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SAS Named Best Company To Work For In 2010 183

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 24, 2010 @11:29PM from the must-like-north-carolina dept.

theodp writes "If you're in the market for a new job, Fortune has just published its list of 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2010. Topping the list this year is SAS (SAS jobs), the largest privately held software company, which Fortune notes is populated with more statisticians than engineers or MBAs, and led by a Ph.D. founder whose first love is programming. Google (jobs), which once viewed SAS as model for employee perks, took the #4 spot, and Microsoft (jobs) checked in at #51."

Comment Re:you can stick with H323 and not spend a fortune (Score 1) 170

by Mulder3 on Thursday January 21, 2010 @09:04PM (#30854932) Attached to: Affordable and Usable Video Conferencing?

I don't think so... H.323 is obsolete... SIP is the way to go... Asterisk and/or Freeswitch FTW!

Comment Re:Ummm, what? (Score 1) 619

by Mulder3 on Monday January 18, 2010 @02:05AM (#30805006) Attached to: HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format

Yes, it IS... Xvid is based on MPEG-4 part2 which IS a proprietary and patented format...

Own Your Own Fighter Jet 222

Posted by samzenpus on Saturday January 16, 2010 @03:02PM from the only-one-on-the-block dept.

gimmebeer writes "The Russian Sukhoi SU-27 has a top speed of Mach 1.8 (more than 1,300 mph) and has a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1 to 1. That means it can accelerate while climbing straight up. It was designed to fight against the best the US had to offer, and now it can be yours for the price of a mediocre used business jet."

Emulating New Super Mario Bros. Wii At 1080p 76

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 05, 2009 @02:28AM from the super-high-def-mario dept.

KingofGnG writes "An impressive confirmation of the Dolphin Wii emulator's capabilities comes from a YouTube video, which shows off recently-added video clips of New Super Mario Bros. Wii in full HD. It demonstrates the growing compatibility of Dolphin with the latest games published for the Nintendo console."

Comment Re:MythTV (Score 1) 557

by Mulder3 on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @06:41PM (#29815913) Attached to: Apple Blurs the Server Line With Mac Mini Server

Isn't Mac Minis and all current MacBooks based on Nvidia's ION???

Comment Re:My next phone (Score 1) 307

by Mulder3 on Saturday September 05, 2009 @10:49PM (#29328479) Attached to: Nokia Fears Carriers May Try To Undermine N900

you can use any GSM 3G phone on any GSM 3G network, provided the phone supports the frequencies for the country

Really, it's provided the phone supports the frequencies for the country *and* the provider's network.

FALSE!!! The phone doesn't have to explicitly support the provider's network... Just have to support the frequency used by the provider...

Comment Re:My next phone (Score 1) 307

by Mulder3 on Saturday September 05, 2009 @04:35PM (#29326021) Attached to: Nokia Fears Carriers May Try To Undermine N900

It's not technologically possible for a carrier to block non sim-locked phones, there isn't any command on a gsm network to query the simlock status of a phone...

Comment Re:CDMA (Score 2, Insightful) 484

by Mulder3 on Thursday August 27, 2009 @05:39PM (#29223525) Attached to: Nokia Releases Linux Handset

/me goes to send Nokia some feedback asking them to support 3G CDMA.

Why should they support 3G CDMA??? It's a crappy and outdated technology that will die soon(4G/LTE will not work on CDMA, only GSM)

Comment Re:CDMA (Score 4, Informative) 484

by Mulder3 on Thursday August 27, 2009 @12:55PM (#29218827) Attached to: Nokia Releases Linux Handset

WCDMA IS NOT CDMA.... WCDMA is 3G GSM, 3G CDMA is called CDMA2000

Comment Re:Verizon? (Score 1) 621

by Mulder3 on Friday August 21, 2009 @07:35PM (#29152123) Attached to: Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution

I agree... However you have to agree that CDMA/EV-DO is a inferior technology when compared with UMTS/HSDPA...

Comment Re:Verizon? (Score 1) 621

by Mulder3 on Friday August 21, 2009 @01:46PM (#29148663) Attached to: Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution

Poor Americans... I don't rely at all on mobile phone provider... If want a certain phone, i simply buy it from whatever store i want and swap the SIM card from my old phone to the new one... Oh... wait... Verizon uses that crap called CDMA... We don't have that in Portugal... However you could just buy a non-verizon CDMA phone, and get Verizon to activate the phone's ESN on you account right?... I simply don't get why you, Americans, buy providers banded phones with features crippled... When you could buy non-branded phones and swap the sim card(or active the new phones ESN in case of CDMA)

Comment Re:That's odd (Score 2, Insightful) 154

by Mulder3 on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @04:39PM (#29043691) Attached to: Microsoft, Nokia Team To Add Mobile Office Apps To Phones

That doesn't mean anything, Symbian will probably die some time in the future, but not Series60(witch is nokia UI ontop of Symbian) Symbian^4 will move away from that ugly C++ API an will be completely based on QT framework and will break the binary compatibility with previous series60/symbain (http://blog.symbian.org/2009/04/30/reviewing-the-release-plan) This means that Series60 will be based on QT as well, so they can easily move to a Linux platform if they want... (and break the binay compatibility again in the process, but nokia doesn't have any problem with that, they do it regularly)

Comment Re:Sticking with mplayer, thank you (Score 1) 419

by Mulder3 on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @01:33PM (#28610699) Attached to: VLC 1.0.0 Released

We use Teletext Subtitles

Comment Use Directshow/Quicktime/Gstreamer (Score 1) 459

by Mulder3 on Monday July 06, 2009 @09:51PM (#28602735) Attached to: Examining the HTML 5 Video Codec Debate

Can anyone explain to me why the browsers vendors canÂt simply use the existing codecs in the OS? They could(and should) use Direcshow for Windows, Quicktime for MacOSX and Gstreamer/ffmpeg for Linux?

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