Comment Another one... (Score 4, Insightful) 805
We seem to like waging war on vaporous enemies don't we?
Submission + - Hey drivers, that typeface in your car may be deadly (itworld.com)
bdking writes: A typeface commonly found on the devices installed in many modern cars is more likely to cause drivers to spend more time looking away from the road than an alternative typeface tested in two studies, according to new research from MIT's AgeLab.
Submission + - The deepest picture of the Universe ever taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field
The Bad Astronomer writes: "Astronomers have unveiled what may be the deepest image of the Universe ever created: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field, a 2 million second exposure that reveals galaxies over 13 billion light years away. The faintest galaxies in the images are at magnitude 31, or one-ten-billionth as bright as the faintest object your naked eye can detect. Some are seen as they were when they were only 500 million years old."
Comment Re:ONLY A BIT ?? (Score 1) 46
Quantum computers aren't intended for general purpose computing or math operations
Not entirely true. There is a lot of work being done on general purpose quantum computing architectures at the moment. In fact there are already some quantum compilers out there such as http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qcl.html. Also, a number of algorithms do actually require math operations to be performed by the quantum processor. Remember that measuring a qubit collapses its wavefunction so it is often important to do math operations on qubits before they are measured.
Comment Thanks all! (Score 2) 293
Thanks you all for your opinions. I definitely will speak with lawyer and accountant friends but it's very helpful to hear about your experiences with the matter. Again thank you very much!
Submission + - NVIDIA Graphics With KDE-Ubuntu Compete With Windows, Not Unity (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The NVIDIA Linux driver across multiple GeForce graphics cards can compete with Microsoft Windows 7 on Ubuntu, but only when using the KDE desktop and not the default Unity/Compiz. It turns out based upon recent desktop environment benchmarking, Ubuntu's Unity desktop is now noticeably slower than GNOME/KDE/Xfce/LXDE with multiple GPUs/drivers. Sam Spilsbury of Canonical/Compiz acknowledges the problem but it may take longer than one Ubuntu cycle to correct.
Submission + - When is it a good idea to incorporate?
stairmaster writes: A couple of months ago I came across an opportunity to supplement my income by doing some consulting work (read mobile app development) on the side. It appears that I will be doing this work for some time and my question for you, the /. community, is this: is it worth it to incorporate as a business? I know that the answer to this question is extremely dependent on circumstance but I'm interested in your experiences. Have you been in a similar situation and if you have how did it work out for you?
Comment Verification? (Score 1) 44
Is there anything on the (automated) verification techniques used at Google? Microsoft has one of the best verification research labs around and they develop a handful of great tools that are freely available. Is there a Google analogue?
Comment Re:Still don't get the point (Score 2) 241
You're thinking on the wrong scale. Consider a school district - you could equip an entire computer classroom for less than $1,000. That's where the Raspberry Pi starts to make sense.
