Comment Re:A good thing! (Score 1) 422
Also, knowing where the fuck you are is pretty cheap as well.
Comment Re:Dell's netbooks (Score 1) 343
Yes. A plan that you are then locked into. Perfect...
Comment Re:Marketing..... (Score 0) 343
This would appear to be happening too soon for them to replace X. Crome will likely just have a branded UI running over X just like with Linpus or Mint. That is, unless this has been in the works for a long time and they are now only telling us about it. Possible, but not likely.
Comment Re:Nothing to do with sex... (Score 1) 174
True enough. I sometimes accidentally read comments elsewhere and think "What the #*$% is wrong with these people?" /.ers can at least sort of spell and use complete sentences. This indicates that any /. offspring might have a chance at being a bit better spoken than their peers if not actually more intelligent.
Submission + - Journalism Benefits from Technology, Not Opposite (slate.com)
johndmartiniii writes: "Jack Shafer's column this week at Slate.com gives a perspective on modern journalism different from the one we usually hear regarding declining print news agencies. Rather than destroying the industry, Shafer argues that technological advances in publishing have only served to keep journalism alive, as long as journalists and news bureaus were willing to evolve as well. From the article: 'Technology, culture, business, and audience tastes are always in flux, making it the job of writers young and old to grab the best available tools and get to the business of chronicling the world. The cheap tools and affordable devices the average Joe has at his disposal to produce precision journalism and distribute it around the world are enough to make the reporters of yesterday sob in envy. It's the difference between digging ditches with a spade and excavating a canal with dynamite.'"
Submission + - Firefox 3.5 Reviewed (slate.com)
johndmartiniii writes: "Farhad Manjoo has a review of Firefox 3.5 at Slate.com this week. From the article:
"Lately I've been worried about Firefox. Ever since its debut in 2004, the open-source Web browser has won acclaim for its speed, stability, and customizability. It eventually captured nearly a quarter of the market, an astonishing achievement for a project run by a nonprofit foundation. But recently Firefox seemed to go soft." The worried tone in the beginning of the review gives way to excitement over the HTML5 features being implemented, saying that thus far Firefox 3.5 "offers the best implementation of the standard--and because it's the second-most-popular Web browser in the world, the new release is sure to prompt Web designers to create pages tailored to the Web's new language.""
"Lately I've been worried about Firefox. Ever since its debut in 2004, the open-source Web browser has won acclaim for its speed, stability, and customizability. It eventually captured nearly a quarter of the market, an astonishing achievement for a project run by a nonprofit foundation. But recently Firefox seemed to go soft." The worried tone in the beginning of the review gives way to excitement over the HTML5 features being implemented, saying that thus far Firefox 3.5 "offers the best implementation of the standard--and because it's the second-most-popular Web browser in the world, the new release is sure to prompt Web designers to create pages tailored to the Web's new language.""
Comment Re:What do you want... (Score 1) 337
Yah, that would be a nice place to start wouldn't it?
Comment What do you want... (Score 2, Insightful) 337
a WoW Undeground?
Comment Re:My setup (Score 1) 421
I have been doing something like this for a few years now with an NSLU2 loaded with Debian. NFS shares between systems when I am at home. Rsync mirrors the 1TB disk on the server. I have recently been using Back-in-time to keep incremental snapshots. I will upgrade to the OpenRD-Client when we manage to get Debian sorted out fully on the SOC that it uses (which is the same as the SheevaPlug).
It isn't exactly the sort of solution the asker in TFA is seeking, but it could be applied similarly to meet his needs.
It isn't exactly the sort of solution the asker in TFA is seeking, but it could be applied similarly to meet his needs.
Comment Re:Also, Father Dowd, (Score 1) 232
Do you really think that the Iranian revolution in 1979 was bloodless?
Comment Re:There's only one obvious choice... (Score 1) 232
Yes, Openmoko is the obvious choice. Unfortunately, the project died because everyone complained about silly aspects. Whether or not it worked as a phone was immaterial. It could do all sorts of things AND it would also work as a phone (if not fully at present, then in the future).
Ah well.
Submission + - Microsoft to "Give Away" Anti-virus Softwa (bbc.co.uk)
johndmartiniii writes: "Microsoft is preparing to release a beta version of an anti-virus program called "Morro". It will apparently lack many of the features of full security suites by companies such as McAffee and Symantec and focus only on virus detection and removal. In this case it is probably best to attempt to do one thing and try to do it well rather than a bunch of tasks. This is Microsoft's second attempt to move into the virus removal game. Perhaps it will be more successful than their OneCare offering last year."
Submission + - Twitter Experiment in Parapsychology (newscientist.com)
johndmartiniii writes: "New Scientist has a story about a Richard Wisemann's Twitter-based study in paranormal psychology. He asked Twitter-users to send him responses based on psychic questions like "Where am I right now?" and "What am I looking at?" Each of the four tests conducted returned negative results. Interesting method or practical joke on parapsychology fanatics everywhere?"
Comment Quite a lot... (Score 3, Interesting) 226
...of water in the desert air, apparently.
The caretaker of my building in Cairo directs the water that condenses in all of the air-conditioner units in the building into the gardens. While it isn't energy efficient AT ALL, I am always surprised by how much water gets to the garden. And as the weather gets hotter, the residents use their air-con more meaning more water for the garden. Again, it's not energy efficient in any way, but it does save water by reclaiming it from the air, and quite a lot of it.
The caretaker of my building in Cairo directs the water that condenses in all of the air-conditioner units in the building into the gardens. While it isn't energy efficient AT ALL, I am always surprised by how much water gets to the garden. And as the weather gets hotter, the residents use their air-con more meaning more water for the garden. Again, it's not energy efficient in any way, but it does save water by reclaiming it from the air, and quite a lot of it.
Comment Re:Why dead? (Score 1) 296
Yeah, but who cares about the space elevator when we have the above new idea for the wooden badger?
