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* Posts by Phillip Brown

7 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Oct 2007

First lady of Star Trek dead at 76

Phillip Brown
Unhappy

One more space shuttle mission then....

so she can be 'buried' with Gene.

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IBM raises standards bar, bitchslaps Microsoft

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what is an 'open source spec'?

"IBM uses the open source spec OpenDocumentFormat (ODF)"

ISO/IEC 26300:2006 (ODF) is an open specification. Software implementing that specification may be 'open source' or proprietary.

There is no such thing as an 'open source specification'.

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Concrete-jet 'printers' to build houses, Moonbases in hours

Phillip Brown

@JCL

http://www.tececo.com/simple.eco-cement.php

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Ohio official sues e-vote vendor for sloppy counting

Phillip Brown

two plus two

does equal five, but only for large values of two.

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Bus-spotting paedo terror bust: Shock CCTV image

Phillip Brown

@Mycho

"Is Optimus Prime a terrorist?"

Apparently - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/02/transformers_t_shirt/

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Physicists fire up strontium atomic clock

Phillip Brown

@Richard

"My watch also automatically synchronises to atomic time,..."

"So what time is its now?"

"About quarter past..."

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Ships pollute more than planes

Phillip Brown

@Solution - Lathem

There is a limit on how big they can make ships - the Panama Canal.

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