Comment Re:where do i donate $$$ (Score 1) 262
You already HAVE donated to it... when was the last time you checked your credit card balances?
Comment My NVIDIA driver died when I hit the comments page (Score 1) 281
Ironically, when I started reading people's comments, my driver failed and had to be reloaded in Windows 7 for my year old NVidia card.
Comment Who cares about politics... (Score 1) 639
I thought it was asking about which side of my brain I use more... my left, more analytical side, or my right, more artistic side... I thought what a pointless question to put to the completely left-brained slashdotters. I guess this line of reasoning was generated by my right side and didn't occur to anyone else.
Comment Re:Get a dog? (Score 1) 514
I'd much rather lose the dog... I can't stand it anyway.
Submission + - MIT can now see through concrete walls (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "Up there with invisibility, teleportation, and being able to cancel mid-season TV breaks, x-ray vision is one of the most sought after superpowers — and that seems to be what a couple of researchers from MIT have managed to do. It isn’t quite x-ray vision — it uses microwaves instead — but MIT’s radar array, made by Gregory Charvat and John Peabody, can see through 8-inch concrete walls. Basically, it works just like a normal radar system: 44 antennae send out S-band microwaves (2-4GHz, about 10cm peak to peak). Most of these microwaves — 99.4% — bounce off the solid concrete wall. The 0.6% that make it through bounce off any objects on the other side, and then come back through the wall, losing another 99.4% of the waves. By the time the microwaves return to the array, the signal is just 0.0025% of its original strength. The reflected waves are then amplified, subtracted from the concrete wall's echo using an analog crystal filter, and then converted into moving blobs by a computer. The entire rig is about 8 feet wide, and it is designed to be mounted on a military truck for urban warfare — but it could revolutionize emergency response, too, with the ability to see through rubble and collapsed buildings for survivors."
Comment Re:Children's toys (Score 1) 297
That's been my experience with my kids & my brother's kids as well. In general, young kids would much rather play with something where they control the story via their own imaginations. I'm all for it, and you can see a difference in kids who know how to invent a game / imagine a scenario, and the kids who only know how to push buttons for results.
(Pushing buttons for results should be reserved for nerds who get paid to do so & activists who don't)
Comment Fall starts... (Score 1) 454
When I trip you.
Submission + - Japanese Nuke Plant Radiation Spotted in UK (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: Radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has been detected in the UK.
Low levels of radioactive Iodine 131 have been measured in air samples 6,000 miles away from the battered nuclear plant in Oxfordshire and Glasgow although public health officials say there's no need to head for the fallout shelter just yet.
Low levels of radioactive Iodine 131 have been measured in air samples 6,000 miles away from the battered nuclear plant in Oxfordshire and Glasgow although public health officials say there's no need to head for the fallout shelter just yet.
Comment Re:hiding the home button (Score 1) 554
Right-click somewhere in the blank area by the address bar, hit customize, then simply drag the home button to wherever you'd like it.
Comment Re:This is good news! (Score 1) 554
On my laptop:
- IE9 renders the dots on the world map smoother than Firefox 4, but messes up the map it's all stretched and funny looking.
- Chrome renders the dots smoother than Firefox 4, but has semi-transparent artifacts remaining over the spiral graph image and slows down significantly when you hover over the bar graph.
- I'd prefer to avoid Opera and Safari altogether.
How's that for new browser standards compliance?
Comment In other news... (Score 1) 108
... Iran has recently placed orders for thousands of high speed oscillating fans to, "keep their government buildings free hummingbird infestations".
Comment Moore's Law has nothing to do with speedup (Score 2) 166
Moore's Law is that the number of transistors on a single integrated circuit would double - it has nothing to do with speedup.
Submission + - NASA Finds New Life (gizmodo.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Hours before their 2pm conference, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean.
Submission + - Firefox 4 Beta With Faster Graphics and New Audio (tomshardware.com)
kaychoro writes: Looks like Firefox 4 is getting into DirectX acceleration:
Firefox 4 Beta now takes advantage of the built-in graphics hardware in Windows computers with DirectX 10 to improve graphics performance
Comment Google - now with 2-5 seconds more time (Score 1) 408
Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search
Now they can use the extra 2-5 seconds for annoying animating doodles.
