Comment Care to prove any of your allegations? (Score 1) 480
How about some of the bugs? Or are you posting as AC for a reason?
Comment This is not about software quality. (Score 5, Informative) 480
Other cities like Munich (LibreOffice) and Leipzig (OpenOffice) are doing just fine with the same family of office software. Without further information it is moot to guess if a) the Freiburg admins were not willing or capable of installing and configuring OpenOffice in a way that was satisfying to users or b) the users were unwilling to use the software (something different? something new? no way!) or c) some city managers decided to rather put some money in Microsoft's purse for any number of reasons (similar things happened to other public offices in Germany before).
Comment OpenOffice forecast, 42 style (Score 2) 71
Mostly cloudy.
SCNR
Submission + - OpenGertie - Open Hardware relative of Pixar's Luxo Junior (opengertie.org)
zapyon writes: Fabian Gerlinghaus has constructed a robotic desklamp that includes a camera and a microphone as a "flexible and low-cost resource for conducting research into cognitive products and human-robot interaction." As it is open hardware all plans are available and you may make your own if you have a 3D printer available.
Submission + - Twitter Survives Election after Ruby-to-Java Move
mc10 writes: As the results of the 2012 US Presidential election were being announced Tuesday night, Twitter experienced record traffic to its website, but the service never faltered despite the increased load – something Twitter engineers credit to the company's move from Ruby to Java for its backend software. Unlike in the past, Twitter did not experience service outages, even as the website generated 874,560 posts in a single minute at its peak in traffic.
Submission + - Canada Supreme judges want free Viagra (canlii.ca)
Seeteufel writes: Bad news for Pfizer. The Canadian supreme court declared their Viagra patent void: "the disclosure in the specification would not have enabled the public “to make the same successful use of the invention as the inventor could at the time of his application”.
Submission + - Proteins made to order (nature.com)
ananyo writes: "Proteins are an enormous molecular achievement: chains of amino acids that fold spontaneously into a precise conformation, time after time, optimized by evolution for their particular function. Yet given the exponential number of contortions possible for any chain of amino acids, dictating a sequence that will fold into a predictable structure has been a daunting task.
Now researchers report that they can do just that. By following a set of rules described in a paper published in Nature (abstract), a husband and wife team from David Baker’s laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle has designed five proteins from scratch that fold reliably into predicted conformations. The work could eventually allow scientists to custom design proteins with specific functions."
Now researchers report that they can do just that. By following a set of rules described in a paper published in Nature (abstract), a husband and wife team from David Baker’s laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle has designed five proteins from scratch that fold reliably into predicted conformations. The work could eventually allow scientists to custom design proteins with specific functions."
Submission + - Cloud version of OpenOffice (apache.org)
An anonymous reader writes: The Apache Foundation revealed in Sinsheim, Germany their plans for a cloud version of OpenOffice.org based on html5. Chinese and German engineers use OpenOffice in "headless" mode as a base.
Comment Re:Wake on LAN: Press any key to continue ... (Score 2) 308
Considering how things usually go, this will only be an option for a limited time. And will not apply to ARM machines as for these MS requires UEFI to be obligatory.
Comment Wake on LAN: Press any key to continue ... (Score 1) 308
Yeah, great. How are non-MS operating systems going to use this mechanism for remotely initiated booting, as in WOL? Does that mean non-MS shops will have night shift "specialists" on-site to press the Any Key whenever required?
Seems to me that MS has finally given Linux the boot
Comment Man, your sig is, well ... (Score 1) 249
holy shit!
(for bypassers who don't know their bible by heart: Ezekiel 23:20 on the web http://bible.cc/ezekiel/23-20.htm )
Comment Wrong conclusion (after my opinion): (Score 1) 1113
> If humans are mostly water, and beer is mostly water, then humans must be mostly beer.
Shouldn't that be:
If humans are mostly water (70%), and beer is mostly water (95%), then beer consists of diluted humans, or does it?
Comment Why the hell ... (Score 1) 51
would anyone want to jailbreak a paperweight?
Comment Your "Seppukuium" is the best suggestion yet! :-) (Score 1) 150
[ X ] Seppukuium - yeah!
Submission + - Diabetes May Be Reversed By Long-Used Vaccine, Drug-makers not interested (constantcontact.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: "A tuberculosis vaccine in use for 90 years may help reverse Type 1 diabetes and eliminate the life- long need for insulin injections, say Harvard University researchers raising money to conduct large, human studies." "...they tried to interest every major drugmaker in developing the vaccine as a possible cure for diabetes. All told her there wasn’t enough money to be made in a cure that used an inexpensive, generically available vaccine."
