Comment It wiould probably be cheaper... (Score 1) 183
to buy son.com . It hosts some kind of search engine. Looks like it's been parked.
Comment Orion will be destroyed (Score 1) 312
".. we can only hope the core of Betelgeuse undergoes catastrophic failure in our lifetime."
I have mixed feelings about this. Although it would be quite spectacular and interesting to witness the demise of Betelgeuse, Orion, one of the most beautiful constellations, would be destroyed. That would be extremely sad.
Comment Re:"Death Panels" (Score 1) 2166
Apparently, Palin didn't think it was necessary to know more. The death list is gone from her web site.
Comment I use Linux... (Score 1) 676
... and I'm at the end of my lifecycle.
Comment Re:Take a look at The Boost C++ Libraries... (Score 1) 283
Ah. Forget about it. TL;DR
Comment Take a look at The Boost C++ Libraries... (Score 1) 283
It sounds like the Boost project might be something for you:
Comment That vinyl record will be heavy... (Score 3, Insightful) 101
The weight of the ashes of an average male is around 3 kg.
That's much too much material for a single vinyl record. So either they throw away most of the ashes, or it's a scam altogether.
Comment Re:I thoroughly enjoy the Joomla (Score 1) 74
Yeah, that works great if you want a blog. If you want to create anything other then that, Joomla becomes one giant headache to customize.
That is simply not correct. It is very, very easy to produce a non-blog website with Joomla. Wordpress is a blog system, and Drupal needs lots of work to not be one.
Comment When things go downhill... (Score 1) 204
Microsoft is going the way of SCO. When their business started to crumble, they stopped innovating and started suing. Certain death of the company is at the end of that route.
The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127
Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."
Comment Re:Is DRM socially irresponsible? (Score 1) 678
Who's talking about blame?
DRM is more like forcing women to wear a chastity belt, but everyone who has paid you for a key can rape them...
Comment This is news to me (Score 1) 170
Wow. You can glean information from the Internets. I didn't realize that.
Comment Re:Turning a bad thing into a good thing... (Score 1) 295
I agree. The school could have spun it around and used this to promote science teaching. There's a great deal of interesting science in the SETI project, (although I don't believe they will ever find an signals from distant civilizations.) "Our school is searching for E.T.!" The kids would have loved that.
Comment I've done it... (Score 5, Informative) 175
I've used sparklines that were updated "automatically" from the values in a database. The software in question tracked the coffee consumption pr. person in the lab, and displayed it using sparklines on a web page (no longer online). The sparkline code was a PHP snippet I found on the net somewhere. There must be plenty of prior art.
Comment Re:Only removed from default install (Score 1) 900
So, yes, I could remove it. But judging from that description, I'm gonna have to assume that's a generally bad idea.
The ubuntu-desktop package is a meta-package and its only purpose is to make sure certain other packages are installed. The worst that can happen during an upgrade is that you miss out on new packages that are considered by the devs to be desired on the default desktop.
If you're worried about breakage, fake OO packages would worry me more.
