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Comment Python, too (Score 2, Informative) 129

by hauntedspaceship (#15907169) Attached to: Google Code Jam Registration Opens Today
This will be the first year that Python will be allowed along side the traditional TopCoder languages (Java, C++, C#, and VB). I think it will be very interesting to see how Python, which more often than not get can get more done with less code and less time, will compare to the heavier languages like C#, C++, and Java. I wonder if Guido working at Google had anything to do with it?

Lenovo & Customer Perception 472

Posted by Hemos from the one-man's-opinion dept.
music_lover writes "According to this article, Lenovo is losing current ThinkPad series customers to HP, Toshiba and other notebook vendors because of customer perception. Apparently, customers don't feel comfortable purchasing from a Chinese PC manufacturer now that the ThinkPad brand isn't supported by IBM anymore. Could this really be perception? Quote: "Despite the overall poor performance, Lenovo has still not gained the mindshare or the respect that the ThinkPads command. In fact, it has, to some extent, alienated ThinkPad's fans and taken a sales hit. In my immediate vicinity, those who owned ThinkPads have now traded up to an HP or a Toshiba. None of them went back to their ThinkPads. After asking for a clarification, I was told, "Who wants to buy things from a Chinese company?" That said, our corporate parent has continued to buy/use Thinkpads; the ones that I've seen do just fine, and they've added new machines and a parternership with AMD.

Where is the Real Ajax/Flex Revolution Happening? 89

Posted by Cliff from the more-about-web-2.0 dept.
andzik writes "Even with all of the buzz around Rich Internet Applications these days, using toolsets like Ajax and Flex, most sites that utilize these technologies seem to be incremental improvements, not revolutionary interface changes. Where does the Slashdot community feel the best opportunities are to substantially create different/better user experiences using RIA tools? What will be the killer app? Are we just not seeing them because the best improvements are being made to web based applications and not in the public space?"

Comment TIME TRAVEL possible (Score 2, Funny) 416

by UlfGabe (#13362590) Attached to: Scientists Speed up Light
As was evidenced by the new FTL(faster than light) optical data processing center at the core of Slashdot, This article was accidentally Posted INTO the PAST!!!!

Thus, making the first post read a DUPE, and not this one. This is the original! /my head asplodes.

iceberg
Programming

Journal Journal: help 3

Journal by UlfGabe

looking for help developing a OSS learning tool (math science based) that is self extensible.

codenamed: Anti-textbook - a self adjusting learning system for everyone.

current status, ver 0. (basic outline)

My programming status... next to none. 1st year univeristy in bio-engineering. not much comp sci.

currently learning the win api (messege queue ad nausium)
day 1

post here with experience in OSS programming projects.

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