Comment Re:NG/Coal kills. Nuclear might in an extreme case (Score 1) 216
Some experts say it's because shale gas expanded too fast so that a glut depressed the price and nobody made money any more.
Comment Re:Earthquake Safety isn't the main problem (Score 1) 216
Oh no, a voice of reason!
Comment Re:NG/Coal kills. Nuclear might in an extreme case (Score 1) 216
> Natural gas in the US has more than that
The question is at what price - just like for tight oil.
Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 145
Moore's law was about a one node shrink every 18 months, meaning a reduction in structure sizes by sqrt(2), i.e. twice the number of transistors at the same die size. The reduction in size meant a reduction in gate thickness and operating voltage by sqrt(2) and a reduction of capacitances by a factor of two. Those allowed an increase in clock speed of sqrt(2) at constant power. None of that is happening any more.
Comment Re:Not all that surprising... (Score 4, Informative) 131
Singular: Erratum
Plural: Errata
Comment Ah yes (Score 1) 145
Moore's law has run out of steam. Yay!
Comment Re:Beards and suspenders. (Score 1) 637
Meh. No BitCountFactory class?
Comment Re:VMS is dead; long live WNT (Score 1) 136
Exactly. NT3 was cool, NT4 was turned into Windows and hid the WNT foundation as much as possible. And put the graphics in ring 0, shudder.
Comment Seed! (Score 1) 208
Obviously.
Comment Re:But what IS the point they're making? (Score 1) 342
That makes perfect sense. You have to be oblivious of what's going on to have children these days. I always feel bad for any kids I see today. Living to the end of this century? Holy crap.
Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? 509
An anonymous reader writes: My niece, who is graduating from high school, has asked me for some career advice. Since I work in data processing, my first thought was to recommend a degree course in computer science or computer engineering. However, after reading books by Jeremy Rifkin (The Third Industrial Revolution) and Ray Kurzweil (How to Create a Mind), I now wonder whether a career in information technology is actually better than, say, becoming a lawyer or a construction worker. While the two authors differ in their political persuasions (Rifkin is a Green leftist and Kurzweil is a Libertarian transhumanist), both foresee an increasingly automated future where most of humanity would become either jobless or underemployed by the middle of the century. While robots take over the production of consumer hardware, Big Data algorithms like the ones used by Google and IBM appear to be displacing even white collar tech workers. How long before the only ones left on the payroll are the few "rockstar" programmers and administrators needed to maintain the system? Besides politics and drug dealing, what jobs are really future-proof? Would it be better if my niece took a course in the Arts, since creativity is looking to be one of humanity's final frontiers against the inevitable Rise of the Machines?
Comment Re:No surprise (Score 2) 710
People are irrational. Beliefs trump facts most of the time.
Comment No surprise (Score 1) 710
If they knew how much they (and the entire economy) had to cut back to do anything substantial about AGW they'd be climate change deniers.
Submission + - The Q Platform uses Linux/OpenWRT to Control LED Light Bulbs and Stream Audio 1
dmtaub writes: The Q is the only Open Source platform for music and light control on the market. In addition to using a smartphone to play music, set alarms/alerts, and trigger scenes, the Q will have a scripting IDE on the router configuration web page for aspiring programmers to play with light and sound.
There are only a few days left on the Kickstarter ( http://kck.st/1pCusil ) so now's the time to show support for a hackable smart-home platform that integrates music with colorful LED light bulbs.
Full disclosure: I am one of the co founders. Even though I am not working for them anymore, I still really want to see open-source, hackable LED lighting make its way to the masses.
There are only a few days left on the Kickstarter ( http://kck.st/1pCusil ) so now's the time to show support for a hackable smart-home platform that integrates music with colorful LED light bulbs.
Full disclosure: I am one of the co founders. Even though I am not working for them anymore, I still really want to see open-source, hackable LED lighting make its way to the masses.
Comment Re:"Preorder your download now!" (Score 1) 86
Game retailers are going the way of record stores and video rental outlets.
Yeah, now if I want to listen or watch something that isn't 6 months old or less my options are either buy it if it is even available or not hear/see it. Boy did we show those dinosaurs, AmIRight?
