54t4n - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:happened to me (Score 1) 582

by 54t4n on Friday September 02 2011, @09:46AM (#37285584) Attached to: Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors

That's the question. Who's willing to cut your salary, work more hours, expend more money training, live lower status level, expend more money with the kids education, pay pension, do a lot of trashing-code-like-hell-low-quality-web job?
This profession had better days.

Comment: Re:Land of Nod (Score 1) 1014

by 54t4n on Tuesday August 23 2011, @08:37AM (#37176804) Attached to: Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story

Perfect! This explain the diversity. Save by bible again! Let's now down that damned branas theory...

MIT Unveils First Solar Cells Printed On Paper 125

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 05 2010, @02:20PM
from the let's-give-them-some-post-unveiing-privacy dept.

lucidkoan writes "MIT researchers recently unveiled the world's first thin-film solar cell printed on a sheet of paper. The panel was created using a process similar to that of an inkjet printer, producing semiconductor-coated paper imbued with carbon-based dyes that give the cells an efficiency of 1.5 to 2 percent. That's not incredibly efficient, but the convenience factor makes up for it. And in the future, researchers hope that the same process used in the paper solar cells could be used to print cells on metal foil or even plastic. If they're able to gear efficiencies up to scale, the development could revolutionize the production and installation of solar panels."

The 1-Second Linux Boot 156

Posted by timothy on Friday February 26 2010, @10:53PM
from the unexamined-boot-is-not-worth-booting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Less than one second Linux boot! This video shows an OMAP3530 capturing video data from a camera and rendering it to an LCD display — the video appears on the LCD display in less than a second from reset."

After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? 293

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 21 2010, @09:31AM
from the nice-hot-bath dept.

Niris writes "I'm currently taking a course called Advanced Java Programming, which is using the text book Absolute Java, 4th edition, by Walter Savitch. As I work at night as a security guard in the middle of nowhere, I've had enough time to read through the entire course part of the book, finish all eleven chapter quizzes, and do all of the assignments within a month, so all that's left is a group assignment that won't be ready until late April. I'm trying to figure out what else to read that's Java related aside from the usual 'This is how to create a tree. This is recursion. This is how to implement an interface and make an anonymous object,' and wanted to see what Slashdotters have to suggest. So far I'm looking at reading Beginning Algorithms, by Simon Harris and James Ross."

StarCraft II Beta To Begin This Month 182

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 11 2010, @11:08AM
from the zerg-inc dept.

mrxak writes "It's official; Activision Blizzard's much-anticipated sequel to 12-year-old StarCraft is going to enter closed beta 'this month,' according to company President Mike Morhaime during an investor conference call. This comes in the wake of the SC2 beta forums showing up briefly on Battle.net. If you've got a Battle.net account, it's probably not too late to opt-in for upcoming Blizzard beta tests."