Comment Re:tax sheter country!! (Score 1) 324
Canonical Ltd. is registered on The Isle of Man with its corporation tax of 0%.
The tax 'sheter' is not South Africa here.
Comment What about OpenBSD (Score 0, Troll) 376
Not content with starting a flaming shitfest by anonymous declaration with Linus Torvalds (who managed to get where Tanenbaum wanted to be fifteen years ago), Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit, decides to start a flaming sitfest by anonymous declaration with Theo De Raadt. (who is where Tanenbaum wants to be in fifteen years with this project)
Comment Something is weird with that domain (Score 1) 161
If I go to www.cdsmodel.com, it works fine. If I go to www.cdsmodel.com., which should be identical, I get to a completely different parked site. What the heck - this isn't supposed to happen.
Then again, we're talking about the same people who use an Excel add-in within 5 miles of a billion dollar transaction, so go figure.
Comment Re:It's part of the contest! (Score 2, Funny) 675
And the pictures that are submitted are evidence of places that need to be more heavily policed, because anonymous photographers were able to take pictures there.
It all makes sense now!
Cost-Conscious Companies Turn To Open Source 249
Martyr4BK writes "BusinessWeek has a slew of special reports today on open source software discussing the benefits for buyers who are cost conscious and open source being the silver lining for the economic slump. They even have a slideshow of 'OSS alternatives' like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox, Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk. These are all good examples (we use a bunch of them already); what other open source software can I use to drop my company's IT costs, and maybe get a decent bonus for the year?"
Submission + - Ray tracing for gaming explored (pcper.com) 3
Vigile writes: "Ray tracing is still thought of as the 'holy grail' for real-time imagery but because of the intense amount of calculations required it has been plagued with long frame render times. This might soon change, at least according to an article from Daniel Pohl, a researcher at Intel. With upcoming many-core processors like Intel's Larrabee he believes that real-time ray tracing for games is much closer than originally thought thanks in large part to the efficiency it allows with spatial partitioning and reflections when compared to current rasterization techniques. Titles like Valve's Portal are analyzed to see how they could benefit from ray tracing technology and the article on PC Perspective concludes with the difficulties combing the two rendering techniques as well as a video of the technology in action."
Submission + - Trekkie sues Christie's for fradulent props
Token_Internet_Girl writes: A Trekkie who paid $6,000 for a poker visor that was supposedly worn by the android Data on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" claims in a lawsuit against Christie's auction house that the prop is a fake.
Ted Moustakis, of Towaco, N.J., said he began to doubt the authenticity of the visor and other items he purchased at an auction of CBS Paramount props in 2006, after he brought it to a convention in August to have it autographed by the actor who played Data, Brent Spiner.
According to the lawsuit, Spiner recognized the visor as the one that had been sold by Christie's and told Moustakis that it wasn't the real deal. The actual visor had been sold by the actor himself some time ago.
Submission + - WARNING: driver updates causing Vista deactivation (apcmag.com)
KrispySausage writes: "After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA — something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.
Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.
How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."
Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.
How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."
