eealex - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Chernobyl... (Score 2) 201

by eealex on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:27AM (#40097509) Attached to: Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity

Thank you very much for the nice quote from Thomas Jefferson. Just google it and it's probably "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson_7.html

Comment Presentationzen, TED (Score 1) 291

by eealex on Monday March 19, 2012 @11:46AM (#39403697) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Give IT Presentations That Aren't Boring?

Pick a copy of Presentationzen by Garr and study about it. Also read some presentations about technical topic on TED to learn how people present them

Comment Re:I have tried a lot of them (Score 1) 254

by eealex on Friday August 19, 2011 @10:08AM (#37142026) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Ebook Reader for Scientific Papers?

If you have an android tablet, would recommend you give RepliGo Reader a look.

Comment high school physics (Score 1) 520

by eealex on Sunday January 30, 2011 @11:14PM (#35053018) Attached to: Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference?

1kg refers to a unit of mass, not weight. In everyday conversation it could be fine, but not a slashdot article on physics

Google Backs Out of JavaOne 344

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 28, 2010 @08:27AM from the but-java-is-delicious dept.

snydeq writes "Citing concerns about Oracle's lawsuit against it, Google has backed out of the upcoming JavaOne conference. 'Oracle's recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally,' Google's Joshua Bloch said in a blog post. The move may signal eventual fragmentation for Java, with Google conceivably splintering off the Java-like language it uses for Android."

Comment Re:Question (Score -1, Flamebait) 324

by eealex on Thursday July 15, 2010 @08:52AM (#32912050) Attached to: Apple To Hold iPhone 4 Press Conference

Surely. He is not stupid enough to hold it with the "left" way

PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy 233

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @11:14AM from the powerpoint-makes-you-dumber dept.

eldavojohn writes "Disillusioned by PowerPoint at work? Some members of the US Military view it as 'an internal threat.' Marine Corps General James N. Mattis says, 'PowerPoint makes us stupid,' reaching the same conclusion NASA came to back in 2003. But nothing speaks to this more than the spaghetti-bowl PowerPoint slide of the US Military's strategy in the ongoing war in Afghanistan. The slide causes anyone's eyes to glaze over with confusion so much that General McChrystal jokingly stated when he saw it, 'When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war.' At my job, I know that feeling all too well."

Comment Icon on /. (Score 1) 185

by eealex on Thursday January 14, 2010 @07:01PM (#30772354) Attached to: Ballmer Hits 10th Anniversary As Microsoft CEO

As Bill has left for long time and Ballmer is becoming so "important" in the /., why don't we change the icon about MS stories with Ballmer?

Comment Re:Toshiba: guilt by association? (Score 2, Interesting) 90

by eealex on Thursday November 26, 2009 @06:41PM (#30240270) Attached to: Toshiba Employee Arrested For Selling Software To Break Copy Limits

I totally agree with what you are saying. When students are caught taking drug, the president of the university has to come and apologize in front of the press; when a guy committed in mass killing, his parents has to deal with this also.

Comment Re:Package Managers? (Score 1) 451

by eealex on Sunday October 26, 2008 @07:06PM (#25521447) Attached to: OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows

In Gentoo it is already in the official portage (and marked stable), so that you won't need a third party overlay.

Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns 520

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 23, 2008 @11:29AM from the when-good-code-goes-bad dept.

Barence writes "An open-source digital rights management (DRM) scheme says it's ready to supplant Apple and Microsoft as the world's leading copy protection solution. Marlin, which is backed by companies such as Sony and Samsung, has just announced a new partner program that aims to drive the DRM system into more consumer devices. 'It works in a way that doesn't hold consumers hostage,' Talal Shamoon told PC Pro. 'It allows you to protect and share content in the home, in a way that people own the content, not the devices.' When asked about the biggest problem of DRM — that customers hate it — he argued that 'the biggest problem with DRM is people have implemented it badly. Make DRM invisible and people will use it.'"

Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability 221

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 23, 2008 @10:50AM from the this'll-end-well dept.

JP writes "Andrew Bartlett of Samba fame has written a document describing their recent collaboration with Microsoft's Active Directory team. In brief, it would seem that the sky is falling, as Microsoft's engineers seem to be really committed to making Samba fully interoperable with AD. They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions without legal or marketing drones getting in the way. However according to Andrew the Samba AD team is currently very short on manpower, so if you have network experience, now is the time to get coding."

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