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Submission + - Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes: Are you ready for wider servers? The Open Compute Project today shared details on Open Rack, a new standard for hyperscale data centers, which will feature 21-inch server slots, rather than the traditional 19 inches. "We are ditching the 19-inch rack standard," said Facebook's Frank Frankovsky, who said the wider design offered better heat removal and a unified approach to power, including a 12 volt busbar. The Open Compute Project, developed by Facebook to advance open source hardware design, believes an open approach can avoid the mistakes of blade server chassis design.
Android

Submission + - BlackBerry 10, webOS and the platform predicament (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye
zacharye writes: During the annual Consumer Electronics Show in January 2009, a struggling smartphone company that had once helped shape the mobile industry unveiled its next-generation platform. It was gorgeous. The design was unique and appealing, the gesture-based controls were smart and intuitive, and the company’s new smartphone operating system offered a breath of fresh air in an industry dominated by just two major players, Apple and Google. Will RIM's BlackBerry 10 suffer the same fate as Palm's webOS?
GNOME

Submission + - Tablet UIs on Laptops/Desktops: What's Slashdot's Readers' take? (ubuntu.com) 1

Submitted by dcbrianw
dcbrianw writes: I want to know the Slashdot's community's take on the new trend of desktop and laptop operating system developers moving towards tablet based UI's. Ubuntu has moved to Unity. Windows 8 will have such a UI. Even Gnome 3 looks tablet based. You can revert to Gnome classic, but it's very minimal in comparison Gnome 2.

If I'm not using a tablet, I don't want my computer to operate as though I am. I'm just not sold on this, and I want my old UI back (without having to use earlier, less advanced OS'). What are others' takes on this? Am I missing some of the pros associated with a tablet UI on non-tablet devices?

Comment Re:THIS! (Score 2) 109

by AtomicAdam (#39832029) Attached to: Monkeypox Scare Grounds Flight In Chicago
I humbly agree. This was not an over reaction. This was the right amount of action. Not everything is a government conspiracy trying to take away our rights and rape us to death... Most things they do are... Just not everything and definitely not this.

Comment Re:Blabbermouths (Score 2, Insightful) 109

by AtomicAdam (#39832001) Attached to: Monkeypox Scare Grounds Flight In Chicago
It's funny how all Doctors/Lawyers/"OMG I"M CETIFIEdEd PROFESSIONAL"s seem to post as Anonymous cowards. BTW you think a real doctor would show a "nurse" professional courtesy, instead of using the term disparagingly. It leads me to believe that most ACs are just twelve year old trolls.


If there wasn't a threat why were crews brought in, why were they not letting people off the plane? Ask yourself these kind of things before ever posting again. Be sure to log in first.


Humbly I modify a quote from the parent. "There is nothing worse than an Anonymous Coward with initiative and time." Love - AtomicAdam
Space

Submission + - Sun's Twin Discovered -- the Perfect SETI Target? (discovery.com) 1

Submitted by
astroengine
astroengine writes: "There are 10 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are the same size as our sun. Therefore it should come as no surprise that astronomers have identified a clone to our sun lying only 200 light-years away. Still, it is fascinating to imagine a yellow dwarf that is exactly the same mass, temperature and chemical composition as our nearest star. In a recent paper reporting on observations of the star — called HP 56948 — astronomer Jorge Melendez of the University of San Paulo, Brazil, calls it "the best solar twin known to date." The star has very similar chemical ratio to our sun, so using HP 56948 as a SETI target seems like a logical step, says Melendez."

Comment Re:Dependency (Score 1) 637

by AtomicAdam (#39772261) Attached to: I believe humanity will first achieve ...
The King James Scribes either

1: Didn't have those scrolls when translating and compiling the Bible, i.e. they were lost, hidden in the Vatican, destroyed.

or

2: They blatantly took it out. Which this doesn't seem like the Stuff the KJS would take from the Bible.



I thing we forget that they didn't have "teh interwebz". There was no way of knowing if they had all of the scrolls (first hand accounts) that the apostles wrote. Not to mention all the Manuscripts and compilations and edits made at the council of Nicaea.

In fact theses things might have been cast out at the council of Nicaea. Read on for more info on Politicians adopting/changing religion for power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
Intel

Submission + - Intel Officially Lifts The Veil On Ivy Bridge (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by zackmerles
zackmerles writes: Tom's Hardware takes the newly-released top of the line Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770K for a spin. All Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPUs come with Intel HD Graphics 4000, which despite the DirectX 11 support, only provides a modest boost to the Sandy Bridge Intel HD Graphics 3000. However, the new architecture tops the charts for low power consumption, which should make the Ivy Bridge mobile offerings more desirable. In CPU performance, the new Ivy Bridge Core i7 is only marginally better than last generation's Core i7-2700K. Essentially, Ivy Bridge is not the fantastic follow-up to Sandy Bridge that many enthusiasts had hoped for, but an incremental improvement. In the end, those desktop users who decided to skip Sandy Bridge to hold out for Ivy Bridge, probably shouldn't have. On the other hand, since Intel priced the new Core i7-3770K and Core i5-3570K the same as their Sandy Bridge counterparts, there is no reason to purchase the previous generation chips.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Core i7-3770K review: Ivy Bridge brings lower power, better performance (extremetech.com)

Submitted by
MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "Intel’s Ivy Bridge (IVB) has been one of the hottest tech topics of the past 12 months — we haven’t seen this much interest in a CPU since Intel launched Nehalem. Ivy Bridge is the first 22nm processor at a time when die shrinks have become increasingly difficult, the first CPU to use FinFETs (Intel calls its specific implementation Tri-Gate), and it’s a major component of Intel’s ultrabook initiative. In benchmarking, these changes equate to a CPU speed boost of around 5-10% over Sandy Bridge, but with a significantly lower TDP (around 25%). If Ivy Bridge’s CPU is a bit boring, the new GPU more than makes up for it. Ivy Bridge’s integrated graphics core increases the total number of execution units by 33% (to 16, up from 12), and implements support for DirectX 11, OpenCL 1.1, and OpenGL 3.1. There are now two texture units instead of one, and the GPU can issue twice as many MADs (Multiply-Add) per clock. Ivy Bridge incorporates a small, dedicated L3 cache of its own, but retains its ability to share data across the high-bandwidth ring bus that connects it to the processor, if necessary. GPU performance is up by around 25-50%. Read the full review for more details."

Comment Let their be a law (Score 1) 637

by AtomicAdam (#39771997) Attached to: I believe humanity will first achieve ...
Honestly, on immortality.


I'm glad non-forwarding thinking people from the 1100s-1300s died and didn't live on in immortality. I'm sure we ALL want the same mortal politicians to be immortal with their 300-1000 year terms, pushing their political agenda, twisting the fate of humanity.

I don't think it's fair for our great-great-great-grand children to be subject to the same assholes we had.

LET the past define us, but not remain to control us. Just think of the wonderful new things that death brings. It's not insane to hope there is something beyond this.

Likewise if we have someone living forever, there should be a law, After 150 years of life on earth, you must go and colonize new planets, it could be a rite of passage. Man and families would be weird too. Think, they would become like clans.
Government

Submission + - Homeland Security raids... a flea market (baltimoresun.com) 1

Submitted by
DesScorp
DesScorp writes: "The Baltimore Sun reports on a raid at a flea market for counterfeit merchandise and pirated music/movies. The catch? The raid was carried out by the Department of Homeland Security.Further, they've been planning this for some time. " Nicole Navas, a public affairs specialist with the Department of Homeland Security, said sports apparel, musical recordings and cosmetics were among the items under scrutiny in the 2 1/2-year-long investigation."

What in the world makes this a homeland security issue? Like the TSA, these actions from Homeland Security point to a future of unlimited expansion to authority beyond the original scope of these federal agencies."

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