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Comment Start an openaid program ? (Score 1) 549

Gather people who care and get cracking, visual aid, mobility aid, hearing aid etc etc... Include CNC/3D printer plans, BOM and software for all of them. Buy it ready, friend build it or build it yourself...

Individual projects in each field might not be big enough, but a human aid project going from head to toe might have enough co sharing of information and ressources to be viable ?

Comment In a following century... (Score 1) 128

Found on an old mechanical magnetic device, this information has been restored for the last 60 years but only now our quantum analysis have been able to decifer the information, probably due to some form or content protection. This is probably the earliest form of audio binary storage known to humans.

Wine

Wine 1.2 Released 427

David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."
Graphics

64-Bit Flash Player For Linux Finally In Alpha 172

Luchio writes "Finally, a little bit of respect from Adobe with this alpha release of the Adobe Flash Player 10 that was made available for all Linux 64-bit enthusiasts! As noted, 'this is a prerelease version,' so handle with care. Just remove any existing Flash player and extract the new .so file in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (or /usr/lib/opera/plugins)."
Science

Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All 269

cremeglace writes with this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "You've heard the controversy. Particle physicists predict the world's new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, might create tiny black holes, which they say would be a fantastic discovery. Some doomsayers fear those black holes might gobble up the Earth — physicists say that's impossible — and have petitioned the United Nations to stop the $5.5 billion LHC. Curiously, though, nobody had ever shown that the prevailing theory of gravity, Einstein's theory of general relativity, actually predicts that a black hole can be made this way. Now a computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole." That said, they estimate the required energy for creating a black hole this way to be roughly "a quintillion times higher than the LHC's maximum"; though if one of the theories requiring compact extra dimensions is true, the energy could be lower.

Comment Position name translator (Score 1) 736

CEO : The real boss
COO : Over paid secretary Really I've seen secretaries who made the companies go much better than their COO
CTO : I used to know what I talk about Technology
Technical manager : I am the guy everyone ask funny questions to
Sales manager : I take the credit for the income and also the guy who is responsible for the color of the it dude.
System Engineer: I just got my paper so I know how to do it and don't need to read the docs
Sr System Engineer : I've done this long enough to know it won't work anyway
Sales monkey: I really know that I am just a sales dude with a commission and I might have a clue of what I sell actually does
Tech monkey: I make the thing, I know how it works but can't document it.
It dude : the pale guy in that corner who worked all night to get our delivery done.

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