Comment Re:For starters... (Score 1) 1095
Indeed, don't forget libraries too! Libraries.
Comment Internet kiosks? (Score 5, Funny) 1095
Would I be better off not bringing my laptop and just using Internet kiosks (do they exist in London?)
What are these kiosks of the inter-net you speak of?
Why, here in blighty the modern mode of communication is the telegraph, which we run using steam, dontyouknow!
Comment Re:This would be really great news... (Score 1) 411
Free beer? Where!? Yeah, it's free as in air.
Comment Re:Not free (Score 2, Informative) 411
Comment Re:This would be really great news... (Score 1) 411
Haiku is free, as in speech. That adds to its meaningfulness quite a bit I think.
Comment Re:8 years is a long time (Score 5, Interesting) 411
I care, as does anyone who remembers operating systems that were responsive to user interaction first and foremost
I feel in full control of BeOS and Haiku (also AmigaOS) and there's a lot of things that it gets right that Windows, Mac and Linux still fail to do between them. There's something kind of indefinable 'fun' about the OS as well..
Submission + - Haiku Releases Official Alpha After 8 Years of Dev (haiku-os.org) 2
NiteMair writes: "The Haiku project has finally released an official R1 alpha after 8 years of development. This marks a significant milestone for the project, and it also debuts the first official/publicly available LiveCD ISO image that can be easily booted and used to install Haiku on x86 hardware. Haiku is a desktop operating system inspired by BeOS after Be, Inc. closed its doors in 2001. The project has remained true to the BeOS philosophy while integrating modern hardware support and features along the way."
Comment Re:I like how this is it arriving. (Score 3, Informative) 245
Darn it, that was supposed to be a link
Comment Re:I like how this is it arriving. (Score 1) 245
Article about 'Augmented Reality' on Android from last year.
Comment Jurassic park ref (oblig) (Score 1) 652
Robots outsmart man. Woman inherits the earth...
Comment Re:It's never simple...is it (Score 1) 634
Believe it or not, Microsoft has done a lot to make the computing world better.
I used to use Amigas and was surprised when my school started replacing their various Acorn computers with these clunky, crash prone machines running this 'Windows'.
With the Amiga, I had a fast, properly multitasking OS that made Windows look like a joke OS cobbled together by morons. Commodore went under and I switched to BeOS - an even better AmigaOS than AmigaOS! BeOS was destroyed by Microsoft in what has been proven in court to be illegal interference.
So yes, I hate Microsoft. I've never liked their OS, I've never wanted to use it. It may have 'set a standard' but it was a shitty standard which destroyed the better alternatives.
Comment Re:Doing it wrong. (Score 1) 281
Someone want to calculate the minimum safe stopping distance of a wide-load truck laden with a 50-meter section of tower traveling at, let's say 45MPH without jackknifing or breaking the load restraints?
Is that an African or European wide-load truck?
Submission + - Vacuum leaks lead to a NEW Hadron Collider delay (zdnet.co.uk) 1
suraj.sun writes: The restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back further, following the discovery of vacuum leaks in two sectors of the experiment.
The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a Cern press statement. The project had been expected to start again in October.
To repair the leaks, which are from the helium circuit into the insulating vacuum, sectors 8-1 and 2-3 will have to be warmed from 80K to room temperature. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats', while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be kept at 80K, Cern said in the statement. The repair work will not have an impact on the vacuum in the beam pipe.
Cern has pushed back the restart a number of times, as repair work has continued. To begin with, scientists said the LHC experiment would restart in April 2009.
In May, Cern told ZDNet UK that the restarted experiment could run through the winter to make up some of the lost time. Normally, running the experiments through the alpine winter is prohibitively expensive, due to high electricity costs. However, as the experiment has not been running since last September, Cern would have the budget to cover energy costs over the winter.
ZDNet UK : http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39689352,00.htm
The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a Cern press statement. The project had been expected to start again in October.
To repair the leaks, which are from the helium circuit into the insulating vacuum, sectors 8-1 and 2-3 will have to be warmed from 80K to room temperature. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats', while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be kept at 80K, Cern said in the statement. The repair work will not have an impact on the vacuum in the beam pipe.
Cern has pushed back the restart a number of times, as repair work has continued. To begin with, scientists said the LHC experiment would restart in April 2009.
In May, Cern told ZDNet UK that the restarted experiment could run through the winter to make up some of the lost time. Normally, running the experiments through the alpine winter is prohibitively expensive, due to high electricity costs. However, as the experiment has not been running since last September, Cern would have the budget to cover energy costs over the winter.
ZDNet UK : http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39689352,00.htm
Submission + - SCO's Asset Sale Could Be Bankruptcy Fraud (groklaw.net)
GuerillaRadio writes: According to an article on Groklaw, IBM's objection to the proposed sale of SCO's assets to the irritatingly named unXis is stunning and is a not so veiled accusation of what is basically bankruptcy fraud.
Submission + - Scientists turn used LCDs into medicine (itnews.com.au)
schliz writes: Scientists from the University of York have come up with a new recycling technique that extracts PVA from used LCD panels to create a "a bioactive sponge". The technique could allow recovered PVA to be used in pills, wound dressings and tissue scaffolds that aid human tissue regeneration. It could also keep waste LCD screens from incineration or landfill altogether.
