Comment Re:Mercury in a Bulb with Wires on a Spring (Score 1) 402
My exact system.
Comment Re:Old Windows Programs Still Demand an "A Drive" (Score 1) 505
Map a network drive to A:
Comment Re:More than 10 years ago? (Score 1) 505
Don't expect to ever recover any files from an LS-120 disk. I had the misfortune of an encounter with such a device, all the disks were dead within 5-10 uses.
Comment Re:Never! (Score 1) 505
You could've just formatted to double density, no need to cover the hole.
World's Smallest Superconductor Discovered 72
arcticstoat writes "One of the barriers to the development of nanoscale electronics has potentially been eliminated, as scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor. Made up of four pairs of molecules, and measuring just 0.87nm, the superconductor could potentially be used as a nanoscale interconnect in electronic devices, but without the heat and power dissipation problems associated with standard metal conductors."
Comment Re:I've lost my idenity, can I have a new one? (Score 3, Interesting) 291
Their passports have not been stolen, they still have the originals in their possession. The passports used for the assassination were counterfeits.
Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221
Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."
An Open Source Compiler From CUDA To X86-Multicore 71
Gregory Diamos writes "An open source project, Ocelot, has recently released a just-in-time compiler for CUDA, allowing the same programs to be run on NVIDIA GPUs or x86 CPUs and providing an alternative to OpenCL. A description of the compiler was recently posted on the NVIDIA forums. The compiler works by translating GPU instructions to LLVM and then generating native code for any LLVM target. It has been validated against over 100 CUDA applications. All of the code is available under the New BSD license."
Comment Re:Can't predict future (Score 1) 444
No, you sound like a jackass if you say two thousand and nine, instead of twenty oh nine
Comment Re:4 tens is awfully nice (Score 1) 287
meh, I do 5 twelves every week, sometimes more
Comment Re:Why no USB support in car stereos for music? (Score 3, Informative) 316
You obviously haven't investigated the state of car stereos in the past 5 years. There's plenty available with capability to play MP3 from USB memory.
Comment Re:Why wireless? (Score 1) 569
I've witnessed that, and I found it to be sheer crap, not beauty. Give me a MS Natural keyboard and Bluetooth mouse any day. The "Mighty" mouse is too touchy, if you have a finger resting anywhere on the left hand side it thinks every click is a left-click, and it just doesn't have enough buttons anyway. As for the Apple keyboard, it has no number pad, which is horrible, and is also missing a whole lot of keys that Apple have just decided that you don't need, such as a delete key. Cmd-Backspace is not a decent alternative.
World's Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed 100
tugfoigel writes "Built by "Kevin" for a contest, this computer-controlled alarm clock is touted as the world's largest. To be more specific, he 'mounted a large air cylinder to the head of [his] bed and a valve, controlled by a computer, which [he programmed] to wake [him] up in the morning.'"
What Should Be In a Technology Bill of Rights? 247
snydeq writes "The Deep End's Paul Venezia argues in favor of the creation of a Technology Bill of Rights to protect individuals against malfeasance, tyranny, and exploitation in an increasingly technological age. Venezia's initial six proposed articles center on anonymity rights, net neutrality, the open-sourcing of law enforcement software and hardware, and the like. What sort of efficacy do you see such a document having, and in an ideal world, which articles do you see as imperative for inclusion in a Technology Bill of Rights?"
Comment Re:I'd go for base 12 (Score 1) 509
From experience, when unhindered by the outside world, I run at around 25 - 25.5 hours per wake/sleep cycle.
