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Comment Re:As a Canadian, I like to watch... (Score 1) 155

by Gruturo (#34354712) Attached to: Quark-Gluon Plasma Observed At LHC

What a strange thing to say: "observed by a team of researchers, including Canadians"
Does this mean the Canadians aren't team players or they weren't researchers (were they just tourists?)
This Canadian wants to know!

I think it has something to do with the initial line which says "Canadian_Daemon writes " :-)
Supercomputing

Submission + - China Wrests Supercomputer Title From U.S. (hpcwire.com)

Submitted by pgptag
pgptag writes: Tianhe-1A, a new supercomputer revealed today at HPC 2010 China, has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest system in China and in the world today. Tianhe-1A epitomizes modern heterogeneous computing by coupling massively parallel GPUs with multi-core CPUs, enabling significant achievements in performance, size and power. The Tianhe-1A supercomputer will be operated as an open access system to use for large scale scientific computations. "GPUs are redefining high performance computing," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. "With the Tianhe-1A, GPUs now power two of the top three fastest computers in the world today. These GPU supercomputers are essential tools for scientists looking to turbocharge their rate of discovery."
Crime

Submission + - MD family helps to catch a thief using cellphone (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by tugfoigel
tugfoigel writes: At first, all Kari and Derek Fisher knew about the man who broke into their house was that he was careful enough to cut the screen window and neatly fold it so as not to get scratched on the way out. Given the size of the opening, he probably wasn't very big. And he liked to talk.

The couple and their two young children were asleep early Sept. 24 when the burglar crept into their Adelphi home. He found the home office, where he palmed a pair of digital cameras, a video camera, a satellite radio, and two camera bags filled with memory cards and batteries. He swiped Derek Fisher's wallet and cellphone from a desk.

That revelation sparked a series of slightly panicked phone calls, first to the Prince George's County police and then to banks and credit card companies to cancel cards. The Fishers also called their cellphone carrier, Sprint Nextel.

When a customer service representative offered to cut off the stolen phone or transfer the number to a new one, Derek Fisher asked out of curiosity whether there was some way for the company to see where the phone was. The customer service rep told him about a locator service he could sign up for on a 15-day free trial. Fisher agreed and signed on.

The Sprint Family Locator service, launched in 2006, relies on GPS technology embedded in the phone. AT&T and Verizon offer similar versions of the service, which is marketed as a way for parents to surreptitiously keep tabs on their kids, or, as the online demo puts it, "to make sure Caroline made it to morning band practice without interrupting the music."

Comment Re:Rotate (Score 1) 1140

by Gruturo (#33815828) Attached to: Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels?

You can take it a lot further than that.
Here's a screenie of my firefox right now. I ripped the "full screen" module (called notitlebar@vrienduinen, not my work, I just messed with its insides a little) out of a chrome lookalike pack, adjusted bars to my liking (the 2 icons between the menus and the AwesomeBar are 2 bookmarklets, ReaditLater and InstaPaper (Hi Marco, love the product!)), made the right buttons not overlap with a few spacers, nuked the Google search box without losing the function via OmniBar, then via stylish I messed with many more things than I care to remember (removed scrollbars, the throbber/favicon and close button on non-active tabs, made current tab much wider, killed a few more buttons and spacers, actually made the margin betwen the 2 top bars negative, etc).

It's most likely a usability trainwreck (I actually love to have "normal" people borrow my PC for a sec and watch them helpless for a few seconds, then I'll have mercy and give them a normal chrome window :-) ) but I'm 100% comfortable with it.

This is as close to full screen as I can go without feeling I'm missing some familiar UI function: I still have a lot of room to show the current URL (I love to see parameters, and change them :) ), the status bar, the current page title (but I can probably do better there, with some code I could compress the most frequent sites' names, like turning slashdot into "/."), pretty much everything I ever need is still there. And if I need those last 60 pixels, F11 is still there.

Comment Small parallax problem? (Score 4, Interesting) 114

by Gruturo (#33599484) Attached to: Hubble In Anaglyph Stereo 3D

Given that, outside the solar system, there's hardly anything closer than a couple parsecs except for some very faint objects, and 1 parsec is 1 parallax *second* (as in, 1/3600th of a degree), and it represents the angle formed by watching the same object from 2 observation points spaced 1AU (or 2AU?) apart, does this allow any actual 3d effect to be perceived by the brain? The left/right image separation should be insufficient (unless of course the content has been heavily software processed).

Also, please, don't release anaglyphs, there's a lot of different video hardware to enable 3d vision. Just release video with the left/right frames (side-by-side, above/below, alternating, you choose) and let each of us view it optimally on our hardware. There's plenty of software to accomplish that, even java applets and browser plugins.

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