De_Boswachter - Slashdot User

Comment "The animal World Had Its Junkies, /Too/"? (Score 1) 250

by De_Boswachter on Monday December 27, 2010 @06:37AM (#34674926) Attached to: The Animal World Has Its Junkies, Too

Title implies the junkie problem had previously only been recognized in either the plant world, the fungi world, or other kingdoms in the eukaryota domain, and possibly in the prokaryota and archaea domains.

Comment Re:FOSS (Score 1) 442

by De_Boswachter on Saturday September 18, 2010 @09:08AM (#33619306) Attached to: Swiss Canton Abandons Linux Migration

We have a 20-yo confocal that works with OS2 Warp.

Comment Re:Peak wood, peak peat, peak coal... (Score 4, Funny) 764

by De_Boswachter on Saturday September 11, 2010 @02:01AM (#33542650) Attached to: German Military Braces For Peak Oil

Peak solar, that might be a problem.

Comment Peak wood, peak peat, peak coal... (Score 1) 764

by De_Boswachter on Saturday September 11, 2010 @02:00AM (#33542646) Attached to: German Military Braces For Peak Oil

We've been doing fine after all those.

Comment The Galileo probe already did this (Score 4, Informative) 83

by De_Boswachter on Saturday July 24, 2010 @07:13AM (#33012546) Attached to: Earth As an Extrasolar Planet

"A search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft", Nature, 1993 C. Sagan et al., http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v365/n6448/abs/365715a0.html

Comment Re:Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? (Score 2, Funny) 88

by De_Boswachter on Friday June 11, 2010 @12:00PM (#32536546) Attached to: The Matrix For Businesses

No wonder why nothing ever gets done at Linden Lab, people who work there don't even know what the others are doing.

Except for the Linden Labs Ministry of Truth. They know where your house lives.

Comment Re:Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? (Score 1) 88

by De_Boswachter on Friday June 11, 2010 @11:52AM (#32536432) Attached to: The Matrix For Businesses

No, I have better sources, Mr. Spindoctor Anonymous. I have been working on said projects myself and got laid off. There. I said it.

Comment Re:Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? (Score 1) 88

by De_Boswachter on Friday June 11, 2010 @11:39AM (#32536250) Attached to: The Matrix For Businesses

all of whom were working on a similar concept

No they weren't, enterprise was just one of their stupid directions.

Yes they were. LL says so: http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/06/09/a-restructuring-for-linden-lab?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+SecondLife+(Official+Second+Life+Blogs+-+FEATURED)

More sources: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/06/10/second-life-creator-linden-lab-downsizes-morphs/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20007260-36.html http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364893,00.asp

Comment Is Novell reinventing the square wheel? (Score 2, Interesting) 88

by De_Boswachter on Friday June 11, 2010 @11:28AM (#32536102) Attached to: The Matrix For Businesses

Leading virtual world provider Linden Labs just laid off 30% of their employees, all of whom were working on a similar concept. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/09/linden_labs_lays_off_30_per_cent_of_staff/

Comment Re:By that standard (Score 1) 1019

by De_Boswachter on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @05:05AM (#18601173) Attached to: Should Chimps Have Human Rights?

if the primate deserves equal protection under law...

Humans are primates too! According to taxonomists: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo.

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