Comment Re:Arizona (Score 1) 344
So just make it official, move to DST all year then figure out how stupid it is to intentionally have your time off by a full hour or more.
You mean like Russia?
Average Gamer Is 37 Years Old 295
kolbe writes "A new study from the Entertainment Software Association suggests that the average age of today's gamers is between the 37 and 41 years old. If true, does this mean that game studios should be adjusting their demographics accordingly? Is Generation X the next 'baby boomer' market for the gaming industry?"
Fermi Lab May Have Discovered New Particle or Force 226
schleprock63 writes "Physicists at Fermi Lab have found a 'suspicious bump' in their data that could indicate they've found a new elementary particle or even a new force of nature. The discovery could 'be the most significant discovery in physics in half a century.' Physicists have ruled out that the particle could be the standard model Higgs boson, but theorize that it could be some new and unexpected version of the Higgs. This discovery comes as the Tevatron is slated to go offline sometime in September."
Comment Re:Lucas got two films added (Score 1) 129
Which means that Lucas and Spielberg are tied at five each for films included in the Registry (unless I have overlooked some).
Lucas: Star Wars, American Graffiti, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, THX 1138
Spielberg: Jaws, ET, Raiders, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler's List
Oddly enough, neither Wikipedia entry for Lucas nor Spielberg makes mention of the inclusion of their films in the National Film Registry.
Comment Lucas got two films added (Score 1) 129
Electronic Labryrinth: THX 1138 4EB was also added. That was a student film of Lucas' in 1967 while he was at USC.
Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream 271
schliz writes "Murdoch University professor Graham Mann is developing algorithms to simulate 'free thinking' and emotion. He refutes the emotionless reason portrayed by Mr Spock, arguing that 'an intelligent system must have emotions built into it before it can function.' The algorithm can translate the 'feel' of Aesop's Fables based on Plutchick's Wheel of Emotions. In tests, it freely associated three stories: The Thirsty Pigeon; The Cat and the Cock; and The Wolf and the Crane, and when queried on the association, the machine responded: 'I felt sad for the bird.'"
Comment As a resident of Dekalb county... (Score 5, Funny) 222
...it was probably CDC, not the DoD, that did it. CDC is based in a neighboring county (Fulton) and has offices in Dekalb. Definitely not county officials, though. The county police just shoot people.
Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148
c0mpliant writes "NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released a simulation of the path of an asteroid, named Apophis, that will come very close to Earth in 2029 — the closest predicted approach since humans have monitored for such heavenly bodies. The asteroid caused a bit of a scare when astronomers first announced that it would enter Earth's neighborhood some time in the future. However, since that announcement in 2004, more recent calculations have put the odds of collision at 1 in 250,000."
Comment I recall the study with the compass belt (Score 1, Informative) 289
It was posted here two and a half years ago.
Comment Make the helmets more shock resistant (Score 3, Interesting) 294
There was just an article earlier today (Orange Goo) about a material that helps absorb shock, so why not line the inside of the helmets with the stuff?
Comment Been known, to a degree, for over 2000 years. (Score 4, Insightful) 215
"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness" - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Comment Fine, we can detect it (Score 3, Informative) 66
We still don't have a cure for it, so you are just telling the person at present 'Hey, you have Alzheimer's! Good luck with that!". I know, there might be treatments that can take advantage of early detection some time in the future, but at present it would just be pretty depressing.
Comment Sure, the servers can run at a higher temp... (Score 2, Insightful) 472
...but the servers aren't the only thing in a data center. If the switches and routers can't take the higher heat, then you aren't going to get much use out of those servers.
Comment Break even point? (Score 1) 148
What is the carbon footprint for the manufacture of this item? How long does it have to be run before the amount of carbon that went into its manufacture is balanced by the amount of carbon not being released into the atmosphere?
Comment Re:StoOdin (Score 1) 127
I really don't know where you are getting your math from.
7 participants should have a total of 28 UDP streams (2 video and 2 audio each) and two TCP streams each (for H.245). Add another two streams each if there is H.239, but H.239 works within the bandwidth envelope of the conference itself, so no added bandwidth. So I don't see how a 7 participant conference would have more than 42 unicast connections, 56 with H.239.
If the video streams are 140K and the audio is 56K you are looking at around 1.4M bandwidth before overhead. As most of that is UDP, there isn't that much overhead as compared to TCP streams.
And no, the 45 participants were all live, active participants. The MCU was in a data center, but the endpoints were all over the place, some over LAN links, some over DSL. And they were using H.239.
7 participants should have a total of 28 UDP streams (2 video and 2 audio each) and two TCP streams each (for H.245). Add another two streams each if there is H.239, but H.239 works within the bandwidth envelope of the conference itself, so no added bandwidth. So I don't see how a 7 participant conference would have more than 42 unicast connections, 56 with H.239.
If the video streams are 140K and the audio is 56K you are looking at around 1.4M bandwidth before overhead. As most of that is UDP, there isn't that much overhead as compared to TCP streams.
And no, the 45 participants were all live, active participants. The MCU was in a data center, but the endpoints were all over the place, some over LAN links, some over DSL. And they were using H.239.
