Submission + - What should I do with my old laptop
Aditya88 writes: I have an old Dell Studio core 2 duo 1535 laptop. Speakers are not working properly. I removed its hard disk and inserted in my xbox 360. and the batteries are dead long ago. Currently its in the corner with lot of dust. Any suggestions how I can use it ?
Submission + - Makerplane aims to create the first open source aircraft (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: MakerPlane plans to do for the aviation industry what Firefox and Linux did for computers. By adopting open source design and digital manufacturing, MakerPlane's founder John Nicol hopes to overcome the frustration and disappointment that most kit plane builders encounter. Over 60 percent of all kitplanes started end up collecting dust and those that are finished must overcome the challenges of complicated plans, the need for special tools and thousands of hours of labor with little or no manufacturer support.
Nicol believes that a more community-oriented design approach will overcome many of these obstacles. Israel-based aeronautical engineer Jeffrey Meyer is leading the MakerPlane charge to develop a safe, inexpensive kitplane that can be built at home or at a “makerspace” through the efforts of people volunteering their efforts and ideas. MakerPlane intends to make the plans and avionics software for the plane available for free, but will sell parts and support services to fund the project.
Nicol believes that a more community-oriented design approach will overcome many of these obstacles. Israel-based aeronautical engineer Jeffrey Meyer is leading the MakerPlane charge to develop a safe, inexpensive kitplane that can be built at home or at a “makerspace” through the efforts of people volunteering their efforts and ideas. MakerPlane intends to make the plans and avionics software for the plane available for free, but will sell parts and support services to fund the project.
Submission + - A Solar Power Station in Space (power-technology.com)
JamieMarco writes: Japan is currently the only country planning to construct a solar power station in space and use it to beam energy down to earth using lasers.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What is the sound like on Mars? 2
Comment Not sold out, Just need to satisfy retailers first (Score 0) 262
I bet there will be no demand for 16 gig nexus 7 if 8gb version is also supplied for retailers. Google only halted it from its site because it has to fulfill retailers demand. there is only 20 bucks diff between 230$(include shipping+ taxes) 8gb google store nexus 7 and 249$ 16gb retailer version(lot of stores have no tax no shipping). so when you compare, extra 20$ for 16gb is worth it. I bought mine for 234$ from jr.com. only 6 more buck than 8gb version. only money come here no specs no space nothing....
Comment what does he know about tech ? (Score 0) 325
What da faq guys. what does these law people know about tech except fking patent laws. He's not related to this field, he may be super,intelligent cool and all but not in tech field. Any way half good for Samsung.
Comment Chinese are the correct people for Apple. (Score 1, Interesting) 174
yesterday some Chinese company f**d apple over the name IPad. And now this company is screwing apple over siri. Its all Apple's bad karma because the other side apple is screwing Samsung, and others...
Comment Great initiative (Score 1) 91
Mozilla is one of the organisation which doesn't try to compete with others, but still strives to improve user experience, to bring innovation even if people care or not. I love Firefox. This new OS is definitely not gonna die like HP or RIM(almost dying) because goals of Mozilla are different from Android, IOS etc.... One more major thing is, it will be completely open unlike androids semi open software. waiting eagerly for their first release in India.
Comment Disappointing (Score 0) 241
It should be very disappointing to all the people who can to see a spectacular show..... small mistake costed a lot ..
Submission + - Microsoft reveals Surface (washingtonpost.com)
Aditya88 writes: "Here it is, Microsoft Surface, the all new, Microsoft-made tablet. We just had our hands on the sleek new device, and we must say — it does feel incredibly well designed."
Comment More comments (Score -1, Offtopic) 286
Hot topic waiting for more comments
Submission + - Just how big are porn sites? (extremetech.com)
Aditya88 writes: Finally, bandwidth. Referring back to our Xvideos example (based on an Ad Planner estimate), a large porn site will have to have enough connectivity to serve up 50 gigabytes per second, or 400Gbps. Bear in mind this is an average data rate, too: At peak time, Xvideos might burst to 1,000Gbps (1Tbps) or more. To put this into perspective, there’s only about 15Tbps of connectivity between London and New York.
Submission + - Apple to pull out Evi !!! (techcrunch.com)
Aditya88 writes: "Apple plans to pullout Evi as it thinks it is similar to Siri"
Submission + - Microsoft on list of most ethical companies (techflash.com)
walterbyrd writes: Microsoft is among the world’s most ethical companies, according to a list put together the Ethisphere Institute in New York. Overall, 110 company’s made the prestigious list, including Microsoft and 35 other newcomers. The list was reported by Forbes.
