Comment The year of... (Score 5, Funny) 118
Robotic Penguins? Skip the desktop -- 2009 will be the year of the Linux Apocalypse.
Comment required... (Score 1) 378
I, for one, welcome our new idiotic robot overlords.
Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU 355
RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in open source or the promotion of free software idealism, experts see FOSS as starting from a strong base and actually benefiting from the hard times expected next year. ... [Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation] sees Linux and the FOSS ecosystem surrounding it as having insurmountable advantages in any market over its main competitor Windows — advantages that an economic downturn only intensifies. At a time when a search for the lowest possible price point is happening in such areas as notebooks, FOSS is available at no cost. It is easy to rebrand and customize in a way that Windows Isn't, and is also technically more efficient."
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary 498
bledri writes "Officials close to the Obama transition team say that
Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Chu is the likely candidate for Energy Secretary. Some are worried that Chu is not politically savvy enough,
but I'm hopeful that a scientist will base policy on evidence.
Discuss among yourselves."
Comment I keep submitting... (Score 2, Funny) 340
The Large Hadron Collider, but no one believes me!
