Comment Re:15-core E7 v2? (Score 2) 243
It's just a grid of cores on the chip layout. Nothing wrong with a grid that's 3x5. A 2-dimensional grid does not force the number of cores to be a power of 2.
Monopoles and Magnetricity 67
szotz writes "Although there was once a hint from a cosmic ray experiment (on Valentine's Day, no less), no one's found any solid evidence of monopoles (unpaired north and south magnets) flying around the cosmos. But physicists did find monopole-like quasiparticles in some exotic crystals in 2009. One of the discoverers has an article this month in IEEE Spectrum that looks at how the particles were found and what's happened since. They might seem like a wacky curiosity, but the author says we shouldn't write them off — they might one day make useful new 'magnetronic' devices."
Comment Re:Explanatory Memes (Score 1) 488
Plus it makes one think of breasts.
Oh, the Sears Wishbook. Two things every growing boy needed, a toys section, and an intimate apparel section.
Comment Re:Wasn't there... (Score 2) 241
Welp, I don't normally respond to a cynical mod-down, but I'm dead serious with this one.
So if you're so pissed off by my statement that you feel the need to hit Underrated in the popdown, maybe you're not laid back enough for such recreational activity.
"Underrated" means that they were modding you up, not down. The mod down is called "Overrated".
Comment Re:It's a start (Score 1) 194
The simple English Wikipedia doesn't try to simplify scientific concepts any more than the regular English Wikipedia. It just uses basic words chosen from a small vocabulary set (when possible), and simple sentence construction. It's meant as an aid for people learning the English language. It's not going to help you understand complex physics topics like the one you mentioned.
You need to parse the title as "(Simple English) Wikipedia", not as "Simple (English Wikipedia)".
Comment Re:We'll see (Score 5, Insightful) 712
Are you surprised? This has been MS's strategy for the better part of a decade. Try to compete on vapor rather than on what's shipping. A competitor announces that they're shipping, say, a new MacBook, and MS will announce that they've got something flashy and new about to come out. When it finally ships two and a half years later, it's a POS nowhere close to what MS claimed it was going to be.
Remember everything that MS said was going to be in Vista?
The $45 Windows Laptop 299
YokimaSun writes "The search for a cheap laptop has brought us news from India of a $10 laptop (which later turned out to be a hundred dollars). Today PC Gaming News has details of a laptop which is selling for a measly 45 dollars, what do you get for that, you get a netbook running windows embedded compact 7, 128 megs of ram, a via8505 processor and a 7 inch screen capable of 800x480 pixels resolution." I'm still waiting for my under $50 Macbook.
Comment Re:let me guess? (Score 1) 484
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you didn't RTFA...
Comment Re:It is very simple. Virus "protection" isn't (Score 2) 233
You should look up Stephanie Forrest's research. She's been doing things like that for the past 20 years. To give you an idea, she has a mid-90's paper called "A Sense of Self for UNIX Processes".
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With a Math Degree? 416
First time accepted submitter badmojo17 writes "After achieving her lifelong dream of becoming a public school math teacher, my wife has found the profession to be much more frustrating than she ever expected. She could deal with having a group of disrespectful criminals as students if she had competent administrators supporting her, but the sad truth is that her administration causes more problems on a daily basis than her students do. Our question is this: what other professions are open to a bright young woman with a bachelor's degree in math and a master's degree in education? Without further education, what types of positions or companies might be interested in her as an employee?"
Comment Poseurs (Score 5, Interesting) 241
It's funny how if a group is *actually* powerful, you never see them making claims that they're powerful. Their actions say more than words.
Anonymous are just poseurs. Not only are they poseurs on world-scale power, they're poseurs on computer hacking, all they know how to do is run DoS attacks. They're an embarrassment.
Comment Re:Repeat Customers? (Score 1) 339
Purchasing price probably dropped a bit. Good time to get a deal.
Comment Re:Repeat Customers? (Score 1) 339
And the counterexample to that is the TU-144 crash in Paris, the aircraft did not rebound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpPaaP1IIe8
Comment Re:Repeat Customers? (Score 1) 339
Aeroflot's an airline, not an aircraft manufacturer. Aeroflot flies mostly Boeing and Airbus today.
Comment Re:Probably lost the sale, too! (Score 1) 339
I believe they were trying to show off, and here's why I think that. One of the news sites had a video (looked like Google Earth) showing where the plane took off, and where it crashed. The mountain it crashed into is this really isolated and abrupt thing sticking way up out of lower elevation terrain. It was very clear from that imagery that the plane took off and made a bee line for those scenic mountains for impressive views for those on board. I think the pilot tried to do a close fly by and did not realize just how steep that mountain was (it is practically vertical where the plane impacted).
So it's a repeat of the Italian captain driving his cruise ship onto a reef.
