Parker Lewis - Slashdot User

Submission + - Ubuntu Edge now fixed at U$695 (indiegogo.com)

Submitted by Parker Lewis on Thursday August 08, 2013 @10:47AM

Parker Lewis writes: According the last Ubuntu Edge update, "with 14 days to go, it’s time for our biggest announcement yet. From now until the end of the campaign, we’re fixing the price of the Ubuntu Edge at $695! No limited quantities, no more price changes. You wanted a more affordable Edge, and now you’ve got it". Can Canonical reach U$32 mi, with 14 days left?

Submission + - Canonical started Crowdfunding for Ubuntu Edge Smartphone (indiegogo.com)

Submitted by Parker Lewis on Monday July 22, 2013 @01:15PM

Parker Lewis writes: Canonical started a IndieGoGo campaign to crowdfund a U$ 32 million campaign required (according Canonical) to deliver the Ubuntu Smartphone (called Ubuntu Edge).

You can donate any amount, but the "deal of the day" is get a Ubuntu smartphone for U$ 630, available for this value only for day one. Configuration: 4GB RAM, 4 kernels CPU, 128GB storage, 1280x720 screen, two cams, HDMI port. Including dualboot with Android.

Submission + - Nintendo DS outsells Sony Playstation 2 the most selled videogame ever (vgchartz.com)

Submitted by

Parker Lewis

on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:31PM

Parker Lewis writes: "Due a boost from BlackFriday sales, where it sold more even than 3DS, Nintendo DS outsells (at least on VGChartz) Sony Playstation 2, the former most selled videogame until yesterday."

Submission + - PHP 5.3 released (php.net)

Submitted by

Parker Lewis

on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @09:18AM

Parker Lewis writes: "PHP 5.3 is finally released, with some long waited features like namespaces (with the unpopular backslash as namespace separator), late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more. As you can imagine, some old pieces will be broken."

Submission + - Spell Corrector in Java (raelcunha.com)

Submitted by

Parker Lewis

on Monday August 20, 2007 @06:12AM

Parker Lewis writes: "Peter Norvig recently published an article explaning how spelling corrector works (like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo uses in their search engines). Peter Norvig produced a nicely 21 python lines program. My version is Java, and has 45 lines: not so beautiful/elegant as the Norvig code, not so huge as the C implementation."

Submission + - Is Groovy really groovy?

Submitted by Parker Lewis on Thursday August 31, 2006 @12:00PM

Parker Lewis writes: In the current days it's possible find a lot of marketing about the new blessed Java language: Groovy. I was searching more details about it, and I find this article. Steve, the author (and currently a Google employee), developed a little game (Sokoban), using all utilizable languages running over the Java Virtual Machine. The impressions about Groovy was not very good. The complete set of articles can be read here.

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