Comment Re:Only on Windows Apparently (Score 1) 157
Runs fine on my Ubuntu box with latest chrome.
Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power 181
mdsolar writes in with news about a new wind-energy project off the coast of Fukushima. "A project to harness the power of the wind about 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Fukushima, site of the March 2011 nuclear disaster, began generating power on an operational basis today. The project, funded by the government and led by Marubeni Corp. (8002), is a symbol of Japan's ambition to commercialize the unproven technology of floating offshore wind power and its plan to turn quake-ravaged Fukushima into a clean energy hub. 'Fukushima is making a stride toward the future step by step,' Yuhei Sato, governor of Fukushima, said today at a ceremony in Fukushima marking the project's initiation. 'Floating offshore wind is a symbol of such a future.'"
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Artist Jean 'Moebius' Giraud Dies At 73 64
Dr Herbert West writes:
"According to io9, 'Today is an incredibly sad day for fans of comic books, concept art, and downright anything science fiction. Artist Jean 'Moebius' Giraud, who provided some of the most stunning scifi and fantasy art ever to grace a page, has succumbed to illness at the age of 73.' It's pretty hard to overstate the impact he had on film, comic books, and illustration in general. You can name most any fantasy or science fiction related piece of culture from the last 30 or 40 years, and chances are he provided concept art for it or was involved in some way. Alien, Dune, Heavy Metal, Tron (original AND the new one), The Abyss, Masters of the Universe, The Fifth Element, Willow... the list goes on. With the recent passing of Ralph McQuarrie, it's been a tough week for scifi and fantasy artists."
Comment Re:Thank god we still have Radio Shack (Score 2) 491
I do design of some telco electronics, and we only use tantalums. After we figured out you have to double the voltage rating, we have not had a single tantalum failure in 6 years. Before then we had a few flashy failures.
Comment Re:Scheduled to end.... (Score 1) 556
Think you're mixing up your percentages. E85 = 85% Ethanol (15% gasoline). There is no such thing as E90. You are probably thinking of 90% Gasoline and 10%Ethanol (also known as E10).
Book Review: CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development
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Michael J. Ross writes "For decades, programmers have written computer code in one language, and then programmatically translated that code into another, lower-level form (typically machine code that can be run directly by a microprocessor, or some sort of bytecode that can be interpreted by a virtual machine). For instance, source code written in C or C++ is compiled and assembled into machine code. In web programming, there are emerging languages and other tools for translating code into JavaScript. For instance, Google Web Toolkit allows the programmer to create web apps in Java. The latest addition to this category is CoffeeScript, a language that can be compiled into JavaScript, and is intended to reduce source code size and clutter by incorporating some of the best operators from other Web scripting languages, particularly Ruby. It is also the topic of a new tutorial, CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development." Read on to learn what Michael thinks of this book.
Comment Re:Lol (Score 1) 614
This particular school district has 300 students. So $50.000 divided over 300 students is $167 per student, not exactly pocket change (or if it is, I'd like to be where that is pocket change).
Comment Re:Where do I sign up? (Score 3, Interesting) 250
As a H1B, no, you are not eligible for social security.
(Taxation without representation?)
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 332
I have a unicomp model M (typing this). It is exactly like a IBM Model M. I believe Unicom bought the molds from IBM once upon a time.
Comment Re:Cue "Windows Sucks" comments in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (Score 1) 393
in 0x00000003, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x00000000, 0x80000000, 0x80000001, 0x80000002..... Huh.... the other one makes more sense (3, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2...) as it would be what you got if you decrement a 32bit int: 0x00000003, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x00000000, 0xffffffff, 0xfffffffe, 0xfffffffd
Comment Re:"Not for ________ use" (Score 1) 422
Which is why, when you do use tantalums, you use ones that are specced at twice the voltage you expect over them.
We've used tantalums in some telecom equipment we make, and except for about 5 spectacular failures (explosions, fireballs) on some early prototypes (because of wrong part numbers and such), we've never seen a failure in almost 7 years.
We could not have used electrolytic caps as they would not have survived as long.
BTW: reverse voltage an electrolyte, and witness the explosion (and foul smell) also.... Used to do that to scare people in electronics class.....
Of course, if we redesigned now, I'd probably change out some of the tantalums with ceramic caps.
Comment Re:Diesel and window defogging (Score 1) 687
My family has diesels in Norway (German Fords, 1.8L TDI). Latitude approximately Anchorage AK.
The cars have a secondary heat turbine that is used as a engine heater to get the engine to starting temperature in the morning, and to INCREASE the coolant temperature if it is too low.
The cool thing is that this turbine has its own timer so you basically have a mobile block heater with you at all times...
Comment Re:Standardized Humor (Score 1) 359
Joke #404 - Not Found...
Comment Re:Heh (Score 2, Funny) 1131
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Comment Slickedit (Score 1) 1131
SlickEdit is probably the best GUI text editor I've used.
And it runs on Linux....
If not accessible (cause it is not free nor cheap), I use vim.
