Comment Re:History geek, uh huh..here's a translation (Score 1) 492
...so what is potato+1? Two potatoes? A potato with an enhancement bonus? A potato and the number one, just lying around somewhere?
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Comment It's been 7½ years already? (Score 1) 86
I feel old now...
Comment Huh. (Score 1) 166
Kinda feel like buying it now, just to encourage the trend.
Comment Re:What about here at Slashdot? (Score 4, Interesting) 167
From the bottom of the page: http://slashdot.org/hof.shtml
Looks like a story about Kerry vs. Bush is the current comment champ.
Submission + - Quasicrystalline water discovered (rsc.org)
genericsoma writes: The Journal of Chemical Physics reports about a new form of water, bringing us one step closer to creating Ice-nine.
Although there have been speculations that water might adopt such a solid form, there has previously been no firm evidence that it might exist. What's more, all earlier quasicrystals have been mixtures of two or more components, making this the first to be composed of just one. So far, however, it's just a prediction based on computer simulations — the Utah group hasn't observed quasicrystalline water experimentally.
Submission + - ESA new astronauts to graduate (esa.int)
japan_dan writes: The European Space Agency will host a friends, family and media ceremony at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne to mark the completion of basic training for the new class of six European astros recruited in 2008.
Submission + - Scientists use chaos theory to create new chip (techeye.net)
bossanovalithium writes: Scientists have developed an alternative to logic gates based on the chaos theory which allows the reconfiguration of chips a billion times a second, giving fascinating prospects for processing.
In a paper published by Arizona State University, researchers announced the development of chaotic patterns used to encode and manipulate inputs in order to produce a desired output, demonstrating on silicon the new logic gate systems named ‘chaogates’.
The researchers took patterns from an infinitely random variety offered by a chaotic system, with a subset of these patterns used to map the system inputs. This process provides a method to exploit nonlinear dynamics to design computing devices with a capacity to reconfigure into a range of different logic gates.
In a paper published by Arizona State University, researchers announced the development of chaotic patterns used to encode and manipulate inputs in order to produce a desired output, demonstrating on silicon the new logic gate systems named ‘chaogates’.
The researchers took patterns from an infinitely random variety offered by a chaotic system, with a subset of these patterns used to map the system inputs. This process provides a method to exploit nonlinear dynamics to design computing devices with a capacity to reconfigure into a range of different logic gates.
