Yeah I want to second this. I'm in San Diego, got evacuated, etc. All these government guys including FEMA did their jobs properly (and it's very unusual to get me to say that about a government effort). It was stupid of someone at FEMA to do this, but it's not really the big news story.
Just downloaded it -- what fascinates me is that both on that page, and when you go in through Windows Update, the description of the problem doesn't say the magic string "WMF" anywhere, until you drill down several pages to get details. So even if people are looking for the fix to the "WMF" problem it's not going to be obvious to them whether it's there or not.
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Now if we can just combine this invention with the water-powered car...
Yeah I want to second this. I'm in San Diego, got evacuated, etc. All these government guys including FEMA did their jobs properly (and it's very unusual to get me to say that about a government effort). It was stupid of someone at FEMA to do this, but it's not really the big news story.
If the rich buy Google stock, then Google has a fiduciary responsibility to make the rich get richer.
Budweiser is certainly a much less expensive fuel than gasoline, so that's a plus.
The RDBMS used with VMS was Rdb, which already has been owned by Oracle for years (not Dec/Compaq/HP).
I don't get it, they're going to help senior citizens exercise by putting them inside a machine with 20G gravity?
Just downloaded it -- what fascinates me is that both on that page, and when you go in through Windows Update, the description of the problem doesn't say the magic string "WMF" anywhere, until you drill down several pages to get details. So even if people are looking for the fix to the "WMF" problem it's not going to be obvious to them whether it's there or not.
There should be a check box on the tax form that says "I want to donate five dollars to development of open source federal tax software".