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Comment Re:Signs point to (Score 0) 688

by GerardAtJob (#36979458) Attached to: Was<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET All a Mistake?

.Net isn't a fail. .Net is a revamped J++ with a new interface ripped from Delphi, and it does the job well. And due to many M$ fanboy, it's used here and there, running interpreted code while it's not even helpfull (no crossplatform = what's the need to be interpreted?)
I dunno why M$ didn't bought Borland instead of "Embarcadero" (not sure of the spelling)... .Net with native compilation would have been the best of both world.

But for now, I'll stick with C++, maintaining and adding features to some old shit ;)
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Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot 398

Posted by timothy from the more-guns-less-crime dept.
cremeglace writes "Have you ever noticed that the first cowboy to draw his gun in a Hollywood Western is invariably the one to get shot? Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr did, once arranging mock duels to test the validity of this cinematic curiosity. Researchers have now confirmed that people indeed move faster if they are reacting, rather than acting first."
PlayStation (Games)

PS3 Hacked? 296

Posted by Soulskill from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.
Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post: "I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG."
Power

Heat Engines Shrunk By Seven Orders of Magnitude 168

Posted by kdawson from the gimme-a-v8-of-those dept.
KentuckyFC writes "The vast majority of motors that power our planes, trains, and automobiles are heat engines. They rely on the rapid expansion of gas as it heats up to generate movement. But attempts to shrink them by any significant amount have mostly ended in failure. Today, the smallest heat engines have a volume of some 10^7 cubic micrometers. Now group of Dutch engineers has built a heat engine that is seven orders of magnitude smaller than this. The engine consists of a piezoelectric bar that expands and contracts in the normal piezoelectric way. However it also heats up and cools at the same time causing a thermal expansion and contraction, which lags the piezoelectric displacement. By carefully choosing the frequency of the driving AC current, the Dutch team found a resonant effect in which the thermal expansion and contraction amplifies the mechanical motion, making it a true heat engine. Operating the thermodynamic cycle in reverse turns the device into a heat pump or refrigerator. The total volume of the device is just 0.5 cubic micrometres."
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Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" Screenshot-sm 319

Posted by samzenpus from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."

Comment Perhaps... but now without VRD (Score 1) 264

by GerardAtJob (#30848792) Attached to: Asus Says Netbook Is Dead, Hello Wearable Computers

Perhaps... but now without VRD!
Imagine a notebook, and throw away the display.
Now strap it in your winter jacket and put a VRD (Virtual Retinal Display) on.

Now you have a netbook with a 50x50inch display that can interact with the outside world...
Ex: Help you repair your car
        A GPS system that show helpful informations directly in your fov
        Help you play virtual battlefield with wooden guns at your favorite parc lol
        etc...etc...etc...

BUT it won't happen with a wrist display...

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