Comment Appropriate Wear (Score 1) 837
Dress like fire fighters.
Comment Re:Google search "Go" (Score 1) 831
C+@ was essentially Smalltalk in C's clothing.
Comment Re:X11 Chromium on Mac? (Score 1) 542
Try here.
Submission + - Google OS Announced 12
shystershep writes: "Rumors have been floating around for years that Google was planning an OS to compete with Window. As of Tuesday night, it is official: "So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010." It is separate from the Android mobile OS, will run on both x86 and ARM processors, and is aimed primarily at web use. Other than that, details are scarce."
Submission + - Pirate Bay founders found guilty
Alioth writes: "The Pirate Bay founders have been found guilty in Sweden of breaking copyright law, and have been ordered to pay a fine of 30M kronor (£2.4M, US$3.6M). Peter Sunde has already defiantly replied in a Twitter posting that "Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media." The damages were awarded to a number of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia Pictures. Of course, it remains to be seen whether the Pirate Bay founders will pay up (or even have the means to pay up)."
Comment Re:Transputer? (Score 3, Interesting) 135
The transputer architecture was quite different. It wasn't SIMD but just a processor with communications links, some on-chip RAM and h/w support for CSP - a scheduler for threads (called a process in occam/transputer-land) and comms via synchronous, uni-directional channels. The scheduler and stack machine architecture made context switches very fast and communications easy. The h/w was notable that you just needed some power and a clock to get a transputer machine up and building multi-processor systems wasn't too difficult.
Comment Re:Anyone ever hear of Multics? (Score 1) 553
As for eliminating languages to prevent bad code, it's been done too
Earlier than Prime. Burroughs.
Submission + - Multi threaded programming without the pain
holden karau writes: "Gigahertz are out and cores are in. Now more than ever, programmers must begin to develop applications that takes advantage of increasing number of
cores present in computers today. However, up until now, multi-threaded development has not been easy. Researcher Stefanus Du Toit discusses and
demonstrates a software system (RapidMind) he co-authored that takes the pain away from multi-threaded programming in C++. For his demo, he created
a program on the PlayStation 3, consisting of thousands of chickens, each independently processed by a single processing core. The talk itself is
interesting, but the demo is golden."
Submission + - New Inkjet Technology 5 to 10 Times Faster
sarahbau writes: "Silverbrook's new Memjet technology can print 60 full-color pages per minute. Instead of having a print head that moves side to side like current inkjets, the print head spans the full width of the page, containing 70,400 nozzles in the A4 version. They also have a large format printer (51") that prints 6" to 1 foot per second. Products are expected to start shipping in late 2007."
Submission + - The rise of the laptop
mrbluze writes: "According to a BBC report, that laptop sales will outstrip desktop sales by 2011.
What does this imply for the future of operating system development? Do we need to place greater emphasis on instant-on systems and ergonomics than previously?"
What does this imply for the future of operating system development? Do we need to place greater emphasis on instant-on systems and ergonomics than previously?"
Submission + - Revolutionary Memjet Printer full color A4 60ppm
An anonymous reader writes: An Australian company, Silverbrook Research (http://www.silverbrookresearch.com), has revealed working examples of their new printer technology, Memjet. These printers are capable of printing full color A4 pages at 60ppm. Video of the printers in action (printing up to 1m wide) is available at: http://www.memjet.com/media.aspx
Silverbrook holds more than 1400 patents on printer technology and applies for more patents per year than any other company in Australia. It has operated in stealth mode for 13 years and now plans to licence its printer heads, control circuitry and reference designs to major printing companies worldwide. These printers will hopefully show up in stores in the next 12-18 months starting potentially from around $US199.
Silverbrook holds more than 1400 patents on printer technology and applies for more patents per year than any other company in Australia. It has operated in stealth mode for 13 years and now plans to licence its printer heads, control circuitry and reference designs to major printing companies worldwide. These printers will hopefully show up in stores in the next 12-18 months starting potentially from around $US199.
Submission + - Silverbrook's ultra-fast, low cost inkjet printer
An anonymous reader writes: Silverbrook research has created a cheap and ultra fast inkjet printer with low running costs. Using a print head that spans the entire width of the paper Silverbrook's prototype A4 printer can deliver 60 pages per minute. Printing costs are $0.02pp for black text (presumably at 5% coverage) and $0.06pp for colour (at 20% coverage), due to the generous 50mL refill cartridges that will sell for less than $20. The introductory photo printing model will cost under $300 and print at 30ppm with a 100mm wide print head that delivers ink drops smaller than one picolitre. The nearest competition is from HP at $16,000/unit.
Full article and video at:
http://www.texyt.com/silverbrook+memjet+technology +available+desktop+photo+wideformat+hp+edgeline+co mparison
The photo printing model is due out by the end of the year.
Full article and video at:
http://www.texyt.com/silverbrook+memjet+technolog
The photo printing model is due out by the end of the year.
Submission + - A $200 60ppm inkjet?
ldpercy writes: "Quoted from http://texyt.com/silverbrook+memjet+printer+inkjet +mems+lyra+canon+epson+hp+kodak:
I'm assured by a very good friend who has worked for Silverbrook here in Sydney for a few years that it is real, even though the vid looks a bit fake."A $200 desktop printer with a color printing speed of 60 A4 pages per minute is just one of the revolutionary new devices promised by Silverbrook, a company which holds more than 1400 patents, but has never released a product. Analysts from leading printer market research firm, Lyra Research Inc, showed this video of the prototype Memjet inkjet printer today, and say they have personally examined it and verified that it is real.
Submission + - Evan Prodromou on ten Web APIs you can use
dmarti writes: "One of the great outgrowths of the Web 2.0 phenomenon has been an increased availability of Web APIs — Internet-based services with an HTTP-based programming interface. Gone are the days when developers would furtively "scrape" HTML pages for data or useful information. Now major Web services make easier, stabler, and more open ways to read and modify data on their servers.
Here are some of the
more interesting and important APIs that you can use for real programming problems, either in Web applications or in desktop or server software."
