Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 142
If you prefer running emacs in text mode (as I do), just run "emacs -nw".
Comment Along with... (Score 1) 361
"Along with 7000 containers, ship MOL Comfort broke in half..."
How did all 7000 containers happen to break in half?
Comment Re:Google has a problem. (Score 3, Interesting) 226
In the OLD days (e.g. up through the early 1990s), MOST successful tech companies had research labs doing far out things. AT&T, Xerox, DEC, IBM... I think the fact that today, few companies have such a research arm, is the real problem.
Comment Re:All of them. (Score 2) 226
Google Appliance is still an active project. They are even hiring.
Comment Re:LOL .... (Score 1) 111
Well, first of all, it's two quarks and two anti-quarks. Second, you'll note that that's the same as two mesons glued together (each with one quark and one anti-quark). And as the original article states, there is controversy about whether in fact this is a new type of particle... or just two mesons.
"One side proposes that the particle is actually a union of two ordinary particles called mesons .... Other theorists have tentatively labelled the new particle a true tetraquark — four quarks stuck together tightly to form a compact ball. Within the ball, two quarks are bound together, as are two antiquarks."
As for the actual number of different quarks, there are actually six (up down strange charm top bottom). Or 18 if you count them by color variant (red-up, blue-up, green-up, etc.).
Comment Re:The Gillette Co. says (Score 2) 111
No way. Apple is a resolutely one-button, one-quark company. Let other companies worry about left quarks, right quarks, middle quarks. up quarks, down quarks...
Submission + - Got Pimples? You May Need Better Bacteria (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: If you were plagued by pimples in your teen years, you may have bacteria to blame—but not all of them. Researchers have found that not all strains of the bacteria commonly associated with acne are created equal: Some may cause problem skin, but one appears to protect the skin and keep it healthy. The discovery may help dermatologists develop new, strain-specific treatments for acne, a common but potentially disfiguring disorder.
Comment Re:What about...... (Score 1) 1165
Yes. That was my first thought.
Comment paper format only... for the time being (Score 1) 1
“And for that reason, we're going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being."
The CSMonitor headline writer blew it, but the poster could have corrected the info for the slashdot title.
Submission + - US Military Donates Two Spare Space Telescopes to NASA
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Alexis Madrigal reports that NASA, dealing with cost overruns on the next-generation Hubble which have been eating up the science budget, just got a surprise gift from the Department of Defense — two, unflown, better-than-Hubble space telescopes that the US military just happens to have sitting around. Designed for surveillance, the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office are no longer needed for spy missions and can now be used to study the heavens. But the gift raises an interesting question. If the DOD doesn't need these two birds, which are both better than any civilian telescope, what *do* they have? Are drones replacing space telescopes? Are there much better telescopes already up there? NASA doesn't have the money to launch either telescope at the moment, and at the very earliest, under reasonable budgets, it will be 2020 before one of the two gifted telescopes could be in order. "This is the state of our military-industrial-scientific complex in miniature," writes Madrigal. "The military has so much money that it has two extra telescopes better than anything civilians have; meanwhile, NASA will need eight years to find enough change in the couches at Cape Canaveral to turn these gifts into something they can use. Anyone else find anything wrong with this state of affairs?""
Submission + - American Kids & Science Education: The Exaggerated 'Dismal' Claims (usatoday.com) 2
TaeKwonDood writes: We've all seen the stories about how 'dismal' science education in America is. It turns out that it's kind of a straw man. America has long led the world in science but the 'average' score for Americans on standardized tests has never been good. Instead, every 2 years American kids get better but we keep being told things are terrible. Here is why.
Submission + - NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes for Astronomy (washingtonpost.com) 1
SomePgmr writes: "The U.S. government’s secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful than, the Hubble Space Telescope. Designed for surveillance, the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office were no longer needed for spy missions and can now be used to study the heavens."
Submission + - There Is a Link between Genius and Insanity (medicaldaily.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Genius and insanity may actually go together, according to scientists who found that mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are often found in highly creative and intelligent people.
The link is being investigated by a group of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder.
The link is being investigated by a group of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder.
Comment You can do voice-only prepay on a smartphone. (Score 1) 97
I have a Droid with prepaid Verizon ($100 / year) and no data plan. Works great.
Comment This is known as a Fat Binary. (Score 1) 1
Look at Wikipedia for specific examples from the early nineties for Apple and Mach (supporting 680x0, PowerPC, and x86), and earlier support by CP/M and DOS (8080 vs 8088).
