Submission + - Tesla's new Terafactory is coming to Austin, TX (electrek.co)
paulbsch writes: Tesla’s next factory is going to be in Austin, Texas and it’s going to happen quickly.
Comment Re:This is news? (Score 1) 35
If this were RHEL or another distro that markets itself as stable and consistent, yes, it would be silly. Fedora, however, is quite antithetical to those distros.
Wayland is ultimately what they want to switch to. So if it's usable by a sufficient percentage of people, it would be silly not to do this in Fedora. This will bring more testing and bug reporting. It will also cause some of the unknown/edge use cases to bubble to the top so that they can be addressed before Wayland eventually makes it's way into RHEL.
Comment Re:This is news? (Score 5, Informative) 35
I think the news is what's not mentioned in the headline or summary. In this release, Wayland is now preferred over X.org. I believe that will make F25 the first major distro release to make the switch?
Comment Re:Not surprising.... Whooah There Cowboy! (Score 1) 801
There are lots of crimes with no punishments. This is one of them.
This needs to be noted VERY well in this discussion.
Typically, just mishandling classified information (without intentionally handing it off to others) is handled with an administrative slap on the wrist, and maybe losing clearance. There are rarely any criminal proceedings, because the higher-ups never want a subordinate to fear revealing a data spill. Instead, self-policing and self-reporting are praised, and mistakes are often just cleaned up and forgotten.
It should also be noted that there's no telling what was in the "classified" information. I put classified in quotes because I once had a government security clearance. I can tell you that they typically error on the side of better safe than sorry. i.e. A lot of stuff gets tagged as classified/secret that probably doesn't need to be. I have doubts as to whether or not she really put any truly sensitive information in jeopardy. If they found that she had, I'm guessing that she probably would be facing charges.
Comment AT&T announces gigabit network in Austin (Score 4, Informative) 128
Just after Google's announcement, AT&T made an announcement that it will bring a gigabit network to ATX:
https://www.google.com/search?q=at%26t+gigabit+austin&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
Submission + - Google fiber coming to Austin (google.com)
skade88 writes: Google Fiber will roll out in Austin with the first homes hooked up in mid 2014. The delay is due to the fact that a whole new fiber network will be deployed for the service. This will only be deployed in the Austin City limits. Google says in early 2014 they will allow people in Austin register their address for service. Google will deploy to neighborhoods with the most interest. Google Fiber will also start hiring employees soon. Wanna be the most popular guy in town? Become the GF man!
Submission + - Google Fiber is expanding to Austin, TX (bizjournals.com)
paulbsch writes: With it's technology-centric culture, the Silicon Hills of Austin, TX could have been the perfect city for the first iteration of Google Fiber. Austinites will just have to settle with being only the second city to get the ultra high speed service.
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."
Improving the PlayStation Store 107
This opinion piece takes stock of Sony's PlayStation Store, examining its flaws and the areas Sony needs to improve as their gaming systems come to rely upon it more and more. The problems and suggested solutions involve everything from UI elements to demo availability to pricing inconsistencies.
"Some people may say that the Microsoft Points scheme is a little confusing, but it is consistent. If a game is 800MSP in the US, it's 800MSP everywhere else. What a MSP is worth is up to the store, but for the most part they're close. The PlayStation Store on the other hand can be all over the place. While most games in North America keep to the same price point — such as $9.99 or $14.99, converting that over to Europe is another thing entirely. For example, Flower came out earlier this year for $9.99USD. In Australia a $10USD game gets converted to $12.95AUD. Or does it? Bomberman Ultra just came out, and it's $15.95AUD. Heavy Weapon gets released for $12.95AUD, while Capcom’s previous efforts, like Commando 3, convert to $15.95. The same thing also happens for more expensive titles. Both Battlefield 1943 and Fat Princess were released for $14.99 in the US, but in Australia they're priced at $19.95AUD and $23.95 respectively."
Comment Re:When the cost of maintaining it... (Score 1) 622
Who says you even have to [*gasp*] train them? A good developer should be able to pick up a book, read web site documentation, etc. and train themselves. i.e. If you hire a good PHP developer, they should be able to quickly learn Ruby on Rails or whatnot and become productive using that too.
That developer might even [*gasp*] have a desire to learn a new platform s/he hasn't had an opportunity to work with. If the developer is excited about it, there's a good chance they are going to pick it up quickly and stay around longer. Bonus...
That developer might even [*gasp*] have a desire to learn a new platform s/he hasn't had an opportunity to work with. If the developer is excited about it, there's a good chance they are going to pick it up quickly and stay around longer. Bonus...
