Comment Re:I wish the seven of them a good time (Score 2, Funny) 104
MINIX is obsolete.
Comment Re:GPLv3 - the kiss of death (Score 1) 311
FLIF will never kill PNG anyway as long as it keeps linking to libpng.
Comment Re:Oblicatory (Score 4, Interesting) 397
I've had no issues with Soylent 1.4/1.5 producing the kind of room-clearing gas that earlier versions did. It's really rather disappointing.
Comment Re: Such a nice, sugary story.... (Score 1) 614
Comment Re:Whats happening with Slackware now? (Score 1) 123
When's the last time it was every six months?
Hint: It was probably sometime back when the release was two CDs, and not 6 CDs and 2 double-sided DVDs.
Comment Plan to "license more outside brands"? (Score 5, Insightful) 369
If their plan is to get more third parties to go along with their DRM, then they haven't really learned a thing yet.
Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record 372
mrflash818 writes: For the first time since we began tracking carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere, the monthly global average concentration of carbon dioxide gas surpassed 400 parts per million in March 2015, according to NOAA's latest results. “It was only a matter of time that we would average 400 parts per million globally,” said Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network. “We first reported 400 ppm when all of our Arctic sites reached that value in the spring of 2012. In 2013 the record at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory first crossed the 400 ppm threshold. Reaching 400 parts per million as a global average is a significant milestone."
When Enthusiasm For Free Software Turns Ugly 177
An anonymous reader writes: Bruce Byfield writes for Linux Magazine about the unfortunate side-effect of people being passionate about open source software: discussions about rival projects can get heated and turn ugly. "Why, for example, would I possibly to see OpenOffice humiliated? I prefer LibreOffice's releases, and — with some misgivings — the Free Software Foundation's philosophy and licensing over that of the Apache Foundation. I also question the efficiency of having two office suites so closely related to each other. Yet while exploring such issues may be news, I don't forget that, despite these differences, OpenOffice and the Apache Foundation still have the same general goals as LibreOffice or the Free Software Foundation. The same is true of other famous feuds. Why, because I have a personal preference for KDE, am I supposed to ignore GNOME's outstanding interface designs? Similarly, because I value Debian's stability and efforts at democracy, am I supposed to have a strong distaste for Ubuntu?"
Comment Re:Valve needs to use their clout (Score 1) 309
No, Linus needs to use his finger.
Comment Re:oh boy! (Score 1) 253
From my experience, the boneheads were almost exclusively in the HR agencies.
About a year ago, in my previous job, I was recruiting for some Linux Kernel/Drivers/Embedded C (with a bit of C++) people. I was dealing with some of these boneheads but I made sure I had a very good, strongly-worded chat with them to explain the types of candidates I was looking for, making it absolutely clear that I needed people who were proficient in C, not just C++.
The reply that took the biscuit was, "To be honest, you'd be better off looking for C# programmers."
Comment The State of Kentucky - A Living Museum (Score 1) 451
...of simpler times hundreds of years ago...
Comment Re: Of course! (Score 1) 571
Maybe Occam's razor could come in handy here. Maybe you smoked too much weed today.
Haven't you heard of Area 51 and the Zeta Reticulans?
Man, do they groove!
Comment Re:Yikes, (Score 1) 571
What use is a car if gasoline is not available on your planet, right?
You've heard of Stonehenge, haven't you?
Goodie goodie yum-yum....
Comment Re:global warmening worse than we thought... (Score 1) 571
The Skinkworks is where the lizardmen work.
....making fish soup.
Comment Re:Of course! (Score 1) 571
No way.
I'll bet money that Lockheed have already had this working for years in a Black Project. I'm also willing to wager that some UFO sightings are secret experimental aircraft with fusion reactor power sources and combined electrical/thermal engines (glowing lights, hovering, vertical flight....).
Since they know it already works, they're announcing it so that they can do a (fake) clean-room reimplementation of the physics and engineering research, that makes it work, in the open so that they can get away with commercialising it/patenting it.
