Comment cli (Score 1) 575
Most Debian-based distro users would rather use the UI though.
Comment I'm feeling... (Score 2) 144
...great about this actually. I just need a cup of tea to enjoy's Microsoft's downwards spiral,
Comment trademark (Score 1) 653
They apparently patented it.
Comment What's next (Score 1) 976
Extra tax for running shoes?
Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out of Publishing 162
ananyo writes "Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint server arXiv. The project was publicly revealed in a blog post by Tim Gowers, a Fields Medal winner and mathematician at the University of Cambridge, UK. The initiative, called the Episciences Project, hopes to show that researchers can organize the peer review and publication of their work at minimal cost, without involving commercial publishers. 'It’s a global vision of how the research community should work: we want to offer an alternative to traditional mathematics journals,' says Jean-Pierre Demailly, a mathematician at the University of Grenoble, France, who is a leader in the effort. Backed by funding from the French government, the initiative may launch as early as April, he says."
Comment Substance abuse? (Score 1) 124
Substance abuse? They surely don't know Japanese people. It's not USA.
Comment Re:Notify the original devs (Score 1) 371
Comment go (Score 1) 479
Not in Go programming language.
Comment Re:What a crappy analogy (Score 1) 616
Your comment is full of buzzwords, but without real understanding of the issue.
First of all, understand this: a desktop Linux distributions is not Android or iOS. There is no "app development".
A Linux-based distribution is not "personal computing", "app market" or a car.
Having trouble selling your "app"? Go somewhere else.
Comment Re:WTF. (Score 1) 616
The problem is your extrapolating attitude.
In your terms, you simply sound like "there a few sick people in country X, if you go there you'll just die."
Been using Linux for more than 10 years, and I never had any real issue with audio.
Go troll somewhere else.
Comment Re:This is fishy. (Score 1) 198
Thank you, Microsoft.
However, if you read it carefully, you will see that it says "We will use it for A and B. We won't use it for X and Y" and it doesn't say "We will use it for and only for A and B". This is why they need to mention that "we won't use it for X and Y".
Of course I haven't actually used or installed Windows 8!
Microsoft is known to lie and subvert their users, and I wouldn't trust anything with them.
I haven't forgotten about their smear campaigns and FUDs on Open/Free software, Halloween documents or their beloved manipulation tactics "embrace, extend and extinguish".
Comment This is fishy. (Score 1) 198
They're not telling what kind of information they're sending over is or for what purposes they're going to use it.
Instead, they just rule out a few things. This makes it even more suspicious.
And since I don't use Microsoft programs, I don't know, but is it enabled by default?
Comment Re:Not adjusted for inflation, obviously. (Score 2) 398
Indeed, if you take inflation into account, IBM doubles Apple
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/apple-is-not-the-most-valuable-company-in-the-history-of-the-world-ibm-won-the-prize-in-1967-with-a-value-of-1-3-trillion/
Comment Re:JAFM (Score 1) 405
I take it you have never logged into CERN.
Comment Re:USB and disk Speed (Score 3, Informative) 405
But only 1GB/s is recorded: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/310769,computing-for-the-large-hadron-collider.aspx
