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Comment I did a little test (Score 1) 324

by ivothamdrup on Sunday November 22, 2009 @05:34AM (#30192056) Attached to: Microsoft, Other Rivals Slam Google Chrome OS

I did a little test and found out that my WinXP boots up in 24 seconds, whereas my Nokia E71 smartphone boots up in .... 30 seconds. Last time I saw a cell phone boot up immediately after pressing the power button was probably in 2001.

Comment Re:All I have is an anecdote (Score 1) 430

by not flu on Sunday October 18, 2009 @05:23AM (#29782853) Attached to: On the Efficacy of Flu Vaccine

It's a stopgap measure that can be repeated every year. It's also not similar to over-prescription of antibiotics (we're not going to run out of surface proteins to use as antigens because the virus needs those for binding to target cells) - that'd be antivirals, and influenza A does develop resistance to them fairly quickly. Even so a temporary relief certainly beats no relief at all.

Left 4 Dead 2 Approved In Australia After Edits 134

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 09, 2009 @03:24AM from the going-out-on-a-limb dept.

Last month we discussed news that Valve's upcoming shooter Left 4 Dead 2 had been denied classification in Australia, which meant the game could not be legally sold there. Now, after a series of edits which removed "considerable amounts of gore from gameplay," Australia's classification board has given the game an MA15+ rating. Their new report (PDF) says, "No wound detail is shown and the implicitly dead bodies and blood splatter disappear as they touch the ground. ... The board notes that the game no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment." The unmodified version of the game may still be approved, pending a review that concludes on October 22nd.

How GNOME and KDE Spend Their Money 167

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 17, 2009 @10:46AM from the they-balance-their-budget-in-windows dept.

bluescarni writes 'A side-by-side analysis of GNOME's and KDE's quarterly reports sheds some light (and dispels some myths) on the nature and the quantity of the funds of the two projects.'

Comment Tom Clancy here... (Score 1) 240

by ivothamdrup on Thursday June 18, 2009 @02:24AM (#28370213) Attached to: Air Force Planning New Drone Fleet For Pakistan

So after the first presidential candidate dies, say around 2020, the urge to retaliate will be overwhelming. After that, it's tit-for-tat, all the way to hell.

Who are you and how did you find out the plot for my upcoming political thriller?

Comment Killing them all is a bad idea (Score 5, Insightful) 830

by ivothamdrup on Thursday April 23, 2009 @04:29PM (#27693647) Attached to: Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents

Remember, terrorism isn't about money, it's about instilling fear in people, i.e. terrorizing. So if you start shooting down every hijacked plane, what actually happens, is that the terrorists will use their readily available supply of martyrs to continuously hijack airplanes with no other intent than getting shot down. Then you either keep your word, shoot the planes and the people within, and soon nobody in their right mind will ever board a plane again (public uproar notwithstanding), or you don't shoot the planes and start negotiating with the terrorists.

Comment Re:First it was outsourcing... (Score 1) 88

by ivothamdrup on Saturday October 04, 2008 @01:11PM (#25256615) Attached to: Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers

That's why you can't trust computers. I calculated it on paper - the final digit is 6.

Submission + - Bill Gates on software, from 1989 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07, 2007 @02:39AM

An anonymous reader writes: The University of Waterloo has uploaded a talk by Bill Gates, on software, that took place there in 1989. Available here, the talk was only recently digitized and contains many predictions from someone who was already starting to become an industry leader at that time. Many are surprisingly accurate and quite relevant today.

Submission + - New York Taxi Drivers Will Strike if GPS installed (gpsdaily.com)

Submitted by

wooferhound

on Friday August 24, 2007 @12:33PM

wooferhound writes: "http://www.gpsdaily.com/reports/New_York_taxi_driv ers_threaten_two-day_strike_999.html New York's taxi drivers on Thursday said they would mount a two-day strike in early September if authorities did not scrap plans to introduce satellite positioning systems in the city's yellow cabs. "We are ready to go on strike on September 5 and September 6," Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents some 8,400 of New York's 26,000 cabbies, told AFP."

Submission + - Iran Claims Space Launch

Submitted by massivefoot on Sunday February 25, 2007 @06:43AM

massivefoot writes: Iranian TV claims Iran has launched its first rocket into space. Iran already has a civilian satellite programme but so far it has relied on Russia to put its satellites into orbit. The article contains few details, this appears to be breaking news.

Submission + - The Best P2P Network Nowadays?

Submitted by

rigamarole

on Sunday February 25, 2007 @02:58AM

rigamarole writes: "Well, I've been using Limewire for most of my mp3 downloads for the past while. At first I was very satisfied with it after switching from Ares, because my download times were significantly faster. Recently though, I've been getting a lot of results like, "Stephen Spielberg gets a hilarious prank call!" and other such nonsense. Note that I get a lot of search results like this on both audio and video-specific searches. I'm sick of Limewire now, and I'm wondering what people in the know are using for their downloads nowadays. I should note that I've had some satisfactory results from using isoHunt for movie downloads, but I have no idea how good of a music source it is...and I prefer the classic KaZaA/Ares/Limewire layout anyhow. Thoughts?"

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