Comment What about (Score 1) 496
...global warming? *ducks*
Submission + - Supercomputing Cluster Built with PS3s
Saket writes: "The Sony Playstation 3, Xbox and Nintendo Wii have captivated a generation of computer gamers with bold graphics and rapid-fire animation. But these high-tech toys can do a lot more than just play games. At North Carolina State University, Dr. Frank Mueller imagined using the power of the new PS3 to create a high-powered computing environment for a fraction of the cost of the supercomputers on the market. Mueller, an associate professor of computer science, has built a supercomputing cluster capable of both high-performance computing and running the latest in computer gaming. His cluster of eight PS3 machines — the first such academic cluster in the world — packs the power of a small supercomputer, but at a total cost of about $5,000, it costs less than some desktop computers that have only a fraction of the computing power."
Submission + - Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Models
An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt has a cool post up that doesn't just explain why DRM is bad, but gives a really interesting economic explanation for why DRM cannot create successful new business models. Since the RIAA and MPAA keep insisting that DRM will create new business models, it's useful to see an argument for why that's basically impossible.
Submission + - RIAA Announces New Campus Lawsuit Strategy
An anonymous reader writes: The RIAA is once again revising their lawsuit strategy, and will now be sending college students and others "pre-lawsuit letters." People will now be able to settle for a discount. How nice.
Journal Journal: The Earth was warming before global warming was cool. 4
Sometimes it is useful to be a devil's advocate in discussing matters of scietific import. Thus we get this column from Pete du Pont in the WSJ
Journal SPAM: NEWSPEAK - UK Pulllout a "Sign of Success" in Iraq 2
While a spokesman for Blair's Downing Street office declined to confirm or deny any of the reports, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe confirmed that Blair told US President George W. Bush Tuesday of his plans for troop withdrawal.
Submission + - Simple file naming protocol?
zombieelvis writes: I've recently starting working for a medium sized post-graduate school that is undergoing a HUGE growth spurt. With these new changes, our departments are starting to share files with one another. However, as we have no protocol for naming these files, we have files being duplicated, deleted, and lost. The problem is getting worse each day and I've been asked to come up with a solution. What type of system do you use to name your word/powerpoint/excel files? What would you recommend if you were in my shoes?
Submission + - The Unintended Consequences of NoFollow
An anonymous reader writes: The nofollow attribute tells search engines to ignore a link when calculating the link destination's pagerank. Nofollow was promoted by Google to combat comment spam, but it didn't work — there's more spam on blogs than ever. A Wordpress founder conceded that nofollow has failed. But sites like Wikipedia are now using nofollow to suck up tons of link energy.
http://www.dailydomainer.com/200781-to-follow-or-n ofollow.html
http://www.dailydomainer.com/200781-to-follow-or-
Submission + - commercial quantum computer demoed
Lord Sidious writes: "A Vancouver startup, D-Wave Systems, claims to have demonstrated the world's first commercially viable quantum computer.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb07/comments/1710"
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb07/comments/1710"
Submission + - New accelerator technique doubles particle energy
ZonkerWilliam writes: Plasma wake particle accelerators are making suprisingly quick advances. It was a just a little while ago we had Gev acceleration in 3cm; http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/0 4/0057225. Here they are capable of doubling the speed of electrons, in one meter.
See the article for more information; http://www.physorg.com/news90682193.html
