Andrew_NZ - Slashdot User

Comment Is Apple now taking design cues from Microsoft? (Score 0) 773

by Andrew_NZ on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @04:08PM (#44811979) Attached to: Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S

Matching background from the case. Flat icons in 7 etc... If the price is right, the 5C will be exactly what my kids will want.

Comment I like fish (Score 0) 198

by Andrew_NZ on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @10:14PM (#44626353) Attached to: New Radioactive Water Leak At Fukushima: 300 Tons and Growing

300 tons of contaminated water doesn't seem like a lot when you consider there are (roughly) 784,430,000,000,000,000.00 tons of water in the pacific ocean alone. I think I'll still eat fish...

Comment I love my Surface RT (Score 1) 186

by Andrew_NZ on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @07:09AM (#44616217) Attached to: Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets

I don't why people don't like them. 12 hour battery life. Runs office and has most of Windows 8 functionality (notepad, remote desktop, full version of ie etc etc) all in the same form factor as an iPad. Last week I was on a flight from Washington DC to San Francisco. 6 hour flight. Used the planes wifi and worked solid on my RT clearing email in Outlook and programming on a dev box I have in the cloud. When I landed in SF I still had 6 hours battery. Just awesome.

15-Year-Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System 230

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @08:11PM from the muck-machine dept.

Mike writes "Signaling a bright future for sustainable energy, 15-year-old Javier Fernandez-Han has created a remarkable algae-powered energy system that is capable of producing food and fuel, treating waste, containing greenhouse gases, and releasing oxygen. Dubbed the VERSATILE system, the project recently netted him a $20,000 scholarship for winning this year's Invent Your World Challenge."

Oracle Beware — Google Tests Cloud-Based Database 123

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 12, 2009 @02:01PM from the db-two-point-oh dept.

narramissic writes "On Tuesday, the same day Google held a press event to launch its Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, the company quietly announced in its research team blog a new online database called Fusion Tables. Under the hood of Fusion Tables is data-spaces technology, which would 'allow Google to add to the conventional two-dimensional database tables a third coordinate with elements like product reviews, blog posts, Twitter messages and the like, as well as a fourth dimension of real-time updates,' according to Stephen E. Arnold, a technology and financial analyst. 'So now we have an n-cube, a four-dimensional space, and in that space we can now do new kinds of queries which create new kinds of products and new market opportunities,' said Arnold, whose research about this topic includes a study done for IDC last August. 'If you're IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, your worst nightmare is now visible.'"

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