Comment Re:Better than Jesus... (Score 2) 103
But, this does turn water into a _whine_ when expelling it but it's just that you can't hear it in space
Comment Re:Embrace, Extend and Extinguish (Score 1) 17
An article that expresses the same skepticism:
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=5A2C0BF6-9626-6CF9-119A812483E44613
Comment Embrace, Extend and Extinguish (Score 1) 17
Is not a strategy unique to Microsoft. Cisco proves that it can also play the game. Cisco is likely the biggest loser if SDN takes off in a big way. This is Cisco's way of making sure they're in the play with their proprietary extensions.
Submission + - Is "Left" vs. "Right" hard-coded into your brains? (smithsonianmag.com) 2
kyjellyfish writes: Research published in the journal PLOS ONE (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/02/study-predicts-political-beliefs-with-83-percent-accuracy/?utm_source=smithsoniantopic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20130217-Weekender), suggests that your parents "Left" or "Right" party affiliations are not the only factor at work shaping a person’s political identity. Differences in opinion between "Lefty's" and "Righty's" may reflect specific physiological processes, and claim that politics isn’t the only influence causing structural changes in the brain. In research performed over 10 years ago, brain scans showed that London cab drivers’ gray matter grew larger to help them store a mental map of the city.
Submission + - Researchers develop computer that doesn't crash (pcpro.co.uk) 2
nk497 writes: "Researchers at University College London are working on a computer that can repair itself to prevent crashes – instantly recovering and fixing corrupted data. The researchers said that their computer combines its instructions with the data it receives so that it can adapt the instructions to match changing circumstances, by sending data sets off to separate "systems" within the computer. The result is that instead of crashing and rendering a screen of death, the system accesses the data from another of its self-contained systems to perform the operation, and then goes back and corrects the corrupt data.
"Its processes are distributed, decentralised and probabilistic. And they are fault tolerant, able to heal themselves,” said UCL computer scientist Peter Bentley. "A computer should be able to do that.""
"Its processes are distributed, decentralised and probabilistic. And they are fault tolerant, able to heal themselves,” said UCL computer scientist Peter Bentley. "A computer should be able to do that.""
Comment Re:I've done management and all that stuff... (Score 1) 317
Been there done that too. I am 40 and don't plan on getting back to management.
Comment Re:For better or for worse... (Score 1) 125
I wish I had mod points, not that it would've made a difference since you're already at score 5. You made my day
Submission + - Linaro speeds up Android (liliputing.com)
Argon writes: "From the article:
"The folks behind the Linaro open source software project have put a little time into tweaking Google Android to use the gcc 4.7 toolchain. The result is a version of Android that can perform many tasks between 30 and 100 percent faster than the version of Android Google 4.0 Google currently offers through the AOSP (Android Open Source Project)."
Note that there are CPU optimizations only since they have only access to binary blobs for GPU code."
"The folks behind the Linaro open source software project have put a little time into tweaking Google Android to use the gcc 4.7 toolchain. The result is a version of Android that can perform many tasks between 30 and 100 percent faster than the version of Android Google 4.0 Google currently offers through the AOSP (Android Open Source Project)."
Note that there are CPU optimizations only since they have only access to binary blobs for GPU code."
Comment Why be offended if your boss asks for the code (Score 1) 469
Just ask him to check it out of the source code repository? You have one don't you
Comment Re:C too complex? Hilarious. (Score 1) 878
> hmm... did you miss the part where the guy also bitched that interpreted languages are "too slow"?
You know "the guy", happens to be Rob Pike, _the_ Rob Pike, co-author of the "Unix Programming Environment" classic? Also the "Practice of Programming" book and the co-creator of UTF-8. He also wrote one of the first C style guides: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html. I'd say he knows a thing or two about programming languages; especially C.
Submission + - I believe in God
Comment Prices in India (Score 1) 727
This is what I could find after a few minutes of googling.
http://www.widexindia.com/Products/Widex%20hearing%20aids/Price%20lists.aspx
For US$ conversion, divide by 50. So approx $200 for the cheapest one but only two channels. The most expensive ones run to $3000.
Ganesan
Comment One more Linux "platform"? (Score 1) 162
OMiGo might've been a better name
Comment Re:Sounds like a coal industry shill (Score 1) 403
Which scientist has admitted that it was speculation and not supported by formal research.
There's also a rumor that that the date was a typo (2350 vs 2035). Granted, even 2350 is worrying and we should be certainly doing something about it. But this kind of hyperbole, doesn't do much to the credibility of climate "scientists".
Comment Brain (Score 1) 1007
If you're using a tool, you're no longer "remembering"
