Comment Good for bitcoin (Score 4, Insightful) 297
good in the sense it is gaining legitimacy..
Submission + - SpaceX: Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles (lwn.net)
jrepin writes: "On day two of the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference, Robert Rose of SpaceX spoke about the "Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles". In his talk, he discussed how SpaceX develops its Linux-based software for a wide variety of tasks needed to put spacecraft into orbit—and eventually beyond. Linux runs everywhere at SpaceX, he said, on everything from desktops to spacecraft."
Comment Re:Many years ago.... (Score 1) 395
woosh.....
Comment Re:Get closer (Score 1) 395
still information has to travel from one end to the other (to get informationfrom one exchange and place an order on the other) irrespective of where you are located on the path..
Submission + - World's first 'tax' on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (bbc.com) 1
vasanth writes: The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world's first "tax" on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.
Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm's site.
Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".
The charge is set to 6.8% — 0.1% for every month since the IE7 launch.
Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm's site.
Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".
The charge is set to 6.8% — 0.1% for every month since the IE7 launch.
Submission + - Indian company creates steel jobs in the US (moneycontrol.com)
vasanth writes: A top Obama Administration official on Thursday praised Tata Steel an Indian company as a shining example of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States that has created jobs in the economy.
Is this going to b a future trend where we will see more and more companies from India and China investing in the US?
Is this going to b a future trend where we will see more and more companies from India and China investing in the US?
Comment At a very basic level.. (Score 1) 339
I do not want to directly oppose some of the misguided views here but I see a lot of hatred for HFT, finance etc but at a very basic level there should be no regulation or hindrance for 2 ppl to exchange value (trade) as long as they believe they are deriving some value out of the transaction they are being part of even if others believe that the transaction is of no benefit (after all who can decide what's of benefit or not).. The idea of trade (any form of trade or barter) from an individual perspective is not for the betterment of society but for their own good but the unintended consequence is advantageous to society as a whole..
People might hate globalisation, free flow of capital etc but there is no denying that the onslaught of globalisation has reduced global poverty but I agree this has been at the price of increased inequality... Increased inequality in my opinion is better than all being equally poor... And for ppl who would disagree that global poverty has reduced just check world bank data on all statistics such as nutrition, health care, life span, access to electricity, telecommunication etc and you will see all there has been a remarkable rise in these factor over the last 30 years all over the world...
Submission + - Laser puts record data rate through fibre (bbc.co.uk) 1
vasanth writes: Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using a single laser: 26 terabits per second.
At those speeds, the entire Library of Congress collections could be sent down an optical fibre in 10 seconds.
The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.
At those speeds, the entire Library of Congress collections could be sent down an optical fibre in 10 seconds.
The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.
Submission + - Scientists aim to improve photosynthesis (cam.ac.uk)
vasanth writes: "Two new initiatives at the University of Cambridge aim to address the growing demand on the Earth’s resources for food and fuel by improving the process of photosynthesis.
Four transatlantic research teams – two of which include academics from Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences – will explore ways to overcome limitations in photosynthesis which could then lead to ways of significantly increasing the yield of important crops for food production or sustainable bioenergy.
Despite the fact that photosynthesis is the basis of energy capture from the sun in plants, algae and other organisms, it has some fundamental limitations. There are trade-offs in nature which mean that photosynthesis is not as efficient as it could be – for many important crops such as wheat, barley, potatoes and sugar beet, the theoretical maximum is only 5%, depending on how it is measured. There is scope to improve it for processes useful to us, for example increasing the amount of food crop or energy biomass a plant can produce from the same amount of sunlight."
Four transatlantic research teams – two of which include academics from Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences – will explore ways to overcome limitations in photosynthesis which could then lead to ways of significantly increasing the yield of important crops for food production or sustainable bioenergy.
Despite the fact that photosynthesis is the basis of energy capture from the sun in plants, algae and other organisms, it has some fundamental limitations. There are trade-offs in nature which mean that photosynthesis is not as efficient as it could be – for many important crops such as wheat, barley, potatoes and sugar beet, the theoretical maximum is only 5%, depending on how it is measured. There is scope to improve it for processes useful to us, for example increasing the amount of food crop or energy biomass a plant can produce from the same amount of sunlight."
Journal Journal: Glee and Fox 2
Glee sucks and so does Fox.
Could they have advertised that piece of garbage programming any more during the Super Bowl?
Could they have advertised that piece of garbage programming any more during the Super Bowl?
Comment Re:That's a non-sequatar (Score 1) 826
So substituting a global tribalism for a local tribalism is better?
Yes it is better because in case of lobal tribalism, the other tribe is probably Martian and not human.
Comment wikileaks? (Score 3, Interesting) 167
wonder if wikileaks was the proverbial flap of a butterfly's wing??
Comment Re:Wait, carbon trading wasn't a scam to BEGIN wit (Score 0) 228
let me guess, you have never been to any sort of economics class ever.
Comment Re:Wait, carbon trading wasn't a scam to BEGIN wit (Score 1) 228
It really does not matter who you give these credits, it will work as long as there is not an oversupply of them...
Let’s say my dog is given some carbon credits, and company 'A' that's polluting would be willing to pay my dog for those 10 credits as long as it is cheaper than the cost of reducing pollution... Now let’s say the cost of reducing pollution is 11$ for that company and they paid my dog 10$ to buy those credits to continue polluting...
Now let’s say company B came along and their cost of reducing pollution is 13$, this company would be more than happy to pay 12$ to company A to buy those credits. Company A would now be happy to use $11 to actually implement technology to reduce emission and make a profit of 1$ through trading...
Yes giving credit to the wrong people in the first place means some unworthy ppl make some money but the system as a whole will still function as long as there is not an oversupply of these credits...
Submission + - Tata Set to Launch World's Cheapest Car
theodp writes: "Ready for one-automobile-per-child (OAPC)? India's giant Tata Group is on the verge of launching the world's cheapest car. The People's Car, slated to be unveiled January 10th at a New Delhi auto show, will carry a sticker price of 100,000 rupees ($2,500), which some analysts say could revolutionize automobile costs worldwide. The cheap car, a pet project of Cornell-trained architect Ratan Tata that he helped design, is aimed at improving driving safety by getting India's masses off their motorbikes and into cars."
