Flanders - Slashdot User

Comment Enough to preserve Apollo 11 site. (Score 1) 339

by Flanders on Friday June 05, 2009 @06:19AM (#28220001) Attached to: Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings

I think it's enough to preserve the Apollo 11 landing site. That was after all where the human race first walked on the lunar surface.

The other sites are after all not that valuable, instead they should be cleaned up from all the trash the astronauts/tourists left behind ;)

Comment Re:KDevelop 4 and Qt Creator (Score 1) 1055

by Flanders on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @04:02AM (#28106335) Attached to: What Free IDE Do You Use?

I'm using Qt Creator at work and find it really promising.
It's also worth to mention that it has a visual debugger and Git integration. The only negative thing is the file system browser sidebar, there should definitely be an option for a tree view. What I'm also missing is (better) support for development in Scratchbox.

Submission + - Nokia Buys Navteq for $8.1 Billion (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

mytrip

on Monday October 01, 2007 @01:44PM

mytrip writes: "Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said today that it had agreed to pay $8.1 billion for Navteq, the maker of digital mapping and navigational software based in Chicago, as it seeks to migrate satellite-based location services onto its range of phones.

Nokia's president and chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, said that location-based services were a cornerstone of Nokia's Internet services strategy, which is part of an overall plan to expand beyond the production of cellphones into user services like photos, video, music and games.

Navteq data is used by Google Maps, Google Earth , numerous other online services, and many GPS products."

Feed How-To: Make an Xbox 360 laptop (part 2) (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @12:12PM

Filed under: Features, Gaming, Laptops

We're building an Xbox 360 laptop -- exciting, right? In part 1 of this series we covered removing ports from the Xbox 360, and rewiring both the DVD and hard drive. Now today in part 2 we'll get to the meat and potatoes of the case design, heat sink modification, the start of the case construction and the hacking of the LCD monitor and power supplies. Ready to rumble?

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Store Says DRM Causes 3 of 4 Support Calls 155

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @02:07PM from the cost-shifting dept.

Carter writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Musicload, one of Europe's largest movie stores, has found that 75% of its customer support problems are caused by DRM. Users have frequent problems using the music that they have purchased, which has led Musicload to try selling independent label music without DRM. Artists choosing to abandon DRM in favor of good old-fashioned MP3 have seen 40% growth in sales since December. Good to see someone in the business both 'gets it' and is willing to do something about it."

Submission + - MIT Drops DRM Laden Journal Subscription

Submitted by Gibbs-Duhem on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @01:26PM

Gibbs-Duhem writes: Nice to see that some market forces are working against DRM. Of course, the big difference between this situation and music is that the professors aren't being paid to submit to the journal, so the journal turning around and restricting access to that work is even more ridiculous. Here is a case where the threat of those professors no longer publishing in that journal may well be enough of a danger that the SAE removes the DRM from their software.

From the Article:

The MIT Libraries have canceled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers' web-based database of technical papers, rejecting the SAE's requirement that MIT accept the imposition of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology.

SAE's DRM technology severely limits use of SAE papers and imposes unnecessary burdens on readers. With this technology, users must download a DRM plugin, Adobe's "FileOpen," in order to read SAE papers. This plugin limits use to on-screen viewing and making a single printed copy, and does not work on Linux or Unix platforms.

MIT faculty respond

"It's a step backwards," says Professor Wai Cheng, SAE fellow and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, who feels strongly enough about the implications of DRM that he has asked to be added to the agenda of the upcoming SAE Publication Board meeting in April, when he will address this topic.

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Most Digital Content Not Stable 353

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @12:55PM from the define-stable dept.

brunes69 writes "The CBC is running an article profiling the problems with archiving digital data in New Brunswick's provincial archives. Quote from the story: 'I've had audio tape come into the archives, for example, that had been submerged in water in floods and the tape was so swollen it went off the reel, and yet we were able to recover that. We were able to take that off and dry it out and play it back. If a CD had one-tenth of one per cent of the damage on one of those reels, it wouldn't play, period. The whole thing would be corrupted'. Given the difficulties with preserving digital data, is it really the medium we should be using for archival purposes?"

New Mexico Might Declare Pluto a Planet 328

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @02:11PM from the dwarf-schwmarf dept.

pease1 writes "Wired and others are reporting that for New Mexico, the fight for Pluto is not over. Seven months after the International Astronomical Union downgraded the distant heavenly body to a 'dwarf planet,' a state representative in New Mexico aims to give the snubbed world back some of its respect. State lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a bill that proposes that 'as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico's excellent night skies, it be declared a planet.' The lawmaker who introduced the measure represents the county in which Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto's discoverer, was born. For many of us old timers, and those who had the honor of meeting Clyde, this just causes a belly laugh and is pure fun. Not to mention a bit of poking a stick in the eye."

Submission + - Prescription Meds for Windows Vista Sleep Disorder

Submitted by

Arnold O'Connor

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @02:17PM

Arnold O'Connor writes: "NeoSmart Technologies has compiled a list of hotfixes and patches provided by Microsoft for Windows Vista SP1 that address a (large) number of issues related to waking/resuming a Windows Vista (both x86 and x64) PC from sleep or hibernation. Sleep-related disorders have plagued Windows Vista since its release, and most are due to be included in Windows Vista SP1 (Codenam Fiji)."

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