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  1. d'uh - rabbit in the moon matches pangea on Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins · · Score: 1

    I thought it was given that the moon was part of the earth. Look at a map of pangea and the "rabbit in the moon". Genesis describes a terraforming operation.

  2. blue binged on Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement · · Score: 1

    here's a scenario - in the john surfing naughty sites with bing - tablet blue screens - WAAH !!! OMG !!!! reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot - "you have unused desktop icons" - ah crap, there went that moment

  3. using OS as TV front end on Apple Seeks Patent On Operating System Advertising · · Score: 1

    It "sort of" makes sense if the whole OS is a front end to TV. Although a minimalist browser piping ads is probably just as good. That said, a process/thread/whatever running and piping ads to a windows is patentable ? Jeez, if it's configurable I'd configure it to /dev/null.

  4. Oracle or Alfresco on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 2

    We went through this for both document management and web front end for access. We looked through, Sharepoint, Alfresco, Oracle UCM, Reddot and a few others. We dropped most due to cost, functionality, and ease of use for non-developers to do page work. Sharepoint was dropped due to cost in an internet setting (CALs), no non-developer front end for page layout (they couldn't use HTML) and it stores everything in the database. From prior experience this made backup/restore difficult as it keeps the IP ofthe web site in the database when you backup. If you restore to a different machine it gets confused. It was between Oracle and Alfresco. You cannot go wrong with either. Both are extensible, either have what you need built in or can be added easily. Both are good for non-developers to use. Support is very good with either. We went with Oracle. While it did cost more it matched our existing infrastructure.

  5. insult to injury on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    According to Google, Zune forums have been /.'d by iPhones & iPod Touches.

  6. Enterprise/Web Java Dev on Why Developers Are Switching To Macs · · Score: 1

    I have the options of Oracle's Jdeveloper, Netbeans and Eclipse. (free) I run WebLogic, JBoss or Glassfish. (free) I've got apache, tomcat, php, perl and ruby or python should I wish. (free) I can do web apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch or native apps for them. (free) I have mySQL (free) I have many unix shells. I can have from 2 ($1100 iMac) to 8 ($2400 refurb) cores. All 64 bit. I can run Windows ($250), Linux (free) using parallels or vmware (~$50). With that I can run Oracle's 10g db or IBM's DB2 express (free). Anything java I develop can be pushed to any Windows or Linux or Unix environment, yes with tweaking. And I have a really, really nice gui that runs MSFT office, or OpenOffice, has iTunes and plays some games. For the purists, I can do vi, emacs, gcc and make. I can get this in a laptop. So, yea, I'm happy.

  7. Re:CMS, huh? on PHP5 CMS Framework Development · · Score: 1

    check out www.alfresco.com it may save you time and get you more functionality than you could do yourself in much less time

  8. What about outsourcing ? on New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" · · Score: 1

    If you pay attention to the "media", why go to IT in the US when your job will be outsourced or taken by a foreign contractor. Microsoft would much rather have H1-B, offshore, etc then paying for US grads. The kicker is that they're an American company. And MSFT is the only computer company that matters. yea, there's bitterness

  9. threads and multiple cores in current OSes on Is Parallelism the New New Thing? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that OS X will distribute threads across however many cores it has to work with. What about MSFT XP, Vista or the Linuxes ? If a program creates 2 threads and the machine has 2 cores, will the OS assign threads accordingly ? Probably depends on current workload, but if the 2 threads are on separate cores then they're running in parallel, right ?

  10. Cellular Automata visualizations on Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal! · · Score: 1

    While you may carp about the "science" of NKS there's a sh*t load of extremely interesting potential there.
    If you look at kisrael's visualization http://kisrael.com/2007/10/21/ and click on the display mid-low area, you can get "structures" of varying complexity.
    What if these structures where generated by a "seed", say protein or molecule in a solution. The seed reacts with the surrounding contents forming a structure at a molecular level. This could be used to build things at the nano level. We could call it an assembler (kurweil).
    Problem is constructing the seed(s) for complexity. How you going to predict what'll form. Maybe have a library, component parts list, to build more complex structures.

  11. video mktg content doesn't work on Microsoft Expression vs. Dreamweaver · · Score: 1

    The video mtkg demo doesn't play correctly in Firefox on a Mac. I think I'll pass