Comment Re:My kingdom for a hacker. (Score 1) 70
I suggest you check what the Finnish makers Suunto and Polar has to offer. I have been using Polar HRMs for some time and have been very happy with those.
Comment Re:Not as new as it seems (Score 1) 264
Negative temperatures have also been studied in '90s. To my knowledge Finnish cold lab had coldest temperature record for a long time and this is also work of the same laboratory.
Comment Unmod (Score 1) 243
Posting to undo mod
Comment Re:CNN has video up (Score 1) 200
Anyone have idea what happens around 1:06 on the video? Looks like small explosion happens next to rocket on the liftoff.
Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582
An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"
Haskell 2010 Announced 173
paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."
Comment Re:Absurd! (Score 2, Informative) 281
They already have one list, not IWF but Finnish censorship list: http://www.wikileaks.com/wiki/797_domains_on_Finnish_Internet_censorship_list%2C_including_censorship_critic%2C_2008
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