Comment Just use Calibre (Score 1) 96
Just have Calibre import the website then put the resulting E-Pub on your device of choice. It's a great way to read news, blogs and other stuff on the go.
Comment Re:Fishy (Score 1) 201
Well you know the typical problem. How can you compete with Hibernate(free) especially when you are charging 3k per dev/tester to essentially do the same thing Hibernate does for you.
Comment Re:Languages (Score 4, Insightful) 371
Graphics means using a well supported library, so Perl/Tk is the better choice than Java/Swing.
Um...I do not think "well supported library" means what you think it means. Tk is old and crufty. Swing isn't much better, but if you're doing graphics you're almost certainly doing it with SDL or some other accelerated system, and you wouldn't use Swing for that either.
Tk is not as old and crufty as you think. It has been updated allot recently
Java/Swing actually has a very fast fully accelerated OpenGL drawing pipeline that is even supported on Linux. And yes many graphics heavy applications are buildt using Java/Swing The problem with swing is that it takes some heavy study time to learn how to do it correctly and not make your interface suck. But done correctly Java can keep up with most things out there. It's the done correctly part that is hard.
Submission + - Gorgeous Photos of a Transonic F-22A Fighter Jet!
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Air Force F-22A Raptor pilot wasn't fooling around on 1 April 2007 during the 42nd Naval Base Ventura County Air Show held at Point Mugu, California, USA. When the F-22A fighter jet reached the transonic flight regime, nature responded with vapor galore — stunning and spectacular Prandtl-Glauert (P-G) clouds. Associated Press photographer Richard Vogel was there and snapped these gorgeous pictures of the F-22A's P-G clouds.
Submission + - Guest Worker Visas Hurting American Jobs
Malggi writes: "The Economic Policy Institute has released a Briefing Paper outlining the effect of high-skill guest worker visas on the job market, and the news is not good. From the paper:
This briefing paper focuses on two key policy mechanisms for high-skill labor mobility and immigration, the H-1B and the L-1 guest worker visas.1 In practice these programs not only fail to meet their policy goals, they actually work against them. And more importantly, the vast expansion of the H-1B program passed by the U.S. Senate last year will make the programs even more harmful. If these H-1B provisions were to be signed into law, the consequences are obvious: they would directly lead to more offshore outsourcing of jobs, displacement of American technology workers, decreased wages and job opportunities for those same workers, and the discouragement of young people from entering science and engineering fields.
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TrueDisc Error Correction for Disc Burning? 68
An anonymous reader asks: "Macintouch has a link to a new piece of software — TrueDisc — which claims to make data burned to record-able discs more reliable. More specifically it uses interleaved redundant cells to rebuild data should part of the disc be scratched. On the developer's blog they say they plan to create an open-source implementation of the TrueDisc system, now that it is not going to be included in the Blu-ray/HD-DVD standards. Have any of you used this software before, and what alternatives are already available?"
Submission + - Gates wants more cheap drones
An anonymous reader writes: Apparently Bill thinks it is cheaper to
import cheap labor than it is to outsource. How am I going to upgrade to Vista if I don't have a job?
