Comment Re:Benchmarks for that AMD chip look bad... (Score 1) 180
Really? For 4W TDP? Versus the top tier Intel i7 @ 47W? It depends on what you are measuring.
Comment Re:Cluster (Score 1) 180
In Soviet Russia, Beowulf cluster imagines you!
Comment Re:I think the term you're looking for is.. (Score 1) 324
Some lawyer is going to make a boatload when he organizes the class action lawsuit against CNET and download.com. There's money to be made here.
Comment Skipping Record (Score 1) 790
You no longer hear a skipping record as the needle hits a scratch and bounces out of the track. Or pops and clicks from dust. Or the pop of the needle jumping the groove every other second when you've reached the end of the record.
Submission + - The Mystery Of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved
KentuckyFC writes: In the early 1940s, Glenn Seaborg made the first lump of plutonium by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons in two different cyclotrons for over a year, The resulting plutonium, chemically separated and allowed to react with oxygen, weighed 2.77 micrograms. It was the first macroscopic sample ever created and helped win Seaborg a Nobel prize ten years later. The sample was displayed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley until the early naughties, when it somehow disappeared. Now nuclear detectives say they've found Seaborg's plutonium and have been able to distinguish it from almost all other plutonium on the planet using a special set of non-destructive tests. The team say sample is now expected to go back on display at Seaborg's old office at Berkeley.
Comment Re:Start with Venus... (Score 1) 319
Transferring an ice moon across Earth's orbit is something I'd rather avoid for the next 50 years or so. You are welcome to play planetary billiards when I'm gone. Thanks.
Comment Re:Placebo effect? (Score 2) 154
How do you know it's not a placebo effect, though?
Test it against people with fake brains.
Comment Re:islam (Score 1, Funny) 1350
Marxism is a religion? If that is the case then Capitalism is a religion.
OK, I see your point.
Hands On With MakerBot's 3D-Printed Wood 72
angry tapir writes: 3D printing has lost a bit of its novelty value, but new printing materials that MakerBot plans to release will soon make it a lot more interesting again. MakerBot is one of the best-known makers of desktop 3D printers, and at CES this week it announced that late this year its products will be able to print objects using composite materials that combine plastic with wood, metal or stone.
Comment Re:ASN.1/SMI (Score 1) 242
Well, they are not languages that you will be paid to program in either. The are domain-specific knowledge that a programmer in a common language (C++, Java) may need to know for a specific job. Companies may be looking for a "C++ programmer for network development that preferably knows ASN.1". If they are hiring an "ASN.1 programmer for network development that preferably knows C++", run away fast.
Comment Only Semi-Autonomous? (Score 1) 182
If it were autonomous, you'd be free and clear. But this "semi-autonomous" bit leads me to believe you were semi-involved.
Comment Re:some modern electronic gagets can not be fixed (Score 1) 840
With the exception of BGA a decent soldering iron is fine for SMD. I can solder a 144 pin 0.5mm QFP quicker than I can solder a through hole 40 pin DIP component.
I would love to see you fix a board with a bad QFP with only a soldering iron. A hot-air rework station is a far more appropriate tool for removing said QFP if it is in need of replacement. We are talking about fixing broken electronics after all.
Comment Re:Also (Score 2) 840
And they're terrible with cave drawings.
We call it "graffiti" these days. And, yes, I agree it is terrible.
Comment Re:some modern electronic gagets can not be fixed (Score 1) 840
A soldering iron? You are using the wrong tool. We have new tools for handling surface mount components that work just as well as a soldering iron does for through-hole work. Real humans can and do fix surface mount electronics.
Comment Re:Optometrist? (Score 4, Funny) 464
You totally massacred the recent research that was in the news
Take it up with my lawyers: Dewey, Cheetham and Howe.
