Glad to see the progreess, maybe the competion will eventually lead to better OpenGL support in OSX too.

Now where the heck is the OpenCL support for i7 on Linux ?!

Perhaps Intel could put a bit of effort into releasing (GPU) OpenCL support for their i7 Ivy Bridge line then? For the same chip there's a Windows driver, but not for Linux. But for Xeon it only works for Linux but not Windows. It has been promised for a year, still nothing.

Their efforts so far seem to have been shipped off to another team, who did something in parallel to the rest of the community, so likely a dead end.

As demonstrated here, surely they have the resources?

Get with the program guys!

> IMO archeologists know exactly diddly about historical linguistics

how about one who has studied historical linguistics for 50 years?

I've no idea about the guy you're talking about, but as a rule, putting people permanently into labeled boxes with solid walls is silly and reeks of tribalism.

This is why people are working on standardized exchangable slide-in slide-out battery packs. Packs slow-charge & self-check at the station. You pull in, slide your dead one out, slide a full one in, pay your money and off you go. Dying packs are taken out of circulation so you never see them.

apparently they flew over the top of everyone's head.

know Slashdot likes to confuse us with it's hyperlink placement, but I just feel like pointing out that puting the link to TFA on the text "a city that more closely resembles the real world" makes absolutely no sense.

It's part of their preemptive legal strategy, guaranteeing an aquital.

at $35 a pop this is sounds like a great chance for lots of people to learn how to use solder wick who haven't picked up an iron before.

> There are a couple of good "Arctic Death Spiral" plots out there,
> none of them look very encouraging.

Here's another worth looking at:

• http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/icecover/icecover_current_new.png

There are a couple of good "Arctic Death Spiral" plots out there, none of them look very encouraging.

https://sites.google.com/site/pettitclimategraphs/sea-ice-volume#asivds

http://haveland.com/share/arctic-death-spiral-1979-201303.png

https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/

with all due respect, you are resorting to ad hominem attacks, which are specious and do not serve to aid your argument.

they just make you look like a pompous jerk, regardless of the merit of what you say.

> Journals demand that scientists turn over the rights of
> publication in order to get published.

to be fair, in requesting copy-right they do actually need the right- to -copy your work in order to legally publish it.

typically you can self-publish the final draft of your PDF on your personal website without conflicting with their copyrighted typeset version, instead of forcing people to buy reprints from the journal.

hey, at least in future years you can say that you were there for the great /. implosion of 2013.

In all likelihood manned. If you "drive" around for a few minutes in street view you will notice a number of other cars driving on the main roads. The acute risk from radiation has dissipated (the worst emitting particles have the shortest half-lives) the remaining threat is low-level emitting particles where the danger is more or less cumulative with time. A day spent driving around the town might be a small risk to you and your car, but you wouldn't want to live or work there every day.

It probably wouldn't hurt to bolt an extra air filter in the cabin air intake, and give the car a good wash down afterwards, just in case you stirred up some nasties in a dust pile.

to anyone reading this who's blocking /. sigs: you're really really missing out sometimes.

you speak as if we know what would have taken place if those protests had not had happened. we don't.

> What makes you think he actually believes what he's saying?

bingo