Comment: Meerkat (Score 1) 302
the most surprising thing about OS X Mavericks is that it's not named after a cat
Yea, it's named after a Meerkat...how original.
Comment: Re:Great in theory (Score 1) 202
but "not worth my time" attitude is kinda strange since it takes no time at all to use it?
What I'd imagine he's saying is it's "not worth my time" to develop and test an application against a database that's ultimately not going to be used when pushed into the production environment (ie, cheap hosting providers that only offer MySQL). I can't say I really blame him.
Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee 259
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from the spice-must-flow dept.
from the spice-must-flow dept.
Wired reports on a disease infecting coffee plants across Central America that could lead to shortages around the world. "Regional production fell by 15 percent last year, putting nearly 400,000 people out of work, and that’s just a taste of what’s to come. The next harvest season begins in October, and according to the International Coffee Organization, crop losses could hit 50 percent." The disease is called coffee rust, and it has been damaging crops to some degree since the 1800s. It's not known yet exactly why coffee rust has become such a problem now, but one of the leading suspects is climate change. "Since the mid-20th century, though, weather patterns in Central America and northern South America have shifted. Average temperatures are warmer across the region, with extremes of both heat and cold becoming more pronounced; so are extreme rainfall events." The fungus that causes coffee rust thrives on warm, humid air, and higher temperatures have allowed it to climb to higher altitudes than ever before. But another likely cause is the way in which coffee is planted and harvested these days: the plants evolved as shade-dwellers, but are now often placed in direct sunlight. They're also clustered closer together, which facilitates the spread of disease. "The integrity of this once-complicated ecosystem has been slowly breaking down, which is what happens when you try to grow coffee like corn."
Comment: Re:or sqlite (Score 1) 241
There is no web based tool comparable to phpMyAdmin...
What's wrong with phppgadmin?
Comment: Get rid of Ballmer (Score 1) 737
...what can be done to turn things around?
Get rid of Ballmer and either bring in or promote somebody internally to CEO who knows wtf they're doing.
Comment: Re:remote desktop vs windows (Score 1) 197
Yes...try reading the article:
- Another new back-end is providing RDP support, Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol. While this isn't the proper remote Wayland implementation previously talked about with experimental code, RDP clients can now connect to this Weston back-end that is compliant with FreeRDP.
Comment: RDP is king (Score 1) 215
This is great news and solves the long-standing question about how Wayland was going to handle remote clients in an acceptable manner.
Comment: Re:Less demand (Score 1) 269
Not to mention that most SSD's are being sold by companies that don't have much (if any) presence in the HDD market at all (Intel, Samsung, Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, etc), making them direct competitors to the likes of Western Digital & Seagate.
Comment: Re:Woz is sure being very diplomatic ... (Score 1) 330
Steve Jobs is never an "entertaining" kind of guy. In fact, Mr. Jobs can be the worst kind of SOB when he was in his mood.
I dunno...I'd kinda find seeing some of his tantrums entertaining. I thought they were in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Comment: RTFA? (Score 4, Funny) 89
Perhaps everyone is reading the article before commenting? I know...+5 Funny.
Comment: Re:Good News (Score 1) 159
My mistake. I meant to say that it was required on any nvidia-based htpc with limited amount of CPU power (like the popular Intel Atom-based HTPC's that so many people (myself included) use).
Comment: Re:Good News (Score 1) 159
nouveau
1. since its free software it can co-exist with other drivers, and lets x auto detect. your only option on live cds
2. feature complete 2d and 3d rendering
3. rock solid stable. Its actually more stable than the proprietary driver
nvidia
1. fast, perfomance comparable with other OSs
2. closed source, doesn't play well with other drivers. But lets face it, if your playing video games, them too are closed source, and if your on a proper normal installed system, you don't need other video drivers.
3. 100% feature complete, uses every last feature of the hardware as intented.
4. supports OpenCL and vector programming.
5. supports VDPAU (required on any nvidia-based htpc)
Comment: Re: solve your problem small (Score 1) 276
That sounds like a great way to run off all your talent and instead be stuck with a bunch of H1B's, where the majority probably don't know wtf they're donig.
Comment: Re:Not again... (Score 1) 1110
got used to the new start screen - it's not _that_ bad, no worse than hunting through menus to find what you're looking for, and actually better in that you can just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search. Or you can type the name of a control panel applet or setting, and that works too.
Who hunts through menus anymore? I've been able to "just start typing the name of a program and it comes up in the search" since, *gasp!*, Windows Vista.
Comment: KDE5? (Score 1) 161
How is this going to impact KDE? Will this be the start of KDE5?