Comment ^^^ Somebody missed the 'free preview' offer :-) (Score 2) 40
^^^ Somebody missed the 'free preview' offer :-)
Comment Gun + Foot = AAAAWWWW (Score 1) 192
Gun + Foot = AAAAWWWW
Comment Crimes pays, so does inventing viruses. (Score 1) 54
Ron is from the same "venture" that convinced the Dutch government to make the tax payers invest millions and millions in useless vaccines.
And now somehow they still feel they don't need to be held accountable by the Dutch government.
I trust him as far as I can throw him. And I promise I'll make a real good effort....
Comment Colleagues, customers, clients, whatever (Score 0) 960
If the IT guys would refer to me as colleague, client, customer, whatever I would be quite happy.
But no.... the IT guys always refer to me as a 'user'. I am your f***cking colleague, trying to help the company as a whole forward.
As long as IT think of themselves as a separate company-within-the-company despite their ever poor performance, they have my contempt. H.
But no.... the IT guys always refer to me as a 'user'. I am your f***cking colleague, trying to help the company as a whole forward.
As long as IT think of themselves as a separate company-within-the-company despite their ever poor performance, they have my contempt. H.
Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle 151
An anonymous reader writes "Fermilab today announced that scientists working at the CDF (Collision Detector at Fermilab) experiment confirmed the observation of a new particle, the Xi-sub-b. The Xi-sub-b is categorized as a baryon, which are formed of three quarks. Commonly known baryons include the proton as well as the neutron."
Comment Re:How about the inner diameter? (Score 1) 180
Ok, how about this: I was personally present at the IEEE ceremony from the link and Joop Sinjou was telling stories about the early days of the CD development, which he was the project leader of. One of his anecdotes was how the engineers couldn't decide on a size for the hole and how he personally had picked the dime from his pocket and how that had settled the case.
So I heard it from the man's own mouth, during an official IEEE event. It doesn't get much more reliable than that....
Comment Re:How about the inner diameter? (Score 1) 180
It's not a myth. Read the bottom of this:
http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/Philips_honored_with_IEEE_Milestone_Award_for_the_development_of_CD/
Comment How about the inner diameter? (Score 2) 180
FYI, the inner diameter was chosen by Philips to match the Dutch 10 cent coin at the time.
RIP, SunSolve 100
Kymermosst writes "Today marks the last day that SunSolve will be available. Oracle sent the final pre-deployment details today for the retirement of SunSolve and the transition to its replacement, My Oracle Support Release 5.2, which begins tomorrow. People who work with Sun's hardware and software have long used SunSolve as a central location for specifications, patches, and documentation."
Gnome 2.30 Released 138
Hypoon writes "The GNOME project is proud to release this new version of the GNOME desktop environment and developer platform. Among the hundreds of bug fixes and user-requested improvements, GNOME 2.30 has several highly visible changes: new features for advanced file management, better remote desktop experience, easier notes synchronization and a generally smoother user experience. Learn more about GNOME 2.30 through the detailed release notes and the press release."
Fossil of Ant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered In China 64
thomst writes "Charles Q. Choi of LiveScience reports that a farmer in southern Henan Province in China has dug up the first known ant-eating dinosaur, a half-meter-long theropod (the dinosaur family to which T. Rex belongs), whose fossilized remains were described as 'fairly intact'. The 83- to 89-million-year-old pygmy dinosaur has been named named Xixianykus zhangi by Xig Xu, De-you Wang, Corwin Sullivan, David Hone, Feng-lu Han, Rong-hao Yan, and Fu-ming Du, whose paper on the critter, A basal parvicursorine (Theropoda: Alvarezsauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of China, was published in the March 29 issue of Zootaxa (the abstract is available in PDF format for free, the full article is paywall-protected.)"
The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers
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Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."
Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death" 351
duguk writes "Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the 'black screen of death,' which affects Windows 7 — and reports suggest it affects Vista and XP, too. The firm said it was looking into reports that suggest its latest security update, released on Tuesday 25 November, caused the problem. The error means that users of Windows 7 and earlier operating systems see a totally black screen after logging on to the system." Update: 12/01 22:35 GMT by KD : Microsoft now says that its November Windows updates are not causing the BlackSOD: "The company has found those reports to be inaccurate and our comprehensive investigation has shown that none of the recently released updates are related to the behavior described in the reports."
UK Government To Outsource Data Snooping and Storage 114
bone_idol writes "The Guardian is reporting that the private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone's calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary. Also covered on the BBC."
British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows 725
meist3r writes "On his Government blog, Microsoft's Ian McKenzie announced today that the Royal Navy was ahead of schedule for switching their nuclear submarines to a customized Microsoft Windows solution dubbed 'Submarine Command System Next Generation (SMCS NG)' which apparently consists of Windows 2000 network servers and XP workstations. In the article, it is claimed that this decision will save UK taxpayers £22m over the next ten years. The installation of the new system apparently took just 18 days on the HMS Vigilant. According to the BAE Systems press release from 2005, the overall cost of the rollout was £24.5m for all eleven nuclear submarines of the Vanguard, Trafalgar and Swiftsure classes. Talk about staying with the sinking ship."
