My vote is still for OkCupid. I met a couple really great people on there that I am still friends with today, and I met my current partner of over two years through a volunteer organization one of the aforementioned people I met on OkCupid introduced me to.
I would guess that, like me, most slashdot users would be more interested in the scientific approach that a site like OkCupid takes rather than profile/picture system most sites use.
I am pretty sure the summary is incorrect in stating that Netflix supports streaming on Linux. There was some confusion recently about that when boxee announced Netflix support, but their announcement clearly states that it is only for their Windows version.
This is exactly what I did. I bought the XP based Asus eee 1000h and wiped XP off of it for Ubuntu before I even saw the EULA.
Nearly all of the manufacturers seem to ship a feature rich XP model or a Linux one with half the battery life and RAM, no bluetooth, and 1/10th the HD space. Seems like apples to oranges to me.
I disagree with your point about Objective-C being a language you can pick up in a few hours. I have not used ObjC since they began including an automatic garbage collector, but I remember memory management being confusing (not quite automatic and not quite manual) and the syntax to be somewhat hard to grasp. It is not a hard language, and the tools are great, once they are figured out, but Java/Eclipse was much easier to hit the ground running. And to say ObjC is as easy as Ruby or Python is ludicrous.
I recently received an email from the Computer Science advisor at the University of Arizona regarding an independent study class where this software is being tested. Here is the email:
ECE/C SC 399/399H/499/499H
Jan 14, 2008 - Feb 15, 2008
24-Hour Knowledge Factory in Software Development Research Experiment
Course Summary:
The purpose of this research experiment is to collect data on how effective the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory process is when used with software development, and collect feedback from students on their interactions with the process. Students taking this course would complete a CS C 335-style project during the first four weeks of the Spring 2008 semester. Students would participate in one of two ways:
Case 1: Students would be part of a 3-person team completing the project using the simulated 24-Hour Knowledge Factory process. This would require students to select 2 days per week (3 days apart) to complete approximately 4 hours of project work. Each team member would then save their files at the end of the day and the next student would continue working on the next day. All project communication must be done through the message board prototype provided. All development will be completed using Jazz, a set of collaborative tools built on top of eclipse, which will be available on select machines in GS 228.
Case 2: Students would be a control group, each student working independently. In order to mimic the situations of the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory groups, students would still only perform 8 hours of project work per week, but this time could be on any two days that the student chooses, (in 4 hour increments each day). There will be a much fewer number of openings for this situation, no more than the number of participating complete groups.
Course Requirements:
Each student will be required to attend an orientation session on the Monday prior to classes starting. Also, each student will need to complete daily progress reports twice a week and a weekly summary report each week. Students must also commit to work 2 days per week for 4 hours (or a more flexible 8 hours per week schedule for case 2) on days that can be negotiated before course enrollment.
Grades will be based on timely and thorough completion of progress reports and not on project progress. Instead, the team from case 1 and the student from case 2 that completes the most assigned tasks or creates the best product will be awarded gift certificates to a local restaurant in the amount of $20 per person.
Prerequisites:
Students must have completed C SC 227 (or equivalent Java programming courses).
It is preferred that students have completed C SC 335 or ECE 373 (or equivalent Java programming courses, specifically with experience in Java Swing development).
Note: Some students without the second requirement may be selected to participate on teams with students that do meet that requirement. At most one student not meeting this requirement will be placed on a team.
My brother has inquired about the details of this expirement as he may be interested in participating. The experiment administrator told him that the work must be completed on the selected computers in the CS labs as those boxes would be the only place the software is available.
Apart from it not supporting DRM, ogg has only advantages - it's equal or superior to most other codecs
IIRC Ogg (or theora to be more exact) requires greater hardware resources for decoding a file of like bitrate than MP3 does. This is probably a larger concern for a company like Nokia that deals solely with portable devices where processor speed is more of a commodity and power consumption is a primary concern.
Mandriva (err Mandrake) will always have a soft spot in my heart as my first distro (I think it was 8.0 or 8.1 in the end of 2001). Anyway, it was a fine distro back then and I felt that URPMI never got the credit it deserved. Sure their repositories did not have nearly as many packages as Debian's, but with the official repos coupled with Texstar's, I was always happy. Although I haven't tried Mandriva in years (though I still use the partitioning tool on the install CDs fairly often), the features, screenshots, and community surrounding the distro make it look like it is still a very viable choice for a desktop beginner distro.
Thanks for being the first news site to not publish a sensationalist headline about this like "Fedora Core Linux is No More!" Though the story seems a little late, the headline is certainly not as misleading.
I'd guess another reason for choosing Thunderbird/Sunbird is that they already have working ports on other platforms (granted Sunbird is still not of great quality). The last I heard about the Evolution Windows port was that it was finally compiling...
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My vote is still for OkCupid. I met a couple really great people on there that I am still friends with today, and I met my current partner of over two years through a volunteer organization one of the aforementioned people I met on OkCupid introduced me to. I would guess that, like me, most slashdot users would be more interested in the scientific approach that a site like OkCupid takes rather than profile/picture system most sites use.
to make sure the grammar is correct and the submissions lack certain unpleasantries such as run-on sentences.
Also, WD recently changed their warranty from 3 years to 5.
or more importantly, can it run Crysis?
I am pretty sure the summary is incorrect in stating that Netflix supports streaming on Linux. There was some confusion recently about that when boxee announced Netflix support, but their announcement clearly states that it is only for their Windows version.
This is exactly what I did. I bought the XP based Asus eee 1000h and wiped XP off of it for Ubuntu before I even saw the EULA. Nearly all of the manufacturers seem to ship a feature rich XP model or a Linux one with half the battery life and RAM, no bluetooth, and 1/10th the HD space. Seems like apples to oranges to me.
Your post reminded me that coincidentally enough, the PS3 firmware that was released today is the first to have Flash 9.
I does sound kind of crazy, but then again, I have always been told not to start a checkbook at check #1 for similar reasons.
I can't seem to find the video of the Falcon 1 Flight 4 (which the article is discussing). I only find Flight 3. Has anyone found the video?
I disagree with your point about Objective-C being a language you can pick up in a few hours. I have not used ObjC since they began including an automatic garbage collector, but I remember memory management being confusing (not quite automatic and not quite manual) and the syntax to be somewhat hard to grasp. It is not a hard language, and the tools are great, once they are figured out, but Java/Eclipse was much easier to hit the ground running. And to say ObjC is as easy as Ruby or Python is ludicrous.
I have to agree with JK2. That is my favorite Star Wars game. I enjoyed Rogue Squadron (woo 4MB memory expansion!) and Episode 1 Racer too.
we should just drop giant ice cubes into the ocean periodically thus solving the problem forever.
To me, more important than the ability to get an elephant to the moon is the ability to get an orca to the moon.
My brother has inquired about the details of this expirement as he may be interested in participating. The experiment administrator told him that the work must be completed on the selected computers in the CS labs as those boxes would be the only place the software is available.
Apart from it not supporting DRM, ogg has only advantages - it's equal or superior to most other codecs IIRC Ogg (or theora to be more exact) requires greater hardware resources for decoding a file of like bitrate than MP3 does. This is probably a larger concern for a company like Nokia that deals solely with portable devices where processor speed is more of a commodity and power consumption is a primary concern.
Mandriva (err Mandrake) will always have a soft spot in my heart as my first distro (I think it was 8.0 or 8.1 in the end of 2001). Anyway, it was a fine distro back then and I felt that URPMI never got the credit it deserved. Sure their repositories did not have nearly as many packages as Debian's, but with the official repos coupled with Texstar's, I was always happy. Although I haven't tried Mandriva in years (though I still use the partitioning tool on the install CDs fairly often), the features, screenshots, and community surrounding the distro make it look like it is still a very viable choice for a desktop beginner distro.
/me heads to the Mandriva User Board for nostalgic purposes...
Thanks for being the first news site to not publish a sensationalist headline about this like "Fedora Core Linux is No More!" Though the story seems a little late, the headline is certainly not as misleading.
I'd guess another reason for choosing Thunderbird/Sunbird is that they already have working ports on other platforms (granted Sunbird is still not of great quality). The last I heard about the Evolution Windows port was that it was finally compiling...