teko_teko - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Will hopefully find lots of dark asteroids (Score 1) 43

by teko_teko on Thursday December 31, 2009 @03:06PM (#30608492) Attached to: NASA WISE Telescope Starts Taking Pics

If all else fails, we can collect the world garbage into one big ball and launch it towards the asteroid.

We should be safe unless that ball of garbage heads back towards earth someday...

Comment Re:Flash works fine... (Score 1) 223

by teko_teko on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @07:22PM (#30588426) Attached to: A Mixed Review For Google Chrome On Linux

I'm lactose intolerant you insensitive clod

Me too, but I still love ice cream. Just can't have that second serving...

Comment Re:Easy response (Score 2, Informative) 241

by teko_teko on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @05:24PM (#30539034) Attached to: Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google

He's dead, Gym!

Comment Re:I disagree (Score 1) 157

by teko_teko on Friday December 18, 2009 @05:13PM (#30493244) Attached to: 3D Blu-ray Spec Finalized, PS3 Supported

Still doesn't work for the cyclopes and some pirates...

Comment Better Article at Engadget Mobile (Score 5, Informative) 214

by teko_teko on Friday December 18, 2009 @01:56PM (#30490030) Attached to: iPhone Has 46% of Japanese Smartphone Market

Engadget Mobile provides a better perspective:

iPhone nabs 46 pecent of Japanese smartphone market, the tiny Japanese smartphone market

So you read a headline like "iPhone grabs 46 percent of the Japanese smartphone market" and the first thing you're likely to think is, "wow, Apple is really doing well for itself." Well, it is and it isn't. While it has made some considerable gains in the smartphone market at the expense of phones like Sharp's W-ZERO3 and the Willcom 03, it still hasn't gained nearly the same total mindshare or market share that it has over here. That's because "smartphones" as we know them are still a relatively small market in Japan, where carriers' lineups consist of a whole range of offerings including everything from mobile TV-equipped phones to true camera phones to perfume holders.

Source

Comment Re:Plus or minus one? (Score 2, Informative) 443

by teko_teko on Friday December 11, 2009 @07:46PM (#30408664) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 100,000

Does that 100,000 include the Star Wars Christmas Special story which mysteriously disappeared yesterday?

It's been fixed, says Soulskill:

Something broke it temporarily. It should be fixed now: http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/10/1333202/The-Star-Wars-Christmas-Special-Still-Exists

Comment Re:Looks pretty shit (Score 1) 664

by teko_teko on Friday November 20, 2009 @01:52PM (#30173752) Attached to: Google Releases Source To Chromium OS

A hardware vendor can already put a tiny installation of Linux + X11 + Firefox or Chrome on small flash drive. Why make a new OS?

Can it boot under 2 seconds?

Comment Re:Google should give Gmail some love (Score 2, Informative) 664

by teko_teko on Friday November 20, 2009 @01:50PM (#30173722) Attached to: Google Releases Source To Chromium OS

Use advanced search or learn the syntax.

Comment AMD vs Intel (Score 1) 286

by teko_teko on Monday November 16, 2009 @03:19PM (#30119704) Attached to: 100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018

It's interesting that 4 of top 5 supercomputers are running AMD, while 402 of the Top500 are running Intel.

What's the cause of this? Value? Energy-saving? Performance?

Comment AMD vs Intel (Score 1) 1

by teko_teko on Monday November 16, 2009 @02:58PM (#30119334) Attached to: Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot

It's interesting that 4 of top 5 supercomputers are running AMD, while 402 of the Top500 are running Intel.

What's the cause of this? Value? Energy-saving? Performance?

Submission + - SPAM: Two rival supercomputers duke it out for top spot 1

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday November 16, 2009 @09:35AM

alphadogg writes: A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system.
The upgraded Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge, in Tennessee, now boasts a speed of 1.759 petaflops per second from its 224,162 cores, while the IBM Roadrunner system at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico slowed slightly to 1.042 petaflops per second after it was repartitioned.The list of the Top 500 supercomputers, set to be released on Monday during the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Oregon, is compiled twice a year and is now in its 34th installment.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Toyota Develops New Flower Species to Reduce Pollu (drive.com.au)

Submitted by teko_teko on Friday October 30, 2009 @01:19PM

teko_teko writes: Toyota has created two flower species that absorb nitrogen oxides and take heat out of the atmosphere. The flowers, derivatives of the cherry sage plant and the gardenia, were specially developed for the grounds of Toyota’s Prius plant in Toyota City, Japan. The sage derivative’s leaves have unique characteristics that absorb harmful gases, while the gardenia’s leaves create water vapour in the air, reducing the surface temperature of the factory surrounds and, therefore, reducing the energy needed for cooling, in turn producing less carbon dioxide (CO2).

Submission + - Indonesian Asteroid (spaceweather.com)

Submitted by zerosomething on Friday October 30, 2009 @08:55AM

zerosomething writes: Space Weather is reporting that on Oct. 8th around 11 am local time in the coastal town of Bone, Indonesia the planet was hit by a 10 meter wide astroid. It exploded in the atmosphere "with a yield of about 50 kton of TNT". "The explosion triggered infrasound sensors of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) more than 10,000 km away,"

"The asteroid that caused the blast was not known before it hit and took astronomers completely by surprise."

Comment Re:Source? (Score 1) 239

by teko_teko on Thursday September 24, 2009 @01:34PM (#29530875) Attached to: Google Brings Chrome Renderer, Speedy Javascript To IE

But where can I get the source code of the plugin itself? (I mean, not the rendering engine for this plugin, but the IE plugin part that glues it to IE)
Can't find it in the Google Code page.

Follow the links on the Chromium project: http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome_frame/

Submission + - Read news fast with Google Fast Flip (blogspot.com)

Submitted by teko_teko on Monday September 14, 2009 @07:39PM

teko_teko writes: One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. What we need instead is a way to flip through articles really fast without unnatural delays, just as we can in print. The flow should feel seamless and let you rapidly flip forward to the content you like, without the constant wait for things to load. Today, Google introduces the latest addition to Google Labs: Google Fast Flip.

Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. Mobile version of Fast Flip is also available for Android-powered devices and the iPhone.

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