Comment Re:VOIP sucks. (Score 1) 426
Even with just landlines, the time to hospital was 25+ minutes, whereas when my brother called my uncle for a ride, it was only 15.
But, there are other factors involved, like right-of-way etc.
Comment Re:Lightning.... (Score 3, Insightful) 272
That seems quite an important extension - any idea when (or if) it will be supported by TB3?
Try the lightning nightly builds. It worked with TB3 beta.
Comment Re:Code Name is Offensive (Score 1) 366
they'll be paid crap for their work, etc. Despite it being a so-called "economic powerhouse", only about 60k of its inhabitants have more than US $1 million net worth. It has over 5.8 million people living there. It makes the wage gap in this country look postively equalitarian.
Let me introduce something for you... Purchasing Power Parity. I hope you are merely making an observation and not being judgmental. If the latter, I should point out that more people are moving in to the middle-class than ever before. Places in South America and the Near East probably have a wider gap, but what's the point in fixating on one little metric.
Submission + - Fedora 12 released (fedoraproject.org) 1
AdamWill writes: The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 12 today. With all the latest open source software and major improvements to graphics support, networking, virtualization and more, Fedora 12 is one of the most exciting releases so far. You can download it here. There's a one-page guide to the new release for those in a hurry. The full release announcement has details on the major features, and the release notes contain comprehensive information on changes in this new release. Known issues are documented on the common bugs page.
Submission + - The "Go" Programming Language, released by Googl (informationweek.com)
neptunusmaris writes: Google Releases a new programming language "Go"
Rob Pike, a principal engineer at Google, says Go's goal is to serve as a systems language, in the way that C++ or C does today.
"It's fast for development but it also is a true compiled language," he explained. "We're opening sourcing it now because we think it's reached the point of being fun and useful and powerful."
Rob Pike, a principal engineer at Google, says Go's goal is to serve as a systems language, in the way that C++ or C does today.
"It's fast for development but it also is a true compiled language," he explained. "We're opening sourcing it now because we think it's reached the point of being fun and useful and powerful."
Comment Re:Karma burning for fun and profit (Score 1) 432
More than the broken packages, the one thing that stops me from trying KDE4 on (K)ubuntu is the broken intel video drivers. Kwin compositing using EXA is awful, X crashes frequently and UXA is just not ready. Which made me run all the way back to Lenny.
Comment Gophers? (Score 2, Funny) 239
Oh, not the little, brown, furry rodents.
Comment Re:Why not? (Score 1) 493
How does suspend work for you?
Lucene and SOLR Get Commercial Support 47
ruphus13 writes "Two of the technical leads and core committers of the Lucene Project have launched Lucid Imagination, a venture backed company now offering commercial versions of Lucene and SOLR in the hopes of making it the de facto choice of search technologies used by companies within their products. 'The Lucene search library ranks amongst the top 5 Apache projects, installed at over 4,000 global companies. Although OStatic is primarily Drupal-based, our site's search is based on Lucene. According to Lucid Imagination officials, the Solr search server, which transforms the Lucene search library into a ready-to-use search platform for building applications, is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project...Lucid's business model is roughly comparable to Red Hat's very successful model, in that it centers on support and services for free, open source software.'"
Comment Re:Flamebait story (Score 1) 271
That's not true. I know at least Opensuse was affected.
Comment Re:Product dumping (Score 1) 476
I guess that's true everywhere except the US. The only place I saw a mac in my college was in the media lab.
Indian Moon Mission Launched 305
hackerdownunder writes "India's maiden lunar mission (Chandrayaan-1) got off to a flying start today. Describing the launch as 'perfect and precise,' the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair, said that it would be 14 days before the satellite would enter into lunar orbit.
Chandrayaan carries eleven payloads: five designed and developed in India, three from the European Space Agency, one from Bulgaria and two from NASA."
