Comment One question... (Score 1) 93
Will our Avatars be able to change genders on the fly? I mean, in my social group I would be myself, but on WoW where I play hot elf..er...manly ogre...
Submission + - New processor handles trillions of calculations
coondoggie writes: "The prototype of a revolutionary general-purpose computer processor, which has the potential of reaching trillions of calculations per second and handling massive applications, was unveiled by a team of computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin today.The new processor, known as TRIPS (Tera-op, Reliable, Intelligently adaptive Processing System), could be used to accelerate industrial, consumer and scientific computing, the group said in a statement. Each TRIPS chip contains two processing cores, each of which can issue 16 operations per cycle with up to 1,024 instructions in flight simultaneously. Current high-performance processors are typically designed to sustain a maximum execution rate of four operations per cycle.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1445 8"
Submission + - China, piracy, and Spiderman 3
canipeal writes: "As if the US wasn't already angry enough over widespread piracy in China, it's being reported today that the country's infamous movie pirates have unleashed a $1 bootleg copy of Spiderman 3, a movie which is reported to have cost over $500 million dollars to make — the most expensive movie ever made."
Submission + - Linux to sponsor a car at the Indy 500
Davidian1024 writes: "Tux, the cherubic penguin mascot of the Linux computer operating system has just taken up residence on the front nose of the Chastain Motorsports Panoz / Honda Indy car. Driver, Stephan Gregoire, and team owner, Tom Chastain, applied the ceremonial first decal yesterday to the distinctive two-tone blue, 225 mph Indy racer that Gregoire will pilot for this year's 91st running of the famed Indianapolis 500 mile race on May 27, 2007."
Judge Says RIAA "Disingenuous," Decision Stands 195
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Judge Lee R. West in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has rejected the arguments made by the RIAA in support of its 'reconsideration' motion in Capitol v. Foster as 'disingenuous' and 'not true,' and accused the RIAA of 'questionable motives.' The decision (PDF) reaffirmed Judge West's earlier decision that defendant Debbie Foster is entitled to be reimbursed for her attorneys fees." Read more for NewYorkCountryLawyer's summary of the smackdown.
Feed Appeals court: Vonage can sign up new customers, for now (com.com)
Blog: A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted Vonage a second reprieve in its attempts to continue to sign up customers while a patent...
Submission + - EFF lawyer warns of e-learning patent dangers
flakeman2 writes: "There's a new schoolyard bully."
Feed Principal sues ex-students over MySpace profiles (com.com)
Administrator claims four students who allegedly posted parody profiles to the social-networking site bruised his reputation.
Submission + - Bastille Linux: Introduction and installation
JaneWalkek6847 writes: "Bastille Linux is an automated security tool, ideal for cross-platform environments. Get started here with an introduction and instructions for installation."
Submission + - 0.57721 to the Max
lugannerd writes: Northwestern University student Alex Yee recently set a world record by doing his homework.
Using his laptop computer, Yee earned the math equivalent of an Olympic medal for calculating the Euler-Mascheroni Constant to more that 116 million decimal places, shattering the old record of 108 million.
Article in the Chicago trib => http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-07040 80373apr09,1,409043.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Submission + - SPAM: Wal-Mart engineer firing is backfiring
alphadogg writes: "The ugly story of a Wal-Mart firing of an engineer and the story he has to tell about the big retailer's questionable security practices.
[spam URL stripped]a rt-surveillance-employees.html"
Feed Galaxy's 'wunderkind' stars may actually be old pro's (pheedo.com)
The 'baby' stars that appear to have been born impossibly close to the Milky Way's black hole could instead be ancient interlopers with a youthful glow
Feed Mac 911: Encoding for Apple TV (macworld.com)
Feed News: Don't believe the hype: The 21 biggest IT flops (macworld.com)
Submission + - Is the Internet Ready to Break?
DebNY writes: The rapid rise of Web video and broadband net access "may overwhelm some of the Internet's backbones" in 2007, while "ISPs may struggle to keep pace with demand." So says a study from the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) group at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. But reports of the Internet's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated, says Ed Cone of CIO Insight. "An Internet that is broken or seriously impaired at its core would obviously be bad for business in all kinds of ways...but as in the case of the most notorious prognostication of impending disaster, made in 1995 by Ethernet co-inventor Robert Metcalfe, the doom seers seem likely to eat their words. In fact, the supply of available bandwidth, especially at the core of the net, looks healthier than the pessimists would have it — or even bother to support with hard numbers when pressed to defend their arguments."
