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Submission + - Sergey Brin was a Game Show God

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theodp
theodp writes: "Almost a decade before Woz debuted on Dancing With the Stars, Google founder Sergey Brin was a game show God. Making an appearance in 2001 on the John O'Hurley-hosted "To Tell The Truth," Sergey and two stooges left a "celebrity" panel stumped on the question of Who is...the real GOOGLE GURU? The unanimous pick of the panel and audience was a professional bowler. Why didn't they just do a Google Image Search on their iPhones?"

Comment Re:More fear (Score 1) 638

by BLQWME (#26668355) Attached to: If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins
I have no fear of Linux- I love the Sabayon distro. What I don't like about Linux is the lack of developers making games FOR Linux. I have used wine for Windows emulation and it's ok, I have used Cedega for running my Window's games- BUT IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME.

Comment Re:Decentralization? (Score 1) 431

by BLQWME (#26659291) Attached to: The Case Against Web Apps
They started trying to bring the main frame back in 1997. That was about the time the thin clients started making a come back. Citrix had MetaFrame and I think MS had their version based on NT- can't remember the name though. This whole thing is a game. Every few years things get shifted around and Gartner *choke* writes an article about the recycled technology calling it revolutionary. The article is dumbed down so management types can talk about it amongst themselves on the golf course and then they give each other reach arounds as they get high on buzzwords- it all comes to a climax when someone says "synergy" or "green datacenter". One observation on my part however, whenever an app that I have used was made to be web-based, performance/response times went in the toilet. That's just my .02, but I have yet to meet anybody that said their new web-based app whipped the llama's azz compared to the old thin-client or mainframe app.

Comment Re:farcical (Score 1) 713

by BLQWME (#26273687) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax
You are so right! No one thinks about the anonymity issues either. Let's say a wife is running from her abusive husband and holes up some place. Husband "Hello, OnStar, I seem to have forgotten where my car is. Can you tel me where I left it last night"?
Windows

Submission + - Alienware Won't Sell CableCard PCs to Consumers (cepro.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Alienware is breaking its direct-to-consumer sales tradition by creating a product sold only through specialty retailers and home technology installers. The product is a high-end Media Center PC with an option for dual CableCards (also known as OCUR), which is one reason Alienware won't sell it online or through big-box retailers. Since CableCard-enabled Media Center PCs started shipping this year, consumers, installers and the cable companies themselves have reported challenges with the HD-over-cable solution. Cable boxes themselves cannot deliver HD content to PCs. "We feel that OCUR is a solution that requires the expertise of a reseller and installer to perform an optimal customer experience, which does not warrant direct consumer sales of OCUR-equipped products" says Marc Diana, product manager for non-mobile products. The product, yet to be named, will be demonstrated for the first time in September.
Biotech

Submission + - Stem Cells Shown to Protect Dying Motor Neurons

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Penguinshit
Penguinshit writes: "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by rapid loss of muscle control and eventual paralysis due to the death of large motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Growth factors such as glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) are known to protect motor neurons from damage in a range of models. Human cortical neural progenitor cells derived from fetal tissue (ie. stem cells) can be expanded in culture for long periods and survive transplantation into the central nervous system, in some cases making large numbers of GFAP positive astrocytes. They can also be genetically modified to release GDNF and thus act as long-term 'mini pumps' in specific regions of the brain. In this study a team at UW-Madison's Waisman Center genetically modified human neural stem cells to release GDNF and transplanted them into the spinal cord of rats with mutant SOD1. Following unilateral transplantation into the spinal cord of the rats there was robust cellular migration into degenerating areas, efficient delivery of GDNF and remarkable preservation of motor neurons at early and end stages of the disease within chimeric regions.

This work is especially important to me, as I have been living with ALS for almost three years."
United States

Submission + - Forensics Expert says Al-Qaeda Images Altered

Submitted by WerewolfOfVulcan
WerewolfOfVulcan writes: Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz revealed some veeeeeery interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images that our government loves to show off.

From the article: "Krawetz was also able to determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri's head was added to the image afterward. In the second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left corners (IntelCenter is an organization that monitors terrorist activity and As-Sahab is the video production branch of al Qaeda) were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri was added, Krawetz says." Why would Al-Qaeda add an IntelCenter logo to their video? Why would IntelCenter add an Al-Qaeda logo? Methinks we have bigger fish to fry than Gonzo and his fired attorneys... }:-) The article contains links to Krawetz's presentation and the source code he used to analyze the photos.
KDE

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released (kde.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: August 2, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid with the first alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process. No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability and accessibility work is of course an ongoing process. In the following weeks KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications until the next beta is released and the application features will be frozen as well.

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