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Comment Re:25 non-negotiable demands (Score 1) 132

by sracer on Thursday September 07, 2017 @09:08AM (#55152761) Attached to: Lenovo Looks To Commemorate 25th Anniversary of IBM's Notebook Brand With Thinkpad 25

I would like to live in a world where this is possible.

Comment Capricorn One 2: Electric Boogaloo (Score 1) 89

by sracer on Sunday March 22, 2015 @11:58AM (#49313463) Attached to: Mars One Delayed 2 Years, CEO Releases Video In Response To Criticism

How much does it cost to stage a Capricorn One-like scam? Doesn't seem so difficult to me: buy a remote island, build a sound stage on it, stage the lift off, have the "astronauts" live there while continuing to rake in the dough on subsequent missions to send supplies, after a while "build" the technology to bring them back... book/movie deals for the "astronauts", scammers get paid.

Comment How does... (Score 3, Insightful) 345

by sracer on Monday October 25, 2010 @06:08PM (#34018536) Attached to: Ray Ozzie's Departing Memo a Warning To Microsoft

...the reality of the Kin fit in with your fantasy view of Microsoft?

Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris 205

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 13, 2009 @03:44PM from the corporations-excel-at-killing-thiving-communities dept.

CWmike writes to point out that Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is one of many people questioning where Oracle may land once the acquisition of Sun is complete. One concern that I have heard many people express is that there may be a good chance of OpenSolaris getting the axe for not fitting in with the overall corporate vision. "People outside of IT seldom think of Oracle as a Linux company, but it is. Not only does Oracle encourage its customers to use its own house-brand clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Oracle Unbreakable Linux, Oracle has long used Linux internally both on its servers and on some of its desktops. So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer appears to be: 'Nothing.' Sun, Oracle and third-party sources are telling me that OpenSolaris developers are afraid that they'll be either moved over to working on Linux or let go once the Sun/Oracle merger is completed."

Comment PhoneGap - html/javascript coding for G1 Android (Score 1) 135

by sracer on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @06:29PM (#27578731) Attached to: Android 1.5 SDK Is Released

I'm impressed with my G1 out-of-the-box (coming from a T-Mo Dash). And as long as there are significant improvements I will be delighted with it.

I use Eclipse for Java development on my job but I didn't want my leisure coding activity to feel like work so I went poking around. I stumbled across http://phonegap.com/ which is an add-on to the Eclipse/Android SDK that allows developers to create apps using html and javascript.

I downloaded, installed it, and manage to compile the sample code pretty easily. Reminds me a bit of ForwardPass for the PocketPC.

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