Submission + - What's the Real Cost of BitTorrent vs Legit?
SharkeeTX writes: "How much do you really save using BitTorrent for TV? How much does leaving your computer on to download cost? This study reveals the costs and savings of BitTorrent, iTunes TV, XBox Marketplace TV, and Digital Cable. When is one cheaper than another? How much TV do you watch determines the answer and guides you to a cheapest solution.
http://thehonk.net/?p=179"
http://thehonk.net/?p=179"
Submission + - Simple computation using dominos
An anonymous reader writes: When silicon fails to beat Moores law, maybe dominos can help. This guy has created a half adder in dominos as a proof of concept for domino computation. If he intends to make a full domino computer he's going to need an awful lot of dominos...
Submission + - Piano Piracy
jefu writes: "In an emerging case, doubt has been cast on the originality of classical piano recordings. It seems that CDs of piano musicby Joyce Hatto were lifted wholesale from other recordings and published as hers under her
own label. According to a NY Times op ed piece on Feb 17 not all the originals have been identified as yet. The RIAA seems ready to jump on people downloading music from the web, but this seems to indicate they may not be capable of identifying a real large scale commercial copyright infringement. Schadenfreude anyone?"
Submission + - Sony and Nintendo Make the Emulators of the Year
Croakyvoice writes: Sony and Nintendo are the arch enemies of Emulation with both over the years doing
their upmost to stop it, just ask the creators of Bleem and VGS. But this year
both companies have released what are the very best emulators of easily the last year, Sony`s Full speed PS1 Emulator for the PSP and Nintendo`s range of emulators for the Wii.
Submission + - Memory...Can you remember all without writing down
MacD writes: "About a year ago I saw that a company called Posit Science had a flash based game called the Brain Speed Test. It was a pretty amusing mind exercise. I went back to there cite last week and noticed they still have a newer version of the Brain Speed Test(although its seems to be in look only), but also a sister site about Brain Fitness. On this site they have new memory exercise called Word List Recall.
Its pretty simple, but first couple times I found it tough to memorize...maybe Im just getting older.
Enjoy.
http://bfc.positscience.com/eval/wlr.php"
Submission + - Sony to end PS3 shortage by May
Anonymous Coward writes: "http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070228/tc_nm/sony_pla ystation3_dc;_ylt=AsQ5n5xP7_bqxmwbGsVdkAeSxLEF
Sony plans to have enough Playstation 3's to keep stores shelves full by May"
Submission + - Thorium the Key to Non-Prolfieration?
P3NIS_CLEAVER writes: Nuclear energy has been proposed as an alternative to coal power plants that generating carbon dioxide and emit mercury. As we are seeing now in Iran, the desire for nuclear energy has created a gray area that places peaceful civilian power generation at odds with nuclear non-proliferation. An article at Resource Investor claims that thorium reactors can be used to replace existing reactors without creating isotopes that may be used in nuclear weapons.
