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Comment hot little hands (Score 1) 48

All of those heat generating components also require a cooling fan, and this one gets humming pretty early on—it's the only tablet we've reviewed where fan noise is a concern.

I was wondering about that. Not sure if this is an advantage or a reason NOT to buy it, though.

Supercomputing

Submission + - NCSA Blue Waters ready to go (foxnews.com)

mblase writes: The Blue Waters supercomputer will be officially opened for business this Thursday at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (known to Slashdotters as the birthplace of the original Mosaic web browser and the fictional HAL-9000). At a maximum speed of 11.6 petaflops, plus a 300-petabyte storage system, it will (probably) be the third-fastest supercomputer in the world. It almost wasn't completed when IBM pulled out halfway through the project, but persistence paid off. According to NCSA, the machine has already been performing useful research in biochemistry, meteorology, earth science, and more running at just 15% capacity.

Submission + - NCSA Launches Blue Waters Supercomputer (chicagotribune.com)

Beorytis writes: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has set Thursday March 28 as the official launch of its 1 petaflop sustained performance Blue Waters supercomputer. Previous drama surrounding Blue Waters involved IBM's departure from the project which was taken on by Cray for $188 million. Thursday's date is ceremonial as the system is already operational for several projects.

Comment Re:Feedly looks ok (Score 3, Informative) 287

I tried Feedly for a few minutes, but it felt like it was trying to prioritize and reorganize my news stories automatically for me and the design was awful for simply reading stuff. And it required simply too many clicks to read slashdot since I had to expand the whole summary for each item myself and even mark items as read manually. Not going back.

I'm giving Feedly a try starting today, and I think you probably have the same reaction I did: It's NOT EXACTLY THE SAME AS GREADER. But it's learnable, and it's customizable.

Keyboard shortcuts exist, but they're all different than GReader, and that takes some getting used to.

If you like GReader's compact title-only view, that's an option -- but you can also show everything by default, which is preferable if you have a folder of comics feeds like I do.

I think Feedly has two big points in its favor, though: it can sync ONCE to GReader to download your feeds (including what articles you've already read), and it's cross-browser and cross-platform with its own mobile apps. (Plus it's ad-supported, which means they have a revenue stream to keep them going in the future.)

Comment Re:The IAEA has no actual evidence (Score 2, Insightful) 299

Iran has been VERY good at making the West look like the bad guys in this, and every other, disagreement. Basically, it's extremely hard to know whether Iran is actually actually hiding a nuclear weapons program, or whether they're just making it look like they're hiding a nuclear weapons program. It's quite possible they're doing both. Lord Vetinari would applaud.

The good news is that Israel probably has a better idea than the IAEA as to when Iran will actually be able to launch a nuclear weapon, and Israel will keep that information close to their chest as well.

In the end, it's all just posturing for more respect from other nations. Iran isn't reckless enough to actually do anything that would end in the entire Western world declaring war on them in response.

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