Submission + - Novell Forking OpenOffice.org
l2718 writes: In the wake of its recent deal with Microsoft, Novell has announced a fork of OpenOffice.org which will support Microsoft's planned Office formal, Open XML.
Journal Journal: Ask slashdot: Due notification 13
My question regarding the firehose/submittal question has been sent to CmdrTaco. If i get a response, i will post it.
Thanks,
sol
Journal Journal: Journals now automatically submitted as stories 11
And yes, if you go to the Firehose you'll see this Journal there.
I can't even begin to fathom the thought process behind this "behavior change".
Submission + - Yahoo Pushing IE 7 on FireFox Users
El Lobo writes: Looks like things are heating up again in the browser wars.
Google has been openly supporting Firefox, so now Yahoo is displaying a new feature at the bottom of search results pages for FireFox users. Checkout the screenshot on:
http://searchviews.com/archives/2006/12/yahoo_push ing_i.php
It appears that Yahoo is pushing downloads of the new IE 7 from Microsoft and including itself as the default search engine installed in the file menu area.
Google has been openly supporting Firefox, so now Yahoo is displaying a new feature at the bottom of search results pages for FireFox users. Checkout the screenshot on:
http://searchviews.com/archives/2006/12/yahoo_pus
It appears that Yahoo is pushing downloads of the new IE 7 from Microsoft and including itself as the default search engine installed in the file menu area.
Submission + - Google Won't Say Why It De-indexed Talk.Origins
J. J. Ramsey writes: "Talk.Origins is an archive with thousands of pages exposing creationist pseudoscience. Rather mysteriously, Google pulled the plug on its search engine, only giving the vague reason: "No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines." This may have been triggered by a recent cracking of the site that added "hidden links to non-topical sites," but curiously enough, Google won't say just what the violations were. As Wesley R. Elsberry, put it, "My mission, whether I liked it or not, was to find and fix whatever problem the TOA [Talk.Origins Archive] might have, with no guidance as to what the problem was and nothing at all about where to start looking.... I was extremely lucky. The damage to my site was limited and in the first place that I happened to look. Other honest webmasters might not be so lucky. They may have to undertake an arduous process of vetting pages, essentially having to second-guess the mind of the cracker in trying to locate a problem that Google knows the exact location of." This was probably a bad decision on Google's part, since Talk.Origins moved its business to Yahoo!. Oops.
Hat tip to blogger Larry Moran."
Hat tip to blogger Larry Moran."
Submission + - Computer monitor in eyeglasses
ozancakmakci writes: "We have all seen science fiction ideals of computer displays concealed in eyeglasses. One of the earlier spectacle based designs was created by David Bettinger and disclosed in US Patent 4,806,011. Regardless of market potential, there are several optical engineering challenges that need to be overcome before displays in eyeglasses become pervasive. From an optical engineering point of view, the design space is large enough and designers have to make choices. A good example of such a choice is choosing just the right field of view while maintaining high image quality and a large exit pupil. Exit pupil of an optical system is analogous to the windows at your home, the larger the windows, the easier it is to see the outside world. It has been challenging to design and fabricate a large field of view and a large exit pupil for an eyeglass based display. Advances in fabrication technologies are now allowing complicated surface profiles to be manufactured. Exploitation of a complicated surface profile leads to low element count designs. Researchers at the University of Central Florida, CREOL/College of Optics & Photonics have designed and fabricated a computer monitor in eyeglasses which uses sophisticated surface profiles to achieve a compact design. The current specifications include an 8mm exit pupil, 20 degree field of view, 15mm eye clearance, and 1.5 arcminute resolution. Two pictures of this latest prototype can be seen on this page."
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jbltgz writes "The Register is reporting that the long awaited Sun Grid Compute Utility has been opened to the public. Now you can run your CPU intensive jobs on a grid of AMD Opteron-based Sun Hardware for $1 per CPU per hour for a fraction of cost, in a fraction of the time."
Comment Re:Too bad.. (Score 2, Insightful) 437
1)"I wouldn't have paid for it anyway, so it's not a lost sale"
OK, so let's say I go in to get my car's wheels rebalanced (or some other service). When they're done.. I just drive off without paying. Have I done anything wrong? Well, what if "I wouldn't have paid for it anyway"? So it's not a lost sale!
Yes it is. In the time they spent balancing your wheels, they were unable to do other revenue-earning work. The time and effort involved here is a finite resource. This is in contrast to software, where copies can be made without using up the original.
Your example is more like walking into a shop, and stealing the CDs from the shelves without paying for them; this really does represent a lost sale, as the shop will no longer be able to sell those CDs. I doubt this is anywhere near as common as the "piracy" that the likes of the BSA are making a fuss about.
