Comment Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le (Score 1) 656
If it isn't legal, it should be. A possible precedent would be terminals - either hardware or emulators - pretending to be VT100s.
Comment Passing the torch (Score 0) 93
Now that the US appears to be giving up on manned space exploration it's good to see other nations step up to the plate.
Comment Re:Two processors (Score 2, Insightful) 218
Two processors are used regardless of the licence. It just makes things easier from a hardware perspective to have one processor dedicated to the phone network functions and another to the UI and assorted programs.
Comment Re:Hi (Score 1) 218
I remember the Qt fun and games, yes. The LGPL will always be the *Library* GPL to me.
Comment Re:Hi (Score 1) 218
Fair enough, that's the way I understand the trade-offs too. I was just a little surprised to see no mention of the LGPL in your article and wondered if it was part of a sinister plot to deprecate the licence.
Comment Re:Hi (Score 2, Interesting) 218
Any comments about the applicability of the LGPL? It used to be very popular in embedded systems.
Radio Controlled Cyborg Insects At MEMS 2009 46
Frankie Modellismo writes "During MEMS 2009, a Micro Electro Mechanical Systems conference taking place in Sorrento (near Naples in Italy), the University of California, Berkeley showed a wireless system to control a live rhinoceros beetle. The researchers controlled the movement of the beetle thanks to six electrodes installed in the insect's brain. The rhinoceros beetles can carry up to 3gr, and fly carrying the control module that weighs a little more than 1 gr." The page is in Italian, but the pictures speak for themselves.
Researchers Create Graphite Memory 10 Atoms Thick 135
CWmike writes "Researchers at Rice University have demonstrated a new data storage medium made out of a layer of graphite only 10 atoms thick. The technology could potentially provide many times the capacity of current flash memory and withstand temperatures of 200 degrees Celsius and radiation that would make solid-state disk memory disintegrate. 'Though we grow it from the vapor phase, this material [graphene] is just like graphite in a pencil. You slide these right off the end of your pencil onto paper. If you were to place Scotch tape over it and pull up, you can sometimes pull up as small as one sheet of graphene. It is a little under 1 nanometer thick,' Professor James Tour said."
2009, Year of the Linux Delusion 696
gadgetopia writes "An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low-power ARM processors will be in netbooks which won't have enough power to run Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to 'web only' applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too." The article goes on to skewer the year of Linux thing that seems to show up on pretty much every tech news site throughout December and January as lazy editors round out their year with softball trolling stories and "Year End Lists." We should compile a year-end list about this :)
Submission + - Computing Pioneer Ken Kennedy Passes Away
biggerboy writes: "From Rice University Press Release: "Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice University's nationally ranked computer science program and one of the world's foremost experts on high-performance computing, died Feb. 7 at a Houston hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 61.""
Submission + - Does Richard Stallman Hate Fair Use?
a_quietamerican writes: "According to Robin Good at the MasterNewMedia blog, Richard Stallman is refusing to let him and others post videos of his speeches to YouTube or any other service that doesn't support Free Software.
This raises some serious questions about Mr. Stallman's commitment to Fair Use according to the ACT Blog.
According to ACT:
"Intelligent people can disagree over the scope of Fair Use, but there is NOTHING more clearly covered than public speeches and comments...it is the basis by which journalists and bloggers do their jobs. Yet, Stallman is quite clearly arguing that Fair Use doesn't apply to his speeches and he has the power to dictate how you can watch/listen to them.
Submission + - Skype for PSP?
SpooForBrains writes: It appears Sony may have plans to introduce Skype functionality in a future revision of the PSP firmware. Enterprising firmware fiddlers have discovered references to a non-existent module: "skype_plugin.prx" in a decrypted copy of the 3.10 firmware. Similar poking and prodding in the past uncovered the posibility of add-on camera and GPS units long before they were officially launched.
Submission + - Blu-ray vs HD DVD replication costs revealed
An anonymous reader writes: HD DVD fans routinely claim that Blu-ray is more expensive to manufacture. Replications costs for HD DVD and Blu-ray discs were pulled from multiple sources and the results may surprise you.
http://wesleytech.com/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-replicatio n-costs-revealed/
Journal Journal: Nanomaterials to Print Flexible 3-Dimensional Electronics
Nanomaterials Produce Heterogeneous Three-Dimensional Electronics
Researchers at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois have developed a new, experimentally simple approach for combining broad classes of dissimilar electronic materials into heterogeneously integrated systems with two or three dimensional layouts on rigid or flexible substrates
Researchers at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois have developed a new, experimentally simple approach for combining broad classes of dissimilar electronic materials into heterogeneously integrated systems with two or three dimensional layouts on rigid or flexible substrates
Submission + - NASA fears for Shuttle computers at year rollover
dm6079 writes: It appears that they've never had a shuttle in space on December 31. According to this NY Times article, the shuttle computer systems would have to be reset on January 1st.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/science/space/08 shutscrub.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
They are rather hesitant to do that while the craft is in the middle of a mission. Are the systems that archaic or is NASA just hyper-paranoid ?
