Comment Re:We Need Audio! (Score 3, Informative) 185
It's on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
Submission + - Nokia sells off commercial and services arm of Qt (h-online.com)
Sven-Erik writes: Nokia has announced that it is selling the commercial licensing and professional services arm of its Qt group to Digia, a Finnish services and software company.
Comment Norway (Score 1) 618
In Norway with its 4,5 million inhabitants, in 2010 50% off all mobile phones sold (2,5 million phones) was a smartphone. And they expect it to climb to 70% this year.
Comment Re:Hahaha, what (Score 4, Informative) 1060
Actually, he is of Australian nationality.
Comment Alexey Pajitnov and Tetris (Score 3, Insightful) 94
And what about russian Alexey Pajitnov and his Tetris game...
How Norway Fought Staph Infections 595
eldavojohn writes "Studies are showing that Norway's dirtiest hospitals are actually cleaner than most other countries', and the reason for this is that Norwegians stopped taking antibiotics. A number of factors like paid sick leave and now restrictions on advertising for drugs make Norway an anomaly when it comes to diseases like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A Norwegian doctor explains, 'We don't throw antibiotics at every person with a fever. We tell them to hang on, wait and see, and we give them a Tylenol to feel better.' Norway is the most MRSA free country in the world. In a country like Japan, where 17,000 die from MRSA every year, 'doctors overprescribe antibiotics because they are given financial incentives to push drugs on patients.'"
Submission + - Millenium Falcon bed (makezine.com)
An anonymous reader writes: http://blog.makezine.com/milleniumFalconBed_cc.jpg
http://blog.makezine.com/milleniumFalconBed1_cc.jpg
Kayla Kromer made this sweet Millenium Falcon bed — complete with stowaway compartments and headlights. Check out more pics in the Facebook photo gallery. [http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=127502&id=104545533252&ref=mf]
http://blog.makezine.com/milleniumFalconBed1_cc.jpg
Kayla Kromer made this sweet Millenium Falcon bed — complete with stowaway compartments and headlights. Check out more pics in the Facebook photo gallery. [http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=127502&id=104545533252&ref=mf]
Submission + - Google under fire for calling their language "Go" 1
Norsefire writes: Since releasing their "Go" programming language yesterday, Google are under fire for using the same name as another programming language that was first publicly documented in 2003. "Go!" was created by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark — the first of which published a book about the language in 2007, and he is not happy.
Submission + - SPAM: NASA, European Space agency want to go to Mars
coondoggie writes: NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are aiming to cooperate on all manner of robotic orbiters, landers and exploration devices for a future trip to Mars. Specifically, NASA and ESA recently agreed to consider the establishment of a new joint initiative to define and implement their scientific, programmatic, and technological goals for the exploration of Mars. The program would focus on several launch opportunities with landers and orbiters conducting astrobiological, geological, geophysical, climatological, and other high-priority investigations and aiming at returning samples from Mars in the mid-2020s.
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Submission + - City Councilman Arrested for Anonymous Flier. (dailykos.com)
arbitraryaardvark writes: "Clarksville West Virgina City Councilman Martin Shaffer was arrested June 2 for suspicion of conspiring to distribute an anonymous newsletter. In "prosecuting anonymous speech, that's what's criminal" Reid Cox, Center for Competitive Politics, explains that the arrest was probably illegal and unconstitutional. What's this got to do with computers, the internet, or slashdot? Anonymous speech by anonymous cowards is one of things that makes slashdot and the internet as we know it possible. More background on the story at some blog."
Submission + - Ultimate BIOS guide
amcdiarmid writes: "I just ran across a very nice guide to BIOS settings. (From Maximum PC of all people!) I read the first several pages, and found a few things I (an old curmudgeny IT type) did not know — and only one thing I think was wrong... (Likely a typo in the "Limit CPUID Max. to 3:" section, I don't think that a Modern OS needs this enabled.)
The thing includes such gems as (paraphrasing) old timers turned stuff off on the motherboards to save memory resources, but since all new motherboards have more than 2MB of memory — it's not necessary unless you need the IRQ's, or want to avoid IRQ conflicts.
At over ten web pages at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ultimate_bios_guide_every_bios_setting_revealed?page=0%2C1 you might want to just hit the print link: http://www.maximumpc.com/print/6543 If it's still up after a maximum slashdotting (;p)"
The thing includes such gems as (paraphrasing) old timers turned stuff off on the motherboards to save memory resources, but since all new motherboards have more than 2MB of memory — it's not necessary unless you need the IRQ's, or want to avoid IRQ conflicts.
At over ten web pages at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ultimate_bios_guide_every_bios_setting_revealed?page=0%2C1 you might want to just hit the print link: http://www.maximumpc.com/print/6543 If it's still up after a maximum slashdotting (;p)"
Comment Re:119V-0080 (Score 4, Informative) 422
The bat has been named Brian.
Submission + - Wikipeida-Like Wiki for Developers Evolves (devviki.com)
jason1 writes: "A group of software engineers based out of Silicon Valley North have started up a wiki based tool for developers they are calling devviki. The wiki allows developers to add code samples, tutorials, articles, and news clips to the wiki.
The wiki is based on an open source framework and all content is completely open source with the intent that it's easy to use. To make it easier for developers the site is completely open to the public so developers can post code without signing up. The wiki is to be an open source code repository for developers coming from the sites slogan — "by developers... for developers...!". More information about the project can be found at devviki.com
The project started near the beginning of the month and has shown some growth of interest via page view reports since opening to the public. The creators say that "page views are increasing and new content appearing daily!"."
The wiki is based on an open source framework and all content is completely open source with the intent that it's easy to use. To make it easier for developers the site is completely open to the public so developers can post code without signing up. The wiki is to be an open source code repository for developers coming from the sites slogan — "by developers... for developers...!". More information about the project can be found at devviki.com
The project started near the beginning of the month and has shown some growth of interest via page view reports since opening to the public. The creators say that "page views are increasing and new content appearing daily!"."
Submission + - New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions
i_like_spam writes: The theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid impact, the K-T extinction, is well known and supported by fossil and geological evidence. Asteroid impact theory does not apply to the other fluctuations in biodiversity, however, which follow an approximate 62 million-year cycle. As reported in Science news, a new theory seems to explain periodic mass extinctions. The new theory found that oscillations in the Sun relative to the plane of the Milky Way correlate with changes in biodiversity on Earth. The researchers suggest that an increase in the exposure of Earth to extragalatic cosmic rays causes mass extinctions. Here is the original paper describing the finding.
Submission + - Massachusetts adopts Open XML (networkworld.com)
willdavid writes: "By John Fontana, NetworkWorld.com:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has added Open XML to its list of approved open documents formats.
Critics of Open XML adoption, such as Andy Updegrove, a lawyer, Linux Foundation board member and Massachusetts resident, said Microsoft should not be "rewarded for launching a competing, self-serving standard as a next-best defense against erosion of its dominant position."
Massachusetts officials acknowledged the criticism, but said the importance of open formats could not be denied.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080107-massa chusetts-open-xml.html?page=1"
