hitchhacker - Slashdot User

Comment Re:blackouts (Score 1) 332

by hitchhacker on Tuesday October 13, 2009 @04:33PM (#29736565) Attached to: High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids

Hmm OK. My BS meter is kind of tingling... its possible, but for 25 million TX citizens, plus or minus some illegals, that's like 1500 watts average on a cool weekday midday... Ya'll have a lot of aluminum refineries down there on the ranch?

Why Texas Has Its Own Power Grid: "The state uses more electricity than any other, 44 percent more than runner-up California. Much of this is used by industrial customers such as petrochemical plants and oil refineries."

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Comment Re:full circle (Score 1) 71

by hitchhacker on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @01:33AM (#29019911) Attached to: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

It has been a long time since it was just an RSS reader. From 2007: Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data. The newer features added in the past few months have pushed it more to the social side, IMO. Of course it all depends on how you use it, and who you are sharing data with.. and how they use it.

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Comment Re:full circle (Score 2, Interesting) 71

by hitchhacker on Monday August 10, 2009 @09:38PM (#29018597) Attached to: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

Google Reader is an RSS aggregator, not a social networking site.

The group of people I currently see sharing content on Google Reader suggests otherwise. It has been moving towards the social aspect for awhile now. eg. Sharing content, commenting, 'liking'. It feels like a precursor to what Google Wave is trying to be.

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Comment full circle (Score 4, Interesting) 71

by hitchhacker on Monday August 10, 2009 @08:12PM (#29018079) Attached to: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

How many social networking sites are we gonna go through before we settle on an open platform? Anybody remember Friendster? Myspace, Orkut, Facebook, Google Reader. Oh, I found a really long list of them.

I honestly can't believe that Facebook will be worth much considering how many other sites we've already gone through. I'm usually wrong though, so who knows.

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Submission + - First Apollo Images From LROC (asu.edu)

Submitted by bsdphx on Friday July 17, 2009 @01:05PM

bsdphx writes: LROC, the camera suite aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken it's first images of Apollo landing sites. Image resolution is from 1.0 to 1.4 meters per pixel and includes zoomable, scrollable images of the sites of Apollo 11, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17. These are only the first of many images to come, and as LRO reaches its nominal orbit we will see resolutions of approx. 0.5 meters per pixel!

Submission + - NASA releases hi-res pix of Apollo landing sites (discovermagazine.com) 1

Submitted by

The Bad Astronomer

on Friday July 17, 2009 @01:05PM

The Bad Astronomer writes: "After much anticipation (years on my part!) NASA has released high-resolution pictures of the Apollo landing sites. The images, taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, clearly show Apollo artifacts on the Moon, including the landers... and in the Apollo 14 site image you can actually see the lunar surface disturbed by the astronauts' bootprints! These are stunning images, reminders of a time when our reach exceeded our grasp, and an impetus urging us to do it once again."

Moblin V2.0 Beta For Netbooks and Nettops 50

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @02:31PM from the get-your-mobility-on dept.

superbubba writes "The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release, developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based netbooks."

EXT4, Btrfs, NILFS2 Performance Compared 102

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @12:07PM from the where-will-you-put-your-bits-next-year? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has published Linux filesystem benchmarks comparing XFS, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs and NILFS2 filesystems. This is the first time that the new EXT4 and Btrfs and NILFS2 filesystems have been directly compared when it comes to their disk performance though the results may surprise. For the most part, EXT4 came out on top."

Comment Re:Also Interesting: (Score 1) 319

by hitchhacker on Monday June 08, 2009 @04:41PM (#28256149) Attached to: Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo?

I wasn't referring to the search results. What I listed were from _before_ you search.. ie. the search "hints" that pop up before clicking on "search".

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Comment OpenMP (Score 1) 321

by hitchhacker on Monday June 08, 2009 @01:50PM (#28253335) Attached to: New Languages Vs. Old For Parallel Programming

What you describe seems very similar to what OpenMP provides for recent C/C++ and Fortran compilers. It is probably available in your C/C++ compiler already.

#include <omp.h> #pragma omp parallel { // parallel block }

OpenMP Sample Programs

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Comment Also Interesting: (Score 2, Interesting) 319

by hitchhacker on Monday June 08, 2009 @12:48PM (#28252507) Attached to: Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo?

Go to http://www.bing.com and type 'Linux', but don't hit enter. (Need javascript enabled) These are the search hints I see:

linux
linux windows
linux microsoft
linux vista
linux commands
... etc

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Comment Re:Improved looks? (Score 1) 327

by hitchhacker on Thursday May 07, 2009 @02:24PM (#27864079) Attached to: OpenOffice 3.1 Released

The icons were clear and easy to dostinguosh between them..

There's no 'I' in "dostenguosh"...

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Comment Re:Anyone else hoarding gold? (Score 1) 195

by hitchhacker on Thursday April 23, 2009 @07:15PM (#27695819) Attached to: Linux Flourishes In 200-Year-Old Gold Markets

The government would more likely refuse to pay their debts / print out 12 trillion dollars than steal gold.

From Liberty Dollar:

The Liberty Dollar offices were raided by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Secret Service on November 14, 2007. Bernard von NotHaus, the owner of Liberty Services, sent an email to customers and supporters saying that the FBI took all the gold, silver, and platinum, and almost two tons of Ron Paul Dollars.

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Comment Re:This is metcalfe's law. (Score 1) 106

by hitchhacker on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @11:31PM (#27499313) Attached to: New Fundamental Law of Network Economics

Vj = Sum(i=1..n, Sum(z=1..n, Ai))
= Sum(i=1..n, n*Ai)
= n* Sum(i=1..n, Ai)
I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this now...

3. ...
4. Profit! .. no? damnit!

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Comment Re:Missing Achievements (Score 1) 1582

by hitchhacker on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @12:33PM (#27419559) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

Howabout achievements for poll voting?
* Consecutive poll votes
* # of "winning" poll votes
* Why am I doing slashdot's job?
* Yes, this is for the April Fool's Achievement. ;)

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