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  1. That's no taco on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I feel a great disturbance in the force. :(

  2. Well I'll Bee on Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem · · Score: 1

    I wonder if those bees just sniff their way into an optimal solution. A bee gathering pollen will probably lose some in flight. Even more so when 'fully loaded'. Those lost pollen would fan out in time. That would mean that from a certain point/ flower, a bee could find the direction of the best path to take by sniffing the direction where the most pollen come from. Doesn't take much computing power. So I guess my question would be: is the hypotheses tested with different weather conditions? Especially wind direction and force.

  3. Re:Patches have been available for a long time on A Tidal Wave of Java Flaw Exploitation · · Score: 1
    You dn't have to. There are tools for that.

    The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to FileHippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.

  4. It's all about the process on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 1

    You can create the greatest or cheapest control room and it will fail unless you known the process. The company, it's culture and it's people are not going to change (much) just by you building a control room.

    How are they handling crisis now?

    • Lot's of people discussing with each other? => big screens / whiteboards on the wall. open sight-lines from workspace to those walls.
    • The problem quickly gets broken down in lots of (parallel) bits which needs specialistic knowledge to solve? => fairly Isolated 4-screen work-places.

    What's the impact of a failure?

    • very public, broad impact => communication is essential => war/press-room with overviews and managers
    • Few large accounts => use your space / dollars for something else.

    It's not about chairs and monitors: it's about how a company is most effective. Using big bucks to create a control room is just a waste of money if you do not know how it is going to be used.

    Don't talk to us:talk to the people how are actually doing the crisis-handling at this very moment.

  5. Re:no java? on Getting Started Contributing Back To Open Source · · Score: 1
    Maybe you confuse Free and Opens Source?

    There have been, and are, many java open source projects. I was wondering why they are not part of this site. Especially SUN has been a real advocate for open-source in the past.

    ps. C# isn't exactly 'Free' I guess.

  6. no java? on Getting Started Contributing Back To Open Source · · Score: 1

    No Java requested at all? I've always seen it as the base language for open source.

  7. Thank you on The Machine SID Duplication Myth · · Score: 1

    I, for one, wish to speak a word of thanks. This was a step of courage.
    If only half of the people working on a non-solution, on which they own their daily bread, where so courageous.

    H

  8. Re:I'll Be Damned on Why Text Messages Are Limited To 160 Characters · · Score: 1

    Or they get too much email already and need you to communicate more efficiently. It might be a hint? In communications always ask yourself this question. 160.|

  9. yeehaa on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 1

    Great, Now where did I leave those sharks... ps. does anyone know how far Tesla himself got?

  10. Re:What linux ACTUALLY needs on What Needs Fixing In Linux · · Score: 1

    Funny, that is what Microsoft said about Vista?

  11. Re:Let me be the first to say... on What Needs Fixing In Linux · · Score: 1

    You mean you want an "intelligent design" Who will be God then?

  12. Re:Spoiler on Ender in Exile · · Score: 1

    And whatta you know: in the shops just in time for Christmas ;-)

  13. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    And with people wanting to help the police, Instead of not wanting to be involved in a dirty war.

    In the long run you want to motivate the people to ' do the right thing'. Losing the trust you need for this by pulling a fast one is only a quick win. Sometimes good most times not worth it.

  14. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    I immediately belief that the region is no picnic!
    But when you let your morals slip the police just turns into another gang. Its a sliding scale I think.

  15. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well Sir, I like my government to be trustworthy. They 'won' a few bad-guys but send out a very significant signal: don't trust us.

    by the way: What is wrong with one county talking to the others to get their politics more into one line? democracy at work :)

  16. Re:0_o on B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams · · Score: 1

    Have you ever wondered if any if this was real?
    (tune of matrix starts in)

  17. Re:Singular? on Web Singletons? · · Score: 1

    Wow, imagine a beowulf cluster of those!

  18. Everyone knows on Web Singletons? · · Score: 1

    Time does not exist within a singleton

  19. Re:Sweet on World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS · · Score: 1

    Remember IPV6 is made for the future. So you also have to account for Mars and the Moon!

    http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

  20. Re:NO ! It's a miracle ! on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 1

    I'll have what he had...

  21. Feeding the trolls on Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" · · Score: 1

    What's slow here is your perception. I guess you should read up on the subject...

    Here is a link from microsoft network

    currently performance is basically leap-frogging between j2ee and dotnet currently.
    A choice cannot be made based on performance only

  22. Re:They did on Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" · · Score: 1

    Maybe this would help?

  23. Re:Divide by cucumber error on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1
    Wouldn't be good without a proper source reference :) Quotes / error messages
    • ++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.
    • Mr. Jelly! Mr. Jelly! Error at Address Number 6, Treacle Mine Road.
    • Melon melon melon
    • +++Wahhhhhhh! Mine!+++
    • +++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++
    • +++Whoops! Here comes the cheese! +++
    • Hex's messages are often delimited by the sequence +++, which recalls the escape sequence in the Hayes command set, a standard used in modems.

  24. Uerfriendly for teh win on Debating "Deletionism" At Wikipedia · · Score: 1
  25. Re:A shining path to success... on OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village · · Score: 1

    Thank you!