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Submission + - SanDisk 2.5-inch 32GB SSD

Submitted by

Vinit

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:10PM

Vinit writes: "SanDisk has launched a 2.5-inch solid state drive with a storage capacity of 32GB. Designed for laptops as a hard drive replacement, these drives are introduced just two months after the firm introduced 1.8-inch SSD. Based on NAND flash, the SanDisk SSD SATA 5000 2.5" includes the company's patented TrueFFS flash management technology. It achieves a sustained read rate of 67-megabyte (MB)/sec and a random read rate of 7000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer. The drive boost faster Vista boot time (30 seconds on laptop) and achieves an average file access rate of 0.11 milliseconds. On Windows Experience Index for Microsoft Vista, it scores 5.6 out of a total 5.9. The SanDisk solid state drive consumes about 50% less power compared to our regular hard drive — 0.9W during active operation versus 1.9W. The lower power consumption also means much better battery life. This drive is now available to computer manufacturers at a cost of $350 (when purchased in bulk). http://www.pclaunches.com/hard_drive/sandisk_25inc h_32gb_ssd.php"

Submission + - Cluster Computer Built from PS3's

Submitted by jbcage on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:49AM

jbcage writes: A professor at North Carolina State University has built a cluster computer using 8 PlayStation 3's running Linux. "His cluster of eight PS3 machines — the first such academic cluster in the world — packs the power of a small supercomputer, but at a total cost of about $5,000, it costs less than some desktop computers that have only a fraction of the computing power."

Submission + - Chinese figher plane and missile up for sale

Submitted by

Madas

on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:58AM

Madas writes: "Apparently a Chinese man has up for sale from his "personal collection" a Jian-5 fighter jet as well as a Red Flag 2 surface-to-air missile. The auction has been running on www.taobao.com for a while. The seller said that the missile has been disarmed and for a small fee the items can be disassembled and reassembled at the winning buyers site."

Submission + - Cool interface technology

Submitted by Tom on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:40AM

Tom writes: Defense Tech and SFGate.com have a video demonstrating use of "Perceptive Pixel"'s interface technology. They don't want you to call it "The Minority Report" tech, but that's probably the easiest way to describe it to mainstream users. Either that or "a touchscreen that doesn't suck". Looks like a cool way to organize your photos. (Or it would be, without the 6-figure price tag.)

Submission + - DVDs go Quad-layer to enter HD race.

Submitted by

ShaneThePain

on Sunday March 11, 2007 @11:27PM

ShaneThePain writes: "DailyTech is covering a story http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6307 about DVDs going to 4 layers. [expand this as you will]"

Feed 300 First 2007 Blockbuster (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Sunday March 11, 2007 @09:12PM

The ancient battle of Thermopylae stars in 300, which debuts with opening-weekend ticket sales of $70 million. By the Associated Press. Plus: A gallery of photo stills from the film homage to Frank Miller's graphic novel.

Submission + - The Bushel and Rod of Renewable Energy Systems

Submitted by

rohar

on Sunday March 11, 2007 @07:38PM

rohar writes: "With the current media hype on climate change and various commercial ventures being launched in the renewable energy sector, I wrote what I think is an unbiased essay on evaluating renewable energy systems to hopefully increase public understanding of various systems and their feasibility."

Submission + - How did DST07 Go?

Submitted by

joekampf

on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:50PM

joekampf writes: "So, today is March 11th. DST07 has started. How has it gone? Has anyone encountered any problems? Anyone completely ignore the problem get bit? Anyone who addressed the problem get bit? Did any planes fall out of the air? Did any power plants blow up? Was this just another media hype?"

Submission + - Online file conversion with Youtube integration

Submitted by

Pascal Beyeler

on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:43PM

Pascal Beyeler writes: "Have you ever had the need to convert a file but you hadn't the necessary programs? Now you don't need the applications anymore. You can convert the files online for free at mediaconverter.org. Just upload the file and choose the file type to convert to. There's also a Youtube integration. You've just to enter the link and choose the file type. As soon as the file conversion has finished you'll receive a notification email. Converting files made easy."

Submission + - America in debt

Submitted by

HomelessInLaJolla

on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:37PM

HomelessInLaJolla writes: "
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them until they die of debt.

Courtesy of the "This day in history" service part of the NYTimes daily e-mail delivery.

In 1941, President Roosevelt chose to saddle the American population with an increased debt that, as a nation, they had not truly acquiesced to. The 14th Amendment (specifically section 4), conveniently for those brokering power and money to the rest of us, stops citizens, or even states, from contesting the validity of that debt.

Some politicians (in particular, then Senator Wheeler of Montana) attempted to point out the ulterior motivation behind the Lend-Lease bill:

"The American taxpayer must make up his mind now that we have given the President power to carry on undeclared wars all over the world. He is probably going to have his taxes doubled and the national debt will be $100,000,000,000 instead of $65,000,000,000 if the war lasts for any length of time. "This is what the Morgans and the other international bankers asked for and I hope they like it. "As far as I am concerned I will make no effort to tie the hands of the President regarding the appropriations. It is up to the conservative majority in the Senate to the money. They supported the bill."

And it continues today. Inescapable debt is slavery.

"

Journal Journal: Googlebot and Document.Write 180

Journal by gbulmash on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:32PM

With JavaScript/AJAX being used to place dynamic content in pages, I was wondering how Google indexed web page content that was placed in a page using the JavaScript "document.write" method.

Google's Best Perk — Transport 342

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @05:28PM from the Wi-Fi-included dept.

Reverse Gear writes "The New York Times has an interesting article about how different kinds of fringe benefits are starting to count more in the fight for the best brains in Silicon Valley. The article mainly focuses on Google's high-tech shuttle-bus system, which is quite extensive, covering a majority of the San Fransisco Bay area. The article quotes a transportation expert opining that Google's may be the largest such private system anywhere. One-quarter of the headquarters employees are now using it. A Google software engineer said: 'They could either charge for the food or cut it altogether... If they cut the shuttle, it would be a disaster.'"

Submission + - Ubuntu for Christians

Submitted by theEteam on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:55PM

theEteam writes: Looking for a Linux Distro for the Christian in your life? Look no further! Simply get them Ubuntu for Christians! According to the FAQ, you get the standard Ubuntu distribution with some special Christian software added. It even comes with special internet filtering software pre-installed.

Submission + - What's new in study of human evolution?

Submitted by je ne sais quoi on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:42PM

je ne sais quoi writes: MSNBC/Newsweek has an informative article summarizing a lot of the recent advancements in tracing the evolution of modern humans. From the article:

Unlike the earlier wave of Homo erectus into Asia a million years ago, the first modern humans, the ancestors of everyone today, departed Africa about 66,000 years ago... These pilgrims were strikingly few. From the amount of variation in Y chromosomes today, population geneticists infer how many individuals were in this "founder" population. The best estimate: 2,000 men. Assuming an equal number of women, only 4,000 brave souls ventured forth from Africa. We are their descendants.
The article emphasizes that evolution is not necessarily linear, in that a given trait might show up multiple times before being used by a successful species. We've come a long way from the old story of humanoid evolution that goes in a more or less linear chain from Australopithicus to Homo Sapiens.

Submission + - Why Dell won't offer Linux on its PCs.

Submitted by

derrida

on Sunday March 11, 2007 @04:41PM

derrida writes: "Jack Schofield explains in his article why Dell won't offer Linux on its PCs. Quoting from there: "The most obvious is deciding which version of Linux to offer. There are more than 100 distros, and everybody seems to want a different one — or the same one with a different desktop, or whatever. It costs Dell a small fortune to offer an operating system (it involves thousands of driver compatibility, peripheral testing, certification, staff training, administration, advertising and support issues) so the lack of a standard is a real killer. The less obvious problem is the very high cost of Linux support, especially when selling cheap PCs to naïve users who don't RTFM (read the friendly manual) and wouldn't understand a Linux manual if they tried. And there's so much of it! Saying "Linux is just a kernel, so that's all we support" isn't going to work, but where in the great sprawling heap of GNU/Linux code do you draw the line?""

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