2themax - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Get rid of the penny? pff (Score 1) 444

by 2themax on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @12:37AM (#36523948) Attached to: Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money

I'm guessing you're North American? Pretty much the rest of the world sensibly includes tax in the displayed price.

Comment Re:Still too pricey per gig for mass storage (Score 1) 165

by 2themax on Monday March 28, 2011 @08:59PM (#35647056) Attached to: Intel Replaces Consumer SSD Line, Nixes SLC-SSD

Which is why you get a real ATX motherboard with 4 (or 6 for upper class Intel) slots rather than a little microATX board with no expansion capability.

Every microATX motherboard I've seen in the last couple of years has four RAM slots. Both AMD and Intel.

Comment Re:"Thunderbolt SATA bus interfaces"? (Score 1) 197

by 2themax on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @01:08AM (#35344992) Attached to: Intel Unveils SSDs With 6Gbit/Sec Throughput

Yes, somebody is probably confused, but I think we will eventually see hard drive enclosures with a Thunderbolt port on the outside and a PCI-e to SATA 3.0 bridge chip inside.

Comment Re:"real holography" (Score 5, Informative) 112

by 2themax on Saturday January 29, 2011 @06:42PM (#35044988) Attached to: A Kinect Princess Leia Hologram In Realtime

The article linked to in the article http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/video-holography-0124.html explains the actual holographic video generation part in more detail. They are using arrays of lasers to make fringe/interference patterns. This IS "real holography", just very low resolution and framerate.

Comment Standardization of Laptop LCD Interfaces (Score 1) 356

by 2themax on Thursday December 09, 2010 @10:20AM (#34500076) Attached to: Goodbye, VGA

Hopefully this will mean that it will one day be possible to swap a laptop LCD with another one from a completely different manufacturer.

Right now every laptop manufacturer seems to use different electrical configurations, connectors and EDID.

Comment Re:MMMMMMM! Origami! (Score 1) 84

by 2themax on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @09:10AM (#32729484) Attached to: Programmable Origami

Imagine a computer with hardware that literally reforms its self to accomplish new tasks on the fly.

Reconfigurable computing is already possible with FPGAs. You can't go and buy commodity x86-type hardware such as CPUs or GPUs just yet, but "soon" (sooner than practical nuclear fusion, later than DNF) it will happen.

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