Comment Re:I like how this is it arriving. (Score 3, Informative) 245
Darn it, that was supposed to be a link
Comment Re:I like how this is it arriving. (Score 1) 245
Article about 'Augmented Reality' on Android from last year.
Comment Jurassic park ref (oblig) (Score 1) 652
Robots outsmart man. Woman inherits the earth...
Comment Re:It's never simple...is it (Score 1) 634
Believe it or not, Microsoft has done a lot to make the computing world better.
I used to use Amigas and was surprised when my school started replacing their various Acorn computers with these clunky, crash prone machines running this 'Windows'.
With the Amiga, I had a fast, properly multitasking OS that made Windows look like a joke OS cobbled together by morons. Commodore went under and I switched to BeOS - an even better AmigaOS than AmigaOS! BeOS was destroyed by Microsoft in what has been proven in court to be illegal interference.
So yes, I hate Microsoft. I've never liked their OS, I've never wanted to use it. It may have 'set a standard' but it was a shitty standard which destroyed the better alternatives.
Comment Re:Doing it wrong. (Score 1) 281
Someone want to calculate the minimum safe stopping distance of a wide-load truck laden with a 50-meter section of tower traveling at, let's say 45MPH without jackknifing or breaking the load restraints?
Is that an African or European wide-load truck?
Submission + - Vacuum leaks lead to a NEW Hadron Collider delay (zdnet.co.uk) 1
suraj.sun writes: The restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back further, following the discovery of vacuum leaks in two sectors of the experiment.
The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a Cern press statement. The project had been expected to start again in October.
To repair the leaks, which are from the helium circuit into the insulating vacuum, sectors 8-1 and 2-3 will have to be warmed from 80K to room temperature. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats', while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be kept at 80K, Cern said in the statement. The repair work will not have an impact on the vacuum in the beam pipe.
Cern has pushed back the restart a number of times, as repair work has continued. To begin with, scientists said the LHC experiment would restart in April 2009.
In May, Cern told ZDNet UK that the restarted experiment could run through the winter to make up some of the lost time. Normally, running the experiments through the alpine winter is prohibitively expensive, due to high electricity costs. However, as the experiment has not been running since last September, Cern would have the budget to cover energy costs over the winter.
ZDNet UK : http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39689352,00.htm
The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a Cern press statement. The project had been expected to start again in October.
To repair the leaks, which are from the helium circuit into the insulating vacuum, sectors 8-1 and 2-3 will have to be warmed from 80K to room temperature. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats', while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be kept at 80K, Cern said in the statement. The repair work will not have an impact on the vacuum in the beam pipe.
Cern has pushed back the restart a number of times, as repair work has continued. To begin with, scientists said the LHC experiment would restart in April 2009.
In May, Cern told ZDNet UK that the restarted experiment could run through the winter to make up some of the lost time. Normally, running the experiments through the alpine winter is prohibitively expensive, due to high electricity costs. However, as the experiment has not been running since last September, Cern would have the budget to cover energy costs over the winter.
ZDNet UK : http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39689352,00.htm
Submission + - SCO's Asset Sale Could Be Bankruptcy Fraud (groklaw.net)
GuerillaRadio writes: According to an article on Groklaw, IBM's objection to the proposed sale of SCO's assets to the irritatingly named unXis is stunning and is a not so veiled accusation of what is basically bankruptcy fraud.
Submission + - Scientists turn used LCDs into medicine (itnews.com.au)
schliz writes: Scientists from the University of York have come up with a new recycling technique that extracts PVA from used LCD panels to create a "a bioactive sponge". The technique could allow recovered PVA to be used in pills, wound dressings and tissue scaffolds that aid human tissue regeneration. It could also keep waste LCD screens from incineration or landfill altogether.
Comment Re:Oh, God, the Grammar (Score 1) 381
I can't believe an editor let that report pass
You must be new here.
Comment Re:Indefinitely (Score 1) 575
I'm with you on the first point, I had similar thoughts about the transition. I do think it would require a physical interface to the brain rather than scanning to achieve this though.
Still not sure about the second - I still think that I'd be getting into a machine and being destroyed!
Comment Re:Indefinitely (Score 1) 575
Yeah, I've considered this option too
My main concern is that it's just a copy that is transferred to the computer, and I (my conscious self) will still die.. This is much like the 'teleportation dilemma' where a copy is made and the original killed.
Comment Re:Sad end (Score 1) 906
Exactly. Oracle would never be in a situation where they lack Lustre.
Comment Re:The screen is on the wrong side (Score 4, Funny) 197
They just spend a lot of time with only one hand on the keyboard.
Must...resist...
Submission + - Cheap Linux Laptops Challenge OLPC (itworld.com)
narramissic writes: "Analysts warn that falling prices of commercial Linux-based laptops may lure buyers away from One Laptop Per Child's (OLPC's) XO laptop, which will cost $200 when it launches Nov. 12. 'People like the standard stuff, and if you can get it for nearly the same price, why go with the de-featured product?' says Roger Kay, founder and president with Endpoint Technologies Associates.
Responding to questions about price competition, Walter Bender, president of software and content at OLPC said, 'OLPC's goal is to get connected laptops to kids, not particular connected laptops to kids. If the commercial sector will provide those tools, more power to them.'"
Responding to questions about price competition, Walter Bender, president of software and content at OLPC said, 'OLPC's goal is to get connected laptops to kids, not particular connected laptops to kids. If the commercial sector will provide those tools, more power to them.'"
Submission + - Ubuntu vs Fedora vs OpenSuSE vs Mandriva (lugradio.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Its been a good few weeks for distro releases with Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora and Mandriva all releasing new versions but which ones best? The Lugradio team talk to Adam Williamson from Mandriva then don asbestos suits and put all four through a series of real world tests. Find out which came out best and which just suck here
