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Comment Nobody I know uses open office (Score 1) 336

by 1155 on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @01:20PM (#25722631) Attached to: OpenOffice Vs. Google Apps

Nobody I know uses open office, however a lot of people I know will can and do use google's applications. There is something to be said for simple/easy to use.

Plus, oo requires me to install something, why do I want to go through all of that headache?

This article reads like a fanboy post to be quite honest.

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Comment What's up with slashdot lately (Score 4, Insightful) 429

by 1155 on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @08:20PM (#25635051) Attached to: Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself?

I don't get it. About 2 years ago this post wouldn't have even been front page worthy, and now we have this? If I wanted to use slashdot as a howto forum, I wouldn't be looking here. I just don't get it, why would a post list this make it to front page? It's for nerds, but it doesn't matter except to a small minority, and it's not news.

Or am I missing something?

241917 submission

Submission + - Stem Cells Shown to Protect Dying Motor Neurons

Submitted by

Penguinshit

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:40PM

Penguinshit writes: "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by rapid loss of muscle control and eventual paralysis due to the death of large motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Growth factors such as glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) are known to protect motor neurons from damage in a range of models. Human cortical neural progenitor cells derived from fetal tissue (ie. stem cells) can be expanded in culture for long periods and survive transplantation into the central nervous system, in some cases making large numbers of GFAP positive astrocytes. They can also be genetically modified to release GDNF and thus act as long-term 'mini pumps' in specific regions of the brain. In this study a team at UW-Madison's Waisman Center genetically modified human neural stem cells to release GDNF and transplanted them into the spinal cord of rats with mutant SOD1. Following unilateral transplantation into the spinal cord of the rats there was robust cellular migration into degenerating areas, efficient delivery of GDNF and remarkable preservation of motor neurons at early and end stages of the disease within chimeric regions.

This work is especially important to me, as I have been living with ALS for almost three years."

241915 submission

Submission + - New antibiotics for pathogenic attacks of bacteria (heraldbiz.com)

Submitted by

allengineering

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:39PM

allengineering writes: "A team of research directed by the pr. KIM Kyung-Gyu of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sungkyunkwan discovered the structure of the protein Rse B playing an essential part in the transmission of the signals of stresses resulting from the pathogenic attacks of bacteria. The article is been published in the edition of May of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the the USA (PNAS). This projection should make it possible to develop new antibiotics."

241907 submission

Submission + - Hacker does a DIY Amiga in FPGA (hetnet.nl)

Submitted by on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: Developer Dennis van Weeren recently announced completion of his from-scratch completely re-engineered Amiga chipset. His PCB design is fully operational and compatible and his verilog code has been released under GPL. Will this finally give the Amiga community a new breath of life?

1479577 story

Sony Decides Against Blu-Ray Downsampling 261

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 16, 2006 @05:37PM from the downsampled-things-just-taste-funny dept.

Paul Slocum writes "According to Ars Technica, Sony is now saying they will not use the Image Constraint Token and so movies will play on analog HDTV sets at full resolution. If HD-DVD does implement the analog downsampling, it's going to give Blu-ray a nice market advantage." From the article: "Sony's decision to not use the Image Constraint Token for the time being is meant to encourage the adoption of Blu-ray players. Launching a new product that would leave the thousands of analog HDTV owners out in the standard-definition cold could have proven to be a nightmare for Sony and the Blu-ray spec in general. Reports that 'Blu-ray discs don't look right on my HDTV' could result in consumers' switching allegiances to the competing HD DVD standard or postponing purchases of next-generation optical players altogether."

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