Comment Largely Determined By Genetics... (Score 1) 157
... although factors like scholarity and religious affiliation also play a role
Submission + - AMD Unveils Preliminary Radeon HD 8000M Series Mobile GPU Details (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "AMD has just released some preliminary information regarding the company’s upcoming Radeon HD 8000M series of mobile GPUs. Based on the naming convention alone, it may obvious that the Radeon HD 8000M series is AMD’s second generation of products featuring the GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture, which debuted in the Radeon HD 7000 series. Like its predecessors, the Radeon HD 8000M series targets gamers with full DirectX 11.1 support and improved gaming performance over the previous-gen, but the architecture also lends itself to GPU compute applications as well. The Radeon HD 8500M sports 384 Stream Processors with an Engine Clock up to 650MHz. Memory clocks will vary based on the use of GDDR3 or GDDR5 memory. The Radeon HD 8600M is essentially the same, but with a slightly higher Engine Clock up to 775MHz. The Radeon HD 8700M is also based on the same GPU, but will be clocked at up to 850MHz, for a further increase in performance over the 8600M. The Radeon HD 8800M series, however, is based on a larger, more powerful chip and will sport 640 Stream Processors with an engine clock of up to 700MHz. GDDR5 memory will be used exclusively with 8800M, at speeds up to 1125MHz. It will be interesting to see how these new GPUs stack up versus NVIDIA's latest GeForce 600M series of mobile chips."
Submission + - German privacy regulator orders Facebook to end its real name policy (itworld.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: A German privacy regulator ordered Facebook to stop enforcing its real name policy because it violates a German law that gives users the right to use nicknames online.
"We believe the orders are without merit, a waste of German taxpayers' money and we will fight it vigorously," a Facebook spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
"We believe the orders are without merit, a waste of German taxpayers' money and we will fight it vigorously," a Facebook spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
Comment Re:Her statement seems inconsistent. (Score 1) 473
Indeed. The inconsistency becomes more apparent if you abstract the sentence to "X cannot be free unless it is controlled by Y". She is free to defend the control by copyright holders, but she cannot claim that this control is equivalent to "free and open dissemination".
Comment Re:Poor Summary (Score 1) 478
Exactly. It is already known that 8% of our genomes comes from HERVs , the novelty of the paper is that this virus is not a retrovirus. The Borna Disease Virus does not require integration ("assimilation" into our genome), in contrast to retroviruses, and I assume that this discovery doesn't change the 8% figure...
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