Comment: Re:And what good would that have done? (Score 1) 504
amen brother.
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Comment: Re:Come on (Score 1) 504
Search for spock worse then voyage home what was snydeq smoking today.
+ - MS-DOS Not Stolen, New Forensic Analysis Concludes
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theodp (442580) writes "Challenging earlier assertions that Bill Gates got the rewards due Gary Kildall, a forensic analysis conducted for the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum concludes that the landmark MS-DOS operating system which Bill Gates and Microsoft licensed to IBM was an original piece of work, not stolen goods. Using his company’s CodeSuite forensic software, Bob Zeidman said he found no evidence that QDOS or MS-DOS was copied from or was a derivative of Gary Kildall's CP/M. So, what do you think of Microsoft expert witness (pdf) Zeidman's "if-the-codebase-doesn't-fit-you-must-acquit" arguments?"
+ - Mars Curiosity Gets First Hi-Res Look at Mount Sharp->
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astroengine writes "NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sent back its first high-resolution pictures from its new home inside Gale Crater, offering a stunning view of the towering Mount Sharp. The three-mile-high mound — taller than any mountain in the continental United States — is Curiosity's ultimate destination, a site that scientists believe may harbor evidence of habitats that could support life."
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+ - Analysis Determines MS-DOS wasn't copied from QDOS, CP/M-> 1
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Jakester2K (612607) writes "This could be the tech world’s version of a conviction being overturned by new DNA evidence.
A forensic analysis conducted for the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine appears to have answered one of the biggest mysteries of the PC era: Was the landmark MS-DOS operating system that Bill Gates and Microsoft licensed to IBM an original piece of work, or stolen goods?"
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A forensic analysis conducted for the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine appears to have answered one of the biggest mysteries of the PC era: Was the landmark MS-DOS operating system that Bill Gates and Microsoft licensed to IBM an original piece of work, or stolen goods?"
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Comment: Re:Cool (Score 1) 409
We need dodo birds. Smarter than the average human.
Comment: Re:ROS is great, but only insofar as WG makes it (Score 1) 65
Some of us are exploring and documenting on the way while cussing loudly. As for being specific it generally relates to the platform they implemented ROS on. If we did the stacks in the manner of processing stacks and platform stacks as separate. It could be a boon to the usability of the community stacks. Some of the community has done this in their stacks already. WG does not push this maybe moving to its own foundation with its own future will drive this style of change. As someone who feels your same frustration daily I can only dream. Since right now publishing a repository one only needs to send a email to a list saying here I am.
Comment: Re:Bad idea (Score 5, Funny) 89
99 problems but a bot net ain't one.
Comment: Re:And Slashdot? (Score 5, Funny) 241
NO that would require us to RTFA something most of us refuse to do. Though we still will give you our opinion on the subject.
Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 241
hah we might see a resurgence of myspace and more traffic to bing if google/facebook did that.The average internet user is to stupid to read it and understand it anyways.
Comment: Re:Wow (Score 1) 753
This post has absolutely no value at all, but its +5 insightful.. I mean wholly fucking anal drip... Either the mods today should be fucking ashamed, are this cocksucker has sock puppets that he uses to mod his own posts up.
anal drip... hmm bad low calorie chips.
Comment: Re:tethered via adhoc wifi will do the job (Score 1) 395
not exactly true any more. Before the verizon/htc thunderbolt sure now not so much of a issue.
Comment: Re:If the future is now the iFuture (Score 1) 485
it is a bleak landscape of conformity and despair.
Its amazing how much they became what they said they despised. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 Sure looks like what apple wants to the world to be like today.
Zombie Ants and Killer Fungus 125
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from the level-1-random-encounter dept.
from the level-1-random-encounter dept.
nibbles2004 writes "An article in the Guardian newspaper shows how parasitic fungi evolved the ability to control ants they infect, ultimately leading the ant to its death. The fungus controls the ant's movements to a suitable leaf and causes the ant to grip onto the leaf's central stem, allowing the fungus to spore, which will allow more ants to become infected."
Comment: Re:Nobody Cares (Score 1) 186
The real issue is the news that never makes it main stream media. It may pick up that Obama scratched his balls today. It never picks up on the news of today. That order would be blogs or blog like, digg, /. a week later. Of course it could be that my interests are not in the presidents day to day or the fact the some celebrity likes to take it in the rear. This type of research does not seem to include all the things that main stream media missed.
