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Comment Aurdino is for "Artists" and "newcomers" (Score 1) 80

The free tools that come with TI launchpad and most other tools are superior to Arduino in every way. If you can write basic C code it is is a no-brainer. From wikipedias entry on Aurdino "It is designed to introduce programming to artists and other newcomers unfamiliar with software development". If you are not an "artist" or a "newcomer" to programming, just drop this.

Even for a beginner, I would not steer them down the Aurdino path. It is kind of a short dead end. Better try out the TI launchpad with their ID. It will set you back $3.40, and give you a large library, and get you going with C or C++.

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Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked Screenshot-sm 334

Ponca City writes "The Telegraph reports that an online dating profile created by Julian Assange in 2006 has been unearthed from OKCupid disclosing that the WikiLeaks editor sought 'spirited, erotic' women 'from countries that have sustained political turmoil.' Writing under the pseudonym of British science fiction author Harry Harrison, Assange described himself as a 'passionate, and often pig headed activist intellectual.' Assange said he was seeking a 'siren for [a] love affair, children and occasional criminal conspiracy' adding that he was 'directing a consuming, dangerous human rights project which is, as you might expect, male dominated' and added enigmatically: 'I am DANGER, ACHTUNG.' Among Assange's listed interests were the 'structure of reality' and 'chopping up human brains' – although he added the caveat '(neuroscience background)' lest the latter put off potential admirers. 'I like women from countries that have sustained political turmoil,' Assange wrote. 'Western culture seems to forge women that are valueless and inane. OK. Not only women!'"
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US Embassy Categorizes Beijing Air Quality As 'Crazy Bad' Screenshot-sm 270

digitaldc writes "Pollution in Beijing was so bad Friday the US embassy, which has been independently monitoring air quality, ran out of conventional adjectives to describe it, at one point saying it was 'crazy bad.' The embassy later deleted the phrase, saying it was an 'incorrect' description and it would revise the language to use when the air quality index goes above 500, its highest point and a level considered hazardous for all people by US standards. The hazardous haze has forced schools to stop outdoor exercises, and health experts asked residents, especially those with respiratory problems, the elderly and children, to stay indoors."
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The World's Smallest Legible Font Screenshot-sm 280

hasanabbas1987 writes "From the article: 'Well 'technically' they aren't the smallest fonts in the world as if they were you wouldn't be able to read even a single letter, but, you should be able to read the entire paragraph in the picture given above... we did. A Computer science professor called Ken Perlin designed these tiny fonts and you can fit 500 reasonable words in a resolution of 320 x 240 space. There are at the moment the smallest legible fonts in the world.'"
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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' 570

buildslave writes "The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a 'mini-Big Bang' by smashing together lead ions instead of protons. The scientists working at the enormous machine on the Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November. The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the center of the Sun."

Comment Other news:Students use MATH to count balloons (Score 1) 330

In other news:
Kids use math to count balloons in classroom. They counted 12 balloons on the teachers desk, and 7 in the ceiling. The counting was done by enumerating each balloon mathematically 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=12, and 1+1+1+1+1+1+1=7.
Now the mathematical art of ADDITION was used to find the total balloons in the classroom. 12+7=19
Impressive students.

Submission + - Cuil was launched with fanfare, and died quietly (theinquirer.net)

viking80 writes: Finally put out of its misery. THE LAUGHING STOCK of the search engine world, Cuil, has disappeared from the web. The search engine, launched by ex-Google employees in 2008 with what was at the time an index three times bigger than that of Google, has not been reachable since Friday 17 and almost nobody noticed. While its large index count played well with the mainstream media, real web users were quick to point out that the search engine was not particularly good at delivering relevant results. Earlier /. coverage http://it.slashdot.org/story/08/07/31/1242243/Cuil-Proves-the-Bubble-Is-Back and http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/07/28/068211/New-Search-Engine-Cuil-Takes-Aim-At-Google

Comment total energy in the beam equals 173 kilograms TNT (Score 3, Informative) 171

The total energy in the beam is 724 MJ (173 kilograms of TNT) (energy stored in magnets are 10x this) That is a bomb big enough to take out a school.

It would be hard to get your hand into vacuum, but imagine a space suit arm attached to a sandblast cabinet.

The beams energy would hit your hand in a spot d1mm. It would most certainly deposit all its energy there until that part of your hand became a vacuum. Probably similar to a laser knife. In addition, your flesh that obstructed the beam would give off a lot of radiation as it burned away. Imagine Hiroshima 1km away x10^8 on that part of your body.

Every proton would not hit something in your hand on first encounter, but if it missed, it would just loop around, and hit on a later time. The result would be the same. In a short time, your hand and your space glove would have a hole through it. More likely a straight cut from where you put it in. Anything nearby would be exposed to a good dose of radiation as these collisions would be quite "dirty".

Comment Submit DMCA reports on management of suddenlink (Score 4, Informative) 280

Submit DMCA reports on the board and management of suddenlink. They all most likely have full speed connections. Maybe you think they are misusing your IP.

The policy allows no review of the DMCA, so it would be interesting to see how that develops.

Company name:
Cequel Communications Holdings I, LLC
and from their web page:
Mr. Jerald L. Kent Chairman
Mary Meduski EVP - Chief Financial Officer Age: 51 314-315-9603
Mr. Thomas P. McMillin Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President Age: 48
Ralph Kelly SVP - Treasurer 314-315-9403
Mr. James Fox Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President Age: 40
Mike Pflantz VP - Corporate Finance 314-315-9341
Mr. Terry M. Cordova Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President Age: 49

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