Comment Re:So show me the clean energy research and develo (Score 4, Informative) 561
So maybe for once they could take all this money from donations and build say a windfarm and sell clean electric energy to people?
Comment HTC Flyer (Score 2) 425
The HTC Flyer is especially designed for this type of usage. It comes with a stylus and full Evernote integration. Plenty of demo videos on Youtube, if you want to know more.
Grant To Allow Khan Academy To Expand, Build a Physical School 92
mayberry42 writes with this news snipped from Hack Education: "Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O'Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O'Sullivan). The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding the Khan Academy faculty, creating a content management system so that others can use the program's learning analytics system, and building an actual brick-and-mortar school, beginning with a summer camp program."
Comment Re:...Seriously? (Score 1) 274
but I just use Firefox for the desktop integration (I use GNOME 3) and because it's much more configurable than Chrome right now.
If you think Firefox integrates in the GNOME 3 desktop, wait until you try Epiphany.
Comment Re:Show your support for the Duck :) (Score 1) 274
As a techie, I like DDG. But my girlfriend who is used to Google's regionally optimized results doesn't like it at all. When looking for some article for shopping online she wants results from Dutch webshops, not US-based ones.
Submission + - TNO studies WebM as alternative to H2.64 for deplo (www.tno.nl)
ReinoutS writes: "Dutch research institute TNO has published a report comparing WebM and H2.64 for large scale deployment within the Dutch public broadcasting company, re-using as much opensource components as possible.
From the article (my translation):
WebM is regarded as a potential video standard for HTML5, solving the plugin issue. Rarely it has been investigated whether it is possible to realize a WebM-based operational chain, taking into account the patent-position, video quality, encoding speed and existing infrastructures.
The main conclusions are:
At present it is impossible, without big investments, to develop a WebM-based live- and VoD service that is compatible with the existing infrastructure at the NPO [Dutch public broadcasting company].
The fact that Google is the driving force behind the development of WebM, combined with increasing support of other industrial partners provides confidence in the fact that WebM can constitute a serious alternative within a few years."
Submission + - Binary usenet groups prohibited in the Netherlands (vrritti.com)
dutchwhizzman writes: Amsterdam based Usenet wholesale provider News Service Europe has been mandated by the court to remove all copyright infringing content on their servers, or face severe financial penalties. Dutch copyright MAFIAA organization BREIN has won a court case making the usenet provider responsible for the content posted on other platforms than their own.
Could this be the end of usenet as we know it, or will an appeal be won by NSE? Why didn't the judge make the provider that allowed the posts responsible? Why did the judge not honor the "cancel message" procedure that technically exists in the NNTP protocol?
Could this be the end of usenet as we know it, or will an appeal be won by NSE? Why didn't the judge make the provider that allowed the posts responsible? Why did the judge not honor the "cancel message" procedure that technically exists in the NNTP protocol?
Submission + - Battle for open standards in public education (janstedehouder.nl)
pjstevns writes: The heat is on! With the rising use of online systems for school administration the battle for open and accessible solutions is here, now. Parents are forced to buy 'proper' operating systems from your favorite Redmond based supplier — just to be able to access their childrens' grades, or participate in classes. A petition addressed at parliament for proper implementation of the open-standards guidelines put forward by the Dutch government itself is buzzing around the Netherlands. Comply or Explain!
Comment Re:Does it have a decent desktop? (Score 3, Informative) 111
If you want to put items on your desktop, that's simple: use gnome-tweak-tool or set the org.gnome.desktop.background.show-desktop-icons property to true manually.
The fact that this isn't enabled by default doesn't convey an arrogant attitude, but is a simple design decision that flows from the fact that Gnome3 doesn't implement a traditional desktop metaphor, and it wants to minimize visual distraction. For sure, this doesn't mean Gnome 3 is finished. It's only just taking off. There's a lot more in store in the area of 'finding and reminding' in upcoming releases, for instance. In the mean time you can try out some of the Gnome Shell Extensions to tweak the environment to your liking.
Comment Re:Does it have a decent desktop? (Score 1) 111
How about you try it for more than 5 minutes (say, 5 days), instead of 'immediately' switching away?
Comment Re:So much wasted time... (Score 1) 294
I could understand it if they used Gnome2 as the foundation, and added to it, but they didn't.
That makes so little sense I can hardly believe you actually wrote that. Basically, the major (visual) change between Gnome 2.32 and Gnome 3.0 is that Metacity and gnome-panel have been replaced by Gnome Shell, in the default configuration that is. Did you really think that the Gnome developers put thousands of man-hours of development effort in the trash and started over from scratch?!
Comment Re:Don't Listen! (Score 1) 294
I open a Konqueror window w/ the folder that has those music files - be they mp3, wma, m4a or whatever, and I just put my cursor on the file - don't even open it. As long as my cursor is on top of it, the song in question plays. If I move my cursor away from that file, it instantly stops. If I wanted the playing to be uninterrupted, I'd go ahead and open the file in question w/ the music player of my choice - and under KDE, there are some 6 or more of them, not counting the video players. It's not doable under Gnome 2
Funny that you should give that as an example. Nautilus has been doing the same thing since at least 2004, probably earlier.
Comment Re:Thanks, but no thanks! (Score 1) 274
Nice, but do you have a link to a HOWTO for your setup for mere mortals?
Submission + - LexisNexis open sources its Hadoop killer (gigaom.com)
An anonymous reader writes: LexisNexis is releasing a set of open source data-processing tools that it says outperforms Hadoop and even handles workloads that Hadoop presently cannot.
Comment Translated release notes (Score 5, Informative) 353
Read the release notes in your favorite language here: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.0/
