Comment Re:Educational... :) (Score 1) 275
damn... card=cartoon? I forgot what I wanted to say there...
blah... need sleep... why can I not edit the comment? hmmm
should have read it carefully before submitting...
lack of sleep... whatever.
Comment Educational... :) (Score 1) 275
Aside from all the "Dances with Jurassic Alien Giant Smurfs" comments...
I do believe this movie could be inspirational (somewhat) to some future
slashdotters... whatever all the people complaning says... I think it is
a beatiful example of what can be achieved pushing current state
of the art technology...
Nevermind it might be an overblown cartoon or whatever... but being
a fan of sci-fi I do think the cool-factor and wow-factor for a kids that
watch this card is going to nudge just a few select few into computers
or tech-related paths some time in their future just as many of us
older ones were nudged if ever so slightly towards cool tech stuff
by all the start trek and whatnot stuff on tv back in the days
So, I grant it might not have the best plot in the world... but I
bow my head to it because of the cool factor and how it might
inspire lots of kids to say "wow, they did that with computers?
I want to do that"... then again, once they bump head on with
all the math requirements and get discouraged once they
realize the big bucks are in being a boss and doing business
management or whatever they might ditch the idea... but still...
if you can make a few kids dream of the future... a good future...
it is worth it I say...
OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD? 405
Norsefire writes "I am in quite a predicament. I decided a while back to branch out and use a new operating system (currently running Debian). After a bit of searching (trying Gentoo, Gobo and Arch along the way), I decided to use something that isn't Linux. Long story short: I narrowed the choices down to OpenSolaris and FreeBSD, but now I'm stuck. OpenSolaris is commercially backed by Sun, has nice enterprise-y tools in the default install, and best of all, a mature implementation of ZFS. FreeBSD is backed by a foundation, has a minimal default install and a rather new (but recently improved in the 8.0 release) implementation of ZFS, however it offers the Ports Collection (I quite like the performance boost due to compiling from source, no matter how small it might be) and a bigger community than OpenSolaris. That is just a minimal mention of the differences. I would be interested to see what the Slashdot community thinks of these two operating systems."
HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web 406
grmoc writes "As part of the 'Let's make the web faster' initiative, we (a few engineers — including me! — at Google, and hopefully people all across the community soon!) are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of Web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced 'SPeeDY'), an application-layer protocol (essentially a shim between HTTP and the bits on the wire) for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In addition to a rough specification for the protocol, we have hacked SPDY into the Google Chrome browser (because it's what we're familiar with) and a simple server testbed. Using these hacked up bits, we compared the performance of many of the top 25 and top 300 websites over both HTTP and SPDY, and have observed those pages load, on average, about twice as fast using SPDY. Thats not bad! We hope to engage the open source community to contribute ideas, feedback, code (we've open sourced the protocol, etc!), and test results."
Comment Re:What would these kids grow up to be? (Score 1) 1345
hey hey hey...
remember apprenticeships usually start out focusing on boring and unpleasant tasks...
you cannot be a master carpenter if you cannot sand a board smoothly with your
eyes closed with both hands tied behind your back while holding the sandpaper
with your teeth...
or something along those lines...
remember the germans are the best known for doing assembling and putting
together and designing the best machines ever... and guess what the
new people must learn before going up the higher strata in their hierarchy...?
How To Send Email When You're Dead 165
The Narrative Fallacy writes "'The Last Messages Club' is a new service that sends personal emails written prior to one's death to loved ones in the future. The messages can range from a final love letter, guidance for someone left behind, a list of instructions, details on life insurance and other financial information. 'No one likes to think about their impending "demise," but it is much better to be fully-prepared, so that there is less stress on your loved ones after you pass away,' says founder Geoff Reiss. The system works by giving each member a secure and private vault where they are able to create messages to be sent specifically to their chosen recipient. A secure process ensures that messages are only sent after at least two people appointed by the user have confirmed that you have died and other safety criteria are met. 'I thought at first that maybe it was a bit ghoulish but on consideration I think it's a great idea as it would be nice for loved ones to receive messages from me when I'm no longer here,' says a technical adviser to the company. 'It's strange really as it makes you confront your own mortality in a sense.'"
Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory 368
duh P3rf3ss3r writes "The BBC is carrying a report from a team of researchers at Newcastle University who claim to have developed a the first 'artificial' human sperm from stem cells. The research, reported in the journal Stem Cells and Development, involved selecting meristematic germ cells from a human embryonic stem cell culture and inducing meiosis, thus producing a haploid gamete. The authors claim that the resulting sperm are fully formed, mature, human sperm cells but the announcement has been greeted with mixed reaction from colleagues who claim the procedure is ethically questionable and that the gametes produced are of inferior levels of maturation."
Comment Re:I know... (Score 1) 528
I know I know!!!
"That is a critical office desk that must run 24x7. You would have to rebuild the desk in a new office, re-route the transactions
to the new office, shutdown the old office to have a locksmith recover the key (in single user mode)."
Comment Re:on any Linux system you can: (Score 1) 1082
maybe someone ran crack already...
so... what was the passwd
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