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Comment Chrome (Score 1) 611

by schlpbch on Thursday May 29, 2014 @06:28PM (#47124197) Attached to: Which desktop environment do you like the best?

Nice, simple and tidy.

Comment ZZ or :wq (Score 1) 521

by schlpbch on Friday May 23, 2014 @05:34PM (#47078919) Attached to: Goodbye, Ctrl-S

That's how it always has been and always will be.

Comment Re:poor (Score 1) 378

by schlpbch on Thursday August 23, 2012 @06:38PM (#41102747) Attached to: Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years

The FedEx logo is made from the classical Helvetica with some extreme between "E" and "x".

Kids Who Watch Popeye Cartoons Eat More Vegetables 119

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 09, 2010 @03:31PM from the I-yam-what-I-yam dept.

markmark57 writes "Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics. Researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok found the type and amount of vegetables children ate improved after they took part in a program using multimedia and role models to promote healthy food. Twenty six kindergarten children aged four to five participated in the eight-week study. The researchers recorded the kinds and amounts of fruit and vegetables eaten by the children before and after the program."

Comment Project Managment = Herding Cats (Score 1) 168

by schlpbch on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @03:51PM (#27678139) Attached to: Project Management For Beginners?

A book I warmly recommend reading is

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers

(http://www.amazon.com/Herding-Cats-Primer-Programmers-Lead/dp/B001ULCL1Y)

IMHO the title says it all, it's funny and enlighten to read and gives a good introduction from the point of view of a programmer who slipt into PM. I especially enjoyed its categorization of programmers into different brands.

Comment Re:Remember when HTML had fonts? (Score 1) 503

by schlpbch on Saturday April 18, 2009 @06:47PM (#27630957) Attached to: Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will

That's why there is the CSS3 module Fons which presents a set of properties allowing font specification by a user agent, i.e., web browsers:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/

The specification is implemented by the upcoming Safari 4:

http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html

Happy times for font lovers!

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by schlpbch on Saturday December 16, 2006 @09:00AM

Comment Fast encryption, slow decryption (Score 2, Funny) 117

by schlpbch on Monday June 12, 2006 @06:11PM (#15520055) Attached to: Fast File Encryption for Windows?

A fast and reliable way to encrypt a file is to sweep a strong magnet across your hard disc. Decryption of the files is more difficult and time comsuing, scientist are still working hard to find the final solution.

Comment Smalltalk and Java Historical Anecdote (Score 1) 99

by mops on Wednesday April 18, 2001 @11:06AM (#283299) Attached to: Smalltalk Solutions 2001 Trip Report

Smalltalk suffers mostly from lack of marketing and bad management of the companies that sell Smalltalk implementations. Apparently, the Sun team that worked on the Oak project (which ended up producing Java) first wanted to use Smalltalk but couldn't get a good deal from ParcPlace, vendors of VisualWorks. So they invented their own language. See this post from comp.lang.smalltalk.

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