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Comment A globally recognized contribution (Score 1) 725

by Zilog on Thursday October 13, 2011 @08:32AM (#37700234) Attached to: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away

The talent of this man has a major part in what has made our world today.

His contribution was essential and it is perceptible throughout the world today.

He deserves all the honors, if not more, than a talented salesman gadget.

Paix à ta mémoire, l'ami. Ce soir j'arroserai dignement ton départ.

Submission + - Top 15 obscure video game consoles for collectors (pcauthority.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: So, you call yourself a hardcore gamer? Bet you've never even heard of this lot (except for the Virtual Boy, natch).

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie passed away last weekend (google.com)

Submitted by evohe80 on Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:53AM

evohe80 writes: Rob Pike has been one of the first to announce the dead of the creator of C, UNIX and many other great works: "I just heard that, after a long illness, Dennis Ritchie (dmr) died at home this weekend. I have no more information.

I trust there are people here who will appreciate the reach of his contributions and mourn his passing appropriately.

He was a quiet and mostly private man, but he was also my friend, colleague, and collaborator, and the world has lost a truly great mind."

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, father of C and Unix reported dead (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by sl4shd0rk on Thursday October 13, 2011 @06:26AM

sl4shd0rk writes: Rob Pike, a Google engineer and former colleague of Ritchie, said on Google+ that the 70-year-old, who was a founding developer of Unix and known as dmr, died at home over the weekend after a long illness.

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language (google.com)

Submitted by WankerWeasel on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:15PM

WankerWeasel writes: The sad news of the dead of another tech great has come. Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, has passed away. For those of us running Mac OS X, iOS, Android and many other non-Windows OS' have him to thank. Many of those running Windows do too as many of the applications you're using were written in C.

Submission + - Our version of Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie...

Submitted by Earl The Squirrel on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @10:46PM

Earl The Squirrel writes: On Oct 12, 2011, Dennis Richie, creator of C and co-creator to Unix has died. As the hero's of our generation age, it's sad to say this will invariably happen, but it's sad for all of us who continue. Let's be sure to thank and salute those who have made what we enjoy so much. Losing two so close together makes it even harder.

Submission + - Open Source Web Server NGINX Scores $3M (securityweek.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @08:07AM

wiredmikey writes: Open source web server developer NGINX today announced that it has secured $3 million in a Series A round of financing coming several investors, including an entity affiliated with the private investment firm of Dell Chairman/CEO Michael Dell.

NGINX’s Web server boasts significant increases in performance, to the tune of 10x over other leading Web servers on the same hardware. Its lean architecture, scalability and security has put it as the fastest and only-growing web server in the world with a market share of 8.5% across all domains, according to Netcraft. This is still a far cry behind Apache, which has about 65% of the Web server market, but has been losing a small amount of market share each month.

As a result of its ability to help companies squeeze more performance out of each server, the company said its web server currently powers over 20% of the top 1,000 biggest websites, including Facebook, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, Dropbox and WordPress.

The company will put the cash infusion to work to support its commercial arm, Nginx, Inc., which was started in July 2011, along with its expansion into the U.S. with a new San Francisco headquarters in Q4 2011.

Submission + - Leak: Possible Specs for Next-Gen Xbox? (xboxfreedom.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:25AM

An anonymous reader writes: Sources are reporting a leak on some of the specs for the successor of the Xbox 360. What’s more interesting, some even provide a date.

Submission + - Getting to Know Arduino (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Thinkcloud on Monday October 10, 2011 @06:45AM

Thinkcloud writes: An open source electronics platform based on a microcontroller and microprocessor with I/O capabilities that allow it to drive many kinds of inventions, Arduino is proof that open source hardware has a future.

Submission + - Indian Supreme Court Switches Over To Ubuntu; So S (muktware.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy on Monday October 10, 2011 @05:20AM

sfcrazy writes: The Supreme Court of the world's largest democracy has ordered all courts across India to switch to GNU/Linux based operating system Ubuntu. Prior to this move the courts across India were using the Red Had Enterprise Linux, which is mainly targeted at servers. More than 17,000 courts around India will now be switching over to Ubuntu from RHEL.

Submission + - High School Kills Color-Coded ID Program

Submitted by theodp on Sunday October 09, 2011 @05:42PM

theodp writes: Anaheim Union High School District has killed a controversial incentive program that assigned students color-coded ID cards and planners based on state test scores, required those who performed poorly to stand in a separate lunch line and awarded the others with discounts. The program was designed to urge students to raise scores on the California Standards Tests, but it also raised concern among parents and students who said it illegally revealed test scores and embarrassed those who didn't do well.

Submission + - Why Linux Is Good For Low-End Smartphones (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Monday October 03, 2011 @11:22AM

jfruhlinger writes: "Nokia's announcement that it was developing a Linux distro for low-end smartphones, shortly after abandoning the Linux-based Meego OS for Windows Phone 7, was a little puzzling. But it actually makes good business sense in the smartphone world. While WP7 aims for the high end, there's a market for cheaper and less complex phones that still beat boring old feature phones, especially in emerging economies. And, unlike Symbian and the heavily tweaked Meego, Linux can be quickly and cheaply brought to market as a low-end smartphone OS."

Comment Re:Of course science and religion can mix... (Score 1) 1345

by Zilog on Monday October 03, 2011 @11:18AM (#37590004) Attached to: Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly

As i see it and think KarlIsNotMyName expresses it.

The morality in human's societies was 'builded' as a tool by our specie on a long period, it is a survival trait. In fact, morality does not equate the specie's survival, mainly because the specie and its survival aptitude takes precedence over the human society morality.

From the point of view of our specie, the only behaviors considered as 'moral' are the ones that tend to improve its own survival chances on a long term. The morality in human's societies is mainly her derived work.

Therefore, the morality of individuals is not independent of survival considerations, wathever the individuals sanity or their views. Our mind is mainly the result of our specie's survival ambitions on thousands years, we cannot cut that link without loosing our proper identity as individual, our will is only the expression of our specie's will to survive at any cost, no more, no less.

Submission + - William H. "Bill" McCellan Passed away

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03, 2011 @10:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: It is with great Sorrow I am reporting on the death of Bill McCellan, The inventor of the first Nanomotor, and the father of all Nanotech. Bill had a stroke 2 weeks ago and did not recover. Bill was an employee at Caltech from the 50's until the 90's when he retired, but was still active in the the Caltech astronomy Labs, and also was involved in Engineering projects at Palomar Observatory as late as last fall.firing

Submission + - IT Inferno: The Nine Circles Of IT hell (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:51AM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Dan Tynan takes us on a tour of the nine circles of IT hell, a place 'not unlike the underworld described by Dante in his Divine Comedy.' 'But here, in the data centers, conference rooms, and cubicles, the IT version of this inferno is no allegory. It is a very real test of every IT pro's sanity and soul,' Tynan writes. From IT limbo, to tech lust, to stakeholder gluttony, to tech-pro treachery, the IT inferno is not buried deep within the earth, it's just down the hall. 'Thankfully, as in Dante's poetic universe, there are ways to escape the nine circles of IT hell. But IT pro beware: You may have to face your own devils to do it. Shall we descend?'"

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