Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 1521
I've always considered Slash Dot to be a "Community Service". Thanks for all the years of "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters"
Comment Re:good (Score 1) 762
I'm afraid sci-fi is dead on Syfy. Perhaps it's time to start a new "Science and Science Fiction" channel (to borrow the title from Analog) and restore some of those classic shows like "SF Trader" and "Convention Watch" and "Inside Space".
Heck, I'd be happy to be able to rewatch LEXX and Farscape episodes. Too much frelling drenn on SyFy these days.
Dogs Can Be Pessimistic 99
Not that it will change anything, but researchers at Bristol University say that your dog might be a gloom-monger. In addition to the downer dogs, the study also found a few that seemed happy no matter how uncaring the world around them was. "We know that people's emotional states affect their judgments and that happy people are more likely to judge an ambiguous situation positively. What our study has shown is that this applies similarly to dogs," said professor Mike Mendl, an author of the study and head of animal welfare and behavior at Bristol University.
Comment Re:Before anyone says it: (Score 1) 413
ironically misspelled I suppose
Music By Natural Selection 164
maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."
Submission + - In the market for Cray performance? The SGI Octane (sgi.com) 1
Desperado writes: "From the fine press release:
"Octane III is office-ready with a pedestal, one-by-two-foot form factor, whisper-quiet operations, easy-to-use features, low maintenance requirements and support for standard office power outlets. While a typical workstation has only eight cores and moderate memory capacity, the superior design of the Octane III permits up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory for unparalleled performance.
"Octane III makes supercomputing personal again," said Mark J. Barrenechea, president and CEO of SGI. "Our customers have been asking for office environment products with large core counts that are easy to use and whisper-quiet. Octane III brings all of this to the HPC professional, and enables a new era of personal innovation in strategic science, research, development and visualization."""
"Octane III is office-ready with a pedestal, one-by-two-foot form factor, whisper-quiet operations, easy-to-use features, low maintenance requirements and support for standard office power outlets. While a typical workstation has only eight cores and moderate memory capacity, the superior design of the Octane III permits up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory for unparalleled performance.
"Octane III makes supercomputing personal again," said Mark J. Barrenechea, president and CEO of SGI. "Our customers have been asking for office environment products with large core counts that are easy to use and whisper-quiet. Octane III brings all of this to the HPC professional, and enables a new era of personal innovation in strategic science, research, development and visualization."""
Comment Re:Dock/Taskbar design (Score 1) 688
It was selling for $25 at Amazon yesterday. I think you get a lot Bang for your $25 and according to Ars you can install it over Tiger on Intel Macs. See:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/29-snow-leopard-retail-disc-will-install-over-tiger.ars
Comment Re:I want to live to 100... (Score 1) 575
...and then be shot by a jealous husband.
For Cause!
Comment Re:CSI NY (Score 1) 395
Damn, man, I'd mod you up for this post. I love that geeky show and I could care less about 10BaseT Ethermet. The show is fun, and I can suspend my inner geek for that.
