Comment Mars (Score 1) 508
I think NASA should go to Mars. And when I say NASA should go, I mean all of it. The whole administration. And they can take their spaceships with them!
Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror 173
An anonymous reader writes "Australia's largest ISP, BigPond, has decided to ditch its local mirrors of Linux and other open source operating systems, as well as various other open source software and Creative Commons media. BigPond posted a terse update on the service's website, citing reasons of low popularity and the existence of better services like download.com and Tucows. BigPond customers are not impressed by the move, given that the ISP is infamous in Australia for its high prices and relatively low monthly quotas of bandwidth (many users are on 10GB or 25GB per month plans) and all downloads from this service did not count towards their monthly limits."
Physics Platformer Gish Goes Open Source 58
An anonymous reader writes "After announcing plans to go open source due to the success of the Humble Indie Bundle, developer Cryptic Sea has released the source code of 2-D platformer Gish under the GPLv2. There's a mirror on github."
Comment Re:I don't like it (Score 1) 501
You are making sense.
I see what you are saying. Personally I would not restrict the type of software that should be open source. However I do think your point is valid for what type of software we should make "infrastructure".
Maybe the question is "should we make the codec part of the infrastructure"?
Maybe the browser should not have a built in codec?
Maybe the user should be able to select different competing codecs for use with the browser?
Maybe it is the codec API that needs to be open so that codec producers can write their codecs to an open standard that browsers support?
So the codecs should be either open source or proprietary but maybe *not* tied to the browser?
Comment Re:I'd like to learn Psychology (Score 1) 515
When computers are as powerful as the human brain they will:
1) Forget things.
2) Make stupid mistakes.
3) Get pissed off with repetitive tasks
4) Want money.
5) Strike.
6) Demand a vote.
7) Demand mankind's resignation.
1) Forget things.
2) Make stupid mistakes.
3) Get pissed off with repetitive tasks
4) Want money.
5) Strike.
6) Demand a vote.
7) Demand mankind's resignation.
Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice 237
Chroniton writes "NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a possible jellyfish 'frolicking' beneath 600 feet of solid Antarctic ice, where only microbes were expected to live. The odds of finding two complex lifeforms after drilling only an 8-inch-wide hole suggests there may be much more. And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?"
Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs 428
An anonymous reader writes "The Open Video Alliance is launching a campaign today called Let's Get Video on Wikipedia, asking people to create and post videos to Wikipedia articles. (Good, encyclopedia-style videos only!) Because all video must be in patent-free codecs (theora for now), this will make Wikipedia by far the most likely site for an average internet user to have a truly free and open video experience. The campaign seeks to 'strike a blow for freedom' against a wave of h.264 adoption in otherwise open HTML5 video implementations."
Comment Re:1000mph (Score 1) 242
I expect at 1000mph gravity hardly has tome to bother.
Comment Hitch Hikers (Score 1) 242
This just has to be bad news for hitch-hikers.
Comment Vector Linux (Score 1) 2
I have just installed Vector Linux on a 1200MHz Celleron woth w 10GB HDD ans 128M RAM.
Works like a dream....
Comment A job for Jack Bower? (Score 1) 51
Where is Jack Bower when you need him?
Apple Removes Wi-Fi Finders From App Store 461
jasonbrown writes "Apple on Thursday began removing another category of apps from its iPhone App Store. This time, it's not porn, it's Wi-Fi. Apple removed several Wi-Fi apps commonly referred to as stumblers, or apps that seek out available Wi-Fi networks near your location. According to a story on Cult of Mac, apps removed by Apple include WiFi-Where, WiFiFoFum, and yFy Network Finder."
The 1-Second Linux Boot 156
An anonymous reader writes "Less than one second Linux boot! This video shows an OMAP3530 capturing video data from a camera and rendering it to an LCD display — the video appears on the LCD display in less than a second from reset."
Comment OGG streams off line though? (Score 1) 373
So why has the BBC shelved it's OGG streaming technology in favor of proprietary formats? This technology is available now and works very well. Hey BBC. Please give us back the OGG streams you used to run!
