Comment Perhaps they should look at MSN search on IE (Score 0, Troll) 261

by OurGodlivz on Thursday November 20, 2008 @10:11AM (#25831613) Attached to: IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship

Perhaps the IRS should look to see how much Microsoft is making off of having MSN be the default in Internet Explorer... After all something has to be default, why not get some money out of it. *Yes, I understand that IE is not a non-profit and thus it is not in the same boat*

Comment Perhaps the push has pushed them away? (Score 1) 1563

by OurGodlivz on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @12:49PM (#25803153) Attached to: Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science?

Perhaps all the pushing to get them in has pushed them away. Maybe some people don't like to get scholarships to do something just based on their gender or skin color, instead of how smart they really are.

Comment Re:How does she know? (Score 1) 564

by OurGodlivz on Sunday November 16, 2008 @11:17AM (#25777463) Attached to: Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree?

I agree here. I just recently graduated with a mathematics degree and found Number Theory and Abstract Algebra to be my most enjoyable classes because of the imagination they required. The higher in mathematics one goes, the more creativity and out the box thinking one needs. Still, I would suggest so go to a smaller private institution where she can have more interaction with professors and not declare a major. Just let her try some various classes she thinks she would like and see how it goes. At the top institutions you rarely get to interact with the professors because they are so large. (Until Grad school...)

Submission + - FCC head wants to unlock wireless devices

Submitted by

[TheBORG]

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @11:08AM

[TheBORG] writes: "The proposed rules would apply only to the spectrum being auctioned, not the rest of the wireless business, which still makes most of its revenue from voice calls. But Martin's proposal, if adopted by the FCC, could reverberate through a U.S. wireless industry that has tightly controlled access to devices and services. The Apple iPhone is a prime example: Like most devices sold in the USA, the iPhone is, in industry parlance, "locked." It allows only features and applications that Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) provide and works only with an AT&T contract. The FCC chairman said he has grown increasingly concerned that the current practices "hamper innovations" dreamed up by outside developers. One example: Mobile devices that also can use Wi-Fi, such as a home network or airport "hot spot," for Internet access. "Internationally, Wi-Fi handsets have been available for some time," Martin noted. "But they are just beginning to roll out here.""

Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone 343

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @09:53AM from the they-can-make-it-smaller-they-have-the-technology dept.

bigkahunafish writes "It seems Apple is planning a cheaper version of the iPhone possibly based on the iPod Nano. This phone would be priced below $300 making it more affordable than the $500-600 iPhone. This should bring Apple phone technology into the hands of more users, though this cheaper phone could have more limited functionality. From the article: 'Sales of the [original] iPhone are expected to be limited to a small percentage of the market due to its high price tag, particularly in the United States where 85 percent of consumers tend to spend $100 or less on cell phones. But analysts forecast that a cheaper phone from Apple, which leads the digital music player market, could pose a much bigger threat to long-established phone makers such as Nokia, Motorola Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Sony Ericsson, owned by Sony Corp and Ericsson.' I just hope they don't make a phone based on the iPod Shuffle."

Submission + - Instrumented GIMP to Identify Usability Flaws

Submitted by Mike on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @04:24AM

Mike writes: New users of the GIMP often become frustrated at the application's unwieldy user interface. For this reason Prof. Michael Terry and a group of researchers at the University of Waterloo have created ingimp, an modified version of the GIMP that collects real-time usability data. Terry recently gave a lecture about ingimp and the data it collects. During each session, ingimp records events such as document creation, window manipulation, and tool use. A log of these events is sent to the ingimp server for analysis. The project hopes to answer questions such as "What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user?" and "Is GIMP used primarily for photo editing or drawing?" Answers to these questions will help the GIMP developers find and fix GIMP's usability problems. For more information about ingimp, visit the project's web site.

Submission + - Canonical Begins to Open-Source Launchpad (ubuntu.com)

Submitted by

kripkenstein

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @03:55AM

kripkenstein writes: "Canonical, the corporation behind Ubuntu, has begun to open-source Launchpad. Canonical has been criticized for not doing so earlier.

The first component of Launchpad to be open-sourced is Storm, described as an "object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python". A tutorial with many examples is available. The license for storm is the LGPL 2.1 (inspection of the several source files shows they contain the common "either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version", implying that Storm is LGPLv3-compatible)."