2009, Year of the Linux Delusion 696

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 18, 2008 @12:56PM from the feed-the-trolls dept.

gadgetopia writes "An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low-power ARM processors will be in netbooks which won't have enough power to run Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to 'web only' applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too." The article goes on to skewer the year of Linux thing that seems to show up on pretty much every tech news site throughout December and January as lazy editors round out their year with softball trolling stories and "Year End Lists." We should compile a year-end list about this :)

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Comment lack of understanding of the biz model (Score 5, Informative) 223

by davejenkins on Monday December 15, 2008 @11:36AM (#26120229) Attached to: Is MySQL's Community Eating the Company?

The questions asked in the summary show a fundamental misunderstanding of successful business models in Open Source software: the idea that a fork from some 3rd party is "taking away" funds from the "parent" sponsoring company only goes to show that someone is trying to hold on to their licences/exclusivity/prom dress too much.

Sun should welcome such improvements into their dev cycle. If such forks are superior, then they should eventually find their way back into the parent model. The successful business models around OSS rely on the services/consulting/support that sit around and on top of the actual OSS code. Red Hat, IBM, HP, and others all understand this. Sun, unfortunately, still has the MySQL model wrong IMHO.

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Comment 8 entries for 'mathematics' (Score 3, Informative) 299

by davejenkins on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @07:29PM (#25211647) Attached to: Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics

If you don't like this one, help yourself to the others (from wikindex.com, in order of activity):

http://www.exampleproblems.com/ ExampleProblems Wiki Graduate level mathematics example problems with solutions.
http://maple.wikia.com/ Maple This page is all about the The Maple Wiki.
http://diffgeom.wiki-site.com/ Diffgeom This wiki is about differential geometry and related facets of ...
http://www.mathcasts.org/ Mathcasts Mathcasts are screencasts (screen movies) which are created and shared to improve the learning and teaching of mathematics. Mathcasts were originally called math movies and then Whiteboard Movies but when the term screencasts became popular mathcasts seemed like a great name for them.
http://math.wikia.com/ Mathematics Wiki Mathematics is a Wikia for the collection of math-related news, ...
http://algorithm.wikia.com/ Algorithm In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a procedure (a finite set of well-defined instructions) for accomplishing some task which, given an initial state, will terminate in a defined end-state. The computational complexity and efficient implementation... Algorithm The Algorithm Wikia is a wiki for gathering the latest
http://gametheory.wikia.com/ GameTheory The Game Theory Wikia is a wiki about applied mathematics ...
http://matheaufgaben.wikia.com/ Matheaufgaben Matheaufgaben Mathematics is a Wikia for the collection of math-related news, ...

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Submission + - Blockshopper running privacy scam? (blockshopper.com)

Submitted by

davejenkins

on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @12:24PM

davejenkins writes: "I recently moved to a new house. On a whim, I googled the address, only to find my personal details, the price, and other fundamentals of the deal right there on a website called blockshopper.com. Worried about the possible privacy violations, I asked them to remove my data, to which they responded that all the listing details were public record, and thay could do whatever they wanted with it. After some yelling and screaming on the phone, I finally (now months later) got an email to a link where I could pay them to become unlisted. This seems like a privacy extortion racket. Is it okay to profit from public records like that? Is it ethical to demand payment to be unlisted?"

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Analog Cell Phone Network Shuts Down Monday 205

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 15, 2008 @06:53PM from the end-of-an-ear-a dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "AT&T and Verizon will be shutting down their old, analog AMPS networks next Monday, and AT&T will also turn off its old TDMA network, with smaller providers expected to follow thanks to a sunset date set by the FCC. After these old networks are shut down, the networks will be all digital. Of course, if you have one of those old fashioned 'just a phone' cellphones and it happens to be analog, you'd best enjoy the last few days before it becomes useless."

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Submission + - Grass Makes Better Ethanol Than Corn

Submitted by

AtomicSnarl

on Friday January 11, 2008 @11:48AM

AtomicSnarl writes: "Grass beats Corn by 5:1 for Ethanol according to UDSA and DOE testing. Now maybe we can get paid for our lawnmower clippings and go back to the days of inexpensive tortillas!"

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Submission + - Cancer breakthrough invented in garage in Florida (wkyc.com) 1

Submitted by

Provocateur

on Friday November 02, 2007 @10:09AM

Provocateur writes: "A former radio engineer has invented a device that could possibly kill cancer cells with radio waves — in his garage. He is a cancer patient himself. This ham radio operator had an idea in the middle of the night. This inspiring story has it all for /. fans: the motivation, the garage, the hacking together of hardware and kitchen utensils, and initial testing on hotdogs — what's not to like?"

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EA Plans To Use Mass Effect Chat In Other Games 34

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 02, 2007 @09:36AM from the nice-idea-now-it's-mine-yoink dept.

Via 1up, BusinessWeek has up an article examining Electronic Arts' recent purchase of BioWare. In amongst the discussion of money and diversifying the company, there's a note that we may see BioWare technologies show up in other EA games. "In what would arguably be a more interesting development, BioWare could become an incubator of innovative ideas and technologies that could eventually filter into EA's other properties. Gibeau envisions individual EA teams developing technical and gameplay expertise that could be shared across all of the company's titles. He cites, for instance, a dialogue system developed by BioWare for the upcoming Mass Effect game, which allows players to engage in hyperrealistic conversation with computer-generated characters. 'The dialogue engine is something we will almost immediately look at as an asset for other teams,' says Gibeau." For folks who just can't get enough Mass Effect, Sci-Fi is showing a special on the game right around its launch date later this month.

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