Comment: He's also the guy that invented the hula-hoop. (Score 1) 89
They made a movie about him http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110074/
Rankmaniac 2010->
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BrokenSegue writes "Several Caltech students designed a move guessing game based on the IMDB tag set. The game, while fun, also serves a secondary scientific purpose. The results entered by users are saved and this information will be data mined. The will determine the relative information content of the tags and the most relevant tags for each film."
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Comment: Tex Faster (Score 1) 823
Seriously. It's not that hard. Practice.
Comment: Re:There is a pattern (Score 1) 432
Base e, really?
You should look at it in base pi. That fraction terminates real fast.
"why the lucky stiff" missing
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BrokenSegue writes "Famous ruby hacker why the lucky stiff has deleted many of his popular websites including his artsy guide to ruby Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby and many of his code repositories. _why was known for emphasizing the idea of code as art. It is unclear why he did this or whether he will back. One of his last posts to twitter was "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more." His contribution to the ruby community was great and it will be missed if he does not return."
Comment: Re:Open source ? (Score 5, Informative) 201
No, you're mistaken. Here's what happened. We used to call projects like this "free" (as in speech) or libre. The problem was that (lay)people confused that concept with gratis (as in beer).
The phrase "open source" was created to solve that problem. Since libre software usually implies that the source is public. The concept was then extended to everything. Now open source really just means available under an open source license, which is defined by the OSI.
You're making the same point RMS made when the phrase "open source" was coined (iirc) in 1998 Netscape went open source. He claims, rightly, that being free is more than having open source.
Not wrong terminology, changing terminology.
Comment: Re:pico (Score 1) 660
Not to be pedantic, but not *all* the key commands are at the bottom. Not nearly. Hit ^G to see the real listing of commands (including lots of useful ones not listed at the bottom of the screen).
But yes, nano is nice (and pico on sensible machines is just a symlink to nano).
Russian video from North Pole fake 2
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viking2000 writes "RUSSIAN LIE: A russian
mini sub reached the sea floor under the North Pole, Reuters reported. Now it all is uncovered as fabrication
The pictures are not from the North pole at all, but from the Hollywood movie "Titanic"
"Location information of the videos are incorrect" says Reuters to FNB.
The images instead shows a dive done by mini subs in the Atlantic ocean while looking for the Titanic. Hollywod producer James Cameron used the same type mini sub the russians used on the North Pole, when he made the movie "Titanic" in 1997."
The pictures are not from the North pole at all, but from the Hollywood movie "Titanic"
"Location information of the videos are incorrect" says Reuters to FNB.
The images instead shows a dive done by mini subs in the Atlantic ocean while looking for the Titanic. Hollywod producer James Cameron used the same type mini sub the russians used on the North Pole, when he made the movie "Titanic" in 1997."
Why do you contribute to slashdot? 2
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xirusmom writes "I am working on my Ph.D research that will involve user generated content for water quality data. I would like to better understand what motivates people to contribute. If you would like to help, please let me know why do you contribute to slashdot, open source projects or similar communities? What do you expect to get back from it (fame, money, women? — or just the warm feeling of being helpful?)? Why do you think it is worth your time to contribute? Why have you decided to write an answer for these questions?
I also know there is some frustration about not getting your submissions posted. What do you think are the pros and cons of a moderated forum?
I would appreciate your insights. Thanks"
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raylu writes "The Emoticon will be 25 years old this September. From the Carnegie Mellon article,
In the more humorous NYTimes article,
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"It has been fascinating to watch this phenomenon grow from a little message I tossed off in ten minutes to something that has spread all around the world," said Fahlman [the creator of the smiley].
In the more humorous NYTimes article,
More than once, Alexis Feldman, the director of the Feldman Realty Group, a commercial real estate company in Manhattan, has been moving forward on a major deal when, she said, "at the 23rd hour, I get an e-mail from the broker saying, 'Sorry, my client is not interested in the space, too bad we couldn't make the big bucks' — then there's a frown face!"
The original thread and some others are reproduced here."
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