Comment rename Bing to Big (Score 1) 693
Since Bing was originally a pun that meant "Bing Is Not Google", maybe they should now rename it to Big (Big Is Google)
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Comment Errare Humanum est (Score 3, Insightful) 274
The fact that because we can't fire developers makes it an incentive to bad coding practices is not an argument:
for some people (esp. Linux developers where pride is an important fuel to their creativity), being pointed out in public by such bad behavior is much worse than being fired in the equivalent closed software company.
Moreover, you will never know how many developers in a closed model had turned a simple patch into a remote exploit and if the culprit was really fired afterward esp. if it's a core developer (the one that knows everything and that you can't fire).
I think I can remember at least one Windows bug few years ago that was very much like another that was closed but there are some many 0-day and remote exploits that is becomes difficult to keep track.
Comment Skybook is in deep shit (Score 1) 483
After Rupert Murdock said that he owns the word Sky thus suing Skype, I bet that the website skybook is in deep shit and will be next in line to be sued by both Sky and Facebook.
Israeli Scientists Freeze Water By Warming It 165
ccktech writes "As reported by NPR and Chemistry world, the journal Science has a paper by David Ehre, Etay Lavert, Meir Lahav, and Igor Lubomirsky [note: abstract online; payment required to read the full paper] of Israel's Weizmann Institute, who have figured out a way to freeze pure water by warming it up. The trick is that pure water has different freezing points depending on the electrical charge of the surface it resides on. They found out that a negatively charged surface causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than a positively charged surface. By putting water on the pyroelectric material Lithium Tantalate, which has a negative charge when cooler but a positive change when warmer; water would remain a liquid down to -17 degrees C., and then freeze when the substrate and water were warmed up and the charge changed to positive, where water freezes at -7 degrees C."
7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators 289
An anonymous reader writes "One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a desktop calculator. These are often simple utilities that are perfectly adequate for basic use. They typically include trigonometric functions, logarithms, factorials, parentheses and a memory function. However, the calculators featured in this article are significantly more sophisticated with the ability to process difficult mathematical functions, to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, and much more. Occasionally, the calculator tool provided with an operating system did not engender any confidence. The classic example being the calculator shipped with Windows 3.1 which could not even reliably subtract two numbers. Rest assured, the calculators listed below are of precision quality."
Comment why not Go# (Score 1) 512
So, then they just have to call it Go# (Go sharp) and get away with it !
Comment Smart move to cut loose with Mac OS X (Score 1) 333
Microsoft was once king on the Intel platform and then came Linux which was much less expensive, followed by Mac OS X which was more user friendly.
So that would mean they would have to fight 2 fronts to survive and try to keep their supremacy.
Now, with notebooks being the new eldorado, Microsoft could benefit a lot more if they try to gain momentum on ARM which Apple cannot afford to follow (yet) because of another big CPU switch.
Comment caching dynamic content (Score 1) 298
There is a common understanding that a single server can serve static data many orders of magnitude the scenario described.
But for some dynamic content that triggers database queries, the must is to use memcached.
