Comment Interesting (Score -1, Flamebait) 88
Sounds kind of like a giant spiral fractal. So it took a year just to calculate this?
Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market 686
alx5000 writes "In an interview conducted last week with Consumer Eroski (link in Spanish; Google translation), the father of Tetris Alexey Pajitnov claimed that 'Free Software should have never existed,' since it 'destroys the market' by bringing down companies that create wealth and prosperity. When asked about Red Hat or Oracle's support-oriented model, he called them 'a minority,' and also criticized Stallman's ideas as 'belonging to the past' where there were no software 'business possibilities.'"
Journal SPAM: Is Mankind Shortening the Life of the Whole Universe? 8
Like Schroedinger's cat, looking from inside the box, two American physicists have postulated that our study of the universe may have shortened the lifetime of the cosmos. Quantum theory says that when we measure something, we select a specific quantum state from a multitude of states, each with varying probabilities. The result in observing dark energy, is that we may have confirmed a state whe
Feed New Scientist: The swamp fish that loves to live in trees (pheedo.com)
Not only does it have a bizarre sex life, the mangrove killifish has an unusual way of surviving dry periods
Journal SPAM: What a fucking bitch 8
Ladies and gents, the Democratic leadership:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday. She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs.
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