DarthThor - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 348

by DarthThor on Saturday September 06, 2008 @09:32AM (#24900093) Attached to: Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2

Can't say I've noticed many features in FF Windows builds that isn't in Linux builds (I run pretty much an identical Firefox setup on my home Linux Desktop and my work Laptop in terms of versions, themes and extensions) Not sure about optimisation work however, but each time Windows users have reported speed increases or better memory handling in new Firefox versions, I've noticed it in the Linux builds, so while the performance may not be as good in Windows, I think it is bit much to infer there isn't being any work done.

Submission + - Software companies sues popular Australian forum (whirlpool.net.au) 3

Submitted by Pugzly on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @07:25AM

Pugzly writes: In a recent announcement on the Whirlpool front page, it appears that accounting software maker 2clix is sueing the founder of the forums as the founder "allowed statements 'relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious' to be published on the Whirlpool forums."
Hopefully sanity will prevail, but it is the legal system...

Submission + - Einstein's spooky action leads to quantum computer

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Friday September 07, 2007 @12:25AM

Stony Stevenson writes: Physicists at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how two separate atoms can communicate with a sort of 'quantum intuition' which Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky". In doing so, the researchers have made an advance towards super-fast quantum computing and even a quantum internet.

The scientists used light to establish an "entanglement" between two atoms, which were trapped one metre apart in separate enclosures. "This link between remote atoms could be the fundamental piece of a radically new quantum computer architecture," said Professor Christopher Monroe, the principal investigator on the project who is now at the University of Maryland. "Now that the technique has been demonstrated, it should be possible to scale it up to networks of many interconnected components that will eventually be necessary for quantum information processing."

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