Comment That's it? (Score 4, Insightful) 483
Gee if this is the work of the evil empire the world is safe.
Comment Sea Shepherds FTW (Score 1) 770
This sounds quite like one of the favorite tactics of the Sea Shepherds against the illegal Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean. Except instead of launchers and parachutes they use Zodiacs and balls. http://www.seashepherd.org/
Submission + - LED Bulbs Lifecycle Energy Costs Calculated (osram-os.com) 1
necro81 writes: The NY Times is reporting that a new report from Osram, a major lighting manufacturer, has calculated the total lifecycle energy costs of LED lightbulbs and found that they are approximately 20% that of incandescents. While it is well known that LED bulbs use a fraction of the energy of incandescents to produce the same amount of light, it has been unproven if the higher manufacturing energy costs made the technology a net gain. The study found that manufacturing and distribution energy costs of all lightbulb technologies is only about 2% of their total lifetime energy cost — a tiny fraction of the energy used to produce light.
Comment Re:Important for the Old Debate (Score 1) 512
Is this the day that Tanenbaum, says "I told you so"?
Journal Journal: Games make you smarter
A new study published in the Journal of Cognitive Sciences suggests that game playing leads to a healthier brain. The effects are greater attention and better weeding out of extraneous information - brain processes that degrade over time. This all reminds me of the recent studies of Buddhist monks suggesting that gaming is a
Journal Journal: Happy Birthday UNIVAC
Today is the 54th birthday of the first digital computer UNIVAC. We should all donate 1000 operations per second to playing 'Happy Birthday'.
