Comment Re:See the lightbulb that went on over my head now (Score 1) 80
You mean that if I learn QT, my skills can build a simple NAS doing something incredible like SparkleShare/GIT, and a mobile interface for my cheap Nokia?
yes
Comment Electroweak is old news (Score 5, Informative) 80
Electromagnetism and weak nuclear force have a solid unification theory and supporting experiments since the 70's (and a few nobel prizes as back as '79 at least). Higgs boson is involved in electroweak symmetry breaking, and possibly unification of electroweak with the strong force.
Comment Re:Or the other option is... they're just wrong (Score 1) 442
Positrons are naturally equivalent to electrons that are moving backward in time, and vice-versa.
yeah, they're funny in that. but it's more complete to say that there are particles exactly like electrons but with negative rest mass that can only move backwards in time. they can't stop and turn into 'normal' electrons. and that it's usually easier to think of them as positive electrons with normal positive rest mass and move forwards in time. the non-convertibility is important, or else it would seem that normal matter can take a sharp turn an go backwards in time.
But having neutrinos that move faster than light doesn't mean you can take anything else along with it to make that thing move backward in time.
right. but the parent post said
if you can do FTL particles, then you can send information back in time.
and it _is_ easy to take information along with it to make it move backward in time.
Comment Re:Supernovas (Score 1) 442
s/neutrons/neutrinos/gi
Comment Re:Thoughts on OCFS (Score 1) 320
first, you're mixing cluster file systems (like GFS, OCFS, CXFS) and distributed file systems (Lustre, GlusteFS, Ceph).
second, without backup hardware, you don't have backup; you'll lose data. at least, use a second offline or near-line array to copy to.
third: "snapshots are effective backups". wrong
fourth: "none of the mentioned solutions have support for (infiniband)". wrong
Submission + - Dr. Michio Kaku on reality of a Space Elevator (youtube.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Now that the shuttle has been retired, the hunt is on for revolutionary technologies to economically lift cargo and humans into space. And a space elevator just may be the answer. According to renowned physicist Michio Kaku, recent developments in nanotechnology may make this technological marvel a reality by the end of this century.
Comment Re:Carts before horses (Score 1) 164
You're missing the goal: we need strong AI so that all web documents can be sentient. That way, they'll do a conscious effort to be usable on any kind of browser.
See? it's not because AI is cool, it's our only hope!
Comment Re:Google's Last Bid: Avogadro's Constant = $6*10^ (Score 1) 213
Even on scientific notation, a googolplex is quite hard to write, I don't think the auction forms have space for a hundred zeros. 10^10^100 isn't scientific notation, you know.
Submission + - Is Nokia flirting with Android? (everythingnew.net)
hasanabbas1987 writes: "What we have stumbled across now is what appears to be another N9 lookalike and seems likes its running Android (god forbid!). We can not confirm the originality of the home screen being actual Gingerbread, but the source of this image can not be ignored as it comes from the same Chinese guy who posted pictures of Nokia’s Windows Phone prototype back in May. So we can speculate that Mr. Chinese Guy has inside links and knows more than us. By the looks of bite sized Android UI on the screen we can be a bit hopeful that this is perhaps a testing model of Nokia."
Submission + - FBI "stole" our server, says Instapaper
nk497 writes: Website Instapaper has accused the FBI of stealing its server, after it went offline following a raid at hosting company DigitalOne. "As far as I know, my single DigitalOne server was among those taken by the FBI (which I’m now calling “stolen” since I assume it was not included in the warrant)," said founder Marco Arment. The server has since been returned, but Arment is still moving his service away from DigitalOne: "I’m not convinced that they did everything they could to prevent the seizure of non-targeted servers, and their lack of proactive communication with the affected customers is beneath the level of service I expect from a host."
Comment Re:Unison (Score 1) 482
So I still use rsync, I just run it twice. I'm mounting nfs over GigE so this is not so awful.
If you're using rsync over NFS, you're doing it wrong!
Comment Re:better than a group of doctors?!?! (Score 1) 167
The neural net was then built by people playing the game and providing 'better questions' for when the AI got the answer wrong.
nitpicking: it's not a neural net, it's a decision tree.
Comment Re:The security advantage may not last long anyway (Score 1) 665
This is so wrong on so many levels....
Comment Re:Pathetic (Score 1) 302
I think this is going to become relevant again: The Problem With Trusted Computing
Comment Re:Windows (Score 1) 425
Please tell me you're not suggesting Mac was first and foremost. I imagine if MS needed to decompile they had a large host of other players to pick from.
but they picked Mac. It's not anti-MS fanboyism, it's documented. MS got with it because Apple had the worst contract lawyers on earth.
In short, Apple asked MS to write applications for Mac, since it was poorly documented at the time, MS asked access to the sources. Apple complied, and never bothered to check what kind of uses the contract granted.
Of course, MS didn't just copied and recompiled (it wouldn't worked, it was lots of 68000 assembly language, and they used the astounding 32-bit words quite cleverly), so they did reimplement most the system keeping the architecture, and throwing out some pretty sophisticated things that just couldn't be done well in 16-bit 80186. (like the amazing 'regions' functionality of QuickDraw, which resulted in significant differences in mouse handling smoothness)
