Dice Fivefold - Slashdot User

Comment Hmm, for us non-Americans... (Score 1) 146

by Dice Fivefold on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @01:18AM (#29893421) Attached to: New DoD Memo On Open Source Software

When I contribute to OSS projects I like to think of it as doing some work for the good of the global community. What I don't like to think of it as, is to work for a foreign military for no pay. Actually I think i rather have foreign military spend some more on programmers and have less over to spend on bombs and soliders.

Is there some alternative OSS license that don't allow the software to be used for military purposes?

Comment Full article (Score 1) 117

by Dice Fivefold on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @07:22AM (#28767869) Attached to: Making Cesium Atoms Do a Quantum Walk

You can get the full article from the arxive:

http://arxiv1.library.cornell.edu/abs/0907.1565

It is really a beautiful experiment. I have never seen such a demonstration of how deterministic the propagation of the wavefunction is. By simply running the experiment backwards they manage to get the atom to go back to it's initial position in the walk.

Comment Availibe for Gutsy? (Score 1) 488

by Dice Fivefold on Friday April 03, 2009 @01:09PM (#27447547) Attached to: VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better

Does anyone know where or if it's even possible to find a binary of vlc 0.9.9 for gutsy gibbon? The one in ubuntus repositories is very dated.

Attempting To Reframe "KDE Vs. GNOME" 455

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 30, 2009 @05:00AM from the evolution-revolution dept.

jammag writes "Setting aside the now tired debate about whether KDE or GNOME is the 'better' Linux desktop, Bruce Byfield compares their disparate development approaches and asks, not which desktop is subjectively better, but which developmental approach is likely to be most successful in the next few years. 'In the short term, GNOME's gradualism seems sensible. But, in the long-term, it could very well mean continuing to be dragged down by support for legacy sub-systems. It means being reduced to an imitator rather than innovator.' In contrast, 'you could say that KDE has done what's necessary and ripped the bandage off the scab. In the short term, the result has been a lot of screaming, but, in the long term, it has done what was necessary to thrive.'"

Linux Kernel Benchmarks, 2.6.24-2.6.29 38

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:30PM from the impressive-span dept.

Ashmash writes "Phoronix has posted benchmarks of the Linux kernel from versions 2.6.24 to 2.6.29. They ran a number of desktop benchmarks from the Phoronix Test Suite on each of the six kernels on an Ubuntu host with an Intel Core 2 processor. The points they make with the new Linux 2.6.29 kernel are 1. there's a regression with 7-Zip compression 2. OpenSSL has improved significantly 3. a regression drastically impacting the SQLite performance has been fixed 4. the OpenMP GraphicsMagick performance is phenomenally better with this new kernel. In all of their other tests, the kernel performance was the roughly the same."

The Ouroborus 67

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 15, 2009 @02:14PM from the stop-eating dept.

If I could do this I'd never leave the house.

Black Holes Lead Galaxy Growth 50

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @10:03PM from the why-did-the-galaxy-cross-the-road dept.

The AAS meeting in San Diego is producing lots of news on the astronomy front. Studying galaxies that were forming in the universe's first billion years, astronomers have solved a longstanding cosmic chicken-and-egg problem: which forms first, galaxies or the black holes at their cores? "'We finally have been able to measure black-hole and bulge masses in several galaxies seen as they were in the first billion years after the Big Bang, and the evidence suggests that the constant ratio seen nearby may not hold in the early Universe. The black holes in these young galaxies are much more massive compared to the bulges than those seen in the nearby Universe,"' said Fabian Walter of the Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Germany. 'The implication is that the black holes started growing first.'"

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