Comment Damn market speculators. (Score 1) 112
According to reports, the plant was making GDDR5 chips, used in high memory bandwidth devices like display adapters. This clearly is a perfectly valid reason to raise the prices of DDR3.
Comment Everything is in the cloud. (Score 1) 154
Had a head crash on my work laptop on Thursday. There was no need for restoring backups in the traditional sense since all company data was on SparkleShare (company internal git repo) and the few personal documents were in Dropbox. I pulled out a new laptop, installed SparkleShare and Dropbox and was good to go.
Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town 63
mdsolar writes in with news that Goolge has released Street View pictures from inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima disaster. "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. Google, operator of the world's biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town's mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement. All of Namie's 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world's worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."
Gartner Says 3D Printers Will Cost Less Than $2,000 By 2016 170
colinneagle writes "Widespread adoption of 3D printing technology may not be that far away, according to a Gartner report predicting that enterprise-class 3D printers will be available for less than $2,000 by 2016. 3D printers are already in use among many businesses, from manufacturing to pharmaceuticals to consumers goods, and have generated a diverse set of use cases. As a result, the capabilities of the technology have evolved to meet customer needs, and will continue to develop to target those in additional markets, Gartner says."
Comment Re:Dashcams (Score 1) 253
there are a lot of Russian tourists this time of year. Most of them do drive responsibly. And I urge you to do so here abroad (we have a pretty decent police who can write accurate reports if there is an accident and are not for sale) as well as home.
They drive responsibly abroad because breaking the law will get their visa revoked.
Comment Re:Contacting Server... (Score 1) 238
Now that you mentioned it, I just noticed that Chrome gave an error message I hadn't noticed before:
Other users are also experiencing difficulties connecting to this site, so you may have to wait a few minutes.
The real news, however, might be that someone on Slashdot uses a browser that actively spies its users' browsing habits.
Comment No big news. (Score 1) 137
Somehow this doesn't come as a surprise, as Samsung announced just a week ago that they'll open a new R&D site at the Aalto University campus in Otaniemi. Samsung would've been bankrupt by the end of the year had they offered the MSc (Tech) undergrads all the spirits they can handle.
Comment Old meets new (Score 1) 160
The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE has adapted the well-aged teletext service for modern purposes by providing real-time Twitter commentary of ongoing muncipal election debates.
Earlier this year they allowed people to post their own pixel art.
Comment Re:Like the multi-user features (Score 1) 307
Kindle has a nice idea of how the device can be used in a family, where the parents can control time spent by kids.
Yeah, books teach kids revolutionist ideas so it's better to reduce their exposure to any potentially dangerous material.
Comment Re:The one true way to allocate white space (Score 2) 25
4 space indents, no tabstops
4 is wasteful, only two is needed an gives a nice alignment with the above code.
That's why you both ought to be using tabstops after all. It lets everyone use the indentation level they are most comfortable with.
If you worry about crossing the magical 80 character column width limit, don't. Those folks who care about it are the same who use 2 space indentation anyway.
Submission + - Stanford researchers discover the 'anternet' (stanford.edu)
stoilis writes: "A collaboration between Deborah Gordon, a Stanford ant biologist, and Balaji Prabhakar, a computer scientist, has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants, as they forage for food, mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.
The work is published in the Aug. 23 issue of PLoS Computational Biology."
The work is published in the Aug. 23 issue of PLoS Computational Biology."
Submission + - Dropbox adds two-factor authentication (computerworld.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "File-sharing service Dropbox is now offering two-factor authentication, a system that makes it much harder for hackers to capture valid credentials for a person's account. Dropbox, one of the most widely used web-based storage services, said last month it planned on introducing two-factor authentication after user names and passwords were stolen from another website and used to access accounts."
Comment Re:Is it worth it? (Score 1) 109
Altho i'm loathe to use the word/admit it
No you don't. Damn hipsters!
Comment Ubuntu has already done this, sort of (Score 4, Interesting) 262
Mr. Shuttleworth has already been offering Ubuntu desktop on Android phones for phone vendors. I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work for laptops.
Comment Re:What about Google driverless car? (Score 5, Interesting) 603
Back in my Finnish Air Force days I talked to a captain who had flown the F-18C in his last three active flight years. He told that when you're straight and level in the Hornet and peek over your shoulder you probably see the ailerons swaying back and forth as the computer tries to keep the plane stable.
