Comment Re:Weeks (Score 1) 263
Wouldn't the key be XYZZY?
Comment Re:It's Not A Bet... (Score 2) 362
I actually put up an RC of Win8. For a short period of time. All I could think of was Microsoft Bob...
Comment Bravo!! (Score 1) 205
This is all not only out of control, but INSANE! This needs to be fixed somehow, but I have little faith in the American government to even understand the problem.
Submission + - Nanodot memory smashes RAM, sets new speed record (theregister.co.uk)
CPNABEND writes: Boffins in Taiwan and the University of California predict that nanoscale CMOS memory could soon be on its way after research showed nanodot memory operating 10 to 100 times faster than current RAM. The electro-optics researchers also emphasised that they had used materials that are compatible with mainstream integrated circuit technologies...
Submission + - An Interview with Jerry Pournelle (informationweek.com)
CowboyRobot writes: "Jerry Pournelle served in the Army during the Korean War, holds masters' degrees in experimental statistics and systems engineering, and Ph.D.s in psychology and political science. He went on to work at Boeing on Project Thor, studying kinetic projectile space bombardment. But he is best known for his long-running column at BYTE, "Computing At Chaos Manor", as well as his sci-fi novels, especially those he wrote with Larry Niven, including The Mote in God's Eye and Oath of Fealty.
BYTE has a 4-part interview and series of podcasts with Pournelle, in which he discusses topics ranging from how sci-fi writers predict the future to why the Internet will never die: 1] Computers and Science Fiction, 2] ARPAnet, Totalitarianism, And Productivity, 3] Ebooks, and 4] Using Multimedia To Sell Books
"I don't believe you can predict the future. But I think you can invent it. Now that's not original with me. Dandridge Cole said it a very long time ago, and many have repeated it in one way or another. But it is true. In one sense, the Air Force invented the computer revolution because it wanted to have more accurate ballistic missiles.""
BYTE has a 4-part interview and series of podcasts with Pournelle, in which he discusses topics ranging from how sci-fi writers predict the future to why the Internet will never die: 1] Computers and Science Fiction, 2] ARPAnet, Totalitarianism, And Productivity, 3] Ebooks, and 4] Using Multimedia To Sell Books
"I don't believe you can predict the future. But I think you can invent it. Now that's not original with me. Dandridge Cole said it a very long time ago, and many have repeated it in one way or another. But it is true. In one sense, the Air Force invented the computer revolution because it wanted to have more accurate ballistic missiles.""
Submission + - Terahertz-range scanner that can see through walls (phys.org)
TheGoodNamesWereGone writes: The dawn of X-Ray Vision or hype? Also, I'm not sure that putting these things in cellphones is a good idea. Talk about a disruptive technology....
Submission + - Is your stuff secured on the Cloud?
An anonymous reader writes: If you use cloud services, do you protecting all your stuff before sending it to the remote servers? Meaning: do you rely on the encryption that the services say they use, or you do it your self using something like PGP, GnuPG or compacting tools like 7-Zip, Winzip, WinRar, or others with encryption enabled before Sync them?
Comment Re:That's Dumb (Score 5, Insightful) 213
Nope. This is "Nice place you have here... It would be a shame if something happened to it".
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 155
I swear that I saw a Discovery documentary where a guy did this same thing (From the record altitude), and broke at least MACH 1.
Comment Re:Alchemy? (Score 2) 185
I think the bigger question is, "how would you move this process to a FAB"? I don't think it will happen soon, but it seems to me we would need robotic STMs? Research is continuing... I assume.
Comment Re:Mars might be the best place to put life, thoug (Score 1) 298
Nahhh. I'm pretty sure there is a Wal~Mart there.
Comment Rain? (Score 1) 139
I think the research should continue... In Texas!
Comment Seriously... (Score 2) 379
With everything that's screwed up in this country, how did this bubble up to the top of the list?
Comment Re:Well that was neat. (Score 1) 291
Hey, on Star Trek they always found places to walk around without space suits...
Comment Re:It's a CAT-2 storm, for god's sake... (Score 1) 395
Yup, the eye is collapsing, and the wind speed is dropping,,,, But it is still 951MB
