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Journal Journal: Vancouver city to be "Open Source/Open Standards" based! 3

Journal by nickull on Thursday May 14, 2009 @08:29PM

Vancouver City Council has put forth a motion (PDF format) on "Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source" as written by Councillor Andrea Reimer. According to the motion, the City of Vancouver endorses the principles of:

Open and Accessible Data - the City of Vancouver will freely share with citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the greatest amount of data possible while respecting privacy and securi

Comment After using Ubuntu to get rid of Vista... (Score 1) 545

by nickull on Monday April 13, 2009 @11:57AM (#27557613) Attached to: 83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7

I can see why. Vista sucks. It is the operating system of the mentally deficient. I now have XP installed (I have to have at least one Win machine for work) and refuse to even try Win 7 due to a complete lack of trust with Redmond. It is their own doing and when you stir up a hornets nest, you get stung.

Comment How about "America's next top Mythbuster?" (Score 1) 500

by nickull on Thursday March 26, 2009 @12:13PM (#27343517) Attached to: Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town

Hilarious idea - get 500 /.er's entering an amateur competition to prove of disprove myths for a reality show. I want to work for Mythbuster's, wake every morning, have a coffee, grab some dynamite and blow shit up!!

Journal Journal: Wolfram Alpha - Reasoning and Computational Intelligence

Journal by nickull on Monday March 09, 2009 @01:47PM

Skynet is here! Well not quite but there is an important development on the computational intelligence front this week. The launch of the Wolfram Alpha system should be written in history as a key event in the pursuit of computational reasoning. Wolfram Alpha will allow users to enter a factual question in a natural language string and answer it. What is really impressing me, is that the Wolfram Alpha should apparently be able to resolve conflicts in l

Comment What country still allows this? (Score 1) 1182

by nickull on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @07:24PM (#26989737) Attached to: Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban

I live in Canada. According to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability." Also - 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: a) freedom of conscience and religion; b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and d) freedom of association. http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/

Submission + - Microsoft.com make IE8 incompatibility list! (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

nickull

on Thursday February 19, 2009 @02:44PM

nickull writes: "According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is tracking incompatible Web sites for its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser and has posted a list that now contains about 2,400 names — including Microsoft.com. (http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2067&tag=nl.e589). Apparently even though Microsoft's IE8 team is doing the "right" thing by finally making IE more standards-compliant, they are risking "breaking the Web" because the vast majority of Web sites still are written to work correctly with previous, non-standards-compliant versions of IE."

Comment Yawn - this is a 25 year old theory (Score 2, Informative) 532

by nickull on Friday January 16, 2009 @03:36PM (#26486089) Attached to: The Universe As Hologram

http://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Michael-Talbot/dp/0060922583 Michael Talbot wrote this book years ago. Others have had this theory since 1980-1985. Of course, if it is a hologram, those who created it might want you to read this comment. LOL! THe book itself was written in 1992.

Journal Journal: Open Source Music? 1

Journal by nickull on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @02:16PM

MixMatchMusic just announced it has acquired Mix2r.com, a web app that enables electronica artists to upload their music for remixing and for creating derivative works by other electronica artists, fans and music enthusiasts. Mix2r's community of musicians, DJs and fans features more than 6200 songs and music stems.

Comment What about Steve? (Score 0, Troll) 233

by nickull on Friday January 09, 2009 @03:33PM (#26390569) Attached to: Rare Venomous Mammal Filmed

"it is the only living mammal that can actually inject venom into their prey through specialized teeth" did they invite Steve Ballmer to this contest? At least the shrew cannot throw a chair very far.

Comment I was just there (Score 1) 249

by nickull on Saturday December 20, 2008 @06:31PM (#26186787) Attached to: Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach

and I can see why this would be needed. It was 26 in the winter. I would however worry about the effect of some kid digging into a freon tube with a shovel or a leak. Nevertheless, it would make far more sense to use the natural deep water to pipe up onto the sub-beach level to act as a heat-exchanger. Duane Nickull http://technoracle.blogspot.com

Comment Record Schmecord, it's just good stuff! (Score 3, Interesting) 451

by nickull on Sunday October 26, 2008 @05:48PM (#25520809) Attached to: OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows

I work for Adobe on the ODF Technical Committee. ODF made some great decisions that make the format much more admirable over others (use of RelaxNG Schema, open formats wherever possible etc.). I am happy about the growing use of OO. Jon Bosak also has posted some great thoughts on this. Jon's thoughts on ODF, OOXML and PDF.

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