Comment Re:More importantly (Score 1) 1293
That's not purple, it's Octarine
Comment Re:That's a country with low food standards (Score 1) 709
Comment In my country this already exists (Score 1) 678
In my country(.ar) marriage is defined as between two consenting adults. A year or so ago we grew up enough as a society to stop listening to the religious nutjobbery, we had a long debate and as a result the marriage law was changed. And there was much rejoicing amongst gay men and women, and amongst heterosexual supporters of the right to marry whoever the fuck you love(like me and my fiancee).
Let me tell you: heaven hasn't fallen down on our heads, the rivers fail to flow red and no frogs have been raining lately. It's not such a big deal, if you are grown up enough...
Comment Re:Another Big Announcement (Score 2) 227
And I'm revealing my plans for world domination with an army of supermodels.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Comment Wow... (Score 4, Interesting) 132
VP of litigation?
just... wow...
Comment Re:next: find how their queue grows after being cu (Score 1) 105
Spanish, probably. "Tail" and "queue" both translate to "cola"
Comment Re:It's because (Score 1) 442
(...)thought it was the most bloated, expensive, sluggish, over-engineered, counter-intuitive source control system I've ever had the misfortune to use. It's performance was so network bound that it was practically unusable outside of the same LAN as the server
Clearly you haven't yet had the pleasure of "working" with Borland Starteam.
I still wake up in a cold sweat every once in a while...
Comment Re:It's because (Score 1) 442
Accurev does it, and makes it look easy.
A couple of years ago I was release mgr for a major US airline(two-vowel carrier code, same vowels) which uses Accurev for *all* its SCM. I don't remember the exact size of the storage set, but it was way bigger than 50GB and Accurev had absolutely no issues with that.
Not affiliated in any way with Accurev, just a satisfied user.
Submission + - Subatomic quantum memory in diamond demonstrated (sciencedaily.com)
redwolfe7707 writes: "Scientists at UC,Santa Barbara in the US in collaboration with the U of Konstanz in
Germany have developed techniques to use diamond films for quantum storage."
Germany have developed techniques to use diamond films for quantum storage."
Submission + - How Long Will Oracle Stick With Open Source? (infoworld.com) 1
snydeq writes: "The fact that Oracle has handed over the keys to two major open source projects in recent weeks has some questioning the fate of other prominent open source projects Oracle took on in the wake of its 2010 acquisition of Sun. But while OpenOffice.org and Hudson provided little commercial opportunity for Oracle, it appears that Oracle has plans to keep rein on NetBeans, MySQL, and GlassFish contrary to expectations, analysts contend."
Submission + - Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 (spreadthunderbird.com)
supersloshy writes: Mozilla has released the latest version of Thunderbird, their popular email client, now in sync with their new rapid-release versioning system. Among the new features are the new add-ons manager from Firefox 4, revised account creation, faster response times, the ability to load plugins in RSS feeds and over 390 platform fixes. For more information, read the release notes
Submission + - Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors (net-security.org) 2
Orome1 writes: SANS and Mitre have released the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors list for 2011. Isn't it sad to see SQL Injection at number one?
Submission + - Finger Bones Point to new Branch of Human Tree (foxnews.com)
Velcroman1 writes: A finger bone from Siberia now reveals a previously unknown group of ancient humans once existed there, one neither like us nor Neanderthals. Bizarrely, the DNA from these extinct Siberians seems unusually similar to that of Pacific Islanders from tropical Melanesia. The 30,000-year-old fossil was found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia in 2008, a bone fragment that likely came from a fingertip of a young girl. It was discovered along with microblades (small stone blades used as tools), body ornaments of polished stone, and a molar shaped very differently from that of Neanderthals and modern humans, resembling that of much older human species, such as Homo habilis and Homo erectus. (The tooth and the finger bone apparently came from different members of the same population.) After an international team of researchers sequenced the DNA from 40 milligrams of bone they removed from the fossil, they found the "Denisovan" (deh-NEESE-so-van) shared a common origin with Neanderthals but was genetically distinct, apparently descending from the same ancestral population of Neanderthals that had separated earlier from the ancestors of modern humans. "It amazed me that we found this other extinct group of humans," evolutionary geneticist Svante Päbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at Leipzig, Germany, told LiveScience. "When we got this little finger bone from Siberia, I was totally expecting it to be either Neanderthal or modern human. When it was something else, that was totally surprising and shocking to me."
Submission + - Skype Suffers Massive Outage (dslreports.com) 1
tudorl writes: Several users have written in to note that Skype appears to be having a major outage at the moment, something confirmed by the significant volume of complaints on Twitter. Skype has yet to comment on the reason for the outage, or precisely how many customers are impacted, though their Twitter account confirms the problem. "Some of you may have problems signing in to Skype," says the company, adding that "we’re investigating, and we’re sorry for the disruption to your conversations."
Submission + - Microsoft Windows for ARM (bloomberg.com)
randallman writes: According to this article an article on Bloomberg.com, Microsoft will be presenting an ARM version of Windows. "The new product will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, said the people, who asked not to be identified because Microsoft's plans are confidential. The software would be tailored for battery-powered devices, such as tablet computers and other handhelds, the people said." Will Windows on ARM be able to compete with iOS, Andriod and the other operating systems already in the ARM handlheld market?
