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| Bill Gates (mostly) leaves Microsoft (Posted by Chris Vogel on June 28 2008) |
From Reuters:
QUOTE [Bill Gates] leaves his full-time executive role at Microsoft, which he co-founded with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975, to focus on his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest charity, funded in part by his vast fortune.
Wonderful. Microsoft is now run by a man who throws chairs....(Read more)
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| (1 Replies | Last post by Red Squirrel on June 28 2008) |
| Adobe removes SWF, FLV/F4V restrictions (Posted by Chris Vogel on May 20 2008) |
As part of the Open Screen Project, Adobe has removed restrictions on the use of its SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. (In the past, they could be referenced to develop Flash encoders, not decoders. Developers of third-party players such as Swfdec and Gnash can now legally look at the specifications instead of reverse engineering.)
This means I’ve joined the 98% of Netizens with a Flash player – Swfdec, because the Adobe Flash Player is still proprietary. I’m not sure how I feel about patent-encumbered formats, so I haven’t installed the necessary codecs to get YouTube, Pandora, etc. working. (Yeah, I’ve lived without them for this long.)...(Read more)
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| Funpidgin (Posted by Chris Vogel on May 20 2008) |
I don’t use Pidgin and don’t keep up with its development, but a group of developers have forked it, starting Funpidgin.
QUOTE(http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net) What makes us different from the official client, is that we work for you. Unlike the Pidgin developers, we believe the user should have the final say in what goes into the program.
This came about after Pidgin refused to allow manual text-field resizing, apparently the latest in a string of accusations that the lead developers develop for themselves rather than for the users.
I’m not making judgments, but I’m glad the Funpidgin folks have the option of forking, although such a reliance on the users’ opinions makes me wary. (Users are not designers, and neither are developers.)...(Read more)
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| Great tits cope well with warming (Posted by Red Squirrel on May 11 2008) |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7390109.stm
At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.
Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in the Netherlands have not managed to adjust.
Understanding why some species in some places are affected more than others by climatic shifts is vital, they say.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) commented that other species are likely to fare much worse than great tits as temperatures rise.
Perfect timing
The research uses a long record of great tits in a breeding site at Wytham Woods near Oxford, where observations began in 1947.
"We thi...(Read more)
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| The Caboose of the Obama Train? (Posted by Stasi on March 23 2008) |
Self-delusional, non-entity Bill Richardson has endorsed Obama....
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/22/ric...bama/index.html...(Read more)
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| (2 Replies | Last post by Stasi on March 23 2008) |
| Group of Unhumans (Posted by Stasi on March 23 2008) |
Disturbing. What a nice bunch of rabid humans that deserve to be put to sleep, at the very least. Perhaps not the 12 year old, but the others.... I wouldn't shed a tear or otherwise feel bad if I found out these sickos were abducted, tortured in like fashion, and died.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/21/tortur...ref=mpstoryview...(Read more)
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| (4 Replies | Last post by manadren on March 24 2008) |
| Website for Dutch Film on Islam Shutdown (Posted by Stasi on March 23 2008) |
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So, all things Western, be they religion, culture, whatever can be the legitimate target of biting ridicule, deserved or not, but when it's something about the religion of a bunch of psychotic, misogynist, medievalists, suddenly it's gone too far? Islam didn't spread north of Spain back in the day not because European civilization accomodated it, but because they violently resisted it. Islam is a cancer. Those who think it is moderate or "peaceful" have rationalized it to the extreme. Mohammad is regarded as the ideal of a man. A dark-age era warlord, guilty of murder and rape is regarded as the ideal of a man. A dark-age era warlord, guilty of murder and rape, who established a religion that is currently the bane of all things moderate, sensible, and diverse is regarded as the ideal of a man. Islam is peace by submission. Unfortunately, it is not submission in the sense of personal struggles for faith and belief in God, it is fundamentally submission to t...(Read more)
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| (6 Replies | Last post by Stasi on March 24 2008) |
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