Comment Parenting FAIL (Score -1, Troll) 94
Not only is your kid dying, but you let him be a Star Wars fan? Now, an Enterprise D fort? WIN
Comment Excitement and Let-Down (Score 1) 168
For a moment I thought the headline read: "Dissolvable Glass for Boner Repair".
Comment Breakthrough Screens and Women (Score 1) 140
I like my PC screens the way I like my women: bendy.
Comment Simplicity/Complexity in the Eye of the Beholder (Score 1) 308
I find arguments from simplicity/complexity to be pointless. Both are relative in the scope of the universe, hence there's no way to truly define one or the other.
Furthermore, the riddle "if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" can be applied to human observance of simplicity/complexity in the universe. If no one is here to observe it, are there any true simple/complex things? I don't think so. The universe just is the way it is and our limited, but increasing scope of it proves nothing in the realm of intelligent design, rather only continues to raise more questions.
A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems 244
An anonymous reader writes "As part of his 1680-page book Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, Amit Singh of kernelthread.com wrote a very detailed technical history of Apple's operating systems. Since he had to cut down on the history chapter because of the book's already too-large size, most of this chapter didn't make it to the printed book. Singh has made available the history chapter as a free PDF. The file is 140 pages long, and is generously filled with figures and screenshots. It starts with the internals of the original Apple I and goes through a tour of all operating systems Apple dabbled with, including internals of A/UX, Lisa OS, and such. It even covers details of outside influences like the Xerox Alto, STAR System, Smalltalk, and Sketchpad, and closer to home things like Mach, NeXTStep, and OpenStep."
Intel Launching 'Merom' Notebook Processor 201
Hans Pecheston writes "Merom, Intel's notebook processor, will be joining in the festivities at their upcoming launch event. This chip will continue to use the Core 2 Duo brand and should display additional improvements in performance and power consumption over the current chips. Intel has already begun to ship Merom processors to its PC customers and systems with Merom should begin to appear around the end of August."
Porting to the Linux Standard Base 41
An anonymous reader writes "If an application conforms to the Linux Standard Base (LSB), and a flavor of Linux is LSB compliant, the application is guaranteed to run. This tutorial, written by Martin Streicher, Editor in Chief of Linux Magazine, ensures that your code runs reliably on as many Linux flavors as possible. It shows you how to port your apps to the Linux Standard Base, then takes you through the LSB test tools to verify conformance."
