Comment Too many adjectives (Score 1) 437
Is it just me, or did he use too many adjectives (and adverbs) to be even remotely believable? The line about "scar tissue from this painful mistake" was where I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Comment Re:The free market will handle this (Score 2, Insightful) 437
Last time I checked, the free market didn't truly exist.
Submission + - Tomorrow's Science Heroes?
An anonymous reader writes: As a kid (and still now) I was heavily influenced by Carl Sagan and a little later by Stephen Hawking. Now as I have started a family with two kids (currently age 5 and 2) I am wondering who out there is popularizing science. Currently, my wife and I can get the kids excited about the world around them, but I'd like to find someone inspiring from outside the family as they get older. Sure, we'll always have 'Cosmos,' but are there any contemporaries who are trying to bring science into the public view in such a fun and intriguing way? Someone the kids can look up to and be inspired by? Where is the next Science hero?
Submission + - Ad-Supported Microsoft Office 14 May be available (wordpress.com)
glock17 writes: Microsoft Business Division president Stephen Elop said Microsoft would release an ad-supported version of Microsoft Office 14 — Office 14 is expected to be available in 2010. Elop said the purpose behind releasing a free version of Microsoft Office with ads displayed alongside the workspace was to draw "pirate customers into the revenue stream." according to Silicon Valley Insider.
Submission + - Ubuntu with Ext3 is Faster than Windows 7 and XP (flexense.com)
twitter writes: "Slashdot has reported questions about the performance of Windows 7 and comparisons to Ubuntu in general tests. At the time, people claimed that XP was faster than both and that Windows 7 just needed some work. Another study now shows that Ubuntu wipes both XP and Windows 7 in a key area, file service.
Abundant performance delivered by today's quad-core processors has shifted the performance bottleneck from the CPU and memory to the disk I/O subsystem in most of day-to-day usage scenarios.
... which one of modern operating systems is capable of utilizing fast hard drives and multi-core CPUs most effectively?
In all file search, classification and storage utilization analysis operations Ubuntu is faster than both tested Windows operating systems by a huge margin.... users and IT professionals constantly working with large amounts data should seriously consider using Ubuntu Linux as the main file and data management platform.
I doubt any of this change by the promissed October 22 release date and don't know why people still use XP."
Submission + - ISS pilots 'interplanetary internet' (itnews.com.au)
schliz writes: Researchers developing the 'Interplanetary Internet' have launched its first permanent node in Space via a payload aboard the International Space Station. The network is based on a new communications protocol called Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN). It will be tested heavily this month, and could give astronauts direct Internet access within a year.
The Interplanetary Internet is the brainchild of Vint Cerf ('father of the Internet'), among others. Last year, NASA tested the technology on the Deep Impact spacecraft.
The Interplanetary Internet is the brainchild of Vint Cerf ('father of the Internet'), among others. Last year, NASA tested the technology on the Deep Impact spacecraft.
Submission + - Transparent dynamic reverse proxy with nginx (cmdln.org)
Nick Anderson writes: "A while back I wrote about using Apache as a dynamic reverse proxy. Anyone who has done even minimal research into web servers knows that Apache is the swiss army knife. It trys to be everything for everyone, and like a swiss army knife may not be as good as a more refined too at least as far as efficiency is concerned. Read the full transparent dynamic reverse proxy with nginx at cmdln.org."
Submission + - Mindwipe: we has it
overshoot writes: How often have we all read science fiction stories where someone has the ability to "wipe" memory, perhaps down to tabula rasa? It's a pretty stock plot device, often used as a threat against a framed protagonist. Well, peeps, it might be closer to fact than we'd like. Apparently long-term memory is dynamic, and interfering with the "refresh" process just makes the past ... disappear. So far the experiments involve injections into specific regions of mouse brains — but we all know how technology advances, right?
