Guess who has two thumbs and refuses to read stories on sites that want me to disable an ad blocker or answer a poll question.

Here's another site hosting the same article which doesn't mind ad blockers.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/20...

Cue old man rant on ads being vectors.

Just curious if Curse will be left here in Huntsville. Curse's website sends you to Twitch which has no info.

I have had an LG Urbane for a year and IMO it is not that heavy and is decent looking when viewed as just a watch. There are lots of fancy faces available but I use a simple analog one that shows the next calendar item.

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I have had an LG Urbane for almost a year. It was a gift from my wife and kids for my birthday. I don't think I ever would have purchased a smart watch on my own but I have really enjoyed it. I have a lot on my work schedule and the notifications are very handy. The directions on my wrist are appreciated especially when walking so I don't have to stare at my phone and look lost. I find it handy to leave my phone on my desk and not have to carry it to get notifications. In general, as someone else said, the extra source of notifications is very useful. There are other applications but personally I didn't invest much effort after I realized I couldn't reliably press the tiny buttons on the calculator applications.

When other people see it light up for a notification, I often get the "is it an iWatch" question. I politely explain that Apple isn't the only company that makes smart watches. The LG Urbane is a round faced watch which actually looks like a nice men's watch. It isn't gimmicky looking. It feels comparable in weight to the Seiko Titanium watch it replaced. It will last about 36 hours on a charge for me but I charge it every night. I show them the features and they usually come away impressed.

If you want a status symbol or expect a magical capability, then you will be disappointed. At Apple prices, a smart watch is a very questionable purchase. But the feature/price ratio is better on the Android side. Plus you have more choice on style.

RTEMS.org already exists as a single process, multi-threaded RTOS with robust POSIX API support. Includes SMP, networking, filesystems, USB, high test coverage, etc. No dual licensing for commercial use. Used heavil by NASA, ESA, high energy physics community, and many industrial users.

I thought it would be of interest that at least the Gamma Burst Monitor on Fermi is running the open source RTEMS real-time operating system.
There are multiple references but this is an easy to find one: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.0450... This paper details the hardware and some of the timing characteristics of the system. And it has some nice pictures. :)

Nice to see a new release.

The devil must be in the details.

The study of nuclear rocket engines has a history dating back to the early 1950s. There was a Space Nuclear Propulsion Office until 1972. A NERVA is on exhibit at the US Space and Rocket Center. I also noticed that UAHuntsville and NASA Marshall appear to have been investigating this technology for at least the past few years based on news announcements and published papers. If you want to know what challenges are still ahead and how ready the technology is, checkout some of the recent published material.

Cut and pasted from a wiki?

And even if you didn't bother to change it back to Google immediately, the inferior search results quickly will drive you to it.

They missed Embedded Systems Week (Oct. 04-09, 2015) in Amsterdam. This is three conferences/workshops co-located for easier attendance.

http://www.esweek.org/

Things may have changed but I have added a restaurant in the past as part of submitting a review. It didn't take any special magic.

OSF ANDF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The Stephenson Alabama Google data center is where the TVA Widows Creek facility was. It is halfway between Chattanooga and Huntsville. It is ~20 miles from the TN/AL border. It will benefit from TVA water and nuclear power being cheap.