Comment No slig tag yet? (Score 1) 820
I expected somebody to mention slig or ask if Professor Post is a Bene Tleilax.
Comment Re:It says: 256MB RAM... (Score 1) 744
Whoosh!
Comment Re:Unsurprising; but doesn't make me enthusiastic. (Score 1) 600
Thank you.
It's mimicry, not "lying".
Comment Re:So the Pre 1.0 makes me appreciate my Treo 755p (Score 1) 283
Speak it, brother.
Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience 169
In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."
Looking Back At the Other Kind of Virus 147
Slatterz writes "All this panic over a strain of flu got these people thinking about some of the more virulent computer pandemics that have hit in recent years. While a computer virus pales in seriousness to a human outbreak, malware attacks can still take a huge toll on businesses throughout the world. This list of the top ten worst viruses includes some interesting trivia, including ARPANET's Creeper virus in 1971, how early attempts at copy protection resulted in Brain, and MyDoom's denial of service attack on SCO."
Comment Re:Add-on idea. (Score 1) 219
I don't see how to do that in FF 3.0.7. Are you using an add-on?
Comment Re:You can already do this ... (Score 1) 474
Huh? You're pretty harsh.
AOL and the MSN part of MS were certainly rivals. The icons plastered all over the desktop were put there by the hardware vendor. I know they paid quite a few different parties to put their icons on the desktop with the software install. AOL bought Netscape primarily to keep MS honest on the browser front, IMHO. Needless to say, they cooperated when it was in the best interest of both parties.
In the "GPL or even Apache" quote, it will be obvious to most
Comment Re:Dance Monkey Boy, Dance. (Score 1) 474
Somebody needs to mod the parent up!
Comment Re:The year of the Linux internet appliance (Score 3, Interesting) 555
Alright, you're just displaying your ignorance at this point. There are plenty of closed-source proprietary apps that I use on Linux for my job, and the vendors manage it just fine. These are applications for chip design, and Linux is really the only platform at this point that anybody uses for this kind of work. You might argue that they are server apps, rather than desktop apps, but most of them have very sophisticated GUIs in addition to shell-like interfaces. Many engineering and science disciplines rely on proprietary desktop apps like I am describing. This is the traditional workstation software market, and it is almost entirely Linux on x86 or x86-64 hardware now. Has been for several years. The software developers have sufficient stability because they worked with RedHat to get it. For example, most of the software I currently use supports, meaning "runs without modification", RHEL3.x and RHEL4.x. The latest versions are supporting RHEL5.x and they are dropping RHEL3.x. That's a huge span of time if you look up the RHEL release dates, and RH, the software developers, and the end customers are dealing with this just fine.
Comment Re:X windows (Score 3, Informative) 100
That should say C preprocessor, I believe.
Comment Re:Oh good. (Score 2, Interesting) 215
Submission + - Sealand bought by a Kazakh writer?
rm writes: "According to Russian-language news site CentrAsia (translation), a Kazakh writer Daniyar Ashimbaev, with support from unnamed Kazakh company, on 10-th January, had purchased Principality of Sealand. He plans to move to live there, despite that only 3 of 16 living rooms of Sealand's only platform are left intact after recent fire. Daniyar says his sponsors helped him to buy Sealand as an advertisement venture, and soon their trademark signs will be placed on billboards on top of Sealand's platform. The writer also said that he hopes to make Sealand a forepost of Kazakh culture on the west, and make Kazakh and Russian the official state languages of Sealand."
