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Comment Re:Let's hope it brings new life to New Mexico (Score 1) 332

by Bwooce on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @02:24PM (#29735567) Attached to: High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids

The state isn't overly rich in resources/industry and agriculture is not a money making proposition for any state/country.

Agriculture never makes any money? WTF. Entire *countries* are founded on doing agriculture well, just because it is inefficient/weirdly subsidised/over-regulated in the US this doesn't make it true for the world in general.

People eat food.

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by jd on Thursday October 04, 2007 @08:16PM

Submission + - ZFS on Linux: It's alive! (linuxworld.com)

Submitted by lymeca on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @01:30AM

lymeca writes: LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incanartion in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer.

99% of Australians With Broadband By 2009? 313

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @12:59AM from the it's-strine-for-"fast" dept.

Recently a study of broadband penetration rates around the world was in the news, because the US has fallen to 24th place worldwide, at 53%. Now comes word that the Australian Prime Minister has announced a $1.68 billion (US) plan to move Australia to 99% penetration within two years. If they accomplish this goal they will be the most-wired nation (South Korea currently occupies the top spot with 90%). The Prime Minister's plan was attacked by his political opponents because it would create a two-tier system with the country's vast (and almost empty) interior served by wireless at "only" 12 Mbps.

EA Reorganizes Into Four Labels 97

Posted by Zonk on Monday June 18, 2007 @10:05PM from the too-big-for-its-britches dept.

Reuters is reporting that the mega-publisher EA will soon be reorganized into four separate labels underneath the company's umbrella. The four groups will be known as EA Games, EA Sports, EA Casual Entertainment, and a label simply called 'The Sims'. All four organizations will be supported by two additional EA groups, which will handle publishing and 'development services'. "The changes, based on the success of a pilot program that placed games based on "The Sims" franchise into their own unit, mean it will require fewer executives to sign off on new games or to approve launching an existing game on a different platform or in a different regions. "We ran an organizational experiment and it was pretty damn successful. The Sims grew aggressively," Frank Gibeau, head of the new EA Games unit said."

Comment Re:MBFS has an EULA for their website too (Score 3, Interesting) 546

by Bwooce on Monday October 24, 2005 @12:05AM (#13861676) Attached to: End User License Gems

Their EULA has actually toned down since 1998...

In some of them it says:

"You agree that, even after the ten-year non-compete period listed above, that
any product you may create will not in any way resemble or act like the Software,
will not be able to read or convert the databases created or used by the
Software, will not use any of the same methodologies employed in the creation
and operation of the software, and will not use any trademark, logo or name
used in the Software."

So if you thought the DMCA was bad...try this guy. I'm afraid this all helps to form my opinion that John Tamburo is a dickwad. Apparently a serial bankrupt dickwad.

http://66.160.129.140/scoop/story/2004/5/13/0529/9 7735 is interesting too.

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