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Comment Re:bad summary? (Score 4, Informative) 86

by mcmire on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @09:51AM (#29807223) Attached to: Robot Controlled By Human Brain Cells

There are two experiments involved here, one using rat neurons and one using human neurons. The article is badly written -- it first introduces the two experiments, talks about the rat-neuron experiment for a bit (that's what the video refers to) and then abruptly segues to the human-neuron experiment (which there is no video for). Only the last three paragraphs are really about the human one. Looks like it's the same setup as the rat one though.

Submission + - Swarm: A new approach to distributed computation (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 11, 2009 @11:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet, has been working on a new open source project called Swarm. The concept is to allow a computer program to be distributed across multiple computers in a manner almost completely transparent to the programmer. The system observes the program executing and figures out how the workload should be distributed for maximum efficiency. Swarm is implemented in Scala. Its at an early-prototype stage, and Ian has created a good 36 minute video explaining the concept and the current implementation.

Submission + - T-Mobile loses all information stored on Sidekicks (t-mobile.com)

Submitted by stigmato on Saturday October 10, 2009 @09:32PM

stigmato writes: T-Mobile's popular Sidekick brand of devices and their users are facing a data loss crisis. According to the T-Mobile community forums, Microsoft/Danger has suffered a catastrophic server failure that has resulted in the loss of all personal data not stored on the phones. They are advising users not to turn off their phones, reset them or let the batteries die in them for fear of losing what data remains on the devices. Microsoft/Danger has stated that they cannot recover the data but are still trying. Already people are clamoring for a lawsuit. Should we continue to trust cloud computing content providers with our personal information? Perhaps they should have used ZFS or btrfs for their servers...

Comment Obligatory question (Score 1) 92

by mcmire on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @03:08PM (#28612203) Attached to: Optical Transistor Made From Single Molecule

Does it run Linux?

Comment Re:Yeah, except... (Score 1) 569

by mcmire on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @09:17AM (#28606837) Attached to: Incandescent Bulbs Return To the Cutting Edge

That's what I think. Why waste money on re-inventing the incandescent when we already have a solution that beats incandescents *and* CFLs?

Comment With such a hyped up description (Score 1) 127

by mcmire on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @01:54PM (#23730459) Attached to: HoloVizio 3D, Holodeck 1.0 to Some, Makes Its Debut

you'd think they'd have decent demo videos. I mean for the love of the Holodeck, if you're trying to film something that looks 3D, and you want to convince us it looks 3D, maybe move the camera in a three-dimensional motion? Like walk around the TV or something? Sheesh.

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