Comment FOSS (Score 1) 107
Yay! Softwar Freedom Day.
Go FOSS!
not sure how I'm going to celebrate though
Comment another waste for a public school? (Score 1) 478
"be another case where spending more money does not produce a better educational outcome."
second this, especially in a public school environment where the curriculum were hijacked by the bureaucrats.
the infrastructure argument have been used by the Unions as an excuse for getting more funding.
for private education, it's a different story.
private schools can probably utilize gadgetes like these better.
Comment Looks good (Score 1) 90
Hoping good results coming out.
Comment Aliens helped.. (Score 1) 82
Can we have some more gold?
Comment Other Sports (Score 1) 71
It would be fun to see robots doing other sports.
Comment Tiny Energy Harvester (Score 1) 101
Hmm...interesting stuff.
Comment Finally some good senses from the Republicans. (Score 1) 681
Mica said "screeners should be privatized and the agency dismantled."
Good, they have no business in airline security at the federal level.
Does he realize what a big mistake he has made in producing such agency? Maybe he does now.
This is why Libertarians dislike Dems and Neo-Cons.
They always believed a Gov. solution, only to realized later it becomes nothing more than a bureaucracy.
"He won't go through a full body scanner at an airport because 'I don't want them circulating pictures of my beautiful body' all over. He said he opts for a pat-down, and just 'closes his eyes and imagines a beautiful female."
Ha! with a more male hand.
Good, they have no business in airline security at the federal level.
Does he realize what a big mistake he has made in producing such agency? Maybe he does now.
This is why Libertarians dislike Dems and Neo-Cons.
They always believed a Gov. solution, only to realized later it becomes nothing more than a bureaucracy.
"He won't go through a full body scanner at an airport because 'I don't want them circulating pictures of my beautiful body' all over. He said he opts for a pat-down, and just 'closes his eyes and imagines a beautiful female."
Ha! with a more male hand.
Comment Open Source is here to Stay (Score 1) 76
Good to hear.
Go Open Source!
Comment Sounds exciting (Score 1) 213
"....walks players through the creation of a smartphone, highlighting many of the negative aspects. There are four brief stages: running a mining facility in the Congo, saving suicidal factory workers, handing out phones to oblivious consumers, and generating e-waste through planned obsolescence."
Sounds exciting.
Maybe they should release a sequel
Journal Journal: First Journal Entry
First Journal Entry
Indie Devs Upload Their Own Game To The Pirate Bay 227
dartttt writes "Indie game company tinyBuild Games, who released a platformer called No Time To Explain recently, uploaded their own game to the Pirate Bay. However, there's a key difference between the game they uploaded and the version you can purchase: the game characters wear pirate hats, and everything else has a pirate theme. One of the company's founders, Alex Nichiporchik, said, '[S]ome people are going to torrent it either way, we might as well make something funny out of it. ... You can’t really stop piracy, all you can do is make it work for you and/or provide something that people actually want to pay for. For us this is humor, we like making people laugh.'"
Comment Intresting Disocvery (Score 1) 78
Hmm...Intresting Disocvery
Comment Re:Overclocking Demonstration (Score 1) 193
Pretty "Cool"
Bulldozer(processor)
Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? 387
Supp0rtLinux writes "In about 2 weeks time I will be receiving everything necessary to build the largest x86_64-based supercomputer on the east coast of the U.S. (at least until someone takes the title away from us). It's spec'ed to start with 1200 dual-socket six-core servers. We primarily do life-science/health/biology related tasks on our existing (fairly small) HPC. We intend to continue this usage, but to also open it up for new uses (energy comes to mind). Additionally, we'd like to lease access to recoup some of our costs. So, what's the best Linux distro for something of this size and scale? Any that include a chargeback option/module? Additionally, due to cost contracts, we have to choose either InfiniBand or 10Gb Ethernet for the backend: which would Slashdot readers go with if they had to choose? Either way, all nodes will have four 1Gbps Ethernet ports. Finally, all nodes include only a basic onboard GPU. We intend to put powerful GPUs into the PCI-e slot and open up the new HPC for GPU related crunching. Any suggestions on the most powerful Linux friendly PCI-e GPU available?"
FPS Benchmarks No More? New Methods Reveal Deeper GPU Issues 125
crookedvulture writes "Graphics hardware reviews have long used frames per second to measure performance. The thing is, an awful lot of frames are generated in a single second. Calculating the FPS can mask brief moments of perceptible stuttering that only a closer inspection of individual frame times can quantify. This article explores the subject in much greater detail. Along the way, it also effectively illustrates the 'micro-stuttering' attributed to multi-GPU solutions like SLI and CrossFire. AMD and Nvidia both concede that stuttering is a real problem for modern graphics hardware, and benchmarking methods may need to change to properly take it into account."
