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Comment Re:What I don't get (Score 1) 545

by SilentStrike on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @10:11AM (#20236083) Attached to: Manhattan 1984

With any toll road, you are adding additional funds to the states particular highway funds which are going where? Secondly, you are discriminating access to public services/resources based upon financial status.

I strongly approve of this. Let it be only the ultra rich, the economically necessary vehicles, cabs, and busses be in Manhattan. Let's put the funds toward public transit in the area.

Why is it that I can take a train for 70 miles in 50 minutes in Switzerland, but a 40 mile train ride from New Jersey to New York takes 90 minutes?

Hell, I am living car free in New Jersey now, it's not hard to do around Manhattan. I am sure walking the streets would be only more pleasant with fewer cars.

Journal Journal: 2006 warmest year on record in the U.S 2

Journal by whathappenedtomonday on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @06:34PM

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reports that 2006 was the warmes year on record in the US. "No cause for alarm. Enjoy it while you have it," said Mike Halpert, head of forecast operations at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center. Jeff Masters disagrees and

Submission + - First Look At Final OLPC Design

Submitted by

blackbearnh

on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @06:30PM

blackbearnh writes: "At the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, AMD hosted a presentation of the final Industrial Prototype of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop. Linux Today has extensive reporting, including new photos and details about power consumption, networking details, and the logistics of distributing and servicing what will be the largest rollout of any computing platform in history, 5 million units in the first year. This will represent nearly a 10% increase in the total worldwide laptop production for 2007."

Journal Journal: How truly open is Flash? Do we need "Open Flash"? 2

Journal by nickull on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @06:14PM

This is a post made by David Mendels that inspired me to get this message out. I too have noticed that a few people Still perceive Flash as a proprietary technology. If you are one of those, read this then ask yourself the two questions at the end. I had a completely different view of Flash before Adobe and Macromedia merged. David writes: (Some basic points)

The Flash programming language (ActionScript) is 100% ECMASCript, a s

Submission + - Gentoo on the PS3 - Full install instructions

Submitted by on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @05:12PM

An anonymous reader writes: My friend Jake just bought a PS3, and he wanted to install Linux on it. Since he didn't know much about Linux, it was my responsibility to help him with it. His requirements — Install a distribution which is easy to maintain and run. He wanted to make the full use of his Linux install, so he needed a distro which wouldn't hold him back with frustrating problems. The only solution was using a distro which had a better package management system, and did its work without bothering you, the end user. Having used Gentoo extensively, I knew that this would be the solution to my problems. What follows is full install instructions, plus personal opinions, on why Gentoo is better than Fedora Core or YDL on the PS3

Open nVidia Linux Driver Pledge Nearly Complete 221

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @05:01PM from the encouragement dept.

Ciarán Mooney writes to let us know that the Pledgebank drive to raise $10,000 for Project Nouvaeu is almost complete — at this moment it needs only 196 more people to sign up. Project Nouveau aims to provide open source 3D acceleration for nVidia cards. The drive was started by David Nielsen, whose blog explains what he hopes will happen.

Google Code Jam Registration Opens Today 129

Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday August 14, 2006 @06:23PM from the best-and-brightest dept.

Bamfarooni writes "Registration for Google Code Jam 2006 opens today. The event consists of 3 online rounds (September 5-6, September 14 and September 19,) in which participants compete to solve three coding problems faster and more accurately than their competitors. If you've got what it takes, and more of it than anyone else, then you can take home up to $10k for your code-fu."

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