Comment Re:Geeky formats? (Score 1) 313
True. But I think FLAC is used more by (audio-)geeks, whereas MKV is used by a lot of folks who "play, uh, media from "disparate" sources", to quote drinkypoo.
Comment Geeky formats? (Score 2) 313
I could see why FLAC would be considered a geeky format, but MKV? It's pretty common, is it not?
Comment AI (Score 1) 90
a living, breathing algorithm
Wow.
Comment Interesting discussions here (Score 1) 1746
In the comments above I've read some of the most interesting discussions I've seen in a while around here. This is the stuff I come to
Comment Re:I support Mr. Mikko Hyppone (Score 2) 248
Motörhead.
Submission + - Linus Torvalds No Longer Ranked in the Top 100 Linux Kernel developers (eweek.com)
darthcamaro writes: The Linux Foundation's Who Writes Linux report is now out and after 22 yrs leading Linux, Linux creator Linus Torvalds this year has fallen out of the list of top 100 developers in terms of code contributions.
Torvalds currently ranks 101st on the latest "Who Writes Linux" report for number of patches generated from the Linux 3.3 to the Linux 3.10 kernel releases. Topping the list is Linux kernel developer H Hartley Sweeten with 2.3 percent of changes. Sweeten is followed by kernel developer Mark Brown, who contributed 1.5 percent of changes.
Comment Named after a ship (Score 1) 458
My SSID is the name of a ship of the explorer my street was named after.
Comment Re:As I keep having to say to my older family.. (Score 1) 352
I pent cars for a living, you insensitive clod.
Comment Re:8 year old's question (Score 1) 173
Thanks! The article even has a heading called "What space is the universe expanding into?".
Comment Re:8 year old's question (Score 1) 173
Thanks! I've read about the balloon analogy, but it's hard for me to grasp. I'm not made for this, I guess.
Comment Re:8 year old's question (Score 1) 173
Question 2
There is no space & time outside the physical universe.
Are you sure? How do you know?
Etc. etc. ad infinitum. It's a good answer though, even I can understand it and it's helpful. Thanks!
Comment Re:8 year old's question (Score 4, Funny) 173
On behalf of all 8 year olds: thank you, that was very informative. As for myself: I'm supposed to have an IQ well above 130, but it would probably take me months to make sense of that page.
Comment 8 year old's question (Score 4, Insightful) 173
It expands into what?
Submission + - CompSci researchers: What Developers Call "Agile" Often Isn't (hp.com)
Esther Schindler writes: "When sociological researchers studied the cultural effects of Agile methodologies on workforces, they made two unanticipated discoveries: One, companies adopting Agile actually struggle more to cope with the side-effects. Two, development teams that succeed in producing better products and pleasing customers aren’t exactly using Agile after all. In “Agile” Often Isn’t, Scott Fulton delves deep into the findings. For example:
Entitled “Agile Undercover,” the first report from Hoda and her colleagues demonstrated conclusively that Agile development teams were failing to communicate with their customers — not just occasionally, but mainly. And in order to ameliorate the impact of these failures, teams and their companies were making active, intentional efforts to keep customers in the dark about their development practices, including their schedules of deliverables.
There's more. A bunch more."
Submission + - Nazi Buddha Came From Outer Space
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "BBC reports that scientists say a 1,000-year old ancient Buddhist statue with a swastika on its stomach that was recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite that crashed about 15,000 years ago in the border region of eastern Siberia and Mongolia. And although it may seem that the story of this priceless object owes more perhaps to an Indiana Jones film script than sober scientific research, the "Iron Man" was discovered in Tibet in 1938 by German scientist Ernst Schafer whose expedition was supported by the Nazis, in particular by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS who believed the Aryan race originated in Tibet and was keen to recover objects from the area. The German and Austrian scientists who worked on the Iron Man were surprised to be able to trace the statue to a specific event in meteorite history. "I was absolutely sure it was a meteorite when I saw it first, even at 10 meters" says Geologist Elmar Buchner . "It is rich in nickel, it is rich in cobalt. Less than 0.1% of all meteorites and less than 1% of iron meteorites are ataxites, so it is the rarest type of meteorites you can find." Chemistry tests show the 23-pound statue's iron matches fragments of the "Chinga" meteorite field found near the Tibetan-Mongolian border in 1913 by gold prospectors. The material's hardness comes from its high iron content in addition to containing some 16 percent nickel."
