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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 821

by Evardsson on Thursday May 07, 2009 @11:26AM (#27860753) Attached to: Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista

What holds true for low-end hardware holds true for VMs as well.

I tried Vista on Parallels. I really tried to like it, but I just couldn't keep it running. I went back to XP.

Now I am trying Windows 7 on Parallels. And I am impressed. It runs stable, it runs smoothly in a VM and (so far) plays nice with the virtual environment. No aero in the VM, but that is of the least importance.

Being that I am usually on the other side of the argument re: MS/OS X or MS/*nix, I have to honestly admit that so far I really like Windows 7. Mostly because it works in the environment in which I use it (Parallels) and works at least as well as XP. I have not had any of the temporary freezing issues with 7 that I have had with XP, so at least in that regard it is working slightly better.

My $.02

Office 2007SP2 ODF Interoperability Very Bad 627

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 04, 2009 @08:55AM from the are-you-really-surprised dept.

David Gerard writes "Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 claims support for ODF 1.1. With hard work and careful thinking, they have successfully achieved technical compliance but zero interoperability! MSO 2007sp2 won't read ODF 1.1 from any other existing application, and its ODF is only readable by the CleverAge plugin. The post goes into detail as to how it manages this so thoroughly."

Would You Pay For YouTube Videos? 475

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 03, 2009 @10:33AM from the i-would-pay-to-unsee-youtube-comments dept.

secmartin writes "A couple of weeks ago, Google's CEO mentioned to investors that they might start charging YouTube's users for viewing content: 'With respect to how it will get monetized, our first priority, as you pointed out, is on the advertising side. We do expect over time to see micro payments and other forms of subscription models coming as well. But our initial focus is on advertising. We will be announcing additional things in that area literally very, very soon.' With the recent Disney-Hulu deal, Google is under increasing pressure to generate more revenue and at the same time attract more premium content. That means we might see payment options coming even sooner than expected, with control over the pricing models being handed over to the studios providing that content, like the way Apple caved in over variable pricing on iTunes. This raises an important question: would you actually pay for premium content on YouTube and other sites, or will this draw viewers away to other video sites?"

Controversial Web "Framing" Makes a Comeback 210

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday May 02, 2009 @11:24AM from the we-know-exactly-how-much-you'd-enjoy-a-slashbar dept.

theodp writes "The WSJ reports that the controversial practice of framing seems to be making a comeback on the Web. Big sites like Digg, Facebook, Ask.com and StumbleUpon have all begun framing links recently, joining the likes of Google, which employs the technique for Image Search. Long ago, Jakob Nielsen argued that 'frames break the fundamental user model of the web page,' but, today's practitioners contend, 'it's a feature, not a bug,' and say it provides publishers with massive distribution they wouldn't otherwise have."

Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords? 211

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @04:20PM from the must-be-in-here-somewhere dept.

Sooner Boomer writes "I'm trying to help drag a professor I work with into the 20th century. Although he is involved in cutting-edge research (nanotechnology), his method of literature search is to begin with digging through the hundreds of 3-ring binders that contain articles (usually from PDFs) that he has printed out. Even though the binders are labeled, the articles can only go under one 'heading' and there's no way to do a keyword search on subject, methods, materials, etc. Yeah, google is pretty good for finding stuff, as are other on-line literature services, but they only work for articles that are already on-line. His literature also includes articles copied from books, professional correspondence, and other sources. Is there a FOSS database or archive method (preferably with a web interface) where he could archive the PDFs and scanned documents and be able to search by keywords? It would also be nice to categorize them under multiple subject headings if possible. I know this has been covered ad nauseum with things like photos and the like, but I'm not looking at storage as such: instead I'm trying to find what's stored."

Comment Criticizing which part? (Score 1) 1127

by Evardsson on Thursday April 02, 2009 @10:47AM (#27430221) Attached to: Linux Needs Critics

The biggest problem with finding "Linux Critics" is (IMO) determining what exactly they should be criticizing. In my mind, a Linux Critic has specific criticism about the kernel. If you are talking about the Desktop Environment there are plenty of /Gnome | KDE | Enlightenment | XFCE | etc/ critics out there. If it is Applications there are plenty of those as well. If it is the default programs loaded on install then you are talking about specific Distributions and again, there are plenty of /Ubuntu | Gentoo | Fedora | SuSE | RedHat | Mepis | etc/ critics out there.

Linux is not like Windows or Mac OSX where the OS, Desktop Environment and default application load are all handled by one organization. Instead, all of this is distributed. If you don't like the default desktop environment in your distro of choice you can change it, or select another distro. Same goes for default application load. If your gripe is truly Linux I suggest you look into the Kernel Developers forums and mail lists. Not only will you find plenty of critics, but you will also find lots of developers who are willing to take that criticism into consideration.

Comment Better to 'p1mp' your mount (Score 5, Funny) 119

by Evardsson on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @07:28PM (#27425113) Attached to: Blizzard Shows Off <em>Diablo III</em> Archivist Class, <em>WoW</em> Dance-Off

... than to mount your pimp. Unless you are into that sort of thing.

Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? 468

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @06:40PM from the every-day-is-earth-day dept.

Andy_Spoo writes "Something that I've been trying to get an answer to: Is alcohol killing our planet? Alcohol is a byproduct of yeast, but another is CO2. As we all know (unless you've been asleep for years), CO2 is helping to warm our planet, sending us into destruction. So how much is the manufacture and consumption of alcohol contributing to the total world CO2 level? And don't forget that bars and pubs force beer through to their pumps using large compressed cylinders of CO2. Does anyone know?"

Comment I miss the old days (Score 2, Interesting) 220

by Evardsson on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @12:14PM (#27419187) Attached to: Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx

I miss the old days when the web was all text, and if you wanted to see an image you downloaded it and opened it in a separate image viewing app. At least then you knew that web authors (for such they were in those days) were at least trying to focus on content. But alas, the days of content are long gone.

Comment Re:TOTALLY worthless (Score 1) 244

by Evardsson on Monday September 08, 2008 @10:42AM (#24919833) Attached to: RealNetworks To Introduce a Simple DVD Copier

From Mac The Ripper - you can use DVD2One to create a burnable image. (If you like.) That is the reason that all my import DVDs are stashed away safely in storage and I watch on copies burned on DL DVDs. That way when the disk gets damaged it costs me around fifty cents to replace (since I buy the discs in the 50 or 100 packs when they are on sale) rather than paying another 20 - 30 dollars for a new copy of the import.

Submission + - OLPC Game Jam for a XO Laptop

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25, 2007 @09:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: OLPC anounced a three-day "game jam" scheduled to begin June 8 on the campus of Olin College, an engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts. The game jam is an opportunity for developers to create new types of games that rely on features of the XO's design such as mesh networking between nearby users, an integrated still or video camera, and a tablet mode for mobile gaming. "There aren't too many games right now that take advantage of mesh style networking," said Klein, referring to the XO's ability to use Wi-Fi to communicate with other users up to a kilometer away, and display them as icons on its Sugar interface. "There are networked games, sure, but they aren't sensitive to the ability to display the presence of other users depending on where they are in relation to you, or to pop up on the screen when they are close enough." Beyond creating games that teach specific tasks like counting or reading, OLPC hopes the contest will produce templates that allow kids to build their own games, according to OLPC's development guidelines. Oh yea, the grand prize is a a free OX laptop and all games created at the weekend-long event under the open-source GNU General Public License, and post them on the SourceForge site.

Submission + - Novell/Microsoft deal omits OpenOffice.org

Submitted by on Friday May 25, 2007 @08:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: Novell has released the terms of its controversial non-license patent license deal with Microsoft. The deal specifically excludes patent protection for Novell's OpenOffice.org customers.

Submission + - New AACS crack. This one is undefeatable.

Submitted by Tuoqui on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @09:09PM

Tuoqui writes: With all the focus on the infamous hexadecimal number people may be ignoring the biggest weakness in the AACS armor. Apparently some hackers have figured out how tocrack AACS in an undefeatable way that revoking all the keys would not protect against.

Submission + - Web 2.0 development cycle using PHP Frameworks

Submitted by Deeply_Pipelined on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @07:57PM

Deeply_Pipelined writes: I am a university student studying EE. A colleague of mine and I have come up with a Web 2.0 idea that we want to implement, and hopefully turn it into a commercial venture. Since we both are EE, we took a while to familiarize ourselves with PHP, Apache, MySQL, JavaScript, and are aware of a bunch of frameworks out there to make life simple. We are right now doing work in PHP (using the CakePHP framework). The stage that we are currently at is this: We have an idea of what functionality to implement on the site, and have coded up some PHP to spit out some dynamic pages. Of course, this will not be enough. We would need to add AJAX and CSS. Since we are new to the Web 2.0 development cycle, I want to know whether: 1. Adding the JavaScript/CSS is done concurrently with the PHP, OR 2. Is the process conducted in an iterative manner, like so:
Iteration 1: Do the PHP (pages look boring, with page reloads for everything).
Iteration 2: AJAX, JavaScript, using JSON to communicate (less page reloads, dynamic interface, AJAX look and feel).
Iteration 3: Add CSS (incorporate final look and design).

Thanks, Deeply-Pipelined

Submission + - Google's Evil NDA

Submitted by on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @07:28PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google claims that it's motto is "Do No Evil" — but they sure have an evil NDA! In order to be considered for employment there, they require you to sign an agreement which forbids you to "mention or imply the name of Google" in public ever again. Further, you can't tell anyone you interviewed there, or what they offered you, and you possibly sign away your rights to reverse engineer any of Google's code ever. And this NDA never expires. Luckily, someone has posted the contents of the NDA before he signed it and had to say silent forever.

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