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Submission + - Linux kernel 2.6.31 released

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diegocgteleline.es

on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @07:40PM

diegocgteleline.es writes: "The Linux kernel v2.6.31 has been released. Besides the desktop improvements and USB 3.0 support mentioned some days ago, there is an equivalent of FUSE for character devices that can be used for proxying OSS sound through ALSA, new tools for using hardware performance counters, readahead improvements, ATI Radeon KMS, Intel's Wireless Multicomm 3200 support, gcov support, a memory checker and a memory leak detector, a reimplementation of inotify and dnotify on top of a new filesystem notification infrastructure, btrfs improvements, support for IEEE 802.15.4, IPv4 over Firewire, new drivers and small improvements. The full list of changes can be found here."

Comment Re:Go pi Go (Score 1) 573

by gebner on Wednesday February 13, 2008 @10:28AM (#22405494) Attached to: Your favorite irrational number?

The circumference is 2*pi*r if you use the radius instead of the diameter.
The area is 2*pi*r^2/2 which makes it clear that it's the integral of the circumference.

The circumference of the unit circle is 2*pi.
And so on...

Submission + - DOJ Doesn't Like the "Copyright Czar" Bill (yahoo.com)

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sconeu

on Friday December 14, 2007 @03:05PM

sconeu writes: "Seems as if the DOJ is not particularly happy about HR 4729, the "Copyright Czar" bill.

The Deputy AG told Congress that the current structure works quite effectively. Of course, there's also the fact that there's some toe-stepping-on in this bill."

30 Years of LucasFilm Staff Christmas Cards 72

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday December 14, 2007 @10:07AM from the tis-the-season-to-blah-blah-blah dept.

An anonymous reader found that "For the last 30 years, Lucasfilm has created special holiday greeting cards for its employees and business partners. For the first time ever, we have compiled most of the Star Wars-themed Holiday Cards on one page." My favorite is 2005. That would make a cool poster or something.

Submission + - Robots that bounce in bed (nytimes.com)

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nem75

on Friday December 14, 2007 @08:41AM

nem75 writes: "The NY Times has a review of British AI researcher David Levy's book "Love and Sex with Robots". He claims that within a span of about 50 years the day will come, when people could actually fall in love with life-like robots and want to live with them instead of a human mate. While this may seem far fetched at first, he has some pretty interesting views on this. Like the sexual part being the easyest thing, what with brothels exclusively offering life-like sex dolls already existing in Japan and South Korea. The case he builds goes much further though, and certainly provides food for thought."

Submission + - Open source takes aim at high-cost math software (networkworld.com) 2

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coondoggie

on Friday December 07, 2007 @11:20AM

coondoggie writes: "A new open source mathematics program is looking to push aside commercial software commonly used in mathematics education, in large government laboratories and in math-intensive research. The program's backers say the software, called Sage, can do anything from mapping a 12-dimensional object to calculating rainfall patterns under global warming. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22768"

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