Comment I wonder if they could ... (Score 1) 100
Recover all the photos that my Mom took with a camera that had no film.
Comment Apache Wave (Score 1) 218
It seems that Google Wave has be transferred to the Apache Foundation in some form.
Comment Re:Roundabouts are great (Score 1) 1173
Thanks, except i'm Canadian
Comment Roundabouts are great (Score 1) 1173
Every time I've driven in the UK and Australia I've been amazed by what a great idea they are. Traffic flows through them so much better than at a light and they must save a ton of gas.
I really hope that this catches on.
Comment Getting started with OSGi and Felix (Score 2) 52
I haven't read the book yet but if you want to get started with OSGi and Felix just pop over to the Felix web site and read their getting stared documentation. It is clear and well written and I was able to get an OSGi app up and running is a couple or hours.
Comment It's the way winter should be (Score 1) 439
As a Canadian living in New Jersey I think it is great. We have had about 4 or 5 good dumps of snow and it is white and beautiful out. The best winter in the 10 years we have been here. Much better than the usual drab, dirty wet winters that we usually get.
Comment He is the lesser of two evils (Score 3, Interesting) 470
Some one had to say it.
Comment Re:TOPS-10 (Score 1) 763
I second this. Your first is always your best. (We maybe not, but you never forget)
Comment Re:Oh yeah (Score 3, Interesting) 215
Yes isn't it, but I heard the NPR interview and there were many long pauses before this guy said the things he said. I suspect that he got a long talking to when he got back to the evil empire and that Microsoft's new open stance on this is really just them watching the ass of the horse run away while they stand in the open barn door.
The part that really got me was when Ira asked him if M$ was going to sue anyone for doing this. There was probably 30 seconds of dead air while the guy squirmed in his seat and then he said no.
Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties 96
ashidosan writes "Hot on the heels of the Adafruit competition, Matt Cutts (a search spam engineer at Google) is sponsoring two more $1,000 bounties for projects using Kinect. 'The first $1,000 prize goes to the person or team that writes the coolest open-source app, demo, or program using the Kinect. The second prize goes to the person or team that does the most to make it easy to write programs that use the Kinect on Linux.'"
Relatedly, reader imamac points out a video showing Kinect operating on OS X.
Comment Re:hook up Xmarks with apache+webdav (Score 1) 225
I do this as well and it works great. Unfortunately they never released a version of the Safari plugin that worked with you own server.
Comment Microsoft Should Buy Them (Score 5, Insightful) 217
They could use a decent operating system to sell
Comment Quicksilver (Score 1) 384
I use Quicksilver to launch everything. The only icon on my desktop is my home directory and occasionally a bookmark that i dropped there temporarily.
Digg In the Future 54
jamie writes "A new site called Digg In The Future - created by 17-year-old high-school student Raj Vir as a research project - says that its algorithm can predict with 63-percent accuracy what shared links are going to make it to the front page of the Digg website. (Does it allow for brigades?)"
Three Ground-Breaking Miniature Biosensors 18
kkleiner writes "Over the past few years, several research teams have developed increasingly smaller and cheaper biosensors with improved detection capabilities and faster turnaround times. Whether you are a doctor diagnosing patients in the rural areas of Africa or a Homeland Security agent working to thwart an act of bioterrorism, one of these little devices should be your sidekick."
