Comment Re:Better he use Google than watch House M.D. (Score 1) 291
That dweeb will almost kill you twice or three times with misdiagnoses before he finds the right one.
Um, you know he's not REAL, right?
Comment Re:Dear Slashdot mods: demand original source link (Score 1) 213
I am also annoyed by this most of the time, but isn't the solution easy: include links to BOTH. I can read "Bob's" blog if I want, or I can skip and go directly to the Nature article. If both aren't included, then reject it.
Comment Nice word (Score 1) 5
"An Iowanian"
Try "Iowan"
Try "Iowan"
Comment Re:MIRROR (Score 1) 314
You'll need an account to view this, or the owner needs to make it public.
Comment Another reason (Score 3, Insightful) 530
From their FAQ:
"Can I use Firefox or another Browser?
No! For security reasons, and some significant processing issues as well, the only supported Browser is Internet Explorer Release 6 or later."
I suspect the processing issues are the real reasons and they are trying to scare people into not using Firefox so they don't get the phone calls about their site not working.
Comment Re:I wonder how far away from the Mississippi rive (Score 1) 111
Google's is on the other side of the state, near Council Bluffs. Microsoft's is in the central part of the state in West Des Moines. Neither is close to the Mississippi, however, either could be close enough to a river to be affected when we get the next 1000 year flood.
Threads Considered Harmful 266
LBR9 writes "James Reinders compares native threads with the goto statement so famously denounced 40 years ago by Edsger Dijkstra. Paraphrasing Dijkstra, he says they both 'make a mess of a program,' and then argues in favor of a higher level of abstraction. A couple of people commenting on the post question whether or not we should be even be treading into the 'swamp of parallelism,' echoing the view recently espoused by Donald Knuth."
Submission + - Will Linux Ever Make it to the Desktop? (wildgardenseed.com)
BlueParrot writes: Almost every year someone declares it to be "The Year of the Linux Desktop." Yet, these pundits are wrong-every year. Definitely, Linux has made a lot of progress since the days of Red Hat 6.0, but it still has major architectural problems that have existed since the beginning (and actually, in the pre-Linux days as well). http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2007/04/15/will-linux-ever-make-it-to-the-desktop/
Feed Tom's Hardware: The Inquirer: Year End Predictions For 2008 (pheedo.com)
Someone apparently pulled The Inquirer clan away from the pub long enough to think a clear thought about 2008. They've put together a top ten list of events they believe will happen. What are your thoughts? Is The Inquirer clan on the mark? Or off the wagon?
Submission + - Jobs in Computer Forensics?
raw-sewage writes: I recently obtained a copy of Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer's Forensic Discovery. The book has piqued my interest in a career in computer forensics. Does anyone have experience with such a job? What kinds of firms (private or governmental) hire people to perform technological investigations?
Submission + - Transactions, distribution and security with Java (ibm.com)
BlueVoodoo writes: "Java developers can get a lot of mileage out of storing objects directly in an object-oriented database like db4o. Learn how db4o handles three concerns central to Java enterprise development: transactions, distributed data management, and Web application security."
Submission + - Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" to return (discovery.com)
Epeeist writes: "In 1980, the landmark series COSMOS premiered on public television. Since then, it is estimated that more than a billion people around the planet have seen the series. Now the Science Channel brings the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning COSMOS back, digitally remastered and with enhanced computer graphics."
Submission + - 2007: PC Gaming Hardware Wrap-up (yougamers.com)
Heartless Gamer writes: "YouGamers.com has a wrap-up of the year that was in PC gaming hardware (captured via 3DMark06). Not surprising, Nvidia's 8800 series of cards leads the pack, while ATI lags behind significantly. A little surprising, Microsoft Vista and DX10 has had a steady year of growth. In a year of cheaper-than-normal memory, the average amount of RAM per PC is up. Overall, a great analysis of the PC gaming platform."
Submission + - Largest Diamond in the galaxy discovered 5
morpheus83 writes: Astronomers have discovered the largest diamond in the galaxy, located at a distance of 50 light years from earth in the Constellation Centaurus. The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter which makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds. Scientists believe that the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun.
Submission + - What exactly is 2o7.net?
rottenSoul writes: I generally only allow specific cookies in my browser. Recently, I've seen a lot of 2o7.net cookies from 3rd party sites on mainstream sites. It's a web analytics company. Is this doubleclick2 or a harmless cookie? The cookie if different for each site but the root is the same.
Here's what I found at 2o7.net:
http://www.omniture.com/privacy/2o7?f=2o7#optout
