Comment Re:I voted "My mom"... (Score 3, Funny) 402
Howard, is that you?
Comment I voted "My mom"... (Score 1) 402
... but I am only visiting today, I swear!!! I have my own basement now.
Comment Re:It's Easy! ...to disable! (Score 1) 408
Now if there was some easy way to disable the horrible, over-scripted image result page layout I'd be a happy camper!
How about clicking on "Switch to basic version" at the bottom of the page. Happy camping.
Comment Re:It gets sillier all the time. (Score 1) 452
Fair point.
Comment Re:It gets sillier all the time. (Score 4, Insightful) 452
"Why would it appear to be random noise?"
"How would we decode it?"
It is a big stretch to say that because you cannot decode it it would look like a random noise. I cannot read Chinese but I can recognize it from random noise. The argument is invalid - to recognize a message, we do not need to understand the message.
KDE 4.5 Released 302
An anonymous reader writes "KDE 4.5.0 has been released to the world. See the release announcement for details. Highlights include a Webkit browser rendering option for Konqueror, a new caching mechanism for a faster experience and a re-worked notification system. Another new feature is Perl bindings, in addition to Python, Ruby and JavaScript support. The Phonon multimedia library now integrates with PulseAudio. See this interview with KDE developer and spokesperson Sebastian Kugler on how KDE can continue to be innovative in the KDE4 age. Packages should be available for most Linux distributions in the coming days. More than 16000 bug fixes were committed since 4.4."
Submission + - "Troll in a van" (stuff.co.nz)
An anonymous reader writes: Ric Richardson, the "man in a van" battling Microsoft in a patent suit worth hundreds of millions of dollars, is now taking the fight to tech giants including Sony and McAfee
Submission + - Microsoft losing big to Apple in the campus OS war (virginia.edu)
destinyland writes: Apple has nearly surpassed Microsoft's share of operating systems among the computers of incoming freshmen at the University of Virginia, confirming earlier reports of an ongoing change. A yearly survey shows that among 3,156 freshman who own computers, Microsoft's share is just 56%, with Apple's share rising up to 43%, continuing a big five-year trend. Microsoft's share dropped 6% from the previous year, while Apple's rose 6% — though just five years ago, Microsoft's share was on 86% vs 13% for Apple. "It seems likely that the Mac-using students will outnumber their Windows cousins this school year," notes one technology blog, citing an new study showing that 70 percent of college freshman are choosing the Mac. Other interesting data from the Virginia study: In 1997, 26% of incoming freshmen said they didn't own a computer, a number which has now dropped to 0. And 99% of their computers are now laptops.
A Quick Look At KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 122
dmbkiwi writes "The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us."
Comment Re:Love the space program (Score 1) 152
The Rover's were not designed for only 90 day missions... they were designed to guarantee 90 days. That's a different story. (I am not saying that what they have achieved is not a huge thing... it is. But it is incorrect to say that they have been designed to last 90 days.)
Comment Re:Jumps out? (Score 1) 276
Why not? What is wrong with the numbers? A statistically significant result (and I guess this one from a 52-million sample is significant) can be of any size... even if the difference was only 0,0001 %, it could be a valid result. And of course they would choose such a scale for the charts that makes the trends visible.
Comment Re:Jumps out? (Score 1) 276
No... the effect can be statistically significant without being large. Of course the charts look more dramatic if you "zoom in", but the fact that the difference is only 0,5 % does not make it insignificant. And with the sample size of 52 million children, the results are probably very significant (too bad the article seems to omit the p-value for the tests).
Comment Conception in July/August (Score 4, Funny) 276
I see the explanation in the fact that married and educated women have sex with their man only once a year during their holiday in July/August. :)
Comment Re:Both will stay relevant (Score 1) 455
No, it is not the final product - you have to factor in how much money/effort was needed. How the product changes thru time. You cannot equate the product and the development method. Yes, the development method influences how the product will be successful. But it is not the only influence.
