Comment Re:Cool Story, Bro (Score 1) 676
I forgot about that lol. I guess this means that even WM 6.5 is better than Windows Phone 7.
Comment Re:Cool Story, Bro (Score 1) 676
In all fairness to Microsoft, they have to compete not only with the iPhone's hardware and iOS, but also Apple's marketing department and Jobs' Reality Distortion Field. However, in my opinion, Windows Phone 7 will not be able to kill off the iPhone because it's missing too much core functionality (copy/paste and I believe secure Exchange support) but it is still a step up from WM 6.5.
Comment Re:As A Georgia Resident... (Score 1) 421
Even though the headline confused some people, the capital 'C' in college in aforementioned headline is grammatically correct. This is due to the word 'college' being in the title of an article, where it is appropriate to capitalize all words (with a few exceptions such as 'the', 'of', and 'a' when those words are not the first word in the title).
Comment Re:Proprietary (Score 1) 203
To be honest, I don't think it matters what kind of software people use in day-to-day computing operations. It seems to me that the Stallman followers argue for freedom to do what one wishes with one's computer and software; however if that choice includes 'non-free' or proprietary software it's wrong for one to use it. I wish Stallman and his followers would just stop being so hypocritical.
Comment Re:How does (Score 1) 1088
Well if Wikileaks is leaking troop movements, battle plans, etc. they would be putting troops in danger of being ambushed, etc. which will certainly put our various countries' armed forces in unnecessary danger. (hypothetically speaking of course, i know of no incident of this occuring)
Comment Re:It happens? (Score 1) 358
The Bible in various places describes the world as round as well.
Isaiah 40:22 and parts of Job are some examples.
Comment Re:Is this test legal in the US...? (Score 0, Flamebait) 547
The problem with athiests these days is that they personally attack people that have a religion. Most people that believe in God don't go trying to convert everyone they see, yet are personally attacked daily for their 'stupidity in believing theres a god LOLOLOL'.
TL;DR personal attacks make you look like an ass.
Comment Re:Please answer a few simple questions. (Score 1) 848
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645
^ Article above talks about a theory that oil may be a renewable resource. TL;DR: methane gas hits pockets of hot temperatures and condenses the heavier hydrocarbons into crude oil.
Comment Here We Go Again (Score 1) 848
Every time something like this is posted on /. everyone get in a huge flame war debating the virtues and consistencies of Evolution vs. Creationism/Intelligent Design. Anyone promoting evolution or debunking creationism often gets modded up, however anyone arguing for creationism often gets modded down.
I'm a creationist, a Christian, and I just ask that we teach both in schools since it is an ongoing scientific debate. Let the children decide for themselves through providing pro's/con's of both sides.
Comment Block Porn. Contact Henrico County, VA Schoolboard (Score 1) 1117
Block porn. Most parents won't like the idea of a government-issued laptop giving their testosterone-filled teenaged boys access to Internet porn. Games won't be as big of an issue (except for emulators), especially if you include some games with the laptop.
Talk to school board officials in Henrico County, VA if you haven't already. We were one of the first to start issuing laptops to students. Whatever you do, don't ever switch over to Windows if you value being able to teach the kids. No matter what kind of restrictions or security was in place, within 20 minutes we were able to get around it.
Comment Re:Hopefully (Score 5, Insightful) 207
Conservatives have no problem with stem-cell research. The problem is when the stem cells are harvested from a human embryo - during the process we end a human life.
The main question about embryonic stem-cells was 'Is it right to kill a human being to potentially save other lives?'
With this new breakthrough, it could be possible to save many lives without killing a potential human life.
Feed Sprint not ditching WiMAX yet, still open to Clearwire alliance (engadget.com)
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
While we already knew that Sprint was pondering a Clearwire alliance in order to potentially please investors and garner more value from its massive WiMAX expenditures, it doesn't seem that ditching the effort completely was ever truly on the table. According to a followup from Don Stroberg, VP for global broadband strategy at Sprint-Nextel, the company "is not getting out of the business of WiMAX by any means," but he did leave the possibility of a joint venture open for discussion. Referring to Clearwire's markets that "bump up against" Sprint's own, Don stated that "it would make sense to cooperate on how to utilize spectrum, how to coordinate on cell-site builds, on benchmarking, and so on," and concluded by proclaimed that "we wouldn't have to imagine too far to see how those things could work into other types of cooperation." Take it as you see it, but it doesn't sound like the higher-ups at Sprint would object to a partnership at this point in the game, no?Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Feed European Agency Backs In-Flight Calls (nytimes.com)
European regulators have cleared the use of mobile phones and BlackBerry devices by airline passengers during flights.
Submission + - Don't wait for Vista SP1, pleads Microsoft (apcmag.com)
SlinkySausage writes: ""Some customers may be waiting to adopt Windows Vista because they've heard rumors about device or application compatibility issues, or because they think they should wait for a service pack release," Microsoft has admitted in an email. The company is pleading with customers not to wait until the release of SP1 at the end of the year, launching a "fact rich" program to try to convince them to "proceed with confidence". The announcement coincides with an embarrassing double-backflip: Microsoft had pre-briefed journalists that it was going to allow home users to run Vista basic and premium under virtual machines like VMWare, but it changed its mind at the last minute and pulled the announcement."
Submission + - Joining an existing Open Source Project
Tathagata writes: I have been using GNU/Linux for quite sometime now. Though I'm from Computer Science background, getting into a project that really involves you into programming was not possible, as people(read teachers) run away, if you utter the word "linux". Being least bothered about mentoring an exciting project, they would suggest you to get settled with visual basic, .NET, — and would prefer a 24 hour solution when it comes to programming.(I'm a student in my final year, from a West Bengal, India). So my programming endeavours have remained limited to writing few lines of C/C++, Java.
For last few days I've been googling, and trying to read how to join an existing open source project, and avoid reinventing the wheel by starting yet another. I read people suggesting to start by submitting patches, fixing bugs, becoming package maintainer — but most are overloaded with jargon like upstream/downstream, nightly builds, etc. Added to that how does joining the mailing list, or irc channel help when you don't even understand their slangs, forget about the tech discussion? Distributed/centralised scm, track, bugzilla, launchpad, with sourceforge or freshmeat laden with an unlimited number of projects regarding everything you have ever come across — it quite an overwhelming world to step in. Could you suggest a road map, links to essential tools or a few projects, for people like me, who would want to improve their skills by contributing FOSS?
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