Comment Re:Free usually = not very good (Score 1) 116
OP may have written "open source" but I got the impression they really meant "zero cost".
Comment Re:Er... (Score 1) 159
No.
Comment Re:also known for the UFO TV series (Score 1) 129
I grew up with Gerry Anderson's shows from the early 1960s - I always wanted to be Joe 90 and get things downloaded into my brain (still do) and also think UFO is the best GA show. Dark themes with a cool look (the theme music is great too).
Now back to the point... In the UFO books, yes, there are books, you learn that the purple wigs are in fact anti-static devices! No idea about the miniskirts and knee-high boots though.
Submission + - Man arrested at airport for wearing ornate watch. (foxnews.com) 2
whoever57 writes: A man was arrested at Oakland airport and charged with having bomb-making materials. The materials? An ornate watch and extra insoles in his boots. Despite the bomb squad determining that there was no bomb, the spokesman for the Alameda county sherriff's department claimed that he was carrying "potentially dangerous materials and appeared to have made alterations to his boots, which were unusually large and stuffed with layers of insoles". Linked in has a profile for a person with a matching name that (Geoffrey McGann) who is the owner and creative director of a media production company called Generator Conten
Comment Re:And no patents (Score 1) 725
BTW dmr had one of the first, if not the first, software patents - setuid.
Submission + - Dennis Ritchie has died (biobiochile.cl)
rjh writes: "Dennis Ritchie, father of both C and UNIX, has died at age seventy. (English-speaking news outlets haven't yet picked it up yet, but Google Translate does well with the link.) In a career that not only spanned modern computing but defined it, he developed many tools and systems that we take for granted today. He received a Turing Prize in 1983 for his services to the industry, but even then he didn't slow down: he had a sterling career with Bell Labs and Lucent until finally retiring in 2007."
Comment Re:HRmm...... (Score 1) 312
"Getting them in the right order is just as important."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxir7wHIuY
Comment Re:On a related note (Score 1) 272
Southern hemisphere here. Left side episodic cluster head of about 17 years. I sense no difference this year. My other pretty regular run of winter clusters seem to have come a little early this year. But they're milder.
Comment Re:Curious... (Score 2) 272
We're already taking the drugs "far nastier and more dangerous than mere LSD". A lot of the time they don't work and they don't work the same across all sufferers. I'm only a episodic cluster head (a lucky one) but the side effects of the meds that work for me and can stop an attack cluster are such that I prefer to ride it out without them.
More info at clusterheadaches.com
Comment Re:This is important? (Score 3, Informative) 380
In my universe Cleopatra 2525 was the best.
Comment Re:Interrupt Service Routines (Score 1) 140
occam, not ocaml.
Comment Appropriate Wear (Score 1) 837
Dress like fire fighters.
Comment Re:Google search "Go" (Score 1) 831
C+@ was essentially Smalltalk in C's clothing.
Comment Re:X11 Chromium on Mac? (Score 1) 542
Try here.
Submission + - Google OS Announced 12
shystershep writes: "Rumors have been floating around for years that Google was planning an OS to compete with Window. As of Tuesday night, it is official: "So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010." It is separate from the Android mobile OS, will run on both x86 and ARM processors, and is aimed primarily at web use. Other than that, details are scarce."
