Comment Re:Microsoft Security Essentuals (Score 1) 318
What i changed over to last night when AVG broke my machine, lol.
Comment Re:Why directors shouldn't resist... (Score 1) 521
He's not so much talking about supertrendyshakycam, as much as he is talking about a director not being able to, for instance: put a cameraman in a passanger seat for a shot in a car. pan through a window to the people talking inside. look at a set, decide that he'd rather shoot from a different angle, and move everything in a reasonable amount of time. oh, I'm pretty sure you could do supertrendyshakycam with 3D, too.
Comment Re:The internet says "Prince is over" (Score 1) 450
Lemmy says the best stuff on stage. last time i saw him, he walked out on stage, said "we're Motorhead. we play rock and roll." and started playing.
Comment Re:First Picher, then Treece (Score 1) 260
I believe your're missing his point. i think he means you should buy a bunch of people out of their homes in Cardin at dirt cheap prices, then clean up when the EPA pays you Fair Market Value for all those houses.
Submission + - Light's Repulsive Force Discovered
Aurispector writes: An article on LiveScience says a newly discovered repulsive aspect to light could one day control telecommunications devices with greater speed and less power. The discovery could lead to nanodevices controlled by light rather than electricity.
"The discovery was made by splitting infrared light into two beams that each travel on a different length of silicon nanowire, called a waveguide. The two light beams became out of phase with one another, creating a push, or repulsive force, with an intensity that can be controlled; the more out of phase the two light beams, the stronger the force."
As an added bonus, nerds may no longer need LED's to trick out their custom gaming rigs!
Comment Re:Catering to SMEs (Score 1) 218
in reply to your bullet points:
1. I've already done this a few times. there is a proccessor flag that has to be mokeyed with if you insist of moving it while the Guest is online, otherwise, just like any other move.
2. not sure what you're asking here.
3. Part of ESX. VMs can reside on all flavors of SAN, including iSCSI. Openfiler works great for this, and runs standard SMB shares as well.
4.One of the main features of VMWare View, which is what this client supports. you can turn on this functionality in standard VirtualCenter setups, to get this functionality for servers, but View is where it all comes together. imagine doing the same thing to your clients. when all the people log off at the end of the day, all their desktop VMs go idle, and VMware dynamically moves them to consolidate to a few servers, then shuts off the rest.
Cool stuff. just found out about the Sun solution for Desktop virtualization from this thread, though, and plan to do some research to see how it stacks up.
1. I've already done this a few times. there is a proccessor flag that has to be mokeyed with if you insist of moving it while the Guest is online, otherwise, just like any other move.
2. not sure what you're asking here.
3. Part of ESX. VMs can reside on all flavors of SAN, including iSCSI. Openfiler works great for this, and runs standard SMB shares as well.
4.One of the main features of VMWare View, which is what this client supports. you can turn on this functionality in standard VirtualCenter setups, to get this functionality for servers, but View is where it all comes together. imagine doing the same thing to your clients. when all the people log off at the end of the day, all their desktop VMs go idle, and VMware dynamically moves them to consolidate to a few servers, then shuts off the rest.
Cool stuff. just found out about the Sun solution for Desktop virtualization from this thread, though, and plan to do some research to see how it stacks up.
Comment Re:The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly was a sequel. (Score 1) 585
you're right. If this is the 1960s. It also helps to be Sergio Leone, and to be making movies in spain, not hollywood. I mean, the same actors are playing different roles in all three of the Dollars trilogy, that would never fly in today's industry.
Take, for instance, this Neuromancer movie that is in pre-production. IF, it makes money, and they decide they want to make a sequel, the first thing the studio execs will say is "What do you mean "Count Zero" doesn't have Case in it? Excuse us while we hire some screenwriters to fix that."
Comment Re:Product Activation (Score 1) 267
Just so you know, It's availiable on Steam. ;)
Water Found in Exoplanet's Atmosphere 185
anthemaniac writes "Astronomers have long suspected that water should exist in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. Now they have evidence. Water has been discovered in a planet called HD209458b, which was previously found to have oxygen. From the article: 'The discovery ... means one of the most crucial elements for life as we know it can exist around planets orbiting other stars.' But don't go looking for little green men. You might remember HD209458b as a 'hot Jupiter' that boils under the glow of its very nearby star."
Journal Journal: Vertical Farming
New York Magazine has an interesting article about vertical farming, or growing food in skyscrapers. Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University believes that "vertical farm" skyscrapers could help fight global warming. The article points out other uses: growing food in close proximity to cities, recycling urban waste, growing more food with less land and resources, sheltering food from pests without chemicals, and producing energy th
Submission + - US flag on the moon falen over
An anonymous reader writes: Buzz Aldrin mentioned today (at a conference at the Technical Unversity in Delft, The Netherlands) that wile leaving the moon, they accidentally pushed the US flag over. He, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins decided not to mention it because they suspected it to be a sensitive matter in the US.
Submission + - 150x compact flash raid
An anonymous reader writes: Having just found out that CF (compact flash) to IDE adapaters are cheap 'cos they do nothing,
has anyone on slashdot actually used 2 — 4 CF cards at 150x (about 22.5mb/s, apparently) with DMA
support in a raid setup for a linux system? These cards at, say, 2gb a piece aren't too pricey, so I
can't see any reason why you're not getting a 90mb/sec 8gb disk with 0 seek time using 4 cards. I'm
not seeing many actual results on the web, which seems to tell me that it's just not worth it. Anyone
actually have some first-hand experience?
Don't get distracted with "limited write cycles" and stuff! With just system files on it,
I can't see any problem. I'm just interested in some actual performance figures.
Submission + - Astro Breakdown Spells Changes for Mars Mission
FloatsomNJetsom writes: Popular Mechanics has a fascinating story on what the Lisa Nowak astronaut lovetriangle/breakdown/attempted murder charges could mean for Mars Mission crew decisions: With a 30-month roundtrip, this isn't the sort of thing you'd want to happen in space. Scientists have been warning about the problems of sex on long-term spaceflight, and experts are divided as to whether you want a crew of older married couples, or a-sexual unitard-wearing eunuchs. But the big deal is that NASA's current archetype of highly-driven, task-oriented people might be precisely the wrong stuff for a Mars expedition. In addition, this is crazy, scientists might use genomics or even functional MRI in screening astronauts, in addition to facial-recognition computers to monitor mental health during the mission. "You're putting together the crew psych workup, aren't you HAL?"
Submission + - PCI-SIG releases external cable spec for PCIe
Alvis Dark writes: Ars Technica is reporting that the PCI Special Interest Group has released a new external cable specification for PCI Express. 'The External Cabling specification standardizes the use of PCIe technology over copper cable, defining connector retention, identification, labeling, cabling attributes, and identification. Included in the specification are standardized cables and connectors for the entire gamut of link widths from 1x to 16x and supports signaling rates of 2.5GTps (giga transactions per second). Most importantly, the specification is designed to be compatible with existing hardware and software.' Good for crowded PC cases, but even better for laptop owners.
Submission + - MIT's Millimeter Turbine to be ready this year
Iddo Genuth writes: "After a decade of work, the first
millimeter size turbine engine developed by researchers at MIT should become operational by the end of this summer. The new turbine engine will allow the creation of smaller and more powerful batteries than anything currently in existence. It might also serve as the basis for tiny powerful motors with applications ranging from micro UAVs to children's toys. In the more distant future huge arrays of hydrogen fueled millimeter turbine engines could even be the basis for clean, quiet and cost effective power plants."
