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Wrong on both counts. According to the Mozilla store the firefox is a red panda (Ailurus fulgens), not a fox and not a canine of any kind.

However, according to the logo creator the actual inspiration of the logo was not a red panda at all, but a ordinary fox (the designer writes, "A firefox is actually a cute red panda, but it didn't really conjure up the right imagery.")

If you're not still not convinced, have a look at some images of red pandas and foxes and then compare them to the Firefox logo. No way in a bunch of politically correct Sundays is that thing going to become a red panda! :)

Wrong on both counts. According to the Mozilla store the firefox is a red panda (Ailurus fulgens), not a fox and not a canine of any kind.

However, according to the logo creator the actual inspiration of the logo was not a red panda at all, but a ordinary fox (the designer writes, "A firefox is actually a cute red panda, but it didn't really conjure up the right imagery.")

If you're not still not convinced, have a look at some images of red pandas and foxes and then compare them to the Firefox logo. No way in a bunch of politically correct Sundays is that thing going to become a red panda! :)

China, Japan and Korea working together is no mean feat either - they are historically incredibly bitter enemies. Think a nice English/Irish/French cooperative linux distribution and you might get the idea.

The China - Japan - Korea analogy to France - England - Ireland works rather well (with the pairings given in order).

China ~= France : both are continental powers with traditions of strong central government, conservative status-based culture and elite-focussed education

Japan ~= England : both are island/archipelago powers with each being the first to industrialise in their own hemisphere. Different to China/France they show learned interest in distant regions of the globe.

Korea ~= Ireland : both colonised by Japan/England. Koreans are often called the 'Irish of Asia' based on their capacity to drink and their emotional natures.

Of course, as with any analogising these pairings fall down if you take them too far or even examine them too closely. But as a broad brush portrait I think it's a fun one to muse on.

p.o.e is certainly a busy man.

In between being a marine, he is the this director of a large organisation

And he's managed to keep posting to slashdot whilst serving in Iraq

p.o.e.

I Salute you for your services to /.

If there's oil theft going on, it's not coming from the Americans. There aren't lines of Texaco supertankers sitting at port just greedily sucking the country dry all so Bush and Halliburton can make a buck
There doesn't need to be tankers lined up. Mostly the money is getting wired through, as 'reparations' to Texaco, BP and, of course, Toys 'R' Us.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=naomi+klei n+reparations&spell=1Naomi Klein article

thanks for all the helpful links!

• http://www.google.com.au/firefox?client=firefox-a& rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

check it out... he looks like the shady australian
Paula zahn looks liek one of my old teachers.

What on earth would make you think that?

1) Sanger Amerika Bomber (~1938)
2) DynaSoar aka X20 (~1960) book about it here
3) Soviet Equivalents (~1960)
4) Numerous "black" projects here
5) Ever wondered who paid for the Space Shuttle ?

There are sure to have been many projects between 1 & 2.

Finding information on the rest of the above is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)

As long as there has been transportation sytems there have been military applications.

K

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=Richard%20Sta llman&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab= wi http://www.stallman.org/ Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project in 1984. He is the principal or initial author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He is the President of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:rz3TvbWM7y cJ:www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw104732_20040926. htm+&hl=en/ Google Cache of: http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw104732_20040 926.htm/

"Smallpox (thanks to vaccinations) no longer exists in the wild. I'm sure someone will be able to come up with an apt computing metaphor ..."

How about the Stoned virus perhaps? I doubt there are any PC's out there still infected by that one.

I don't believe in making it harder (or less financially attractive) for drug companies to cure diseases.

Yes, most people want free money and is a big part of why the pharmaceutical industry is so horrendeously inefficient today.

Whether you like it or not a big part of good medicine is affordability. The current industry is not providing it. A good example is AIDS, dozens of "treatments" providing perpetual, high-value revenue streams for the vendors, but for some reason no cures.

A working market depends on an informed consumer. Drugs are complex and subtle enough that it is very difficult for a consumer, even a doctor, to be well informed and as a result pharmaceutical companies get away with a lot more than they should. Do a google search for iatrogenic illness to get an idea of how bad it is.

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It's wrong that an intellectual property creator should not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an IP creator should be rewarded too many times for the one piece of work, for exactly the same reasons.
Reform IP law and stop the M$/RIAA abuse.

Googled for Linux ipod ... look at the URL for the top response....

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=l inux+ipod&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Australia does too

There is one. googling is good for you

Nice going, trollboy.

Check your facts before posting! Unless you think slashdotters are really that gullible?

Most importantly, you get very high performance for each CPU you add into an Opteron SMP system - not so with intel systems, because the SMP technology they use is very weak compared with the Alpha lineage.

Zealotry means repeating yourself like u are when presented with the facts. Again, google it yourself a google for mac os x viruses reveals over TWO THOUSAND HITS.

TRY IT yourself.

I expect this will be successful simply because of how enormously inconvenient it is for Linux users to buy a laptop bundled with WinXP and get a refund, or how expensive that OS is to just pay for and not use. However, if you don't like SuSE, there's always FreeDOS on a Dell and installing the Linux distribution of your choice later. I guess this rules in the convenience stakes - as convenient as buying a WinXP laptop - and that's its selling point.

(Note that this certainly isn't the first popular Linux laptop.)

Speaking of ripped off, why does the design of Daum's logo look strangely familiar?

at least the australian version says Beta..

The MS one is too busy, hard to follow. Whereas the Google one is as clean as can be expected for a screen with so much information and so many links.

So let me get this straight. Which beta is better? Do we really need a slashdot poll to know that answer? Didn't think so...

HTH

The vandy monster :)

Why not try to google for it?

The 2nd result seems to answer your question...

IIRC the weird copy and paste in *nix has to do with the selection being stored as CHAR * .. which leads to interesting issues when you are copying something which may or may not be standard ASCII .. Unix hatersanyone? :-)

The author is German, as are a couple of his comments, but the PHP code is tidy, with English variables. The script handles ID3v1 - ID3v2.3 and is LGPL.

No need to reinvent the wheel :-)

Yes, here is just one (of many)

NWChem Results

Itanium does very VERY well on computational chemistry codes, to mention one area.. (OK, the one I work in ;)

Next time you cut and paste from someone else's blog, perhaps take the time to restore the paragraph tags? Smells like plagurism to me...

Did anyone else read 'reclusive' as 'recursive'? What would a recursive millionaire do?

They'd sire lots of kids....each of whom would be a millionaire.

case in point

This is already being done with Lineage 2. Do a google search for Adena Farms Inc. to see people reactions.

To be honest, after reading one forum thread, I couldn't help thinking that if the whiney little shits shut-up, they'd have a hell of a game on their hands, with real people effectively taking over from mobs, and usually carrying a lot of money.

An all-out war against the clan would be great in my opinion.

many things get pattented before even invented or widely used, look at:

communications satelites in 1945
MS patents zeros and ones
and many more...

As such Google tells me that 45 mph = 39.1039309 knots.
Pretty decent speed, that....

Q

Google sure does : ColaMan Slashdot

Here in Canberra, we recently had some fairly significant bushfires (Brushfires to US readers.. though I agree with a slashdot poster of a few months back, who thought that brushfire sounded like a problem caused by overactive grooming...).

As part of the fires, one of our wonderful nature parks ( Tidbinbilla) has lost all but one of their Koalas. Now that leaves are starting to come back onto the trees once more, it might be a good time to try and acquire some more koalas.. This would seem to be an ideal opportunity to bring back a koala population into the area.

I suspect though, that the costs might be somewhat prohibitive, and I'm not really sure about territorial habits of Koalas, so there might be other factors that would make transferrel difficult.

Red.

No one in their right mind would play poker like this against the richest man in the world.

For those who are interested: The first use of 'spam' for spam

It's rather complicated , but if it's based upon Kepler's stacking problem, it's only taken 300 years to get a proof sorted.

Google it thusly.
Summary by some guy :
Professor Thomas Hales of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in 1999 that he had posted on the Internet the solution to a seemingly simple problem that has taxed the brains of some of the finest mathematicians for 300 years. If the proof is accepted as complete (which now seems likely), Kepler's Stacking Problem will have been solved through a combination of human ingenuity and the power of modern computers.

So it seems that yes, computers *are* ready to do proofs for us.

All praise the power of modern computers!

... at packet sniffing. In other news, FreeBSD
sucks
at
everything
else

From the recent tests performed by a BSD advocate, and linked here, we see Linux 2.6 has TRIPLE the exec throughput of FreeBSD 5.2, TRIPLE the context switch speed, less than half the system call overhead, and all, of course while being far more scalable.

I suggest that if you really have the need to show that FreeBSD is better than Linux, then you should concentrate on something other than performance. Stability might suit you better, because it is far more difficult for someone to get evidence either way to counter your FUD.

Have a nice day.

i dont think so

It's april 5 where I am.

People from all walks of life gamble, as do people of all type abstain.

Here's a corporate example of Apple's "success!"

Well, I'd argue that a software product IS a natural monopoly. So what are the characteristic of a natural monopoly?

Among the multiple definitions given by Google, a common thread is the high cost of entry and the extreme scale of economy.

As such, a single software product is the perfect definition of a natural monopoly. Every extra copy essentially costs zero. Which nicely explains why Microsoft continues to dominate the operating system and office suite market despite multiple competing firms.

However, software in general isn't because of the extremely low cost of entry. One person, a computer and a compiler is all you need.

This argues for the need to establish regulations in mature software niches. Without which, you risk market failure. Hence the Microsoft case.

At the same time, immature software industries should be left alone.

Take a look at the headlines in the news articles about this case on google news. All along the lines of "SCO Sues AutoZone Over Use of Linux"

More proof this is just FUD!

Take a look at the headlines in the news articles about this case on google news

All along the lines of "SCO Sues AutoZone Over Use of Linux"

The case IS NOT ABOUT LINUX. It is about using SCO claiming that autozone are using SCO SHARED LIBRARIES IN A WAY THEY'RE NOT LICENSED TO.

As has already been shown by Jim Geer's comments, they aren't doing so, but even if they were... it wouldn't matter WHICH os they were now using SCO shared libraries under. It could be using them on a Commodore 64 and it would be an identical case!

But, the press being what they are have soaked up the meme of "SCO is against linux" and repeated it back in the essence of their headlines, making the world at a casual glimpse think this case is about SCO code in Linux in general.

That makes me sad.

iPod's battery isn't user-serviceable if you want to keep your warranty.

Even worse, originally they wanted to charge like $250 to replace it...ie, iPod is disposable, because for $250 (in 18 months time, when the battery dies) you can get a better iPod with a new battery. See here for more. (WMA movie [sorry] + link to text info)

It's only the result of immense public pressure and a load of lawsuits that have made Apple change their stance and give us a $99 replacement service.

I have an iPod myself and it gets 2-5 hours of use a day (at work mostly) and I'm pretty worried about the battery - Aus$670 is a lot of money for us students.

Don't get me wrong, it's totally sweet to use and it has changed the way I listen to music (of course, don't trust me, I'm hardly Dr. iPod), but if I'm paying US$99 to get the battery changed in 18 months I will be mighty pissed.

~ Tim

A search of Google News reveals that the only reputable newsfeed reporting this groudbreaking story is, in fact, Slashdot.

Can we really believe this? As the story says, this should be huge news. Can anyone who has the files confirm that they do indeed look remotely like one would imagine the Windoze code to look like (hint: look for the holes).

Something worth considering, anyway.

• I can still remember the day... Labour said Howard was 100% comitted to the war, at a time when Howard was stating he was not comitted to unilateral action, though he prepared for the possibility. ( and had send troops to the region - It's not like we have troops in the gulf perminantly )
• 
  On the same day, Labour called Howard a liar. They said he would do anything for George along with a few unkind words about the US President.
  
  But how disappointing it was to see them grovel... how swiftly they apologetically squirmed after Tom Schieffer US Ambassador announced personal slander was not in the interests of good Labour-US relations. I suppose Labour wants to be George's bitch too.
  
  ...but what really shut them up was when the coalition reminded them of the party name supporting Tony Blair.

enjoy! its all in good dun... nay nay baby