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Ruby 1.9.1 Released 226

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 01, 2009 @01:12AM from the yet-another-gem dept.

Janwedekind writes "Yuki Sonoda yesterday announced the release of Ruby 1.9.1 (Ruby Inside coverage with lots of links). The VM of Ruby 1.9, formerly known as YARV, was initiated by Koichi Sasada and has been in the making for quite some time. Ruby's creator Yukihiro Matsumoto has already presented many of the upcoming features in his keynote at RubyConf 2007. Most notably, Ruby 1.9 now supports native threads and an implementation of fibers. A lot of work also went into encoding awareness of strings. The 1.9.1 version is said to be twice as fast as the stable 1.8.7. It will take some time though until the majority of existing Ruby extensions get ported to 1.9."

Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? 479

Posted by timothy on Friday December 12, 2008 @09:44AM from the hey-what's-a-few-trillion-in-deficit? dept.

MarkWhittington writes "Has NASA become a problem for the Obama transition? If one believes a recent story in the Orlando Sentinel, the transition team at NASA, led by former NASA Associate Administrator Lori Garver, is running into some bureaucratic obstruction." Specifically, according to this article NASA Administrator Michael Griffin made calls to aerospace industry executives asking them to stonewall if asked about benefits to be gained by canceling the current US efforts to revisit the moon; we mentioned last month that cutting Aries and Orion is apparently an idea under strong consideration by the Obama transition team.

Comment Re:I can't believe the guts of this lawyer (Score 1) 502

by tarball_ on Tuesday June 21, 2005 @12:33PM (#12873162) Attached to: Apple Sued Over iTunes UI

The interesting thing is that the iTunes UI seems to make sure that it does not match the claims in the patent. Eg. claim 1 and 2 are about being able to select from at least two of the three categories 'arist' 'composer' and 'song'. This you cannot do in iTunes using the browser. Then claim 3 implies that the song starts as soon as you select it, iTunes does not do this.

It actually looks like Apple knew about this patent and in a very subtle way made the iTunes UI deviate from it.

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