Comment Re:Bah. (Score 2, Funny) 406
An investment in intel won't necessarily stop riots
This is why I support AMD.
Comment Re:Liquid nitrogen? (Score 2, Insightful) 127
Yeah, and if there's even a slight problem with the coolant system -- the liquid turns to gas, expands 1,500x its original size... and is surrounded by ceramic, metal, plasma, and several thousand degree temperatures at a critical point on the airframe.
What could possibly go wrong?
Which would be why this is unmanned testing.
Comment In this day and age.. (Score 1) 1
Those don't sound like any of the skills someone needs to throw a ball really far. No wonder they can't find anybody worth a shit.
Submission + - US manufacturers can't find skilled workers (nytimes.com) 1
andy1307 writes: The New York Times has an article in the business section about the inability of US manufacturers to find workers with the right skills. During the recession, domestic manufacturers appear to have accelerated the long-term move toward greater automation, laying off more of their lowest-skilled workers and replacing them with cheaper labor abroad. Now they are looking to hire people who can operate sophisticated computerized machinery, follow complex blueprints and demonstrate higher math proficiency than was previously required of the typical assembly line worker.
Makers of innovative products like advanced medical devices and wind turbines are among those growing quickly and looking to hire, and they too need higher skills.
Supervisors at Ben Venue Laboratories, a contract drug maker for pharmaceutical companies, have reviewed 3,600 job applications this year and found only 47 people to hire at $13 to $15 an hour, or about $31,000 a year. All candidates at Ben Venue must pass a basic skills test showing they can read and understand math at a ninth-grade level. A significant portion of recent applicants failed. In a survey last year of 779 industrial companies by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, 32 percent of companies reported “moderate to serious” skills shortages. Sixty-three percent of life science companies, and 45 percent of energy firms cited such shortages.
Makers of innovative products like advanced medical devices and wind turbines are among those growing quickly and looking to hire, and they too need higher skills.
Supervisors at Ben Venue Laboratories, a contract drug maker for pharmaceutical companies, have reviewed 3,600 job applications this year and found only 47 people to hire at $13 to $15 an hour, or about $31,000 a year. All candidates at Ben Venue must pass a basic skills test showing they can read and understand math at a ninth-grade level. A significant portion of recent applicants failed. In a survey last year of 779 industrial companies by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, 32 percent of companies reported “moderate to serious” skills shortages. Sixty-three percent of life science companies, and 45 percent of energy firms cited such shortages.
Comment Re:Wikileaks.... (Score 2, Interesting) 258
What about an archive of the site and all those things hosted throughout the world via torrents and the like? Etc..
For some reason I don't like the idea of donating my IP to a swarm full of the stuff that wikileaks has..
Comment Addisiontal? Aadditional? (Score 1) 123
http://www.terrafugia.com/newsreleases.html
http://www.terrafugia.com/newsreleases.html#110
I hope these people can engineer better than they can spell. Maybe a slashdot editor is running their site..
http://www.terrafugia.com/newsreleases.html#110
I hope these people can engineer better than they can spell. Maybe a slashdot editor is running their site..
Comment Re:The new Prince of Persia reboot. (Score 1) 398
I don't disagree with any point you made, except that I think regardless of my history with past ubisoft titles, my opinion would mean less than squat either way.
Comment Re:The new Prince of Persia reboot. (Score 1) 398
As someone that pirated and enjoyed the first assassin's creed on PC, I had every intent to buy the second iteration of the series. That is, until they introduced their current DRM. Good job ubisoft!
Comment Re:I don't get... (Score 1) 112
My understanding is that it isn't so much the cable operators as it is the broadcasters that insert advertisements. Yes, cablecos do, but basically the cable operator pays the broadcaster to show their content. The broadcaster sets aside x minutes of time for advertising. Cable company says "whoa, we're paying you to advertise? fuck that.". Broadcaster then offers a portion of the time they've set aside for advertising to the cable operator and all but the consumer is happy!
Comment Re:Microwatts, not milliwatts (Score 3, Insightful) 246
Are you all forgetting that this is supposed to be wideband and pull from essentially any/all available frequencies between 500mhz and 10 ghz rather than try to rape a single source for all it's worth?
Comment Re:text (Score 5, Informative) 545
I believe the idea here is to make the payment for them and in the event that TPB was found to not be liable for the damages, everybody that paid will be able to retract their payment at the processing expense of the law firm.
Not simply pay and ask for your money back.
I could be wrong and it could be THAT exploitable, but that's how I understood it at least.
Comment Re:Obviously given to the wrong employees (Score 1) 286
I think it depends on the content of the message rather than the means of sending it.
I have to disagree. The only way to determine the content of the message is to acknowledge it through reading. The typically vague use of subject lines in the corporate workplace don't help this any. If you're compelled to check that mail for any reason other than personal dedication, I think it should be technically be billable. A few posts up made a good point in that hourly workers are paid to work within certain hours and that really should be where it stops. If the worker is felt necessary beyond their normal hours, on-call arrangements need to be established to compensate the employee for these situations.
Road Coloring Problem Solved 202
ArieKremen writes "Israeli Avraham Trakhtman, a Russian immigrant mathematician who had been employed as a night watchman, has solved the Road Coloring problem. First posed in 1970 by Benjamin Weiss and Roy Adler, the problem posits that given a finite number of roads, one should be able to draw a map, coded in various colors, that leads to a certain destination regardless of the point of origin. The 63-year-old Trakhtman jotted down the solution in pencil in 8 pages. The problem has real-world implementation in message and traffic routing."
Blu-ray BD+ Cracked 521
An anonymous reader writes "In July 2007, Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group (BD+ Standards Board) declared: 'BD+, unlike AACS which suffered a partial hack last year, won't likely be breached for 10 years.' Only eight months have passed since that bold statement, and Slysoft has done it again. According to the press release,
the latest version of their flagship product AnyDVD HD can automatically remove BD+ protection and allows you to back-up any Blu-ray title on the market."
Buckyballs Can Store Concentrated Hydrogen 193
Pickens brings news that researchers from Rice University have discovered that it's possible to store hydrogen inside buckyballs. Hydrogen can be an excellent power source, but it is notoriously difficult to store. The buckyballs can contain up to 8% of their weight in hydrogen, and they are strong enough to hold it at a density that rivals the center of Jupiter.
"Using a computer model, Yakobson's research team has tracked the strength of each atomic bond in a buckyball and simulated what happened to the bonds as more hydrogen atoms were packed inside. Yakobson said the model promises to be particularly useful because it is scalable, that is it can calculate exactly how much hydrogen a buckyball of any given size can hold, and it can also tell scientists how overstuffed buckyballs burst open and release their cargo."
