Comment Open source it.. (Score 1) 306
Open source it and then no-one will care.
Comment Re:Facebook's privacy policy (Score 1) 317
"we may not have control over what they do with it."
Haha - guess Facebook has everything covered. You can't sue Facebook if your info gets into the wrong hands. But the info can't get into the wrong hands because Facebook won't allow it. Unless they give it out. That's why we shouldn't use Facebook.
Comment Backups aren't infallible - which medium? (Score 1) 511
We store our home photos on CDs and only print the really good photos at Walmart/Blacks/Shoppers etc. This saves us money but we get to keep some photos that aren't good enough to print but worth keeping all the same. So we're almost "paperless" in that sense. But a paperless office needs a solid backup strategy but what backup medium can survive in the long run 100%? An office (or home user) could burn to CD/DVD but how long will they last before they become inaccessible?
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."
Comment Re:First Paragraph (Score 1) 328
I believe you just posted the singularily most intelligent and correct response on Slashdot. Congratulations!
Comment Any direct correlation? (Score 1) 263
Any direct correlation between the activitity and the current natural earthquakes/typhoons etc?
Comment Drupal + CiviCRM? (Score 3, Informative) 186
How about Drupal + this module: http://drupal.org/project/civicrm
Comment Lenovo won't be in my future (Score 1) 400
Lenovo won't be in my future! We bought a T500 less than a year ago and they keyboard is failing already. They also far too much crap on their laptops - Vista is unusable from boot for several minutes.
Comment Colbert != comedian (Score -1, Flamebait) 607
I'm sorry but "Colbert" and "Comedian" only belong in the sentence if the words between them are "is not a ". Maybe I'm English and I just don't get him....
Comment Do not use this version! (Score 1) 110
Do not use this version! I'm constantly suffering non-responsive tabs that do nothing for ages and cannot be closed or reloaded without killing the process. Stay away!
Comment Re:Try it the other way (Score 1) 936
"Under Linux, this was always located in the same place: the "Edit" menu. So to edit the preferences for a program, I clicked "Edit - Preferences"."
Under Linux? No, you mean "in Gnome"!
Comment Re:No News (Score 1) 417
Same here - I thought I could rescue my wife from the disaster that is Vista and get her a free upgrade to 7. Oh how wrong was I!
Comment Re:No its just that : (Score 2, Interesting) 791
You mean a one size fits all distro for each niche/market? Like one desktop, one server, one netbook, one phone, one embedded.....? They could all come from one distro, but that'll never happen unfortunately.
Comment Simple solution.... (Score 1) 269
Simple solution, get Linus to pass a law (or change the kernel license!) that there can only be one Linux distribution. Maybe we'll let them keep Gnome (only if they get rid of Gtk) and KDE (shoot whoever thought KDE4 should be released). Then all the developers from the other distros could work on writing games. Simple!
