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  1. Carbon and Cocoa Application Lis on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Informative

    This page contains a list of applications that are either already Carbonized or Cocoaized or are in the process of being Carbonized or Cocoaized. Check it out at Xappeal

  2. Should be LLS Source on Open Source And Genetics · · Score: 1, Redundant
    One of the major arguments around open source software is the question of "free speech or free beer". The distinction is frequently drawn by using the words libre to indicate the freedom of action in OSS (e.g. to distribute modified copies) and gratis to indicate freedom from cost.


    LSS is very much libre. Users of LSS packages are free to distribute copies without reference to the authors, make modifications and distribute the modified copies. They may even execute the software without charge, provided that they do it for a purpose for which the authors do not require payment, and the definition of LSS ensures that any LSS package can be executed for experimental purposes. However LSS is not always gratis. Some uses of the software will require payment.


    The word "liberal" is derived from "libre". It denotes freedom of action. Hence "Liberal Source Software". The source is available, and you can do what you like with it.

  3. Star Trek on Science Fiction into Science Fact? · · Score: 1

    Many may laugh at this but I think Star Trek has had a big influence on Science, Many Ideas have been models after these books and TV Shows. I.E. Ebooks.

  4. Other Way aroung on Mplayer Charges License Violation · · Score: 1

    Im sure it is the otherway around I have heard bout Microsoft mettings where they talk about reverse engineering all the time. And if they can decompile and reverse engineer it they buy it.

  5. Re:Slashdot Boardgame on Geek Gift Ideas 2001 · · Score: 1

    Slashdot the Board Game

    Hurry up and design the "Slashdot Board Games", where I choose my game piece from the Slashdot topics.
    After I fight with everyone to be the Linux penguin or the Spam pig.
    Then I roll my dice to see what karma I start with. Now I have to roll a 7 or 11 to get a story submitted.
    Once you submit 4 story's successfully, you've almost one.
    Now all you need to do is get everyone to moderate (roll the dice) my story's. The highest score wins.
    Do you think i can have it before X-Mas?

  6. Slashdot Boardgame on Geek Gift Ideas 2001 · · Score: 1

    I want the Slashdot boardgame, with carry on tote for easy traveling.

  7. 802.11g Forcast on 802.11g Approved By IEEE 54 mb/s on 2.4 gigahertz · · Score: 1

    Despite the recent introduction of higher-speed 802.11g products, the outlook for 802.11b continues to be strong and we forecast that the market will grow 35 percent in 2002, according to Dell'Oro Group.

  8. Taxing Internet Service on Internet Tax Ban Extended · · Score: 1

    This does not apply to taxing Internet Services. I know in Texas the first $25.00 of your internet service cannot be taxed. Im not sure if this a Texas tax break or National.

  9. Harry Potter and Star Wars Trailer on New Star Wars Episode II Trailer Out · · Score: 1

    I heard that the Star Wars Trailer was going to play on the first showings of Harry Potter. Is this true? I couln't find anything to back this up.

  10. Contact Tracing is a must on Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox · · Score: 1

    This is the method that has been used in the control of endemic contagious disease for decades. A disease investigation begins when an individual is identified as having a communicable disease. An investigator interviews the patient, family members, physicians, nurses, and anyone else who may have knowledge of the primary patient's contacts, anyone who might have been exposed, and anyone who might have been the source of the disease. Then the contacts are screened to see if they have or have ever had the disease. The type of contact screened depends on the nature of the disease. A sexually transmitted disease will require interviewing only infected patients and screening only their sex partners. A disease that is spread by respiratory contact, such as tuberculosis, may require screening tens to hundreds of persons, such as other inmates in a prison.

  11. Ways to crash a program on C with Safety - Cyclone · · Score: 1

    Another potential way to crash a program or violate security is to dereference a dangling pointer---a pointer to storage that has been deallocated. These are particularly insidious bugs because the error might not manifest itself immediately.The way that Cyclone fixes this is by assigning each object a symbolic region that corresponds to the lexical block in which the object is declared, and each pointer type reflects the region into which a pointer points.

  12. Research and Development on Return of the Dragon · · Score: 1

    The BBC's Research and Development Department, working in conjunction with Avatar and BT Labs and De Montfort University have come up with the Prometheus Project, which is an attempt to create high quality 3D animated actors.

  13. Spintronics and Quantum Computers on Spintronics in your Future? · · Score: 1

    Today's computers rely on silicon-based microchips to process data in a binary form -- which allows only for "on" and "off" states. Quantum computers, however, will be able to examine data using spins, which has can have many different states.

  14. Got there... Excited on KDE 3.0 Screenshots · · Score: 3, Informative

    KDE 3 provides a database-independent API for accessing SQL databases. It provides support for ODBC as well as direct support for Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL databases (custom drivers may be added as well). I am really looking forward to this feature, as I am a SQL junkie. If I could backend everything to a SQL database I would.

  15. Does it have a web browsers or GPS on Telepongs Linux Handheld in June · · Score: 1

    Audiovox Communications Corporation Wednesday unveiled a GPS-enabled third-generation (3G) wireless handset that incorporates Bluetooth technology.It includes a Web browser and supports Short Message Service (SMS) messaging.
    The company said it would release the device in conjunction with the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The handset will retail for $299.

  16. Methanol fuel cell on Methanol Fuel-Cell Battery For Your Laptop? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hazards incurred by gasoline releases are greater than those of methanol releases, and will persist much longer in the environment.A recent study performed by EA Engineering examined what the costs would be to implement different methanol retail systems. They concluded that a new methanol retail system could be installed for approximately $70,000 and an existing gasoline tank could be cleaned, the pumps and plumbing replaced for as little as $19,000.

  17. Where to buy one? on What Do You Think of ASUS Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I looked on pricewatch and many other sites. Where can you purchase this awsome laptop?

  18. Xbox and M.A.M.E on XBox Released · · Score: 1, Informative

    This looked really cool, Now you can play all those old crapy games on your xbox. Sweet now I can thow away all my other consoles.

  19. Heart Attack on Computer DJ Uses Biofeedback to Mix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bet that sounds like crap when you have a heart attack. Need to make a device that hooks up to my testicles, that would probably sound good.

  20. As if on Virtual Keyboard · · Score: 0

    Great, I allready have a hard enough time getting my mother to find the crtl or delete key...

  21. Consumers Are Dumb on Clockless Chips · · Score: 0

    This concept is will be very hard to market to the consumer. With out a definitive way to give a chip a speed classification consumers won't know what is better or worse. The way I understand it if you give it more power it goes faster, thats on some clockless chips. So I guess that could be the speed classification number.

  22. Now I can retire my 386 on (Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Great now I can finnaly retire my 386 looking for primes.

  23. Can it run Mozilla? on Linux Yopy Handheld Preview · · Score: 0

    Can it run Mozilla there is an intersestin article on about that project at Linuxdevices.com

  24. IEEE 1394 for Linux on Firewire and Linux? · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Been using mine for a while and works great. I expect much work in 2.5 will be done for this.

  25. Re:2.5 Wist List on Ask New 2.4 Maintainer Marcelo Tosatti Anything · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did I say Wist ment to say Wish...