Comment Re:Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu... (Score 1) 198
Here's my personal favorite open source project I discovered in 2008: Spring Engine http://spring.clan-sy.com/ [clan-sy.com]
I would completely agree with you... if it were 1995.
Comment Missed one of the biggest games (Score 1) 122
Nice article, but they missed one of the biggest MMOG's in the world (and one of the older ones, as well): Ogame!
Comment OUTSOURCE!! (Score 1) 300
This is why, as a small business owner, I think it's important to outsource critical parts of the business to experts, as opposed to trying to save a few bucks and doing it in house. Email, web hosting, telephone... unless one of those things is what your company does, there's no reason to take on the liability and the headache of taking care of these things when A. You can be spending your time doing other things and B. The people you outsource to know more than you do.
I used to do everything in house because I used to be an IT guy, but I learned this lesson a few years ago, and now I outsource all of this piddly stuff, because it's not piddly when there's a problem!
Comment Re:Alternative... (Score 1) 58
Who said you had to inhale smoke?
Comment Alternative... (Score 1) 58
And that would reduce the side effects of chemotherapy treatment, such as nausea, hair loss, weight loss and fatigue."
Or, the patient could use 100% safe marijuana. Hmmm... ingest a harmless plant that grows anywhere and everywhere, or get injected with electronics and DNA. Hmmm... Apparently nobody in the medical community has heard of the good 'ol "KISS" acronym.
Comment Ogame.org! (Score 1) 634
Just put a link to OGame.org on their desktops. One of the biggest, best free MMOG's out there.
Comment Who cares right now? (Score 2, Insightful) 255
Obviously, SSD's are in their infancy. NO OS has been even remotely optimized for them yet, I'm sure (except maybe the big hitters, like Solaris). I'd be willing to be my left leg that the next version of every commercial OS (OSX, Windows, Linux*) is optimized for them. This article is irrelevant.
Comment Re:OpenOffice works on Windows??? (Score 0) 348
Are you serious, or are you an advertisement for some kind of open source advocacy group?
Comment Forum software enterprise, but no Exchange? (Score 2, Interesting) 348
Seems like it was a stretch. Community and forum software as "enterprise"? Uh, no. I desperately need an open source alternative to Exchange/Outlook and point of sale software for my business.
Submission + - Startup Building Floating Data Centers (datacenterknowledge.com)
1sockchuck writes: "A Bay Area startup is planning to build data centers on cargo container ships, which would be docked at piers in major Internet markets. The company, known as IDS (International Data Security) says it plans to use biodiesel to power its generators and use heat from equipment to manage temperature on board the ships, reducing their reliance on grid power. IDS is telling prospects that it hopes to eventually have more than 20 floating data centers docked at ports around the U.S."
Google Tops 100 Best Places To Work 317
inetsee writes "Fortune Magazine's annual '100 Best Companies to Work For' list is out, and Google topped the list in their debut appearance. Some highlights of the benefits of working for Google that caught my eye were the free gourmet meals and the massages. The chance to spend 20% of your time working on your own personal projects also sounds very appealing. Of course, with resumes rolling in at the rate of thousands a day, the competition is fierce."
Greatest Task of Web 2.x: Meta-Validation 161
CexpTretical writes "This Technology Review article about Web 2.x problems fails to mention the 800 pound gorilla in the room when it comes to fulfilling the dreams of the Semantic Web — i.e., assumptions about the validity of metadata or tagging schemes. We can add all of the metadata and/or tags we want to web resources but that does not mean that the 'data about the data' honestly or accurately describe the resource or are 'about the data' at all. This is why Google does not place much importance on the metadata already contained in HTML document headers for search ranking, because it cannot be trusted. And to validate it would require more effort than to search and index that data from scratch. Ensuring or verifying the validity of metadata would be a task equal to that of initially creating it, but would have to be repeated on an ongoing basis. Hence all of the talk about 'trusted networks,' which then require trusting the gatekeepers of those networks. Talk about 'semantics.'" Slashdot's moderation and meta-moderation offer one example of getting useful metadata in a non-trusted environment.
An Inconvenient Truth 1033
There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?" The answer is "I'd try." The teaser's actually for another movie, but that's the story that's told in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth": it starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world. It comes out on DVD today.
Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? 579
MCTFB writes, "According to CNN, human beings may have acquired a gene for developing bigger brains from Neanderthal man. Apparently, 70% of the world's population has a variant of a gene regulating brain size, with this variant being most common in people of European descent (where Neanderthal man lived alongside ancient humans), and least common in people of African descent (where Neanderthal man was non-existent). While modern day eugenicists might all too eagerly read into these findings to draw their own politically biased conclusions, people such as myself, who happen to be of northern European ancestry, may find it fascinating that somewhere in our lineage ancient humans and Neanderthals decided to make love and not war on the ancient plains of Eurasia."
