WilliamSChips - Slashdot User

Comment Re:No it isn't (Score 1) 690

by WilliamSChips on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @08:32AM (#24478403) Attached to: How To Fix the Poor Usability of Free Software

For example most people find it much harder to memorize lines of commands than to look through a set of icons

This is dead fucking wrong. Look at this picture. Tell me, which tabs made immediate sense to you? Hint: they weren't the ones with icons on them.

Submission + - Merck to Halt Lobbying for Vaccine for Girls

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @03:20PM

theodp writes: "Reacting to a furor from some parents, advocacy groups and public health experts, Merck said yesterday that it would stop lobbying state legislatures to require the use of its new cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, which acts against strains of the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus. The $400 3-shot regimen was approved by the FDA in June. Later that month, a federal advisory panel recommended that females 11-26 years old be vaccinated. The governor of Texas has already signed an executive order making its use mandatory for schoolgirls."

Feed Japan Launches 4th Spy Satellite (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Saturday February 24, 2007 @03:12PM

With the successful launch, the country can monitor activities worldwide and better observe neighboring North Korea's nuclear program. By the Associated Press.

Submission + - MSFT Plays up Open Source

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24, 2007 @12:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: One of the longest running open source databases — Postgres — has been around for nearly 11 years (I think.) The powerful object-relational database is a direct competitor to other OSS databases, as well as Microsoft's SQL Server 2005. So why is Microsoft promoting it? Thursday, Microsoft's open source software lab posted PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer. At first, I get Redmond's interest in promoting anything that runs on Windows as a platform. But looking at this week's news: Ian Murdock visits Redmond, Microsoft and Novell announced their technical roadmap & Red Hat joins Microsoft's Interop Vendor program — is something bigger brewing in Bill's backyard? And how does Ballmer feel about this? The post is located at: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2007/02/22/postg resql-on-windows-a-primer.aspx

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