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Google Launches Summer of Code 2007 74

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 16, 2007 @05:05AM from the back-once-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Google has announced that it will be doing Summer of Code again this year. The program looks pretty much the same this year but they have built time into the program schedule for students to get up to speed before they start coding. Nice job, Google."

Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer 1570

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 22, 2006 @06:24AM from the example-of-intelligent-design dept.

Aloriel writes to point out a story in the Guardian (UK) about the opening next year of the first Creationism museum in Kentucky, just over the Ohio border. From the article: "The Creation Museum — motto: 'Prepare to Believe!' — will be the first institution in the world whose contents, with the exception of a few turtles swimming in an artificial pond, are entirely fake. It is dedicated to the proposition that the account of the creation of the world in the Book of Genesis is completely correct... The museum is costing $25 million and all but $3 million has already been raised from private donations." A lot of that money is going into the animatronic dinosaurs, which are pictured as coexisting with modern humans before the Fall. According to the article, up to 50 million Americans believe this. The museum has a Web presence in the Answersingenesis.org site.

Gamers Divorced From Reality? 654

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @01:34PM from the only-as-much-as-you-are-bill dept.

nd01 writes "According to Gamepolitics.com, Bill OReilly has a few choice words for gamers and computer geeks in general. The well-known conservative pundit has harsh words for iPod owners, gamers, the PS3, and all of us 'disconnected from reality' by modern technological contrivances." From the article: "Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don't deal with reality — ever. So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything... because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they've created their own reality..."

Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics 632

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 07, 2006 @08:56AM from the critics-aren't-always-critical dept.

bradley fellows writes "Early feedback from testers already using Windows Vista RC1 (Release Candidate 1) report that the OS is more stable than expected, which bodes well for Microsoft's plan to have Vista out according to its current schedule." Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for a PC.

Comment Whatevver! (Score 1) 1347

by dardem on Wednesday April 19, 2006 @11:32AM (#15157518) Attached to: Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry

Am I a snob? Yep. Why? I use Linux because it's not Windows. If Linux takes over the desktop world, I'll go use AROS in production. I mean it, forgot ODF. IFF for everything!!!!

As for stupid questions... It's ridiculous. Every newsgroup/mailing list/forum/etc. of every piece of open source software is full of idiots asking obvious questions. And you just know they haven't read the manual, because the answer is usually on the first page. And if they have a problem? Take a stack trace, investigate the code, find the problem is due to local mis-configuration? No. They go and post a "It doesn't work. Please help now. Sory my englsih is bad. Boss will kill if I can not make work now."

Anyway, in fairness this is software for free. Don't expect anything. It's different if you paid for a piece of crap and some support drone dises you, you have the right to shout at, demean and belittle the drone. As for open source programmers: you have no claims over them and never will. And guess what? They don't have to be nice to you. You know why? Because they don't need you. If they did, they would provide professional "chargeable" support and make you pay for complements.

By the way, I've used Linux for around 10 years and never asked a question from anybody. Usually cause some other idiot already asked it. Thanks you guys! ;o)

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