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271777 submission

Submission + - The Swedish OOXML vote as been declared invalid! (os2world.com)

Submitted by

Landreth

on Thursday August 30, 2007 @03:58PM

Landreth writes: "The Swedish Standards Institute has tonight issued a press release, according to OS2 World, where they declared this weeks earlier vote regarding OOXML as invalid and by that Sweden don't have any official position regarding OOXML any more.

According to the press release (Swedish) issued by SIS, Swedish Standards Institute tonight (the pdf document is created 18:05) the SIS board has declared this weeks earlier OOXML vote as invalid due to that one of the participating companies has voted two times where the SIS rules clearly says that each company can only cast one vote each."

262943 submission

Submission + - Drug testing entire cities at once

Submitted by

Ellis D. Tripp

on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @03:12PM

Ellis D. Tripp writes: "Researchers have developed a technique for determining what illicit drugs people might be consuming in a given area, by testing a sample from the local sewage treatment plant. As little as a teaspoonful of untreated wastewater can reveal drug use patterns in a given community. From the article:

"one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine. Cocaine and ecstasy tended to peak on weekends and drop on weekdays, she said, while methamphetamine and prescription drugs were steady throughout the week."

Obviously, any drugs found can't be tied to any specific user, but how much longer until the drug warriors want to deploy automatic sampling units farther upstream of the sewage treatment plant, sampling sewage output from selected neighborhoods, blocks, or even individual houses?

http://www.townhall.com/news/sci-tech/2007/08/21/s cientists_drug-test_whole_cities"

259747 submission

Submission + - Experts Say Artificial Life Likely

Submitted by pilsner.urquell on Monday August 20, 2007 @09:53AM

pilsner.urquell writes: Breitbart.com reports:
In a little known field of "wet artificial life" scientists believe they will be able to create live in a test tube in as little as 3 years.

"Creating protocells has the potential to shed new light on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."

257711 submission

Submission + - AT&T crippling BlackBerry for iPhone? (blackberrycool.com)

Submitted by 0xdeadbeef on Friday August 17, 2007 @01:08PM

0xdeadbeef writes: BlackBerryCool got a tip that not only was AT&T removing GPS functionality from their version of the BlackBerry 8820, they're doing it so it won't show up the iPhone. While carriers crippling phones to stop them from competing with pay-per-use services is nothing new, this might be the first time they've done it to make their other products seem less diminished.

251739 submission

Submission + - The open source community's double standard? (cnet.com) 1

Submitted by

mjasay

on Sunday August 12, 2007 @08:53PM

mjasay writes: "Red Hat splits into Fedora and Advanced Server. The open source community howls in protest. MySQL restricts its Enterprise code to paid subscribers. The open source community cries "Foul!" But SugarCRM opens up a portion of its code under GPLv3 and everyone applauds. IBM, Novell, Oracle, etc. open up small pieces of their product portfolios and they are met with wild acclaim. What gives? Does the open source community have a double standard? Is it judging 100% open source companies too harshly?"

250367 feed

Feed Linux.com: Linus explains why open source works (linux.com)

From feed by lcfeed on Friday August 10, 2007 @04:33PM

Linus Torvalds is often described as an open source champion, interested in licensing only insofar as it affects his ability to share code and improve software more quickly. However, his real position is more complicated -- and to some, perhaps surprising.

247981 submission

Submission + - Algorithm That Seemlesly Patches Holes in Images (cmu.edu)

Submitted by

Beetle B.

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @04:09PM

Beetle B. writes: "From the site:

'What can you do with a million images? In this paper we present a new image completion algorithm powered by a huge database of photographs gathered from the Web. The algorithm patches up holes in images by finding similar image regions in the database that are not only seamless but also semantically valid. Our chief insight is that while the space of images is effectively infinite, the space of semantically differentiable scenes is actually not that large. For many image completion tasks we are able to find similar scenes which contain image fragments that will convincingly complete the image. Our algorithm is entirely data-driven, requiring no annotations or labelling by the user. Unlike existing image completion methods, our algorithm can generate a diverse set of image completions and we allow users to select among them. We demonstrate the superiority of our algorithm over existing image completion approaches.'

English translation: The algorithm replaces arbitrarily shaped blank areas in an image with portions of images from a huge catalog in a totally seamless manner."

246363 submission

Submission + - Advanced Wii Opra functionality (kotaku.com)

Submitted by

mehemiah

on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @10:20AM

mehemiah writes: "This from Kotaku who got it from neogaf but now its commming to you here, where web developers hang out. Opera now has a page on the Wii Remote API. Kotaku sums it up best, " It breaks down not only how exactly the Wii Remote is compatible with Opera on the Wii, but also shows how developers can get the Wii's browser to not just recognise four Wii Remotes at once, but have them all interact with the screen. Which should be good news for anyone big on playing, or crafting, Wii-specific web games.""

241641 story

Spore to Ship 'When It's Done' And Not Before 135

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @12:54PM from the sometime-before-i-am-fifty-please dept.

Citing the sheer potential of the title, EA executives John Riccitiello and Frank Gibeau stated in a conference call yesterday that Spore will not ship until it is finished. Next Generation reports: "'It's one of those breakthrough products that might come across the industry every three, five, seven years ... We could not be more bullish for the potential of the franchise as we are right now,' said Riccitiello. He said that he still expects the game to ship in the 'March, April, May' 2008 timeframe. However, Riccitiello said, 'We will make the choice of shipping a better game than an on-time game given the high potential for this franchise.'"

2437767 comment

Comment Re:how very.. (Score 1) 138

by cruppel on Thursday May 17, 2007 @11:36AM (#19162815) Attached to: Google Expands to 'Universal' Search

Regardless of it's sleek, clean or [insert buzzword] look, they are attempting to provide a better visual hierarchy for their suite of services. I just spoke to someone who complained it's more work to switch between GIS and normal search now, as they have moved the links a few millimeters, but when you consider that each of those top links is a whole application, it's very sensible.

Consider searching for some business, then clicking on Maps to find it, then clicking Gmail to send someone the location you just found. It's less jarring with the mini dashboard they've created, since there are persistent UI elements across all of their services. Before it would move a little with each one, as they use slightly different logos which change the top fold. What does bother me is that Gmail's "dashboard" links differ from the various search tools.

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