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  1. google should just submit webm to iso by rysiek · · Score: 1 · on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness

    I summed up some arguments to Ars' art here: http://lwb.elka.pw.edu.pl/trac/lwb/blog/rysiek/2011/01/13/on_google_h264_and_openness In short, h264 is a "standard" but a patented, "trojan" one; Google should just submit WebM to ISO and be done with it.

  2. Re:nothing is more interesting than... by gilkyboy · · Score: 1, Funny · on Michael Weiss Interview

    You mean this model?

  3. Re:Source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Digital Life and Evolution

    I'm glad you find it interesting. The university is not very large, and I'm not sure it talked much about this. Remember, the project was never finished, and it was sort of embarrasing for them to have caused something like this. If you want to find out more, I suggest that you search for information from other, larger, polish universities. I know the Warsaw university of technology (http://www.elka.pw.edu.pl/) and some kind of university in Lodz were affected by this.

    I was not a member of this project myself, but several of my friends were students involved in it. Professor Flisykowski (sp?) was one of the people that took the initiative for the project.

  4. Re:Version 4 Will Tell by Corporate+Gadfly · · Score: 1 · on MySQL A Threat to Bigwigs?
    The following site does a very good comparison between the feature sets of MySQL, Oracle and Postgres.

    http://det-dbalice.if.pw.edu.pl/det-dbalice/docu me nts/all/html/db_compare/db_compar_chp01.html
    An otherwise informative and to the point post has been rendered useless by you not using the A HREF tag. Copying-and-pasting URLs wastes time (not to mention the embedded spaces to weed out)

    Here's the same Comparison of Oracle, MySQL and Postgress DBMS as mentioned in the quoted comment above.
  5. Re:Eh? by Nevermore-Spoon · · Score: 5, Funny · on Radeon 9700 Pro: ATI Ahead

    "PC Gamer reviewed the 9700 four months ago."

    No kidding, this is the most out of date story I've seen on slashdot. Next the'll be releasing

    386 Released with a math CoProcessor
    reviews explaining the performance difference between the 386SX and 386DX here

  6. You're lucky. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft?
    I am a Computer Engineering student at a well respected canadian university, and 95% of all Comp.Sci is Linux based. Only a few of the first year courses (where you learn MS Office or Java) are done on windows.
    You're lucky. I was a student of Institute of Computer Science on Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. On the first year we had everything under MS-Windows or MS-DOS. We had no contact to any non-Microsoft OS and the only non-Microsoft software was also proprietary. No free software at all. It was like one big advertisement of Microsoft, Corel and Sun without even a word about GNU. Even C, which would be obvious to teach using GCC under GNU/Linux, was on MS Visual C++ under Windows NT. I left before the first year ended because it was an insult to everything I believe in. Now learn by my own, like I did before the Warsaw University of Technology, working as a telecommuting consultant for US-based companies, designing e-commerce solutions based entirely on the free software, and hopefully in few years I'll earn enough money for Computer Science studies on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's difficult because my whole family has a serious troubles with money, so I can't count on anyone but myself. Wish me luck.
  7. You're lucky. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft?
    I am a Computer Engineering student at a well respected canadian university, and 95% of all Comp.Sci is Linux based. Only a few of the first year courses (where you learn MS Office or Java) are done on windows.
    You're lucky. I was a student of Institute of Computer Science on Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. On the first year we had everything under MS-Windows or MS-DOS. We had no contact to any non-Microsoft OS and the only non-Microsoft software was also proprietary. No free software at all. It was like one big advertisement of Microsoft, Corel and Sun without even a word about GNU. Even C, which would be obvious to teach using GCC under GNU/Linux, was on MS Visual C++ under Windows NT. I left before the first year ended because it was an insult to everything I believe in. Now learn by my own, like I did before the Warsaw University of Technology, working as a telecommuting consultant for US-based companies, designing e-commerce solutions based entirely on the free software, and hopefully in few years I'll earn enough money for Computer Science studies on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's difficult because my whole family has a serious troubles with money, so I can't count on anyone but myself. Wish me luck.
  8. You're lucky. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft?
    I am a Computer Engineering student at a well respected canadian university, and 95% of all Comp.Sci is Linux based. Only a few of the first year courses (where you learn MS Office or Java) are done on windows.
    You're lucky. I was a student of Institute of Computer Science on Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. On the first year we had everything under MS-Windows or MS-DOS. We had no contact to any non-Microsoft OS and the only non-Microsoft software was also proprietary. No free software at all. It was like one big advertisement of Microsoft, Corel and Sun without even a word about GNU. Even C, which would be obvious to teach using GCC under GNU/Linux, was on MS Visual C++ under Windows NT. I left before the first year ended because it was an insult to everything I believe in. Now learn by my own, like I did before the Warsaw University of Technology, working as a telecommuting consultant for US-based companies, designing e-commerce solutions based entirely on the free software, and hopefully in few years I'll earn enough money for Computer Science studies on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's difficult because my whole family has a serious troubles with money, so I can't count on anyone but myself. Wish me luck.