phat_goat - Slashdot User

Comment Take Electives Overseas (Score 1) 386

by phat_goat on Saturday December 27, 2008 @08:07PM (#26245315) Attached to: Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors?

While i'm certain that you can find overseas CS courses, i haven't come across any so I cant give any advice in that area, although i was contemplating the same question last year, I go to the University of Washington and wanted to travel and study abroad, so I took a communications course overseas(Studying tourism :) Hopefully you still have to fill elective requirements for your school(I saved all of mine so that i could take easy courses with the famously difficult ones), if you do, find something fun and take that, I went to Switzerland and made several industry contacts(Parallels Virtualization).

Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead 140

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:20PM from the semantic-researchers-play-better-tag dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review has a story looking at Nepomuk — the semantic tool that is bundled with the latest version of KDE. It seems that some Semantic Web researchers believe the tool will prove a breakthrough for semantic technology. By encouraging people to add semantic meta-data to the information stored on their machines they hope it could succeed where other semantic tools have failed."

KDE 4.1 Beta 1 Released 242

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @04:01PM from the when-improvements-amplify-each-other dept.

appelza contributed a link to Tuesday's announcement of the next step toward KDE 4.1: "The KDE Project is proud to announce the first beta release of KDE 4.1. Beta 1 is aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts in order to identify bugs and regressions, so that 4.1 can fully replace KDE 3 for end users. KDE 4.1 beta 1 is available as binary packages for a wide range of platforms, and as source packages. KDE 4.1 is due for final release in July 2008." I haven't used KDE much for the past few years, but the screenshots of a "grown-up" plasma are enough to make me correct that.

Comment Cant say I didnt expect this. (Score 5, Insightful) 336

by phat_goat on Saturday May 03, 2008 @09:18PM (#23287894) Attached to: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer

After Google and Yahoo announced their advertising "experiment", i'm sure that was what killed it for Microsoft, i'm sure a few chairs were sent across meeting rooms in Redmond too.

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