Google-Plus

Aren’t you happy to be on google+ instead? Links Facebook use ‘undermines well-being’ Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez Comments Jerry Landry - 2013-08-29T18:56:28Z Isn’t it the same basic principles, I guess facebook overloads with games and bad spamming ads and such. Jerry Landry - 2013-08-29T18:56:28Z Isn’t it the same basic principles, I guess facebook overloads with games and bad spamming ads and such. Christopher Hicks - 2013-08-31T05:09:21Z The principles are absolutely the same and there’s no reason to guess that the same effect would not occur on google+. But taunting facebook and promoting google+ is entertaining. ...

“You do not get to have a lawn in the desert, any more than you get to have a backyard nuclear reactor for your own amusement.” rofl I’m good with backyard nuclear reactors actually, but the rest of his argument makes sense. I found this from fark. Links Ban Lawns Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez, John McWade Comments Paul Fernandez - 2013-08-13T05:09:41Z That dude hates grass! :)

A balanced view of free software and open source helps effectively separate the hype from the facts. It is a long video, but anyone interested in software development methodologies will benefit from thinking about the ideas presented. Links When Free Software isn’t (Practically) Better - Benjamin Mako Hill — GNU MediaGoblin Shared with: Public Comments Christopher Hicks - 2013-08-10T21:26:50Z Can anyone find the slides for this talk? Christopher Hicks - 2013-08-11T15:32:57Z ...

checklists++ Links Change Your Habits with a Good Checklist | LinkedIn Shared with: Public

Maybe Apple will realize the advantages of being open rather than having Big Brother up their a$$. #sour_apples Links #sour_apples DOJ Wants to Slam Apple with Antritrust Restrictions After Trial Shared with: Public +1’d by: Brandy Butler

Jimmy Wales nails it: maybe it is time for the police to take our tax dollars and do so some actual police work. That does not include reading all of my emails or more surveillance. It also does not require more legislation or regulation. Links PM’s online porn plan ‘ridiculous’ Shared with: Public

Let’s build a supercomputer! Links Creating a $99 parallel computing machine is just as hard as it sounds Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez

I hope the geeks at google are hunting down the lawyers about now and going midevil. Links Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality | Threat Level | Wired.com Shared with: Public +1’d by: Paul Fernandez

Yay Links Verizon Galaxy S4 has Been Rooted Again Running Build VRUAME7 – Droid Life Shared with: Public +1’d by: Brandy Butler, Paul Fernandez Comments Christopher Hicks - 2013-07-30T00:59:46Z I have rooted my first phone! I was ready to take it back to Verizon and get one that I could root. Happy, happy. Nexus experience is next. Brandy Butler - 2013-07-31T03:18:16Z Nexus FTW

My favorite paragraph: And TerribleTony told us of his incredibly intriguing product: “I’m working on a 36-core SoC design. 16 of the cores are 6510’s, 10 ten are Z80’s, two are Hercules Graphics Adapters, two are FM synthesizers I pulled off of old SoundBlaster Pro or Adlib cards (whatever I could find at Goodwill), three are 8088s, and the remaining three are actually people doing jobs it offloads to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.” ...