Comment Re:In Space... (Score 5, Funny) 130
This explains it perfectly: http://www.xkcd.com/984/
Comment Re:A reasonable comparison (Score 1) 375
I know it's not xkcd, but
SMBC says it so well...
Submission + - AMD's Piledriver To Hit 4GHz+ with Resonant Clock Mesh (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to use resonant clock mesh technology developed by Cyclos Semiconductor to push its Piledriver processor architecture to 4GHz and beyond, the company announced at the International Solid State Circuits Conferences (ISSCC) in San Francisco. Cyclos is the only supplier of resonant clock mesh IP, which AMD has licensed and implemented into its x86 Piledriver core for Opteron server processors and Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). Resonant clock mesh technology will not only lead to higher clocked processors, but also significant power savings. According to Cyclos, the new technology is capable of reducing power consumption by 10 percent or bumping up clockspeeds by 10 percent without altering the TDP."
Submission + - Smashwords Caves to Censorship (the-digital-reader.com)
Synchis writes: "Smashwords, a popular portal for indy authors to self-publish their works, has been targetted by Paypal to remove certain objectionable content, "Or Else." Well, it looks like Smashwords has buckled under the pressure, and sent it's members a mass email letting them know that content described by Paypal to be objectionable will be removed. This is the worst kind of censorship."
Submission + - Open letter by Eric S. Raymond to Chris Dodd (MPAA CEO) (ibiblio.org)
An anonymous reader writes: ESR, one of the finest engineers behind the open source movement and much of the software we use everyday, writes an open letter to U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd. ESR points out the concerns of "the actual engineers who built the Internet and keep it running, who write the software you rely on every day of your life in the 21st century" about "politicians' attempts to lock down our Internet or our tools".
