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Comment: Start writing software (Score 1) 293

by crt on Sunday February 21 2010, @09:09AM (#31218172) Attached to: After Learning Java Syntax, What Next?

The only real way to learn a programming language is to use it in a real project. Come up with something you've always wanted but can't find and make it happen. That's the great thing about programming. You'll learn more doing that than you ever will from a book.

Comment: Video here... (Score 4, Informative) 266

by crt on Tuesday February 02 2010, @12:02PM (#30997476) Attached to: Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video

On the original article:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100129/NEWS02/1290397/

Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2009 57

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 01 2010, @11:17AM
from the still-can't-cure-stupid dept.

Wired has posted their favorite scientific breakthroughs of the past year. The feats include things like the confirmation of element 114, a cancer-detecting breathalyzer, the power of jellyfish and more. What other discoveries should have made the list and what might we look forward to in 2010? "Also this year, researchers at the University of Washington cured two adult monkeys of colorblindness by giving them injections of a gene that produces pigments necessary for color vision. After the treatment, the animals scored higher on a computerized color blindness test. In the coming years, gene therapy will be tested as a remedy for all sorts of inherited diseases, cancer, viral infections and even high cholesterol."

Comment: Jungle Disk now has Sync in version 3.0 (Score 1) 305

by crt on Thursday November 19 2009, @09:32PM (#30167464) Attached to: Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows?

You're in luck! Jungle Disk 3.0 was released this week, with Sync support (for Windows, Mac, and Linux).

http://blog.jungledisk.com/2009/11/17/jungle-disk-launches-an-all-new-product-lineup/

Since you're already a Jungle Disk customer, the upgrade is free. Jungle Disk 3.0 also has a new backup engine that does block-level de-duplication and compression, making it by far the most efficient method for doing online backup.

Comment: Re:Just turn off image loading (Score 1) 406

by crt on Thursday November 12 2009, @10:19PM (#30083060) Attached to: HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web

Seems like most gopher sites are just lists of... other gopher sites. Kind like the web in 1993 (when there were 100 web sites and all the content was in Gopher). Guess they finally swapped places.

Comment: Wrong article link (Score 5, Informative) 403

by crt on Thursday June 18 2009, @09:02AM (#28373419) Attached to: Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD

Should have been this article.
That said, I don't think anyone claims SSD is better than HDD if your bottleneck is capacity or sequential read speed. However if you do lots of random reads/writes, this line from the comparison says it all:
OCZ's drive had a random access time of .2 milliseconds; Seagate's 16.9 milliseconds.
That's an 84X difference.

Comment: This is really simple to prevent... (Score 4, Insightful) 513

by crt on Wednesday February 11 2009, @08:25AM (#26811329) Attached to: False Fact On Wikipedia Proves Itself

All they needed to do to prevent this was to ensure that the cited references pre-dated the original edit. If you can't find a reference that pre-dates the edit, then you have to assume it's possible that the reference came from Wikipedia itself.