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SamWon writes:
Armed with a paddling pool, an umbrella and some crappy cardboard thing, the Human Guinea Pigs take on the law of gravity. A new TV series from the UK where 5 regular guys, with the guidance of Professor Milligan, probe the big questions of life and the universe... and touch things they shouldn't. http://www.five.tv/humanguineapigs
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eweekhickins writes:
Mort Zuckerberg, the sandal-wearing Facebook CEO, was cagey during his spotlight moment at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference. He was clearly more comfortable talking about the company as a development platform to tether social connections, saying the platform is just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of how far it can go.
But he did admit to John Battelle that the company will look to online ads for growth and hinted at more announcements about that issue in the next three months.
Social graphs. Online ads. Apps tethered my social maps? Was he talking about his users, his business model or the developer community when he said, "It might take 30 years before this is a really mature platform"?
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Jayze Calrtini writes:
From an article from ZDNet:"If you've been following the current rift in the Linux community between Linus Torvalds and his minions squaring off against Con Kolivas and the mainstream Linux fanatics, you probably know that it's getting quite heated.
You also probably know that these two entirely different ideas could create three possible paths Linux can take for the future: stay geeky and appeal to the advanced tech guru in all of us; go mainstream and leave the advanced functionality and reliable kernel behind to compete with Microsoft and Apple; or face a "civil war" that could lead to total Linux annihilation.
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ianare writes
"AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. This will (theoretically) allow the OSS community to develop drivers, given time. In fact, engineers from Novell have released a first alpha quality Open Source driver which currently supports initial mode settings. Although current work is focused on 2D, rather than 3D acceleration, this type of information sharing could conceivably lead to an OSS 3D driver."
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mccaffer writes:
Finally X.Org have released the latest version which promises to drastically improve hotplug and on-the-fly output reconfiguration.
See the list of latest features:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Releases/7.3
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qcomp writes:
The votes are in and Microsoft has lost for now, reports the FFII's campaign website OOXML. The 2/3 majority needed to proceed with the fast-track standarization has not been achieved. Now the standard will head to the ballot resolution meeting to address the hundreds of technical commentsa submitted along with the "no" (as well as some "yes" votes.
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CapedOpossum writes:
Let the voices chanting apocalyptic visions once again be heard! Playing God? Hell, we're re-inventing the concept! From the article:
"Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of 'wet artificial life.' ... 'It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it,' said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. ... Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could 'run amok,' but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem."
