Mr_Perl - Slashdot User

Comment Re:News because (Score 4, Funny) 320

by Mr_Perl on Monday January 05, 2009 @11:32AM (#26330203) Attached to: Steve Jobs Issues Update On His Health

Remember John Sculley?

People usually pick inferior successors, egomaniacs even moreso. Makes their own "term in office" look better. It was Jobs who set up that failure and Jobs who profited from it on his return.

Comment Re:Riiight (Score 1) 685

by Mr_Perl on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @10:23AM (#26279459) Attached to: Why LEDs Don't Beat CFLs Even Though They Should

FWIW I also have had to replace 4 out of about 15 CFLs in the 2-3 years I have been using them. No cost savings seen here whatsoever, plus the disposal (mercury) requires a special trip to the recycling plant.

Some manufacturer out there (got mine at Lowes/Walmart) is selling some crap bulbs.

Submission + - Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it (itworld.com)

Submitted by

narramissic

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @04:49PM

narramissic writes: "Oops! They did it again. Google mistakenly identified its own Custom Search Blog as a spam site and handed over the url to the general public, as they typically do when blogs are disabled. Google's process when it identifies a site as spam is to notify the blog owners to give them a chance to clear up any misunderstandings. However, that didn't work out in this case."

Submission + - An Optical Solution For an NP-Complete problem? (opticsexpress.org)

Submitted by 6 on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @11:51AM

6 writes: Tobias Haist and Wolfgang Osten have proposed a novel idea for solving the traveling salesman problem...

We introduce an optical method based on white light interferometry in order to solve the well-known NP-complete traveling salesman problem. To our knowledge it is the first time that a method for the reduction of non-polynomial time to quadratic time has been proposed. We will show that this achievement is limited by the number of available photons for solving the problem. It will turn out that this number of photons is proportional to NN for a traveling salesman problem with N cities and that for large numbers of cities the method in practice therefore is limited by the signal-to-noise ratio. The proposed method is meant purely as a gedankenexperiment.

Submission + - Schedules Direct to support XMLTV and MythTV

Submitted by MitchInOmaha on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @10:08PM

MitchInOmaha writes: From an email from a Tribune Media source announcing an agreement with Schedules Direct to continue providing schedule data to users of XMLTV and MythTV. From the email, "Today we are pleased to announce an agreement that will allow for many of you to continue to have access to your personal television listings data." And goes on to say that although it will be a paid service, it will be for non-commercial use only, and will not be available for use with commercially supplied devices. "As of September 1, 2007, there WILL BE an alternative television listings source for certain Zap2it Labs users who become members of Schedules Direct, which includes a membership fee." More available on the Schedules Direct website.

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