Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 1) 653
Correction, it is about 46k (typo'd it), still not near 100k.
Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 1) 653
But paycheck? Where I live, cops START at a 100K a year, and it goes up from there. This is on top of awesome benefits and a retirement age in the 50s.
In NYC, rookie cops start at 43k in NYC. I know that there are more expensive places to live. Can you show me the police department that starts at 100k USD a year?
http://most-expensive.net/city-in-us
http://www.nypdrecruit.com/
Comment Re:Lawyers? We don't need no stinkin lawyers for t (Score 1) 492
Well, mash-ups and the remix culture being fast and loose with IP and copyright could be compared to how the king co-opted some parts of African American music that he had exposure to, and made it his own.
Or am I reading too much into this?
Also, last time I checked my Elvis CD collection was is my Dad's house, gathering dust. Can't really say that I am a fan, although obviously it is historic and all that jazz.
So maybe Elvis isn't everyone's Elvis.
Comment Re:Top down reliability? (Score 1) 830
Right, because this has never been done before....
I can't imagine such a system that is widely used today where layers were added to build out functionality, and work around various issues below in the stack, hardware issues, et cetera.
This truly is madness.
Comment Re:Textpad! (Score 1) 1131
I'm guessing that you are missing a job, generally speaking most individuals don't have text files that are > 1GiB, but depending on the host and time of day, it isn't unheard of to have 2 GiB an hour for log files. We split up by the hour, for this reason. If we had a full day of logs in each file, it would get into 10+ GiB.
If you have to look at lots of multiple servers, it gets even worse.
Comment Re:Isn't Lexus a high end brand? (Score 1) 317
Just like you chose not to read the article, the customer can choose not to use this service.
I love Ameri^WJapanese ingenuity.
Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel" 268
CommonCents noted an Apple announcement a few hours before the anticipated keynote. He says "Apples' latest must have gadget does away with the keyboard. With the new MacBook Wheel, Apple has replaced the traditional keyboard with a giant wheel."
Comment What CAN you talk about at the airport? (Score 2, Insightful) 1002
At the end of the day, people got on and made comments they shouldn't have made on the airplane, and other people heard them,
Other people heard them, misconstrued them. It just so happened these people were of Muslim faith and appearance. It escalated, it got out of hand and everyone took precautions.
So wait, you can't talk about airport security at the airport? That's all I talk about on the airlines. After hours of waiting, being stripped of liquids for no reason, having to take of your shoes, it kind of is the elephant in the room.
It seems likely that they were given special attention because of their appearance, accent, culture, et cetera. Personally, I'm not expecting anyone, especially the airline to admit this.
Submission + - OS2 Open Source Petition (os2world.com)
Kim Haverblad writes: "More than two years ago on September 25, 2005, OS2 World.Com sent IBM a letter with a petition that contained 11,613 signatures requesting IBM to release the source code of Operating System 2 (OS/2 Warp) — or at least release the source code that IBM owns — to the public under an open source license. Sadly IBM was ignorant enough to not answer the first letter and this is why we sent a second letter to IBM.
On November 19, 2007, OS2 World.Com sent the second letter to IBM where we insisted on implementing the stipulations contained in this petition because we believe that OS/2 is an important part of the history of the Operating System, and furthermore, it still contains values that the computer science field considers unique.
The petition can be found at following url: http://www.os2world.com/petition"
On November 19, 2007, OS2 World.Com sent the second letter to IBM where we insisted on implementing the stipulations contained in this petition because we believe that OS/2 is an important part of the history of the Operating System, and furthermore, it still contains values that the computer science field considers unique.
The petition can be found at following url: http://www.os2world.com/petition"
Submission + - Petition to open OS/2 source, round/2 (os2world.com) 1
The_Wilschon writes: On September 25, 2005, OS2World.com sent a petition with 11,613 signatures to IBM, asking them to release some or all of the source code to OS/2. Oddly, given IBM's embrace of the Open Source movement, the letter was ignored. So, on November 19 of this year, OS2World.com sent a second letter. They have also opened up a second petition round in order to show even more support to IBM for their requests. In particular, the System Object Model (SOM), Workplace Shell (WPS), and OS/2 kernel could both spur new OS/2 development and provide some fresh ideas to the Free Software world.
Submission + - Solid-State Notebook has Full Linux OS Detailed (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: "The Asus Eee PC 701 is a solid-state hard drive notebook computer that uses a custom Linux operating system that boots in about 15 seconds. Though the hard drive is only 4GB, thanks to not relying on any Windows OS there is more than enough space for the applications necessary for most mobile users. The hardware features a small 7" LCD screen with an 800x480 resolution, Celeron-M 900 MHz CPU, 512MB of system memory and an integrated webcam and microphone all at just about 2 lbs. A full review of the Eee PC 701 is now available that details the functionality of the hardware in general as well as showing 100+ screenshots of the custom Linux OS."
Submission + - Supercomputer Simulates Mouse Brain
ougouferay writes: "The BBC is reporting that a team of researchers from the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada have used a BlueGene L supercomputer to model a mouse brain consisting of 8000 neurons and 6300 synapses.
The team have reported observing "biologically consistent dynamical properties", neurons form spontaneously into groups and synapses firing in ways similar to patterns seen in nature."
The team have reported observing "biologically consistent dynamical properties", neurons form spontaneously into groups and synapses firing in ways similar to patterns seen in nature."
Submission + - OLPC will be able to run windows operating system
andres32a writes: In a perfect example of "Microsoft's ability to muscle into every niche of computing in every developing marketplace" Nicolas Negroponte has annouced that 100 dollar (175 actually) laptop will be able to run windows. It seems that microsoft is Taking On the OLPC by planning to hijack it.
