Comment HTML (Score 1) 126
HTML is the way to go for the web. It allows hyperlinks and such fancy stuff.
KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing 187
An anonymous reader writes "KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers."
Comment Re:Beautiful pictures (Score 1) 149
Just visit his web site. It's all there.
http://www.astropix.co.uk/equipment.html
Comment What about Google? (Score 2, Insightful) 368
So why isn't Google more involved in kernel development? I assume they use Linux extensively and hence make billions from using it. Do no evil, do no good?
Comment A million lines is nothing (Score 1) 395
Just checked only libraries I've written in my spare time, and that's half a million lines. Those half a million lines have been refactored countless times. Including projects and actual paid-for work, it's easily a couple of million lines. Then again I've been programming for 20 years.
Comment Re:More than a million? (Score 1) 395
>A million lines means 100 lines of code Every working day of every year for 50 years.
>Um, no, that would be 1,250,000 lines of code.
Pedantic much?
Comment Fidonet (Score 1) 1049
Blah, this new AOL thing, I'll stick to my Fidonet address thanks.
Astronomers Discover 33 Pairs of Waltzing Black Holes 101
Astronomers from UC Berkeley have identified 33 pairs of waltzing black holes, closing the gap somewhat between the observed population of super-massive black hole pairs and what had been predicted by theory. "Astronomical observations have shown that 1) nearly every galaxy has a central super-massive black hole (with a mass of a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun), and 2) galaxies commonly collide and merge to form new, more massive galaxies. As a consequence of these two observations, a merger between two galaxies should bring two super-massive black holes to the new, more massive galaxy formed from the merger. The two black holes gradually in-spiral toward the center of this galaxy, engaging in a gravitational tug-of-war with the surrounding stars. The result is a black hole dance, choreographed by Newton himself. Such a dance is expected to occur in our own Milky Way Galaxy in about 3 billion years, when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy."
