Comment Re:Huh? (Score 0) 143
Oh, THAT Rob Malda
PG&E Makes Deal For Solar Power From Space 392
N!NJA writes "California's biggest energy utility announced a deal Monday to purchase 200 megawatts of electricity from a startup company that plans to beam the power down to Earth from outer space, beginning in 2016. Solaren would generate the power using solar panels in Earth orbit and convert it to radio-frequency transmissions that would be beamed down to a receiving station in Fresno, PG&E said. From there, the energy would be converted into electricity and fed into PG&E's power grid."
Should Good Indie Games Be More Expensive? 150
spidweb writes "Indie gaming blog The Bottom Feeder has an article on why independent games should be more expensive. The enforced low prices on XBox Live, Amazon, and iTunes might feel good now, but they'll kill off the variety and depth gamers are hoping indie developers can provide. From the article: 'Every year, life is getting more and more expensive. Insurance. Rent. Food. And, at the same time, games are getting cheaper and cheaper, sometimes as cheap as a dollar, as we engage in a full speed race to the bottom. This is not going to help developers stay in business. This is not how a healthy industry is maintained.'"
The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast 279
Barence writes "The deplorable speed of British broadband connections has been revealed in the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show that 42.3% of broadband connections are slower than 2Mb/sec. More worryingly, the ONS statistics are based on the connection's headline speed, not actual throughput, which means that many more British broadband connections are effectively below the 2Mb/sec barrier. Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway."
China Launches First Willing Manned Mission Into Space 46
Their program now includes helmets and food.
Feed Official: Powerpoint bad for brains (theregister.com)
Menace of slideware
Anyone who's been a victim of "death by Powerpoint" - that glazed and distant feeling that overwhelms you when some sales droid starts their presentation - will be reassured by Aussie researchers who've discovered biological reasons for the feeling.
Submission + - DARPA planning liquid robots
moon_monkey writes: According to New Scientist, Darpa is soliciting proposals for so-called Chemical Robots (ChemBots) that would be soft, flexible and could manoeuvre through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions. They suggest that it could be made from shape-memory materials, electro- or magneto-rheological materials or even folding components. Does this sound like the T-1000 from Terminator 2 to anyone else? Yikes.
Submission + - Does GNOME interface need overhaul?
mutebargee writes: Although GNOME
seems to be incrementally
improved, Jono Bacon
writes: "For a while I had been mulling over different concepts and
ideas about how GNOME should work, and trying to distill them into
core interactions for a desktop". "The problem with current
desktops is that they are largely artificial. We have created modes
of interaction that the user has to learn to understand the computer,
instead of the computer trying to understand the user.""The
next-gen GNOME needs to change this. It really, really does.
What I want to see is an organic environment; one that is
designed around human interactions, tasks and concepts that we find
natural, intuitive and repeatable."
Is necessary for GNOME to re-invent the term desktop? Will KDE 4.0 give to GNOME a hard time?
Is necessary for GNOME to re-invent the term desktop? Will KDE 4.0 give to GNOME a hard time?
