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Comment Nokia 6120 dropped 40 meters and lived to tell (Score 1) 422

I went climbing with a friend, we did some ascenders practice (where you use aids to ascend on the climbing rope itself). I went up for about 40 meters, reached the top and then had to lift my leg to stand on the edge of the cliff, when I felt my cell phone slipping down. I didn't even hear it hit the ground... I thought to just let it stay there (it was a long walk down), but then someone from below yelled that he found it and brought it back to me. The battery was smashed but the display was intact (seems like the battery suffered most of the hit), surprisingly, when plugged back in, it still worked... A few days later I replaced the battery with a new one and continued working with that phone for quite a while. They don't make them like this any more...

Unusual Open Source 262

Dumitru Erhan writes "The Economist has a special report on open-source. It analyzes the way open-source projects succeed and finds that a rigid, business-like organizational structure is of vital importance to the quality of the final product. It cites Firefox, MySQL and (more recently) Wikipedia as examples of projects that do not simply allow anarchy to rein in, but which have 'real checks and balances, and real leadership taking place'. There is also a discussion of open-source methods being applied to non-software projects." From the article: "Constant self-policing is required to ensure its quality. This lesson was brought home to Wikipedia last December, after a former American newspaper editor lambasted it for an entry about himself that had been written by a prankster. His denunciations spoke for many, who question how something built by the wisdom of crowds can become anything other than mob rule."

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