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Comment Typing is the new cursive (Score 1) 705

by mark0 on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @02:42AM (#29347759) Attached to: The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School

I never thought I'd be typing for a living. I thank a brief encounter with a VAX 11/780 for inspiring me to take a typing class in HS sophomore year. That said, Just require them to use a keyboard... no need to teach typing. They'll figure it out -- just ask their Xbox

IBM Scientists Build Computer Chips From DNA 97

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 17, 2009 @06:02PM from the some-chips-are-longer-than-others dept.

snydeq writes "Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as a way to create tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more powerful computer chips. The technique builds on work done by Cal Tech's Paul Rothemund, who found that DNA molecules can be made to 'self-assemble' into tiny forms [PDF] such as triangles, squares and stars. 'To make a chip, the scientists first create lithographic templates using traditional chip making techniques. After, they pour a DNA solution over the surface of the silicon and the tiny triangles and squares — what the scientists call DNA origami — line themselves up to the patterns etched out using lithography.' DNA-based chips may sound like crackpot tech, but those involved believe the methodology could lead to a new way of fabricating features on the surface of chips that allows semiconductors to be made even smaller, faster and more power-efficient than they are today."

Submission + - TiVo announces DVR-SuperAdvance

Submitted by mark0 on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @01:59PM

mark0 writes: TiVo has announced the TiVo DVR-SuperAdvance. The PC World review says, 'Familiar TiVo interface; DVR can record not-yet-broadcast programming; potentially useful as a wagering aid,' though, '[it is] expensive; access to programming is limited; footage is displayed in standard definition only.'

Submission + - Fripp miffed over EMI download tactics (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by

Snifter

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @06:23AM

Snifter writes: "When it comes to getting royalties to its "artists" a liitle inefficiency helps record comanies save a fortune. As composer of the Vista's "ittle blipping noises" Robert Fripp writes: "It's a little too rich to punish punters for illegal downloads of EMI copyright material when EMI are themselves guilty of copyright violation." More on the STINQ, here."

Submission + - Unlimited gall to cost Verizon $1 million (networkworld.com)

Submitted by netbuzz on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @06:30AM

netbuzz writes: Unlimited really means unlimited, even in advertising. So says the New York State Attorney General's Office in squeezing a $1 million settlement out of Verizon Wireless for disconnecting 13,000 of its customers who had the temerity to believe that the unlimited service they were promised came with unlimited service. Verizon's statement explaining the settlement is a gem, too.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20981

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