Comment Re:I'm not trying to troll, I swear (Score 1) 281
I strongly agree. It's nonsense to rip someone apart for asking a legitimate question in a relevant place in order to gain knowledge...
Submission + - Photoshop to release free online version
scobrown writes: "iTWire — Photoshop online within six months
Adobe is going to create a software-as-a-service version of photoshop that it will initially be offering for free. It should be available within 6 months. It is supposed to be ad supported... but we'll see how long that lasts"
Submission + - Sony and Nintendo Make the Emulators of the Year
Croakyvoice writes: Sony and Nintendo are the arch enemies of Emulation with both over the years doing
their upmost to stop it, just ask the creators of Bleem and VGS. But this year
both companies have released what are the very best emulators of easily the last year, Sony`s Full speed PS1 Emulator for the PSP and Nintendo`s range of emulators for the Wii.
Submission + - Data-storing bacteria could last millenia
PetManimal writes: "Computerworld has a story about a new technology developed by Keio University researchers that creates artificial bacterial DNA that can carry more than 100 bits of data within the genome sequence. The researchers claimed that they encoded "e= mc2 1905!" on the common soil bacteria, Bacillius subtilis. The bacteria-based data storage method has backup and long-term archival functionality:
"While the technology would most likely first be used to track medication, it could also be used to store text and images for many millennia, thwarting the longevity issues associated with today's disk and tape storage systems... The artificial DNA that carries the data to be preserved makes multiple copies of the DNA and inserts the original as well as identical copies into the bacterial genome sequence. The multiple copies work as backup files to counteract natural degradation of the preserved data, according to the newswire. Bacteria have particularly compact DNA, which is passed down from generation to generation. The information stored in that DNA can also be passed on for long-term preservation of large data files, the scientists said.
