A new standard for making access to your private information easier across all platforms...

Sounds like Intel needs to move to the Systematic Hardware Integrated Trust standard...

Doh. Nick Naylor...

Where's Nick Taylor when you need him?

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/)

I thought names and phrases were the purview of trademark law and not covered by copyright law?

Amen. Some of the best projects in which I have been involved were run from a whiteboard in lieu the official MS Project method. In the end, all of these things are just tools. If the leaders of your projects aren't good, lack experience leading projects, or a simply overloaded, no nifty tracking tool will help.

I suspect they will find more development help when the job market improves (hopefully soon)... :-/

The Gnome team is working with several university neurology departments to develop a patch for human nature that fixes this problem. It will be included in Gnome 4.

It seems like Linux is continuing to provide a service well that it's provided since almost day one: making old hardware useful again. Over the years, I have derived the most benefit from Linux by using it to squeeze more utility out old hardware when I didn't have money to get something newer.

... is Duke Nukem Forever is being rewritten in Perl 6.

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