Forgot your password?

Close
typodupeerror
Space

Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns 101

Posted by samzenpus
from the close-enough dept.
coondoggie writes "News today that the Air Force is investigating signal problems with its latest Global Positioning System satellite is likely to rekindle the flames of a congressional report last month that said the current GPS coverage may not be so ubiquitous in the future. The Air Force stated that routine early orbit checkout procedures determined that the signals from the Lockheed-built GPS IIR-2 (M), which was launched in March, were inconsistent with the performance of other GPS IIR-M satellites. The Air Force said it has identified several parameters in the GPS IIR-20 (M)'s navigation message that can be corrected to bring the satellite into compliance with current GPS Performance Standards."

Comment: Lots of linux netbook returns? news to me (Score 1) 400

by D3viL (#27902225) Attached to: Lenovo On the Future of the Netbook
Go to dells refurb/returned system site http://www.dell.com/outlet/ and look at the dell mini9 systems. Currently I see 40 windows based netbooks and 1 linux based system. Sounds like windows systems get returned much more often to me. Typically the ubuntu based systems stay on the refurb site for a very short time, a month ago I spent a week trying to get one (I finally did get one after hitting F5 I don't even know how many times) during that time 3 showed up on dells site 2 of which I didn't get because someone else was faster then me at buying it.

Comment: Re:Let me be the first one to say it ... (Score 1) 1870

by D3viL (#27617737) Attached to: Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences
Well many of the artists I listen to produced great work when they where poor, but the work they produced lost its feel of anger and pain once they became successful and had money. So ask yourself does the starving artist starve because he is an artist or is he an artist because he is starving?

Comment: Re:Just stop stealing (Score 1) 339

by D3viL (#26159429) Attached to: RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California
You mean they are not just charging the legal expenses back to the artists just like they do advertising and other costs?

1) File lawsuits charging expenses back to the artists
2) Send out extortion^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h settlement letters
3) Keep any money from settlements/judgments as PROFIT

no ?????? involved
Operating Systems

What Needs Fixing In Linux 865

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the or-what-needs-breaking-in-windows dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Infoweek's Fixing Linux: What's Broken And What To Do About It argues that the 17-year-old open-source operating system still has problems. Leading the list is author Serdar Yegulap's complaint that the kernel application binary interfaces are a moving target. He writes: 'The sheer breadth of kernel interfaces means it's entirely possible for something to break in a way that might not even show up in a fairly rigorous code review.' Also on his list of needed fixes are: a consistent configuration system, to enable distribution; native file versioning; audio APIs; and the integration of X11 with apps. Finally, he argues that Linux needs a committee to insure that all GUIs work consistently and integrate better on the back-end with the kernel."
Cellphones

iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK 517

Posted by timothy
from the zoolander-bit dept.
Wills writes "Apple has been running an iPhone ad saying 'all parts of the internet are on the iPhone', but it had to be withdrawn after Britain's Advertising Standards Authority ruled that it gave 'a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone' because the iPhone cannot access Flash or Java – features that are essential to some websites. This raises an interesting issue of where do you draw the line between essential and non-essential features of websites. What should the web look like? Should government authorities be the ones making that decision?"
Hardware

World's First Polymorphic Computer 113

Posted by ScuttleMonkey
from the good-kind-of-unstable dept.
tdelama writes to mention Raytheon Company has developed the first polymorphic computer named the Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture (MONARCH) for the US Department of Defense. "'Typically, a chip is optimally designed either for front-end signal processing or back-end control and data processing,' explained Nick Uros, vice president for the Advanced Concepts and Technology group of Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. 'The MONARCH micro-architecture is unique in its ability to reconfigure itself to optimize processing on the fly. MONARCH provides exceptional compute capacity and highly flexible data bandwidth capability with beyond state-of-the-art power efficiency, and it's fully programmable.'"

Landscape Is Changing For Microsoft and Google 122

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the also-sandwiches-are-delicious dept.
ReadWriteWeb writes "John Milan, Senior Software Architect and founder of TeamDirection, writes about the convergence of Web and Desktop. He argues that Microsoft and Google are focusing so much on each other, that both will either fail to notice the landscape is changing underfoot — or will be unable to adapt quickly enough. The article concludes that the days of purely desktop-based applications are clearly numbered, but so are the days of exclusively web-based apps. Both Microsoft and Google are racing toward a happy medium. However, they aren't the only players in town, not by a long shot. Both Mozilla and Adobe are well positioned to take advantage of desktop and web convergence."

OpenBSD 4.0 Released 201

Posted by kdawson
from the humppa-negala dept.
Undeadly Halloween writes, "On October 18th, OpenBSD celebrated its 11th birthday and ten years of punctual biannual releases. Now it's time for OpenBSD 4.0, which includes tons of new drivers for wireless, network, and storage chips. Consider helping the project by buying the new goodies (CD set, t-shirt, poster, Audio CD). And discover what's new and what battles developers must face daily to support new hardware in the traditional interview featuring nearly 20 developers."

Microsoft Claims OpenDocument is Too Slow 553

Posted by Zonk
from the compared-to-the-blazing-speed-of-.doc dept.
SirClicksalot writes "Microsoft claims that the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is too slow for easy use. They cite a study carried out by ZDNet.com that compared OpenOffice.org 2.0 with the XML formats in Microsoft Office 2003. This comes after the international standards body ISO approved ODF earlier this month." From the ZDNet article: "'The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory,' Alan Yates, the general manager of Microsoft's information worker strategy, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. 'The Open XML format is designed for performance. XML is fundamentally slower than binary formats so we have made sure that customers won't notice a big difference in performance.'"

Please remain calm, it's no use both of us being hysterical at the same time.