Hitokiri Battousai - Slashdot User

Submission + - AMD demonstrates "Teraflop in a box"

Submitted by UncleFluffy on Thursday March 01, 2007 @04:04AM

UncleFluffy writes: AMD gave a sneak preview of their upcoming R600 GPU today. The demo system was a single PC with two R600 cards running streaming computing tasks at just over 1 Teraflop. This beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years.

Submission + - Some SF Schools Banning Homework

Submitted by

theodp

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @01:49AM

theodp writes: "Alarmed by indicators of student stress like cheating and substance abuse, some SF Bay Area schools are reducing an education staple: homework. Homework is mostly banned at Menlo Park's Oak Knoll School, but some teachers apparently have higher 'expections' [sic]."

Submission + - How the Web Almost Never Was

Submitted by

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @10:12PM

An anonymous reader writes: I remember in the early 1990's when the web was being developed; Yahoo! was only 1 page, and there was believed to be only 100 web pages (not sites) in the whole world. The web had no ad banners, no PPC, and no commercial use. Domain name registration was free. Everyone believed the Internet was primarily used by college students. Some groups, like the RIAA, claimed the web & FTP sites were primarily used to transfer illegal music and therefor the world wide web should be shut down. This true story parallels the RIAA's current campaign against P2P sites, and explains why P2P technology (such as DNS) is necessary for the future of the web.

Submission + - Simple computation using dominos

Submitted by on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @08:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: When silicon fails to beat Moores law, maybe dominos can help. This guy has created a half adder in dominos as a proof of concept for domino computation. If he intends to make a full domino computer he's going to need an awful lot of dominos...

Submission + - Boston Bomb-Squad Strikes Again

Submitted by Brian on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @03:39PM

Brian writes: Boston Police discover (and destroy) the latest pseudo-threat. This time it's not an animated LED sign, but something far, far more nasty — A Traffic Counter. You know, the little boxes that the city (!) places on a roadside to measure the number of cars that pass in a given amount of time. Wow.

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