JochenBedersdorfer - Slashdot User

Comment Get them early! (Score 0, Troll) 169

by JochenBedersdorfer on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @04:55PM (#27837455) Attached to: Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience

Ah, the old early indoctrination tactic again.
Well, not really that early to be effective, but still a nice try.

Organized religion is a scam

Comment Do you want to play quake RIGHT NOW! (Score 2, Informative) 93

by JochenBedersdorfer on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @03:16PM (#26985127) Attached to: <em>Quake Live</em> Public Beta Launches To High Demand

Want to play Quake now? From the browser?
No matter what Operating System?

Take a look at Jake2.

http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html

So where exactly is the innovation here?

Comment You should all be ashamed (Score 2, Interesting) 293

by JochenBedersdorfer on Sunday September 07, 2008 @03:13PM (#24912563) Attached to: OS/2 Community Tries Bounty System

It's not fair to make fun of OS/2.
OS/2 was a technology leader for a long time, it was the first OS to take the desktop metaphor seriously. Its programming model (SOM) and template system is still marvelous after all these years. It was the first OS with proper multi-threading support, with voice support etc. etc. Lots of innovations happenend on this platform.

It just had one problem: It was managed by IBM!

When OS/2 version 3 came out, it kicked ass compared to Win 3.11 and Win 95. Just imagine what would have happenend if IBM had decided to put a proper fight in the desktop war.

We would have a far more advanced OS by now.

Currently we are stuck with Vista, which is a graphical update of the interface concepts of Windows 3.11!

It's a shame we are stuck in the 90s wrt human computer interaction.

Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself 341

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 05, 2008 @07:57AM from the breed-like-robots dept.

TaeKwonDood writes "Automated machines have been around for decades. They have basically been dumb devices that do simple assembly tasks. But RepRap takes that a step further because, instead of assembling pre-fabricated parts, it creates 3-D objects by printing them — squirting molten plastic in layers — and then building them up as the plastic solidifies. It works on coat hooks, door handles and now it can even make working copies ... of itself. The miracle of additive fabrication, coming soon to a robotic overlord near you."

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