Comment Re:why aRe:They're glowing! (Score 1) 898
It was in KDE 3 - KDE's had it since 2006 - ALT + Space launches Katapult
Comment Re:If it's really thinking.. (Score 1) 630
Well done. ANd you Know that i havE no otheR similar tests!
Radiohead Open Sources Music Video 120
ruphus13 writes "Following up their 'pay what you like' music album, Radiohead is once again pushing forward with trying to innovate in an industry that has typically innovated with lawsuits alone. Radiohead has now decided to open source a music video. According to the article, 'Its new single "House of Cards" has a video that was created using advanced visualization techniques and various computer-rendered models. The band has teamed up with Google to release the data for the promo as open source using a Creative Commons license.'" The article links a making-of video on YouTube. The music of "House of Cards" was not open sourced, just the visual data. according to a story in the UK Guardian, people are beginning to play around with the data.
Submission + - Reznor releases new album under CC License (nin.com) 2
Leviathant writes: "Nine Inch Nails has self-released a new instrumental album, Ghosts I-IV.
Consisting of 36 instrumental tracks described as "music for daydreams" and released under Creative Commons,
it is available in a wide range of formats (MP3, double CD, multitrack audio DVD-ROM, vinyl, 40 page book).
The free MP3 download includes the first nine tracks (each with unique artwork), wallpapers, and a PDF of the 40 page book.
Available directly off nin.com, you also have the option to torrent it via official NIN profiles on Waffles, what.cd and The Pirate Bay. Absent from this release was any kind of leak of audio or information. Is this the future of music distribution?"
Comment Re:Perl 5 to Perl 6 (Score 1) 229
How long should it have taken? Is there some standard for how long a new language and VM are supposed to take to implement?
Submission + - Universal blocks Trent Reznor's fan remix web site (cliveholloway.net)
cLive ;-) writes: "Trent Reznor's recent departure from Universal was meant to leave all this crap behind but, even now, the suits are stopping him from helping to bring the music industry into the 21st century (eg, with new distribution models). Having previously fallen out with his record company by urging fans to steal his music when he thought his CDs were overpriced, now he's being "lawyered" over his upcoming fan remix web site. The main gist of the problem is that Universal are scared to host his remix site when fans could be submitting mashup tracks that would infringe on other artists' rights, as this would affect the industry's ongoing lawsuit against YouTube et al...
When will these dinosaur industries get it?"
When will these dinosaur industries get it?"
Submission + - Faster than Light? (jerrypournelle.com)
Carl L writes: Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor blog/daybook reports a New Scientist article about two German Scientists that may have broken the fundamental speed limit of Einsteinian space time. As Dr. Pournelle opines,
Indeed."If true, this changes everything. Everything."
Journal Journal: Gmail Paper
A little after midnight today I went to check my Gmail and discovered that the front page displayed information about a new service from Gmail: Gmail Paper. If you go here: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html you will see the information on this "service." Looks like the holiday has already started.
Submission + - McCain MySpace hacker raided by FBI
Shatter36 writes: "Following on from the clever hack of John McCain's MySpace page on Wednesday, a slashdot subscriber decided to do a follow up, tricking the page maintainers into displaying an embarrassing comment on McCain's page for 18 hours. Not that exciting, except that today he was raided by the FBI and had all of his computer equipment seized, even though he didn't actually "hack" anything! — all the images that appeared in the comment were hosted on his website. He's posted a short account of the afternoon's events on his website (probably NSFW — he sounds a little upset). This is just ridiculous. I am lost for words, though I guess one should never underestimate the stupidity of politicians..."
Submission + - OnStar Service: poof-gone for older vehicles
ClogHammer writes: "Seems like GM is going to drop the analog OnStar service and is using the FCC as the blame catcher. According to "Click2Houston.com "Attention all GM drivers — that friendly voice helping you get around town and dispatch police in emergencies may be saying goodbye soon.""
Comment Real world vs. fanboy fantasies (Score -1, Flamebait) 200
You didn't explain why you would want to migrate your shop to Linux in the first place. You even mention that the software you need is Windows-only stuff, but you want to make things complicated, difficult and expensive by running this Windows software on Linux virtual terminals instead of natively!
I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
I know how to tell facts from marketing fluff. Now, here are the facts as they're found by SEVERAL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES:
Expenses for file-server workloads under Windows, compared to LinuxOS:
They compared Microsofts IIS to the Linux 7.0 webserver. For Windows, the cost was only:
Application development and support costs for Windows compared to an opensores solution like J2EE:
A full Windows installation, compared to installing Linux, on an Enterprise Server boxen:
Compared to the best known opensores webserver "Red Hat", Microsoft IIS:
These are hard numbers and 100% FACTS! There are several more where these came from.
Who do you think we professionals trust more?
Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwaldes who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???
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Copyright (c) 2006 Mike Bouma, MCSE, MCDST, MS Office Specialist, widely respected Amigan
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".
I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
I know how to tell facts from marketing fluff. Now, here are the facts as they're found by SEVERAL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES:
Expenses for file-server workloads under Windows, compared to LinuxOS:
- Staffing expenses were 33.5% better.
- Training costs were 32.3% better.
They compared Microsofts IIS to the Linux 7.0 webserver. For Windows, the cost was only:
- $40.25 per megabit of throughput per second.
- $1.79 per peak request per second.
Application development and support costs for Windows compared to an opensores solution like J2EE:
- 28.2% less for large enterprises.
- 25.0% less for medium organizations.
A full Windows installation, compared to installing Linux, on an Enterprise Server boxen:
- Is nearly three hours faster.
- Requires 77% fewer steps.
Compared to the best known opensores webserver "Red Hat", Microsoft IIS:
- Has 276% better peak performance for static transactions.
- Has 63% better peak performance for dynamic content.
These are hard numbers and 100% FACTS! There are several more where these came from.
Who do you think we professionals trust more?
Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwaldes who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???
--
Copyright (c) 2006 Mike Bouma, MCSE, MCDST, MS Office Specialist, widely respected Amigan
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".
Submission + - Linux Kernel To "Ban" Non-GPL Modules By 2
Bootsy Collins writes: In a discussion today on the LKML, Greg Kroah-Hartman has agreed with opinions in favor of having the Linux kernel load only GPL-tagged modules, and has put forward a patch which will start warning users loading "tainted" modules into the kernel that such loading will no longer be possible in kernels released after 1 January 2008. The intent is to give companies time to GPL their modules, release hardware specifications so that others can write GPL'ed modules, or otherwise respond to the restriction. Later in the discussion, Linus Torvalds has voiced his opposition to this move.
Submission + - Google Patent Search puts the USPTO to shame
dickeya writes: From the horse's mouth:
As part of Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, we're constantly working to expand the diversity of content we make available to our users. With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you. You can view images of original patents online, or save and print them for offline use.
See it here http://www.google.com/patents
As part of Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, we're constantly working to expand the diversity of content we make available to our users. With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you. You can view images of original patents online, or save and print them for offline use.
See it here http://www.google.com/patents
Journal Journal: Best YouTube Stuff Evah 6
I love this girl. Not in that latex Batgirl outfit way either.
She's hysterical.
Sarcasm Does Not Belong On YouTube
and... watch it close
Submission + - Google patents the design of search results pages
prostoalex writes: "ZDNet is reporting on USPTO issuing a patent to Google, Inc. for "ornamental design for a graphical user interface". This is not, as ZDNet points out, a software patent, which is usually issued as utility patent, but a design patent, which governs the look and feel of the product and prevents others from directly copying it."
