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Comment Re:Why does Apple need their own SMS protocol? (Score 2) 175

by macfanboy on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:51AM (#64166533) Attached to: Beeper Users Say Apple Is Now Blocking Their Macs From Using iMessage Entirely

because Apple took all the time to create a robust messaging platform devoid of silly limitations (file size/media type/number of people in chat, etc). - it a messaging system WITHOUT LIMITS - and great status-ing (send/displayed/read) - has failback to SMS when necessary...

Comment McDonnell Douglas management destroyed Boeing (Score 1) 78

by macfanboy on Saturday January 13, 2024 @11:13PM (#64156959) Attached to: WSJ: Boeing's Fuselage Factory 'Plagued' by Production Problems and Quality Lapses

Boeing, prior to the merger, built the world's most reliable aircraft. More than a quarter-century after the merger, the destruction of Boeing is complete. Chasing quarterly profits shouldn't be a primary goal of an outfit that build machines with multi-decade service life...

Comment wait, couldn't they fix it with one of these (Score 1) 390

by macfanboy on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @08:53AM (#33733228) Attached to: Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8907061756

Comment NASA astronauts admit on video UFOs are real (Score 5, Interesting) 498

by macfanboy on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @05:38PM (#33669010) Attached to: Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes

http://www.ufohqs.com/?page_id=108

Geologists Might Be Charged For Not Predicting Quake 375

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @05:05PM from the google-will-no-doubt-be-found-at-fault dept.

mmmscience writes "In 2009, a series of small earthquakes shook the region of L'Aquila, Italy. Seismologists investigated the tremors, but concluded that there was no direct indication of a big quake on the horizon. Less than a month later, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed more than 300 people. Now, the chief prosecutor of L'Aquila is looking to charge the scientists with gross negligent manslaughter for not predicting the quake."

New Handheld Computer Is 100% Open Source 195

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 04, 2010 @10:46AM from the small-wonder dept.

metasonix writes "While the rest of the industry has been babbling on about the iPad and imitations thereof, Qi Hardware is actually shipping a product that is completely open source and copyleft. Linux News reviews the Ben NanoNote (product page), a handheld computer apparently containing no proprietary technology. It uses a 366 MHz MIPS processor, 32MB RAM, 2 GB flash, a 320x240-pixel color display, and a Qwerty keyboard. No network is built in, though it is said to accept SD-card Wi-Fi or USB Ethernet adapters. Included is a very simple Linux OS based on the OpenWrt distro installed in Linksys routers, with Busybox GUI. It's apparently intended primarily for hardware and software hackers, not as a general-audience handheld. The price is right, though: $99."

"Argonaut" Octopus Sucks Air Into Shell As Ballast 72

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @04:10PM from the 8-legs-good dept.

audiovideodisco writes "Even among octopuses, the Argonaut must be one of the coolest. It gets its nickname — 'paper nautilus' — from the fragile shell the female assembles around herself after mating with the tiny male (whose tentacle/penis breaks off and remains in the female). For millennia, people have wondered what the shell was for; Aristotle thought the octopus used it as a boat and its tentacles as oars and sails. Now scientists who managed to study Argonauts in the wild confirm a different hypothesis: that the octopus sucks air into its shell and uses it for ballast as it weaves its way through the ocean like a tiny submarine. The researchers' beautiful video and photographs show just how the Argonaut pulls off this trick. The regular (non-paper) nautilus also uses its shell for ballast, but the distant relationship between it and all octopuses suggests this is a case of convergent evolution."

Comment 25 years of sysadmin work - love/hate relationship (Score 4, Interesting) 385

by macfanboy on Friday April 23, 2010 @06:21PM (#31961784) Attached to: Confessions of a SysAdmin

I see every type of computer there is at my job supporting large systems in NYC. Every computer I personally owned rebooted itself, blue-screened or froze, leading me on a quest for something better. My bad experiences with PCs led me to explore Solaris on a UltraSparc system, fresh from ebay. Sun makes a great OS and great machines, but not too consumer oriented, limiting software to pretty much open source titles for individual computing purposes. Many people dismiss apple for their high prices, but since I switched to the mac five years ago, I love the computer again. It just works, no problems, drag and drop installs and a very friendly user interface. With the OCZ Vertex solid state upgrade for the disk, the computer never makes me wait for anything. Bootup is 30 secs from button-press to desktop. Shutdown is 2 sec. Apps open instantly. Windows runs perfectly in bootcamp or Fusion (vmware). All in a 64-bit hardware and software system. What drives me crazy with computers is a long list, so here goes: - devices without a facility for firmware upgrade - manufactures that don't offer firmware updates for devices - Anyone that doesn't work/sell in the datacenter thinking they know anything about computers - DRM - non FOSS (GPL) licenses - People too stubborn to believe there is something better than the PC running Windows - people who don't realize they need to update the firmware in their GPS, cellphone, camera, picture frame, television, radio, mp3 player, car audio system, etc.

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