Comment So... (Score 1) 211
They built Funnybot? Do we have to worry about it exterminating the human race?
Comment Re:Triple Play? (Score 1) 195
You might want to add for the US readership that those 60 minutes you have on your mobile plan are outgoing; incoming calls and texts are free.
I just subcscribed to Bouygues' "Bbox Sensation Fibre": 37.90 EUR/month for a FTTLA bundle with TV, unlimited international & mobile phone, 30 (effective in my case) Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. I have catch-up TV, a media center with USB and SD inputs, DVR, modem, Wi-Fi router and video games all in one box. It's not the cheapest but I didn't have a landline (and no will to get one), and cable works beautifully where I live.
Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene 303
An anonymous reader writes "Graphene once again proves that it is quite possibly the most miraculous material known to man, this time by making saltwater drinkable. The process was developed by a group of MIT researchers who realized that graphene allowed for the creation of an incredibly precise sieve. Basically, the regular atomic structure of graphene means that you can create holes of any size, for example the size of a single molecule of water. Using this process scientist can desalinate saltwater 1,000 times faster than the Reverse Osmosis technique."
Comment Re:Good news for AAPL investors (Score 2) 310
since Windows for x86 is apparently cheaper, simply cut a bloody swath through ARM devices and lead Intel to sell a bunch of Atoms...
Especially considering Intel now has their Medfield Atom processor going head-to-head with ARM smartphones. This single-core chip is faster than a lot of dual-core ARM SoCs, if not most, and sips just as much juice.
Intel's Medfield & Atom Z2460 Arrive for Smartphones: It's Finally Here
Lava Xolo X900 Review - The First Intel Medfield Phone - Performance
Comment So, if I get this correctly... (Score 5, Insightful) 366
This article compares Apple, a hardware maker, with Google and Android, who provides software to hardware makers? How is that a fair comparison?
Submission + - Shortcuts to a High Tech House
phaedrus9779 writes: I'm a recently married man about to take on the next big adventure: home ownership! I came across a great house in a great community but I need a little bit extra: a high tech house. The problem: money, I'm on a budget. I'd love to have home theaters, super high tech weather stations and iPads seamlessly installed in all the walls — but this just isn't possible. So my question to the Slashdot community is: how can I build a high tech house that will be the envy of my friends, provide lots of useful gadgets, and not break the bank?
Also, as always, the cooler the better!
Also, as always, the cooler the better!
Comment Re:I like this (Score 5, Insightful) 116
Seeing how the target demographic of that package is mostly MBAs, I think it works out pretty well.
Comment I like this (Score 2) 116
This actually looks nice for a prototype! The data is well laid out. This is probably the first app that convinced me that Metro might work out in the end.
Comment Re:no surprise (Score 1) 381
I think this is what they may aim for, with
If I got this correctly, you could just use managed
Museum Helps Domesday Reloaded Project 70
purehavnet writes "For many months the volunteers at the Centre for Computing History have been working on capturing and preserving the data from the BBC Domesday System. A complete set of data from the community disc was supplied to the BBC, who have now released the Domesday Reloaded project. This allows most of the community data from the original system to be viewed online."
Comment Re:The numbers are wrong (wild guess) (Score 5, Informative) 486
NATO aircrafts have OTAN printed on it because the two official languages used in NATO are English and French. OTAN means Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord.
Comment Re:Why... (Score 1) 239
Facebook would be a good example of this. In IE, rendering time allows the full page with images to be loaded before displaying it. I used to have up to 70% of my CPU eaten by IE7 trying to display the page (just to resituate, this was on an Eee PC 701). Chrome on the other hand displays the page much faster, and images are still loading after the page render. CPU utilization was also lower, hovering around 20%.
I did not time both browsers and I don't have my Eee anymore. But I think it is (or was) a good example of a Javascript heavy website.
Gmail is also a good example of a Javascript-loaded website.
Comment How about Robogeisha? (Score 1) 277
How about Robogeisha? Is she safe?
Comment Re:one time CC numbers (Score 1) 367
I don't know about elsewhere, but this exists in France already. It's called e-Carte Bleue. You have a program on your computer, you enter an amount of money, you press generate. It calls back your bank, asks for authorization and responds back with a one-time CC number. While it doesn't work absolutely everywhere, it's damn useful to test out stuff. It costs not much IIRC, I don't use it that much these days (I only buy from trusted sources)...
Of course, you cannot book tickets you have to retrieve at the station/airport with this, but it's the most convenient system I found yet.
Of course, you cannot book tickets you have to retrieve at the station/airport with this, but it's the most convenient system I found yet.
Open Source Malware Search Engine 123
chr0.ot writes "Metasploit creator HD Moore has released an open-source search engine that finds live malware samples through Google queries. From the article: 'The new Malware Search project provides a Web interface that allows anyone to enter the name of a known virus or Trojan and find Google results for Web sites hosting malicious executables.' The tool then searches for actual malware signatures and uses the signature output from ClamAV to find the name of the malware. This is then used in conjunction with a PE signature matching method to form a Google query. Afterwards the malware can then be downloaded directly from Google."
