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Comment Re:Don't let the door hit ya (Score 1) 163

by Trenjeska (#63483414) Attached to: Microsoft is Done With Major Windows 10 Updates

Since Win11 update fails on my system, guess I'll be learning how to run my games on Linux.

It is possible for a large swat of games.
Lazy mode is to turn on proton in (linux) Steam for all games and most do work.
The only games that don't work (that well or not at all) are games which force you to run a 'launcher' and/or explicitly forbid usage on non windows operating systems due to outdated 'anti'-cheat software (or simply refusing to use the perfectly fine linux build of said 'anti'-cheat software)
Beyond that, there is Lutris for all non steam games. (basically Proton/Wine framework collection for not-Steam windows software) Which tries to offer the same point and click interface to just run windows games without (too much) fiddling.
(switched from win 7 around the end of LTS to Pop_os linux)

Comment Re:How is this legal? (Score 1) 146

by Trenjeska (#61649519) Attached to: Google Delays Return To Office, Mandates Vaccines

In the EU (and specifically in The Netherlands in this case) it is strictly forbidden to ASK questions about personal life during job interviews (and on the job): not about hobbies, not about family, not about planning family. As any of the answers or non answers may divulge information about your beliefs and opinions, which the employer may not know about due to discriminatory biases stemming from those beliefs and/or opinions.

Submission + - Google mulling Wi-Fi for cities with Google Fiber (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: Google is considering deploying Wi-Fi networks in towns and cities covered by its Google Fiber high-speed Internet service. The disclosure is made in a document Google is circulating to 34 cities that are the next candidates to receive Google Fiber in 2015. Specific details of the Wi-Fi plan are not included in the document, which was seen by IDG News Service, but Google says it will be "discussing our Wi-Fi plans and related requirements with your city as we move forward with your city during this planning process."

Submission + - Nokia Officially Ends up in Microsoft's Deep Pockets 2

Submitted by SmartAboutThings
SmartAboutThings writes: It was quite a surprise when we heard back in September, last year, that Microsoft was going to acquire Nokia’s Devices and Services unit for just $5 billion. And today, more than eight months after the announcement, the company whose name was once synonymous with “mobile phone”, gets officially acquired by the Microsoft behemoth. Just as a reminder, $7.2 billion is the price that Microsoft paid for the acquisition. The merger will have a big impact on Nokia’s employees, as Microsoft will transder approximately 25,000 workers from around the world. The company also mentioned that Nokia’s factory from Masan, South Korea, and the factory in Chennai, India, will stay with Nokia.

Submission + - Algorithm Distinguishes Memes from Ordinary Information (medium.com)

Submitted by KentuckyFC
KentuckyFC writes: Memes are the cultural equivalent of genes: units that transfer ideas or practices from one human to another by means of imitation. In recent years, network scientists have become increasingly interested in how memes spread, work that has led to important insights into the nature of news cycles, into information avalanches on social networks and so on. But what exactly makes a meme and distinguishes it from other forms of information is not well understood. Now a team of researchers has developed a way to automatically distinguish scientific memes from other forms of information for the first time. Their technique exploits the way scientific papers reference older papers on related topics. They scoured the half a million papers published by Physical Review between 1893 and 2010 looking for common words or phrases. They define an interesting meme as one that is more likely to appear in a paper that cites another paper in which the same meme occurs. In other words, interesting memes are more likely to replicate. They end up with a list of words and phrases that have spread by replication and can also see how this spreading has changed over the last 100 years. The top five phrases are: loop quantum cosmology, unparticle, sonoluminescence, MgB2 and stochastic resonance; all of which are important topics in physics. The team say the technique is interesting because it provides a way to distinguish memes from other forms of information that do not spread in the same way through replication.

Submission + - The debate ends - Siphons work due to gravity and not atmospheric pressure (theguardian.com)

Submitted by knwny
knwny writes: Peeved by the widespread misconception that siphons work because of atmospheric pressure, physics lecturer Dr. Stephen Hughes, wrote a mail to the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary(OED) pointing out the error. To back his claim, Dr.Hughes tested a siphon inside a hypobaric chamber to check if changes in atmospheric pressure had any effect on the siphon and demonstrated that gravity and not atmospheric pressure was the driving principle. The paper detailing his experiment was published in Nature. The OED spokesperson responded saying that his suggestions would be taken into account during the next rewrite.

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