Re "Extend your search keywords to add "nosite". i.e. nosite:experts-exchange.com": you can already do this (and this feature has always been available). Just add a '-' to 'site:domain.com'. So, just add -site:experts-exchange.com to your search query and you will not see any results from that site.
The success of the Dutch team has (finally) caused others to take up the challenge. One is another from the Netherlands, the http://www.solarteamtwente.nl/nieuws.php Solutra team (http://www.utwente.nl/ University of Twente). Compared to the Delftian guys, these people are novices, but it's nice to see some real rivalry and competition being initiated. I saw them practice, just a few days before the went to Australia, and asked if they has practiced changing tires (which I think is the important thing in winning the challenge). The answer: no, not yet, do you think that's important?
Remember that it really is a challenge, since temperatures inside the car can get more than 50 degrees Celsius.
See this one from a few days ago. As anybody who has worked with these things can tell: it all depends on how you use a device, not if the device is any good or better than before. People who do repetitive work (and working with a mouse is just like that) run the risk of injury. Exercise and knowledge are the best ways of avoiding that.
From the article (it's one of the fwe lines that's actually about Linus' stance): 'I'm the anti-visionary. I distrust people with visions.' That's an interesting remark from someone who is widely seen by others as a 'visionary'. The open source movement is filled with so many self-proclaimed visionaries (RMS, anyone?) that it's quite refreshing to see someone succinctly state he's _not_.
From the article's conclusion: 'Linux fell short on common tasks such as installing new software.' This is the most important point. Joe Average wants a usable system, which includes being able to work in an intuitive way. the 'friendlyness' of most GUIs that I have seen (KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, etcetera) still leaves a lot to be desired, which hampers accomplishing common tasks.
These 'Linux is ready for the desktop' stories have been piling up for quite a few years now, but will it really happen?
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Pity the article did not mention it: the site can be found at http://digitalshadow.com/ It seems to be US only, though.
Re "Extend your search keywords to add "nosite". i.e. nosite:experts-exchange.com": you can already do this (and this feature has always been available). Just add a '-' to 'site:domain.com'. So, just add -site:experts-exchange.com to your search query and you will not see any results from that site.
This was news last year. That post contained a reference to http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/04/27/1354213/IBM-Computer-Program-To-Take-On-Jeopardy -- April 27, 2009. Interesting, but old.
The success of the Dutch team has (finally) caused others to take up the challenge. One is another from the Netherlands, the http://www.solarteamtwente.nl/nieuws.php Solutra team (http://www.utwente.nl/ University of Twente). Compared to the Delftian guys, these people are novices, but it's nice to see some real rivalry and competition being initiated. I saw them practice, just a few days before the went to Australia, and asked if they has practiced changing tires (which I think is the important thing in winning the challenge). The answer: no, not yet, do you think that's important?
Remember that it really is a challenge, since temperatures inside the car can get more than 50 degrees Celsius.
See this one from a few days ago. As anybody who has worked with these things can tell: it all depends on how you use a device, not if the device is any good or better than before. People who do repetitive work (and working with a mouse is just like that) run the risk of injury. Exercise and knowledge are the best ways of avoiding that.
From the article (it's one of the fwe lines that's actually about Linus' stance): 'I'm the anti-visionary. I distrust people with visions.' That's an interesting remark from someone who is widely seen by others as a 'visionary'. The open source movement is filled with so many self-proclaimed visionaries (RMS, anyone?) that it's quite refreshing to see someone succinctly state he's _not_.
From the article's conclusion: 'Linux fell short on common tasks such as installing new software.' This is the most important point. Joe Average wants a usable system, which includes being able to work in an intuitive way. the 'friendlyness' of most GUIs that I have seen (KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, etcetera) still leaves a lot to be desired, which hampers accomplishing common tasks. These 'Linux is ready for the desktop' stories have been piling up for quite a few years now, but will it really happen?