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  1. What degree? on IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    Sorry if this sounds somehow stupid, but which degree are they talking about? Master's level or bachelor level? Or does it have any difference salary-wise in US?

  2. Can you say... on Virtual Girlfriend · · Score: 1
    Targeted marketing?

    ..oh screw it, who am I kidding, when do these things come to Europe?

  3. Speculation... on ICFP 2003 Programming Contest Starts June 28th · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if the picture ("preview-fancy.jpg") on the front page is supposed to give us a small hint about what the task will concern? Something involving racing, like optimal route finding and intelligent vehicle steering/controlling?

  4. Re:Laptops in the classroom on What Kind Of Computer To Bring To College? · · Score: 1

    True, and posting the notes early beforehand also allows students to familiarize themselves with the lecture topic beforehand. Especially if encouraged to do so. This way the lecturer would stand at least a theoretical change for some insightful discussion with the audience. (To avoid the "I'd like to keep these sessions interactive." "(great silence)" syndorme.)

  5. Guido von Rossum on Top Ten Software Innovators? · · Score: 1

    For bringing Python to us. It's a god's gift.

  6. OT: "Full story" link on NASA Music Out of This World · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be nice to have a "Full Story" link such as the one in the end of parent scoop, but along with the "Read more..." link & others. The story submitters could have an optional URL field on the submit page to fill, if the story clearly has a main URL (like most of them do). Just an idea.

  7. A book about theory of computation on Books on Programming Theory? · · Score: 1

    Hopcroft, J., Motwani, R., Ullman, J., Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley Publishing. 2000. ISBN: 0201441241.

    Amazon information can be found here.

  8. A macabre ad-hoc demonstration on Surprising Science Demonstrations? · · Score: 1

    One day back in the secondary school, there was a traffic accident (a pedestrian bumped by a car) just outside our school building and of course people were in window staring the scene. At some point our physics teacher came by, observed the scene for a little moment, and then declared: "There you see. Momentum prevails."

  9. Re:Zed had this back in 2001 (announcement found) on Drink Pepsi, Go to Space? · · Score: 1

    The contest announcement can still be seen here.

  10. Zed had this back in 2001 on Drink Pepsi, Go to Space? · · Score: 1

    The SMS company Zed used to have a contest with a space trip as a grand prize. Unfortunately that link doesn't seem to work any more, but the contest is mentioned at least here, here and here.

    I don't know if anyone actually won the prize, though.

  11. Abouts similiar technology (?) on Intel Promises UWB Products By 2006 · · Score: 1

    The Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a somewhat similiar (or at least remotely related) tehcnology for about 17 GHz wireless networking. Those who are interested of this thecnology might want to check out http://www.vtt.fi/vtt/new/new109.htm (or http://www.vtt.fi/vtt/uutta/uutinen409.htm in Finnish).

  12. Re:What about Xiamian? on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 1

    You can set up appointments and whatnot peer-to-peer, but there is no centralized repository like there is in Exchange.

    Hmmm... This just came to my mind: Why not just improve this peer-to-peer functionality of Evolution? Couldn't there be a kind of collective memory among the group (the users of this group-ware) without a specific central point?

    There could be for example a Evolution Peer plug-in that could be attached to any program that can offer some services to other peers.

    Of course there would be all kinds of difficult issues when some peers would be off-line etc. but I imagine there could be a feasible solution...

    Any thoughts...?

  13. AND... on Next Windows to Have New Filesystem · · Score: 1

    And it'll probably still include drive letters and backslashes as directory/folder/whatever separators. Plus naturally some locale-dependent case-insensitivity to mess up apps. And who said anything about open specs?

  14. Re:Universities on Where is Largest Linux Desktop Install? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The CS department of University of Helsinki has to my quick estimate about 500 Linux workstations. Naturally most of the servers run Linux too. Maybe someone from the staff could give more exact figures.