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<dc:date>2005-10-25T06:31:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>DigitalDame2 writes "John C. Dvorak explores the trials and tribulations of photo editing software and why it's so difficult to use. Unless you are using these programs full-time, you spend a lot of time trying to figure things out. Is it too much to ask for a simple and powerful software program that can do the 45 things photographers do most in Photoshop?"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1409"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>editorial</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Dvorak on 'Rinky-Dink' Software Rant</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-25T04:27:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Spy der Mann writes "A unique system that can produce Hydrogen inside a car using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum was recently developed by an Israeli company. The system solves all of the obstacles associated with the manufacturing, transporting and storing of hydrogen to be used in cars. And it's completely emission free."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1408"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>power</dc:subject>
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<title>The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel</title>
<slash:section>science</slash:section>
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<dc:date>2005-10-25T02:35:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>daria42 writes "ITunes Australia has finally gone live, after more than a year of waiting. Apple is holding a press conference in Sydney this morning to officially launch the service to the media, but the store has already opened. Like the Japanese ITunes store, it looks like Sony-BMG is not participating."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1407"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>media</dc:subject>
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<title>ITunes Australia Goes Live</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-25T00:26:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>SilentBob4 writes to tell us that MadPenguin is running a review of the recently released SUSE 10.0. From the review: "Novell has made some interesting changes in distribution and development since our last review of SUSE Linux. Many say it's for the better and I'd say I'm inclined to go with that theory. To tell you the truth, I never thought I'd see the day SUSE opened up it's doors to the community to help expand and concert development efforts, but here we are in a world where SUSE is open and still making geeks sweat every time a new release comes out"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1406"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>suse</dc:subject>
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<title>A Closer Look at SUSE 10</title>
<slash:section>linux</slash:section>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T23:39:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Lam1969 writes "Computerworld just released their latest salary survey, and it finds that IT worker bees have once again only received small raises. The article notes, "IT raises still lagged slightly behind the average of about 3.2% for all U.S. workers as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the majority of respondents (69%) said their 2004 base salary increased from one year ago, 31% experienced either no change in salary or had their pay cut." It goes on to quote LAN specialist Stephen Noisseau as saying, "I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles ... I'll take 4% over nothing. We're getting basically cost-of-living raises.""&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1405"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>money</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<title>Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal?</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T23:01:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>Greenie asks: "With fuel costs reaching record highs and more eco-friendly vehicles on the market than ever before, one has to ask, is it making a difference (yet)? NewEnough.com is an online retailer of new and surplus/wholesale motorcycle apparel based in West Texas. Recently, they posted a letter to the public on their website about how they've 'gone green,' and are offering incentives to their employees for switching to modern, fuel efficient vehicles (hybrid electric, diesel, bio-diesel...). While the specifics of their incentive program were not discussed, has anyone ever heard of larger companies offering a similar incentive program? According to Fortune.com, Wal-Mart is the largest employer in America. If Wal-Mart, McDonalds, UPS, GM, and Ford, the five companies that Fortune lists as having the most employees, all offered a similar incentive, more than 2,865,700 people would be eligible for incentive to go green. That could really start to make a difference for the environment. Now imagine the environmental benefit of every company in America making this same incentive offer..."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1404"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>Cliff</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>biotech</dc:subject>
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<title>Company Incentives for Going Green?</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T22:15:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>mymaxx writes "Tuxmachines.org has a review of LG3D, a LiveCD distro using Sun's Looking Glass technology. It looks very promising for the future of desktops, but it still has a ways to go." Tuxmachines also has a few screenshots for your viewing pleasure.&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1403"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>software</dc:subject>
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<title>Looking-Glass Based Distro Reviewed</title>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T21:32:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>schnikies79 writes "In an interview with IGN, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President Chief Architect J. Allard said he wants to work with competitors on the XBox 360. From the interview: 'I'm pro consumer on this one to the end,' says Allard. 'Anybody in my company who thought this was a bad idea to plug in Sony or Apple devices into this thing, I ended that conversation pretty quickly. This is the right thing to do for consumers. Once they invest $500 in their digital media library, you can't ask them to go buy a 360 music player and a 360 digital camera, and a 360...NO! They got their stuff. They're going to want to plug it in. We're going to be open here, guys. And if anything, I wish we could be more cooperative with the other companies that are doing those things. And if Sony or Apple were to call me up and say, "Hey, we want to some special things with the 360," I'm on it. I think it would not be in anybody's interest to say, we're not going to work with 360. It's good for them, it's good for us, and it's good for consumers.'"&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1402"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>microsoft</dc:subject>
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<title>Allard 'Gets Real' With IGN</title>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
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<dc:date>2005-10-24T20:47:00+00:00</dc:date>
<description>volts writes "According to New Scientist no one was able to grab the two $50,000 top prizes in the recent NASA 'Beam Power Challenge'. The biggest limiting factor seemed to be that no team was able to meet the speed requirement, although a group from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada set the height record at 12 meters. Not quite geosynchronous..."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1401"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>space</dc:subject>
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<title>No One Wins NASA Space Elevator Contest</title>
<slash:section>science</slash:section>
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<description>DD writes to tell us ZDNet is running a story about a new Santa Clara, CA based startup that is boasting a new line of low-power, Power chips, the same architecture found in current day Macs and IBM servers. From the article: "The company's first so-called PWRficient chip will feature two processing cores, run at 2GHz and consume on average about 5 watts, thanks to an emphasis on integration and circuit design. At a maximum, it will consume 25 watts, far less than the single-core Power chips that can hit 90 watts found on the market today."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1400"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-24T20:02:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>portables</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
<title>Power-Light Power Chips</title>
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<description>dpilgrim writes "O'Reilly has just released a successor volume to 1999's "Open Sources", entitled "Open Sources 2.0". The table of contents reveals contributions from a number of open source luminaries, including Mozilla's Mitchell Baker, Samba's Jeremy Allison, and Sleepycat's Michael Olson. There's also an essay co-authored by Slashdot's own Jeff Bates. The sample chapter is the introduction, and includes an entertaining riff on the parallels between the open source community and the Burning Man community. This volume is edited by two of the original three editors, Chris DiBona (former Slashdot editor) and Mark Stone, together with Danese Cooper. You might want to compare this with the original "Open Sources", whose entire text can be found online."&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1399"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-24T19:19:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>books</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>mainpage</slash:section>
<title>Open Sources 2.0</title>
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<description>user9918277462 writes "The Board of the Wikimedia Foundation has announced a new partnership with the Answers Corporation, which provides the content for Google Definitions links. There is also a lengthy discussion, wiki-style for those who wish to participate." Update 10/25 18:42 by SM: An announcement has been posted on Wikipedia to help clarify the original submission (which thankfully was patently false and has since been cleaned up a bit, our apologies to Wikimedia). Answers.com will be creating their own co-branded version which will show ads and no ads will be shown on wikipedia.&lt;img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1398"/&gt;</description>
<dc:date>2005-10-24T18:36:00+00:00</dc:date>
<slash:comments>166</slash:comments>
<dc:creator>ScuttleMonkey</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>internet</dc:subject>
<read>1</read>
<slash:section>mainpage</slash:section>
<title>Wikimedia Proposes Advertising [Updated]</title>
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