Comment Re:Best Buy + iTunes? (Score 2) 187
Media Monkey is so much better. Fuck iTunes.
Comment Re:Use this thread (Score 1) 159
I don't use Facebook, and anyone who does is stupid.
Comment Re:And this is actually quite innocent (Score 4, Interesting) 519
90% of the cracks or keygens she downloads will also install a Trojan
I'd LOVE to see the source that supports this ridiculous claim.
Comment Re:Not a lot statistically. (Score 2) 268
I would expect mistakes to be made as well, but that's a bit short sighted to assume that all of these are actually mistakes, as opposed to intentional abuses of power.
Comment Re:Now to use it to win the lottery (Score 1) 220
Now that Watson has mastered Jeopardy, let's just see how well it does picking winning Powerball numbers.
These aren't even close to the same thing.
Submission + - Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-sort Barrier (google.com) 2
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently open sourced an algorithm capable of sorting at a rate of one billion (integer) keys per second using a GPU. Although GPUs are often assumed to be poorly suited for algorithms like sorting, their results are several times faster than the best known CPU-based sorting implementations.
Submission + - Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids in Khan Academy 1
theodp writes: At some schools, a teaching load of five courses every academic year is considered excessive. But Sal Khan, as an earlier Slashdot post noted, manages to deliver his mini-lectures an average of 70,000 times a day. BusinessWeek reports that Khan Academy has a new fan in Bill Gates, who's been singing and tweeting the praises of the free-as-in-beer website. 'This guy is amazing,' Gates wrote. 'It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources.' Gates and his 11-year-old son have been soaking up videos, from algebra to biology. And at the Aspen Ideas Festival in front of 2,000 people, Gates gave Khan a shout-out, touting the 'unbelievable' Khan Academy tutorials that 'I've been using with my kids.' Gates, whose foundation spends $700MM a year on U.S. education, plans to talk to Khan soon.
