Comment Re:Phone sex over video chat doesn't count (Score 1) 397
Are you not aware of the number 0?
Comment College, Careers, Marriages (Score 2, Funny) 422
If it is anything like the original it is killing college aspirations, careers and marriages and the nation of South Korea. Graphics cards should be the least of our concerns!!!
I say this as a survivor of SC. Oh and Total Annihilation was the better game!!
Comment Re:in the spirit of full disclosure.... (Score 1) 231
Yes. Cause NetApp is losing marketshare, dwindling even.
Oh wait. It is 2nd only to EMC.
Comment Re:Econuts will be torn over this one (Score 1) 112
Or used to feed to the population of the Pacific Northwest.
Comment Re:Blame the last administration (Score 1) 407
This administration received more campaign contributions from BP than the last. What say you!!?
Comment Efficient use of power? (Score 1) 407
How about, more efficient use of power + solar + wind + carbon + nuclear? Until we get off this blasted rock and off to mining asteroids and the moon, we are constrained by the limit of resources on this planet. If we reduce the rate of consumption through lower power means of attaining the same work, then we are winning.
British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War 275
An anonymous reader writes "A vote of no confidence against the current board of directors has erupted in what is possibly the first nerd war, raging throughout the British Computer Society. More financial- and spreadsheet-related fixations and less computer science have made a few members cross; plus they don't like the new name 'The Chartered Institute of IT.' Here are more specific details on the extraordinary emergency general meeting on July 1, where members will vote to decide the fate of the board of directors."
Gov't App Contests Are Cool, But Are They Useful? 41
theodp writes "In 2008, Washington, DC, launched one of the hotter trends in public-sector technology: the 'apps contest'. But even as more jurisdictions jump on the bandwagon, the contests are reportedly producing uneven results, and the city that started it all is jumping off the bandwagon. 'I don't think we're going to be running any more Apps for Democracy competitions quite in that way,' says Bryan Sivak, who became the District's CTO in 2009. Sivak calls Apps for Democracy a 'great idea' for getting citizen software developers involved with government, but he also hints that the applications spun up by these contests tend to be more 'cool' than useful to the average city resident. 'If you look at the applications developed in both of the contests we ran, and actually in many of the contests being run in other states and localities,' Sivak says, 'you get a lot of applications that are designed for smartphones, that are designed for devices that aren't necessarily used by the large populations that might need to interact with these services on a regular basis.' Sivak also cited maintenance of the new apps over the long term as a concern."
Comment #DIV/0! error (Score 2, Funny) 357
When I see that picture, I am imagining a Guatemalan who just divided by zero and jumps into the hole exclaiming in their best Buzz Light-year voice: "To infinity and beyooooond!!!"
Comment Re:Where's your cloud now? (Score 1) 250
No, joke. Cirrusly. This is a very cirrus situation. I am cirrus.
Comment Re:A warning. (Score 1) 545
1) I have read and listened to said speech. You are making an assumption. I also know that similar thoughts have been spoken by the Pope and politicians and thinkers on the right. What the president thinks is just a few strokes of a pen away from being policy.
2) Agreed. But I don't trust any of them. My starting position is from mistrust. Even the best politician, to me, is no higher up the ladder of respect than an ambulance chaser, sometimes they are one and the same (John Edwards).
3) Spoken like a true grammar Nazi, controlling the spelling of my words and diverting attention away from the greater passage. This is a discussion forum not a research paper. Granted, punctuation and spelling generally reflect time wasted on studying the rules of the English language, but I have to many other pressing interests to devote the necessary time to proofread and correct grammar and spelling in a brain dump on some dusty and dark corner of the interwebs. Also, I like commas, alot.
I know how to spell bureaucracy 9 times out of 10. Do you know how to spell fuchsia?
2) Agreed. But I don't trust any of them. My starting position is from mistrust. Even the best politician, to me, is no higher up the ladder of respect than an ambulance chaser, sometimes they are one and the same (John Edwards).
3) Spoken like a true grammar Nazi, controlling the spelling of my words and diverting attention away from the greater passage. This is a discussion forum not a research paper. Granted, punctuation and spelling generally reflect time wasted on studying the rules of the English language, but I have to many other pressing interests to devote the necessary time to proofread and correct grammar and spelling in a brain dump on some dusty and dark corner of the interwebs. Also, I like commas, alot.
I know how to spell bureaucracy 9 times out of 10. Do you know how to spell fuchsia?
Comment A warning. (Score 1, Insightful) 545
Never trust them (those in power) even if we elected them to CHANGE our system.
They hate these new devices because they don't control them yet. Look at totalitarian states all around the world, all politicians' DREAMLANDS because they control every facet of information and the minutiae of everyday lives of their subjects. I don't care if your politician is Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, or Barack Obama. They all dreamed of a place they can control us from. That is why in our society we have to keep them in check. We have to let them know who is boss and that they are chosen to SERVE US. If they can't get over the yellow press, the "rumors" the "false information". if they can't calibrate their message to appeal to the mass of us, that is THEIR problem and not ours.
Barack Obama, your Chavez is showing. At least we know how to recognize it, we learned it in the time frame between 1763 and 1789.
Now to be down-ranked into oblivion by the enlightened leftosphere...
The Apple iPad, it doesn't burn at 451 degrees but by golly we'll figure out a way to eliminate it's subversive information delivery capability!
Oh, and BHO... The Xbox is an entertainment platform. Maybe the Whitehouse should mandate what games are played on it, like:
The Healthcare Bill: Acquiesing your personal freedoms to the bueracracy 2011. Learn how to avoid fraud detection by the Healthcare Police. Work your way up from menial claims clerk to head of the HHS, or in Death Panel mode, decide who gets the life saving operation and who doesn't!!!
Sounds like a lot of fun. maybe even more than Madden NFL 2011.
Of course what was written above is just a warning and not a foretelling of events to come.
They hate these new devices because they don't control them yet. Look at totalitarian states all around the world, all politicians' DREAMLANDS because they control every facet of information and the minutiae of everyday lives of their subjects. I don't care if your politician is Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, or Barack Obama. They all dreamed of a place they can control us from. That is why in our society we have to keep them in check. We have to let them know who is boss and that they are chosen to SERVE US. If they can't get over the yellow press, the "rumors" the "false information". if they can't calibrate their message to appeal to the mass of us, that is THEIR problem and not ours.
Barack Obama, your Chavez is showing. At least we know how to recognize it, we learned it in the time frame between 1763 and 1789.
Now to be down-ranked into oblivion by the enlightened leftosphere...
The Apple iPad, it doesn't burn at 451 degrees but by golly we'll figure out a way to eliminate it's subversive information delivery capability!
Oh, and BHO... The Xbox is an entertainment platform. Maybe the Whitehouse should mandate what games are played on it, like:
The Healthcare Bill: Acquiesing your personal freedoms to the bueracracy 2011. Learn how to avoid fraud detection by the Healthcare Police. Work your way up from menial claims clerk to head of the HHS, or in Death Panel mode, decide who gets the life saving operation and who doesn't!!!
Sounds like a lot of fun. maybe even more than Madden NFL 2011.
Of course what was written above is just a warning and not a foretelling of events to come.
US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie 234
Spectrummag writes "One of the most secretive US Air Force spaceflights in decades, launched this month, is keeping aficionados guessing as to the nature of the secret. The 6000-kilogram, 8-meter X-37B, nicknamed the flying Twinkie because of its stubby-winged shape, is supposed to orbit Earth for several weeks, maneuver in orbit, then glide home. What's it for? Space expert James Oberg tracks the possibilities."
Comment Amiga (Score 4, Interesting) 397
In an earlier stage of life I worked at RadioShack, when they actually sold electronics and radio equipment. One of my co-workers was a ham radio enthusiast and would spend hours talking about the rise of the Amiga and how it would come back. It was always just a few months away from releasing a new OS or platform. I would wager if I went back to that store... Or perhaps the store that replaced it, since RadioShack is just a shell of its former self he would still extoll the virtues of Amiga and it's imminent resurgence. Then he'd mutter about how Gateway killed it because the technology was too advanced for the average PC user to accept.
It's Not the 15th Birthday of Linux 261
Glyn Moody writes "There's been a spate of celebrations of Linux's 15th birthday recently. What they're really marking is the 15th anniversary of version 1.0. But do version numbers matter for free software? The 'release early, release often' approach means there's generally little difference between version 0.99.14z, say, and version 1.0. In fact, drawing attention to such anniversaries is misguided, because it gives the impression that free software is created in the same way as traditional proprietary code, working towards a predetermined end-point according to a top-down plan. So how should we be choosing and celebrating free software's past achievements?"
