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Comment Re:I can name the dinos (Score 1) 154

by bouchecl on Saturday June 19, 2010 @12:37AM (#32622528) Attached to: Alberta Scientists Discover Largest-Ever Cache of Dinosaur Bones

Some of them even moved to Ottawa, where they loosely roam around the city to this day.

I heard through the grapevine that a specimen of a late evolution of the Manningodactyle will someday be exposed at the Canadian Museum of Nature rather than at the Museum of Civilization, on the other side of the Ottawa river, in order to avoid controversy.

Comment Re:Integrated with Linux? (Score 1) 591

by bouchecl on Friday June 27, 2008 @02:44PM (#23971411) Attached to: Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost

I'll bet most of the Firefox 3 users are Windows or Mac users. Not because Linux users don't love Firefox, but because the distros' repositories haven't made FF3 available.

Uhhhhhh? I've been running FF 3 on my Ubuntu and Fedora boxes since "Download Day". Both distros pushed the new release within hours.

Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity 149

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @09:33AM from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

MojoKid writes "Researchers at Ohio State University and the University of California, Irvine conducted a telephone study by randomly surveying individuals employed full-time who use computers in an office environment at least five hours per week. They netted 912 respondents, of which 29.8 percent claimed to use IM in the workplace 'to keep connected with coworkers and clients.' Neither occupation, education, gender, nor age seem to have an impact on whether an individual is an IM user or not. The study theorizes that using IM enables individuals to 'flag their availability.' Doing so can limit when IM interruptions occur. Even if an IM interruption comes when it is not necessarily convenient to the recipient, it is 'often socially acceptable' to ignore an incoming message or respond with a terse reply stating that the recipient is too busy at the moment to properly respond." Also another study recently found that water is wet, and a third study found that most studies waste money.

Submission + - Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs (desktoplinux.com) 3

Submitted by on Sunday December 09, 2007 @02:03PM

An anonymous reader writes: Desktop Linux has a recent commentary on the inevitable growth of Linux on the cheaper end of the desktop market. According to the article, the availability of under-$500 usable hardware, combined with free a operating system, free desktop office products, and free or cheap "Software as a service" online applications, opens a new market in which Microsoft cannot compete. "Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice of the desktop market pie."

Submission + - BBC creates 'Perl on Rails' 2

Submitted by Bogtha on Friday November 30, 2007 @06:16PM

Bogtha writes: Long-time users of Perl for their public websites, and having successfully used Ruby on Rails for internal websites, the BBC have fused the two by creating a 'Perl on Rails' that has the advantages of rapid development that Rails brings, while performing well enough to be used for the Beeb's high-traffic public websites. This is already powering one of their websites, and is set to be used in the controversial iPlayer project as well.

Colbert Ballot Bid Shot Down 501

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 01, 2007 @05:10PM from the can't-make-a-dishonest-living-no-more dept.

wizzard2k writes "Some of you may have seen Stephen Colbert's bid for the South Carolina Presidential Primary, however it seems his hopes to appear on the ballot as a candidate for the Democratic Party have been shot down. From the report: 'Stephen Colbert's bid to get on the ballot for the upcoming Democratic primary in his home state was shot down on Thursday (November 1) by the executive committee of the South Carolina Democratic Party. Colbert's bid was voted down 13-3 ... Using criteria such as whether the candidate was recognized in the national news media as a legitimate candidate and whether they'd actively campaigned in the state, the committee put the kibosh on the Colbert bid.'"

Feed Techdirt: Time To Do Away With Sleazy Checkbox Opt-Outs (techdirt.com)

From feed by techdirtfeed on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @09:32PM

We've all seen the practice of somewhat sleazy "opt-out" offerings on things. You sign up to buy something at an e-commerce site and you have to uncheck a box or you'll get bombarded by promotional emails for the rest of your life. However, Jeremy Wagstaff is pointing out one that's even more questionable. Apparently, on a Lenovo page for journalists, it includes two confusing checkboxes. The first says: "Please use e-mail to send me information about other offerings." The second says: "Please do not use this data to send me information about other offerings." They're checkboxes (not radio buttons), meaning that you can check none, one, the other or both... which raises some interesting questions. What happens if you check none or if you check both?

Feed Science Daily: One In Seven Americans Over Age 70 Has Dementia (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @09:12PM

One in seven Americans over the age of 70 suffers from dementia, according to the first known nationally representative, population-based study to include men and women from all regions of the country. Overall, the researchers found that Alzheimer's disease accounted for approximately 69.9 percent of all dementia, while vascular dementia -- often caused by stroke -- accounted for 17.4 percent.

Journal Journal: OpenDocument Format NOT in danger after all 1

Journal by Spy der Mann on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @07:40PM

Rob Weir did Slashdot a great favor by exposing the cracks in the OpenDocument Foundation. The Foundation's statement to abandon ODF sounded like a tragedy for the ODF Format, but in the end it turned out to be just FUD - why? Because the Foundation just happens to be completely isolated from the ODF community. From Rob's blog:

Submission + - Microsoft forces desktop search on windows update (theregister.co.uk) 2

Submitted by on Thursday October 25, 2007 @04:44AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Register is reporting that the blogosphere is alight with accusations of Microsoft forcing Windows Desktop Search upon networks via the "automatic install" feature of windows update — even if they had configured it not to use the program.
This comes not too long after the DoJ saying that they will no longer oversee compliance with the anti-trust judgement against Microsoft.
Are they up to their old tricks again? Google may want to pay attention to their actions.
Full story here — http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/25/windows_update_snafu/

Submission + - Samsung unveils 64Gbit flash memory chip (computerworld.com) 2

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @04:23PM

Lucas123 writes: "The chips can be combined to create a 128GB flash storage device capable of holding up to 80 DVD movies or 32,000 MP3 music files. The chip was created using 30-nanometer processing technology that was developed with Samsung's self-aligned double patterning technology."

Submission + - First Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Li 2

Submitted by

walterbyrd

on Thursday October 11, 2007 @10:29PM

walterbyrd writes: "According to the blog post on groklaw: IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, case no. 2:2007cv00447, IP Innovation, LLC et al v. Red Hat Inc. et al, in Texas. Where else? The patent troll magnet state — Texas."

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