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Submission + - FCC to Drop Morse Testing for All Amateur License

Submitted by Wapiti-eater on Saturday December 16, 2006 @12:58AM

Wapiti-eater writes: NEWINGTON, CT, Dec 15, 2006 — In an historic move, the FCC has acted to drop the Morse code requirement for all Amateur Radio license classes. The Commission today adopted, but hasn't yet released, the long-awaited Report and Order (R&O) in WT Docket 05-235, the "Morse code" proceeding.

Full story at ARRL Homepage

Submission + - The Genius of Apple's User Interface Themes

Submitted by

ippearx

on Friday December 15, 2006 @11:11PM

ippearx writes: "A followup to point number 7 from the article "15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X". There is a good reason why Apple have developed different themes for their OS X apps. Here we show 8 different themes that Apple uses in it's own apps, and why different application themes make OS X easier to use."

Submission + - Laptop batteries to last 50 hours!

Submitted by

Mutlu

on Friday December 15, 2006 @10:49PM

Mutlu writes: "Turkish media reported today that a Turkish company Vestel, the world's third biggest producer of television sets, announced that by the end of February 2007 it would introduce a new generation of laptop batteries which can last for at least 50 hours. Vestel has been known to have invested $10m for developing fuel cells which will rely on the Boron element. Turkey has almost 63% of the world's boron potential and boron reserves, which may explain why there was a lot of enthusiasm in the country to develop alternative energy technologies. The Turkish government has passed a law a couple of years ago against the privatization of the borax ores, as it was seen as a key energy resource of the future. The US has 16% of the world reserves.

Although not being covered yet in the western media extensively, an Israeli news source reports that Intel has been already evaluating Vestel's designs for mobile phone and laptop batteries.

Read more...""

Submission + - wxWidgets 2.8.0 Released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15, 2006 @10:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: From the release announcement: wxWidgets 2.8.0 has been released. wxWidgets is a free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc. The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a major new release. Compared with the last stable series (2.6), 2.8.0 adds wxAUI (an advanced user interface library for docking and other functionality), wxRichTextCtrl, wxComboCtrl, wxOwnerDrawnComboBox, wxTreebook, various picker controls such as wxColourPickerCtrl, wxHyperlinkCtrl, partial right-to-left language support, support for Core Graphics on Mac OS X, tar archive support, and more. Get wxWidgets from http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/.

Submission + - Vista not compatible with SQL Server

Submitted by kiran_n on Friday December 15, 2006 @09:50PM

kiran_n writes: Fortune's Owen Thomas has an article on Vista not being compatible with SQL Server. One more reason for slower adoption of Vista?
"But now Microsoft has a problem. Vista, its long-awaited update to the Windows operating system, can't run the current version of SQL Server. The company is working on a SQL upgrade that is compatible with Vista — called SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 2 — but it's in beta and can be licensed only for testing purposes. Microsoft hasn't set a release date for the new SQL program."

Journal Journal: Would you take the Red pill or the Blue...?

Journal by UncleTogie on Friday December 15, 2006 @09:47PM

Aside from being fairly useless, This also struck me as having the potential for some Big-Brotherish nonsense. What does the Horde think?

From the story:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=companyNews&storyID=2006-12-15T154308Z_01_N15295031_RTRIDST_0_IBM-PHARMACEUTICALS.XML

Submission + - Do you tell a job candidate how they flubbed it?

Submitted by skelter on Friday December 15, 2006 @07:09PM

skelter writes: I have been lamenting with friends in the industry about interviewing woes and the candidates that we find. Consider a hypothetical job candidate comes in after some how making it through screening. In the team technical interview they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any code base. Do you tell them? Quietly step away, usher them out and say nothing? Play with them on the whiteboard the way your cat plays with injured mice? Should you leave them as their own warning to others? Is there any obligation to guide them to gaining real experience? Can you give them any advice or is it all liability?

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