Comment Re:Solar energy from space (Score 1) 512
No, what will happen is the price of oil will drop so incredibly low that only a few space solar plants will be built and the majority of the world will continue to use oil.
Comment Re:Assuming everything goes well (Score 1) 512
Assuming everything goes well and this becomes a viable source of energy What stops any oil producing nation from blowing it up?
Comment Re:Parts (Score 1) 402
Best erotica I've ever read.
Comment Re:Mixed feelings (Score 2, Interesting) 413
Actually thanks to cyber-bullying laws I think you can.
Comment Well (Score 4, Funny) 413
That's one way to dodge all those bug reports...
Comment Re:EMP Testing (Score 1) 884
Don't forget terrorists.
/ducks
Comment Re:Apple is not a Police Officer (Score 5, Informative) 338
Okay, I have to set something straight. It doesn't look for the string "Apple." It looks for a 2 byte code which MEANS apple.
Comment Re:That's Pretty Funny... (Score 0, Offtopic) 221
It's spelled the same way. You just have to reverse/transpose a few consonants.
AMD Demos DirectX 11-Capable ATI Graphics Card 107
An anonymous reader writes "Today at a press conference in Taiwan, AMD demonstrated the world's first GPU capable of DirectX 11 technology. The demonstrations shows the major improvements DirectX 11 gives us over DirectX 10 and also shows us what AMD has in store for an ATI Graphics Card coming out before the end of 2009 capable of DirectX 11. AMD shows three primary features of DirectX 11: a tessellator, which allows for less blocky and more fluid and realistic details; compute shaders which allows for less restricted programming; and finally, how DX11 is better designed to take advantage of multiple CPU cores."
Comment wrong aproach (Score 1) 272
I think this super expensive design is the wrong approach to fusion and that this guy is on the right track. This is assuming, of course, that fusion can work as a power source.
Comment What about Dave? (Score 2, Interesting) 198
What about Dave Thomas? Arguably a much more famous CEO considering how many commercials he starred in.
And that Bill Gates guy might be a tad more famous, though I worry about mentioning this since it seems like flamebait. Also, he's not a CEO anymore.
And that Bill Gates guy might be a tad more famous, though I worry about mentioning this since it seems like flamebait. Also, he's not a CEO anymore.
Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 644
An MS troll on slashdot with a karma bonus? Now I've seen everything.
(And I mean no slights against parent, just /.ers in general)
(And I mean no slights against parent, just
Comment Re:let me guess (Score 1) 260
Wrong state, you're thinking of West Virginia. Here in NC we all fuck farm animals. :-P
NC has its hicks but at least the urban areas are relatively hick-free. NC has many world famous colleges. Just the triad (where I live and work) is the home of Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NC State University. IBM has one of its largest sites in Research Triangle Park, where 11,000 IBM employees and contractors work.
NC has its hicks but at least the urban areas are relatively hick-free. NC has many world famous colleges. Just the triad (where I live and work) is the home of Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NC State University. IBM has one of its largest sites in Research Triangle Park, where 11,000 IBM employees and contractors work.
Comment Re:Dogism (Score 1) 497
That's why I make 'em wear high-heels. Hobbles them nicely.
Comment Re:Almost there (Score 1) 205
You've obviously never made one of these before.
