Comment Arms race (Score 2) 49
Reading this something came to mind. This satelite/probe/spacecraft would be the first spacecraft earth has build that would be equiped with a kinetic weapon......
Only one remark here: COOL!
Comment Re:Apple Airport Extreme and Cisco E4200 (Score 1) 398
Seconded here also:
I have an airport extreme screwed to the wall in my power closet (where all the electrical stuff, phone and television comes into my house) and it has been running flawlessly for the last 3 years. I had to do two reboots in two years and for the rest it just works. And I am streaming video over it from my Readynass, doing timemachine backups, routing (slowely I admit) my storage for Imovie over it (to the readynass), connect to the corporate network and use it to surf the internet.
Basically anything Microsoft and Apple can throw at it and it still works.
Comment Re:What are you in for? (Score 1) 410
Yes you are (sorry can't help myself. Just need to rub it in.).
Correction: :s/\$/4
Yours just replaced the end of the line with a 4 (effectively adding it to the end of the line)
Comment Re:That's what you get (Score 1) 166
Actually there is. There is a ASAP method, not sure if it is from SAP, but i think it was. It is a method to "quickly" implement SAP. Guess they did not use it here.
Comment No solution provided by the author...... (Score 1) 509
While finding te story very interesting, there is no real solution at the end of it.
In one or two sentences: what would facebook have to hoose as the database and then : why that option , or weigh the alternatives.
Comment Wonder what the price per liter / gallon is... (Score 1) 201
And we are complaining about gasprices down here, wonder if my creditcard will max out to fill up?
Comment I would solder something together (Score 1) 600
I would take 20 Xb0x360 devices and hook them up to some playstations which will have USB disks attached to them.
Each and every one of the Xb0X 360 devices I would equip with a Kinect device (linux drives are there) and I would programm me a virtual keyboard.
Missing USB ports can easily be soldered onto the motherboards of the Playstations
Then I would change the office layout so everybody has their own cubical in which they can standup an do their minority report moves to handle their day to day tasks
(You will have to write some software for that).
Anything more, just ask.
And now seriously
Please approach this from a user/business perspective. What does the company need to do their business?. And then look at the support structure of each standard solution. If the support people know linux, then do linux. If the users know Windows, Then give them windows. If the companies customers and suppliers work with linux/osx/windows thats another pointer.
There is shitload of standard stuff out there which will do the job just brilliantly. No need to bother /. with this!
Comment Re:News at 11 (Score 1) 251
A common synonym for the telegraaf is the tele"vaag" here in the lowlands, "vaag" translates from lowlandisch to english as vague.
Not a newspaper I would recommend to quote from!
The White House Listed On Real Estate Website 123
Forget visiting the White House, if you have $10 million you can own it. At least that is the price for the president's home on the real estate website Redfin. From the article: "Obviously this is an error. It looks like Redfin software pulled an example listing from the website Owners.com by mistake. That example listing was the White House. We have e-mailed Redfin for comment." I know it's historic but it still looks a bit on the high side according to the comparables in the area.
EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) 308
captainktainer writes "In one of the largest tests of EVE Online's new player sovereignty system in the Dominion expansion pack, a fleet of ships attempting to retake a lost star system was effectively annihilated amidst controversy. Defenders IT Alliance, a coalition succeeding the infamous Band of Brothers alliance (whose disbanding was covered in a previous story), effectively annihilated the enemy fleet, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of in-game assets. A representative of the alliance claimed to have destroyed a minimum of four, possibly five or more of the game's most expensive and powerful ship class, known as Titans. Both official and unofficial forums are filled with debate about whether the one-sided battle was due to difference in player skill or the well-known network failures after the release of the expansion. One of the attackers, a member of the GoonSwarm alliance, claims that because of bad coding, 'Only 5% of [the attackers] loaded,' meaning that lag prevented the attackers from using their ships, even as the defenders were able to destroy those ships unopposed. Even members of the victorious IT Alliance expressed disappointment at the outcome of the battle. CCP, EVE Online's publisher, has recently acknowledged poor network performance, especially in the advertised 'large fleet battles' that Dominion was supposed to encourage, and has asked players to help them stress test their code on Tuesday. Despite the admitted network failure, leaders of the attacking force do not expect CCP to replace lost ships, claiming that it was their own fault for not accounting for server failures. The incident raises questions about CCP's ability to cope with the increased network use associated with their rapid growth in subscriptions."
Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148
c0mpliant writes "NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released a simulation of the path of an asteroid, named Apophis, that will come very close to Earth in 2029 — the closest predicted approach since humans have monitored for such heavenly bodies. The asteroid caused a bit of a scare when astronomers first announced that it would enter Earth's neighborhood some time in the future. However, since that announcement in 2004, more recent calculations have put the odds of collision at 1 in 250,000."
Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242
likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."
Hand Written Clock 86
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
