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Comment Re:Cautiously Optimistic (Score 1) 132

by baharris18 on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @08:31AM (#29591807) Attached to: Google Wave Backstage

The major obstacle to wave, google docs, etc for usurping MS is who controls the data... at least from a large corporate company's perspective. If I'm a Fortune 500 company I don't want to be at the mercy of Google's servers and my ISP, let alone trust them with me data and IP... even if it can save me money by firing my IT staff, I gladly pay a fortune keeping them around to insure my IP stays mine, on my servers, under my control. If google can port docs and wave and other tools to apps/servers that can stay behind my corporate firewall on my *protected* intranet, then maybe it could replace MS... but still a long shot.

Comment time to buy some tinfoil... (Score 1) 1064

by baharris18 on Monday March 02, 2009 @09:02AM (#27038993) Attached to: Why Doctors Hate Science

Ok, so a someone who wants government funding says to ignore critics of the government... sounds like we should listen to her...

Comment Re:Libertarian (Score 1) 1010

by baharris18 on Friday October 24, 2008 @07:32AM (#25495929) Attached to: With US election so close, I'm preparing to ...

Sorry, can't vote for Babar, he's an autocrat (and not a US citizen)... oh wait, Bob you say?

Submission + - Amazon Invests in Dynamic Pricing Model for MP3s (amiestreet.com)

Submitted by NittanyTuring on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @12:08PM

NittanyTuring writes: Amazon recently closed a Series A financing deal with Amiestreet.com, a startup selling DRM-free MP3s with a demand-based pricing model. All music starts out free, and prices increase for popular tracks. Jeff Blackburn, Senior Vice President for Business Development, Amazon.com. 'The idea of having customers directly influence the price of songs is an interesting and novel approach to selling digital music.' What does this mean for Amazon's own intentions to sell music?

Submission + - The Completely Fair Scheduler's Impact on Games (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Tuesday July 31, 2007 @09:38AM

eldavojohn writes: "We've heard a bit about the completely fair scheduler in prior Linux stories but now the Kernel Trap looks at the implications this new scheduler has for 3D games in Linux although the famed Ingo Molnar has stated that his evaluation for 3D games is "good enough." Linus Torvalds noted, "I don't think _any_ scheduler is perfect, and almost all of the time, the RightAnswer(tm) ends up being not 'one or the other', but 'somewhere in between'. But at the same time, no technical decision is ever written in stone. It's all a balancing act. I've replaced the scheduler before, I'm 100% sure we'll replace it again. Schedulers are actually not at all that important in the end: they are a very very small detail in the kernel." The posts that follow the brief article, reveal that Linus seems quite confident that he made the right choice in his decision to merge CFS with the Linux kernel. One thing's for certain, gaming on Linux can't suffer any more setbacks or it may be many years before we see FOSS games rival the commercial world."

Submission + - Futurama Movie Set for November 27th (tvsquad.com)

Submitted by

kevin_conaway

on Monday July 30, 2007 @11:18AM

kevin_conaway writes: "TV Squad informs us that the new Futurama movie will be available on November 27th. The show will return as a full-length high-def film sold on DVD. It will be followed by three additional films, and each film will be divided into four episodes each to be aired on Comedy Central. So, that's 4 DVD movies or 16 new episodes depending on how you look at it."

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