More than that, Laura DiDio actually has signed the NDA, and says the code excerpts "selected and supplied by SCO do look identical". A quick Google search gives us a few dozen stories, beginning with variants of
"Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio was one of the people who signed the SCO NDA..."
I'm actually shocked (though maybe I shouldn't be) that an outright fraud like this can occure on/. with such ease. Will somebody who actually does have mod points mod it down "-1, Troll", anyway?
No coffee cup holders? Well...
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...there's always the one in the front of the iMac, isnt there?
Actually, the claim that "diamonds are forever" was merely an advertising campaign, albeit a successful one. De Beers started this idea of diamonds being 'forever' as an attempt to sell more diamonds in engagement rings.
De Beers needed a slogan for diamonds that expressed both the theme of romance and legitimacy. An N. W. Ayer copywriter came up with the caption "A Diamond Is Forever," which was scrawled on the bottom of a picture of two young lovers on a honeymoon. Even though diamonds can in fact be shattered, chipped, discolored, or incinerated to ash, the concept of eternity perfectly captured the magical qualities that the advertising agency wanted to attribute to diamonds. Within a year, "A Diamond Is Forever" became the official motto of De Beers.
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There's an article with more information on using diamonds as superconductors. If the techniques for this hold with these artificial diamonds, we could be seeing a great leap forward in computing power within the next few years.
Don't you mean the Ignoble Prize? I mean, he's right up there with that guy who invented airtight underwear with a charcoal filter - not to mention he's neck-and-neck (in my books, anyway) with Ron Popeil, who came up with the Inside-The-Shell Egg Scrambler. Incredible!
Seriously, it doesn't take a genius to come up with the idea of making something smaller so you can put it in your pocket - now, a real genius would just get a bigger pocket...
The good thing about Distributed Proofreaders is that there's actually a system in which each scanned and OCRed page of text is proofread twice: once by anyone, and once by anyone who has more than fifty pages proofread. (For that matter, it's checked again by a post-proofreader when the separate pages are combined into one file, for extra safety.)
Admittedly, a moderated wiki-format would be difficult to beat for reliability, but three separate checks, (theoretically) increasing in accuracy each time, there's not much that will be missed. Really, the accuracy of the triple-check system in addition to the speed (2500-3000 pages a day) of the proofreading at DP would make it doubtful that any increase in reliability would be justified by the change in system.
(Oh, and check the relevant section of the FAQ for a clear, step-by-step version of how DP works.)
Well, looking at this image, it looks like once the tether's orbit has begun to deteriorate, it will just keep falling until it burns up/hits Australia. Rather an odd form for a disposable propulsion system, though...
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...there's always the one in the front of the iMac, isnt there?
There's an article with more information on using diamonds as superconductors. If the techniques for this hold with these artificial diamonds, we could be seeing a great leap forward in computing power within the next few years.
As great as that shirt is (despite the grammatical error), note that only the top line of shirts is being printed: that is, Volatile Hyperlinking, mainline geek culture, and News w/ nerd slant are the only shirts being printed.
Mind you, I'd have preferred one of Chris Hil's shirts to Jude Hansen's, but -- c'est la vie.
Don't you mean the Ignoble Prize? I mean, he's right up there with that guy who invented airtight underwear with a charcoal filter - not to mention he's neck-and-neck (in my books, anyway) with Ron Popeil, who came up with the Inside-The-Shell Egg Scrambler. Incredible!
Seriously, it doesn't take a genius to come up with the idea of making something smaller so you can put it in your pocket - now, a real genius would just get a bigger pocket...
The good thing about Distributed Proofreaders is that there's actually a system in which each scanned and OCRed page of text is proofread twice: once by anyone, and once by anyone who has more than fifty pages proofread. (For that matter, it's checked again by a post-proofreader when the separate pages are combined into one file, for extra safety.)
Admittedly, a moderated wiki-format would be difficult to beat for reliability, but three separate checks, (theoretically) increasing in accuracy each time, there's not much that will be missed. Really, the accuracy of the triple-check system in addition to the speed (2500-3000 pages a day) of the proofreading at DP would make it doubtful that any increase in reliability would be justified by the change in system.
(Oh, and check the relevant section of the FAQ for a clear, step-by-step version of how DP works.)
"Niue - Wardriving Made Easy"
Yes, that's what he did. I know Slashdot protocol is to not read the article, but try to make an exception for the summary of the article, at least...
...so the graphics may be prettier, but it'll still run at the same speed.
Well, looking at this image, it looks like once the tether's orbit has begun to deteriorate, it will just keep falling until it burns up/hits Australia. Rather an odd form for a disposable propulsion system, though...