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The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital 295

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 15, 2009 @10:21AM from the oh-oh-obamania dept.

alphadogg writes "Barack Obama's election to US president has already brought a string of firsts, and on Wednesday there came another. The official presidential portrait was shot on a digital camera for the first time. The picture was taken by the White House's new official photographer, Pete Souza, and issued by The Office of the President Elect through its Web site. It was taken on Tuesday evening at 5:38 p.m. using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, according to the metadata embedded in the image file."

MythTV Allows Multiple Front-Ends On Wide Range of Platforms 254

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday August 15, 2008 @04:19PM from the how-long-till-the-big-guys-realize-drm-isn't-the-answer dept.

As the DVR becomes a much more pervasive performer in home theater setups, the level of excellence demanded by the general consumer seems to continue to rise. The open source project MythTV has been in this arena for quite a while, and now offers the ability to have multiple front-ends on your MythTV install on a wide range of different platforms. Able to run on Windows XP, Vista, Xbox, and even an Apple iPod, the new flexibility is sure to interest many consumers (and many competitors).

Feed Science Daily: Political Participation Is Partially Rooted In Genetic Inheritance (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @05:13PM

The decision to vote is partly genetic. Researchers have now identify a link between two specific genes and political participation. They show that individuals with a variant of the MAOA gene are significantly more likely to have voted in the 2000 presidential election. Their research also demonstrates a connection between a variant of the 5HTT gene and voter turnout, which is moderated by religious attendance. These are the first results ever to link specific genes to political behavior.

Comment Sharp mm20 (Score 2, Informative) 250

by mahonri5 on Sunday May 18, 2008 @07:40PM (#23456810) Attached to: What to Seek in an Older Subnotebook?

I used a Sharp mm20 sub-notebook for a few years in college, and it worked really well. 1 GHz transmeta, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD, built-in wireless and ethernet, two usb ports, 10" screen. The extended life battery gave about 7 hours of life when I stopped using it. Ran Linux great.

Great laptop till the hard drive died, after a solid 3 years of use. Then I never got around to putting in a new 1.5" HD since I really didn't need it after I graduated.

Comment Red Hat's Response (Score 3, Informative) 371

by emacnabber on Thursday February 21, 2008 @05:31PM (#22508100) Attached to: Microsoft's New Leaf On Interoperability

http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/02/21/red-hat-statement-on-microsoft-announcement/

How to Recognize a Good Programmer 529

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 11, 2008 @04:21PM from the looking-beyond-the-resume dept.

KDan writes to share an article he has written about what some of the key factors in recognizing a good programmer. "It's not as easy as it sounds. CV experience is only of limited use here, because great programmers don't always have the 'official' experience to demonstrate that they're great. In fact, a lot of that CV experience can be misleading. Yet there are a number of subtle cues that you can get, even from the CV, to figure out whether someone's a great programmer."

Journal Journal: Call for blogging code of conduct

Journal by Alien54 on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @11:12PM

The BBC has picked up on a recent incident and related developments in the blogosphere.

Submission + - Intel Releases Information on Penryn, Nehalem

Submitted by

Justin Wheeler

on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @09:02PM

Justin Wheeler writes: "Intel has been slowly trickling information on their new Penryn cores (the next release after Merom/Conroe), as well as their upcoming Nehalem cores. From the articles: "At a press meeting today, Intel's Pat Gelsinger also made a number of high-level disclosures about the successor to Penryn, the 45nm Nehalem core. Unlike Penryn, which is a shrink/derivative of Core 2 Duo (Merom), Nehalem is architected from the ground up for 45nm. This is a major new design, and Gelsinger revealed some truly tantalizing details about it. Nehalem has its roots in the four-issue Core 2 Duo architecture, but the direction that it will take Intel is apparent in Gelsinger's insistence that, "we view Nehalem as the first true dynamically scalable microarchitecture." What Gelsinger means by this is that Nehalem is not only designed to take Intel up to eight cores on a single die, but those cores are meant to be mixed and matched with varied amounts of cache and different features in order to produce processors that are tailored to specific market segments.""

Submission + - Torvals "pretty pleased" With Latest GPL v

Submitted by

Novus Ordo Seclorum

on Wednesday March 28, 2007 @08:46PM

Novus Ordo Seclorum writes: "According to c|net, Linus Torvalds is "pretty pleased" with the current GPL v3 draft. After his earlier criticism, some had questioned whether such controversies would lead to rifts in the community, especially if the kernel ended up under a different license than the GNU tools. But now, thanks to the latest revisions, Linus will entertain moving the kernel over to the GPL v3."

Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine 544

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 25, 2007 @12:12AM from the get-that-needle-away-from-me dept.

theodp writes "Reacting to a furor from some parents, advocacy groups, and public health experts, Merck said yesterday that it would stop lobbying state legislatures to require the use of its new cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, which acts against strains of the sexually-transmitted human papilloma virus. The $400, 3-shot regimen was approved by the FDA in June. Later that month, a federal advisory panel recommended that females 11-26 years old be vaccinated. The governor of Texas has already signed an executive order making its use mandatory for schoolgirls."

Comment Community Oriented (Score 3, Insightful) 43

by amcnabb on Thursday July 13, 2006 @01:04PM (#15713399) Attached to: Web Development with TurboGears and Python

The article was interesting, but I disagree with their claim that, "TurboGears is more community-driven than Django because it was built with pre-existing, open source components." From everything I've seen, Django has a strong community behind it. I don't think I've ever seen an open-source project whose maintainer is as helpful to users and contributors than Adrian Holovaty is. He's extremely respectful and responds quickly to bug reports and suggestions. In addition to its clean, unified feel, the community is one of the main reasons I was attracted to Django.

Comment Why Copper? (Score 0, Redundant) 102

by Zaniwoop on Thursday January 26, 2006 @06:06PM (#14573277) Attached to: Plan To Bomb Mars For Signs of Climate Change

Didn't recent news articles about a Yale study say that we're going to be short on copper soon? Then why are we shooting "huge copper slugs" at mars? Why not huge slugs made of some slightly more abundant metal? Or is the study just bunk?

Comment Re:ESR is primiadonna (Score 4, Informative) 707

by byronius on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @04:49PM (#8319497) Attached to: Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java

He also wrote bogofilter, a very useful bayesian filter.

Journal Journal: Memories from the past

Journal by mahonri5 on Wednesday October 08, 2003 @07:42PM

So, today I get asked, "How long have you been reading slashdot?" After some thought, (calculate: orbit of the moon +/- years since high school) turns out since 1997.
So when I get home, I decide to dig out the old back-up CDs from the pre-mission computer. Digging through things I find my old (very insecure) password file.

Comment My Thoughts on it (Score 1) 249

by apocalipso on Monday July 24, 2000 @09:22PM (#910872) Attached to: End of Fox Animation

I saw Titan AE second day it was out up here, and the theatre was empty, just a handful of people. It was scary, but my friend and i thought it was because Shaft just came out the same weekend. But apparently not.
I'd like to say my two-bits (25 cents) and be gone.
Animation mixing: I enjoyed it, it gave the ships a surreal sort of look that i expect out of sci-fi. the animation wasn't bad, and the mixing, though noticable, wasn't a sin or anything.
Music: enjoyable, thats why i have the CD, I thought the key was is the timing, the songs were well placed, and the good songs on the CD, well most weren't big names, unless i'm in a closet (i know Lit is on there, and a few others, but still)
Plot, story and everything else: Ok, a planet in 15 minutes, cheesy true, but why not? it's science-FICTION. Come-on don't expect explinations to be handed to you on a silver platter, anyone wonder about the FTL? The story and plot, not that bad as sci-fi goes, it was pretty classic of sorts, but it wasn't bad by any means, pick up a 70s-80s sci-fi novel and flip through, it's about the same, the good stuff is at least. It was a good blend brought to the screen, and hey, its fun to watch spaceships fly around.
I thought it was a good movie, and flopped because of a bad opening time, very enjoyable and did a good job with it all. And not just i, but most of my friends loved it. Maybe everyone's just thinking too much about it? oh well, those are my thoughts.

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