Comment Re:What OS? (Score 1) 182
No. OS X is Mach, *and* is BSD. These things are not mutually exclusive.
Comment Re:Sad day (Score 4, Funny) 156
"Disco verbing"? What the hell is disco verbing?
Comment Re:That's not the professional term (Score 1) 487
Mod parent up!
Comment Re:That's not the professional term (Score 2, Insightful) 487
Rap's been around for decades, too!
Not that I couldn't predict it, but the ignorance on display in this thread is mind-blowing. Especially from a group of people which likes to think it has exceptional intelligence and command of facts.
Comment Re:That's not the professional term (Score 0, Troll) 487
Something tells me that Coward, above -- and it's quite apt in this case -- doesn't know any black people.
Comment Re:That's not the professional term (Score 1) 487
So you're assuming that your dialect is "correct", and anyone else's is, a priori, a problem.
Comment Re:PDAs (Score 1) 622
Convince someone with money that you can make money serving that market.
If that doesn't sound easy, well, perhaps entrepreneurship is not for you. (I know it's not for me.)
Comment Mute? (Score 1) 674
Who says you can't speak a language when you're mute? Sign language is speech.
Comment Re:Opinions are a crime now? (Score 1) 637
My guess, based just on reading the news, is that Jake's detention had less to do with Tor, and more to do with WikiLeaks.
Comment What market dominance? (Score 1) 711
I think iPhones account for less than 20% of smartphone sales, world-wide.
(Disclosure: I own a modest number of Apple shares.)
Comment Re:Router fairness (Score 1) 217
Autotuning is dead, haven't you heard?
Comment sed(1) is Turing-complete. (Score 1) 641
Only one of these utilities can be used to implement the others.
Submission + - Jesse Sheidlower's _F-Word_ book in new edition (jessesword.com)
benedict writes: "My friend Jesse Sheidlower — wordista, occasional Perl hacker, and maintainer of the Oxford English Dictionary's Science Fiction Citations website — is out with the third edition of The F-Word , "a historical dictionary devoted to the word fuck". With entries for fsck and fubar and thirty-seven quotes from Usenet, this book is handy for those days when servers are melting and one runs out of ways to say how screwed one is."
Submission + - Nokia Buys Navteq for $8.1 Billion (nytimes.com)
mytrip writes: "Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said today that it had agreed to pay $8.1 billion for Navteq, the maker of digital mapping and navigational software based in Chicago, as it seeks to migrate satellite-based location services onto its range of phones.
Nokia's president and chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, said that location-based services were a cornerstone of Nokia's Internet services strategy, which is part of an overall plan to expand beyond the production of cellphones into user services like photos, video, music and games.
Navteq data is used by Google Maps, Google Earth , numerous other online services, and many GPS products."
Nokia's president and chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, said that location-based services were a cornerstone of Nokia's Internet services strategy, which is part of an overall plan to expand beyond the production of cellphones into user services like photos, video, music and games.
Navteq data is used by Google Maps, Google Earth , numerous other online services, and many GPS products."
NTP Sues Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile 83
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that following in the wake of their patent suit against Research in Motion (RIM), NTP has filed suit against Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile for infringing on several patents. All of the patents in question relate to the delivery of email on mobile devices. "Five of the eight patents being used in the telco cases were the subject of NTP's 2001 patent suit against Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry. In November 2002, a jury found that RIM infringed upon NTP's patents. The case continued to make headlines until 2006, when RIM agreed to pay NTP a settlement of $612.5 million, nearly four years after RIM had first been found guilty of infringing on NTP's patents."
