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Comment Metagame by Sam Landstrom is better IMHO (Score 1) 176

by hitech69 on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @12:54PM (#37457404) Attached to: Neal Stephenson Says Video Games Are the Metaverse

I think if you want to see what things could be like with a merge of reality and virtual (augmented) reality, you will enjoy this. Many connections can be made with current gaming and this novel.

http://www.amazon.com/MetaGame-Sam-Landstrom/dp/1935597167/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

Comment Trollworthy rating for posting this... (Score 5, Interesting) 613

by hitech69 on Thursday February 18, 2010 @09:14AM (#31183126) Attached to: 86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory

Computerworld should just close up shop for this worthless piece of journalism, or at least give their author the boot for doing any work with Craig Barth who represents a team of morons. samzenpus should be given a troll rating for getting this to Slashdot.

Comment That's what they get... (Score 2, Insightful) 185

by hitech69 on Thursday October 22, 2009 @09:11AM (#29834283) Attached to: Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users

AOL/TWC have gone through so many reorganizations and consolidations, the best and brightest have been gone from the company for quite some time. This is just a result of continuing to run a failing course.

Comment Some don't get the point... (Score 1) 197

by hitech69 on Monday June 01, 2009 @11:25AM (#28168623) Attached to: A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave

It seems that people are missing the point with this technology.

Think about all the enterprise services that this spans. I'm seeing a Sharepoint, Exchange, and LCS killer here at a minimum. I was hoping to see Google Video/Voice chat mixed with this, but I would say that it's probably not too far off. If it had that, goodbye to WebEx, Genesys, etc.

This is a collaboration tool, and that's it. There's no spam in a controlled audience. Even where this thing can be exposed like blogs and wiki sites, you have complete control over what gets included and published.

Comment Ultimate Escape! (Score 1) 834

by hitech69 on Monday May 11, 2009 @07:24AM (#27904395) Attached to: Go For a Masters, Or Not?

Of course you want to go to grad school! Isn't it the ultimate escape from reality?

Comment elinks ftw (Score 1) 489

by hitech69 on Saturday June 21, 2008 @10:45PM (#23890937) Attached to: Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

My favorite browser on Linux is elinks. Mouse integration with the correct shell is awesome, not to mention site rendering.

Although, for GUI based browsers, Opera is starting to gain my attention, but the mirrors to download it suck. I just downloaded it today to try it out and took forever. I downloaded FF3 on release record day and got it quicker.

http://wstearns.com/blog/2008/06/21/opera-linux-really-fast/

Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero 1090

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 07, 2006 @03:01AM from the it-seems-so-obvious-now dept.

54mc writes "The BBC reports that Dr. James Anderson, of the University of Reading, has finally conquered the problem of dividing by zero. His new number, which he calls "nullity" solves the 1200 year old problem that niether Newton nor Pythagoras could solve, the problem of zero to the zero power. Story features video (Real Player only) of Dr. Anderson explaining the "simple" concept."

Firefox Losing Its Way? 494

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 26, 2006 @11:23AM from the wrong-side-of-the-bed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NeoSmart Technologies has a recap on Firefox 2.0 and its shortcomings. Aside from the technical aspects, the article raises some good questions about the Firefox 'community,' it's future, and what it's goals are at the end of the day. Their conclusion? Firefox 1.5 was a much better open-source project/community model than 2.0 ever will be, and that 'It seems Firefox has lost its way somewhere along the passage to fame.'"

Birmingham Drops Open Source Initiative 275

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 20, 2006 @01:50PM from the sad-day-for-adherents dept.

eldavojohn writes "Birmingham, England put a stop to a half million pound project to put Linux and open source applications on library access PCs across the city. From the article, 'The council planned to roll out Linux software and applications on 1,500 desktops in libraries across the city, but in the end went no further than a 200-desktop project. Several industry watchers have voiced their concerns about the project, particularly around the number of PCs rolled out. Birmingham's expenditure averaged over 2,500 pounds per PC.' Why did they stop after 200 PCs? Because they claimed with Windows, the project would have been 100,000 pounds cheaper. One may wonder if they paid for initial training of their workforce making the first 200 more expensive than the rest but the article does not say whether or not this occurred."

Dvorak On Microsoft/Novell Deal 218

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @12:55PM from the they-all-wear-party-hats dept.

zaxios writes, "John C. Dvorak has weighed in on the recent Novell-Microsoft pact. Among his insights: 'Microsoft has been leery of doing too much with Linux because of all the weirdness with the licenses and the possibility that one false move would make a Microsoft product public domain at worst, or subject to the GPL at best.' But now, 'the idea is to create some sort of code that is jammed into Linux and whose sole purpose is to let some proprietary code run under Linux without actually "touching" Linux in any way that would subject the proprietary code to the GPL.' According to Dvorak, it's only a matter of time before Linux is 'cracked' by Microsoft, meaning Microsoft figures out a way to run proprietary code on it."

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