Comment Re:ODF works for publication; so does PDF. (Score 1) 149
XPS is proprietary.
XPS is not proprietary. It is currently being finalized by ECMA as Open XPS.
Comment ODF for publication? (Score 1) 149
Ok, I can understand ODF for collaboration, but is that the best format for publication? Why not PDF or XPS?
Comment Re:Unemployment? (Score 1) 328
You want to create tech jobs, Mr. Government? Send back the H1B Visas to their home countries, and stop letting more in here for big corporations to hire cheaper than Americans.
Amen! I know of very few companies that are hiring right now and those that are receive tons of resumes to sort through. Good luck getting noticed in that avalanche... It used to be that anytime I updated my resume on one of the online career sites, I would get a great number of inquiries. Now that I actually need a job, I got only a couple (and none close by or relevant). I'm not feeling too upbeat about the IT job market right now...
Comment Missing option... (Score 1) 160
The Control Data Corporation data cartridge!
Back in my university days, we used these for offline archival.
Submission + - How the iPhone Works (from the Inside Out) (howstuffworks.com)
starexplorer2001 writes: Everyone's talking about the new iPhone and how it works, but did you ever wonder how it really works inside? HowStuffWorks has an interesting new perspective on the inner-workings of the iPhone, the touch screen, and the technology behind it. Original illustrations of basic touch screens, mutual and and capacitance screens, touch sensing and communication. Whoa.
Victims Fight Back Against DMCA Abuse 111
Cadence writes "The DMCA is being used a lot recently to demand takedowns of all sorts of content on the Internet. But how many of those DMCA-fueled demands are abusive? Lately, some victims of takedown demands have begun to fight back with the help of the EFF, including some against Viacom: 'Finally, a Viacom executive admitted last month that less than 60 of his company's 100,000 takedown requests to YouTube were invalid. John Palfrey of Harvard's Berkman Center wonders what rights those 60 people have? We may find out. The EFF called for people who had videos pulled inappropriately to contact the group, though the EFF tells The National Law Journal that it cannot comment on its future legal plans. One of the reasons companies misuse the DMCA and cease-and-desist copyright letters is that the tools can quickly accomplish what they want to have happen; stuff they don't like goes bye-bye in a hurry. When the alternative is moving slowly through the court system, letters look like an excellent alternative.'"
Submission + - A United Federation of Planet Earth
UltimaGuy writes: "Fourteen space agencies around the world have agreed to coordinate their space exploration efforts, paving the way for truly planet-wide collaboration in space science. The agencies involved are from Italy, Japan, China, Britain, France, America, India, Korea, Ukraine, Russia, Canada, Germany, Australia and ESA, the European Space Agency. Will this be the beginning of a new era in space exploration ?"
