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EU Study Says Open Source Could Increase Competitiveness |
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Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) could be utilized to achieve the European Union's goal of making it the world's leading knowledge economy by 2010, concludes a new study. |
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Multithreading Invites String of Nasty Bugs |
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A new paper from University of California, Berkeley, EECS professor Edward Lee has engineers buzzing about the potential of thread-based programming. |
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H.264 Codec: Video Compression for Consumer Applications |
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As the transition from analog to digital content continues in the AV
(audio-visual) world, H.264 is now poised to replace MPEG-2 as the new
compression technology with better quality at lower transmission
bitrate and storage requirements.
http://newsletter.embedded.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/e3PO0G1ErD0FrY0EyqR0EA |
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Engineering Education Gets Its Own Reality Show |
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Reality television has exploded in popularity over the past few years,
introducing everything from survival on a deserted island to ballroom
dancing. But can reality TV boost the popularity of engineering? Some
believe it can, and to prove that point the IEEE is providing some of the
funds for "Design Squad," a new half-hour weekly television program.
Learn more at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/4972/87025772 |
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What Makes Software So Hard |
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In his book, "Dreaming In Code," Salon founding editor Scott Rosenberg examines the persistence of a dysfunctional software development culture, using the trials and travails of the Open Source Applications Foundation's initiative to build Chandler, an improved personal information manager, as an example. |
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Torvalds quashes binary kernel module revolt |
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The issue of wheter binary-only kernel modules violate the GPL cropped up again this month on the Linux kernel mailing list, where Linux Torvalds thwarted an effort to ban them. Torvalds called banning binary modules "stupid", and told kernel hackers they should base decisions on technical merit, and not political agendas. |
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