JGBPhilly - Slashdot User

Comment Get into a tech company (Score 1) 474

by JGBPhilly on Thursday June 18, 2009 @08:01AM (#28372133) Attached to: Getting Beyond the Helldesk

I don't think a law firm is going to provide the kinds of career growth you're looking for. I highly recommend you get a entry level position in tech support or IT for a firm actually in the tech sector. Depending on the size of the firm and your skill level and potential, you'll have a multitude of opportunities not available at non-tech companies.

Comment HP 12c calculator (Score 1) 547

by JGBPhilly on Wednesday February 06, 2008 @11:40AM (#22321468) Attached to: Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made?

I think you could use it as a hockey puck in the afternoon and do your taxes with it that evening.

MS vs AT&T Case Stirs Software Patent Debate 218

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 22, 2007 @08:52AM from the can-you-or-can't-you dept.

Stormwave0 writes "A Microsoft appeal against a decision for AT&T and their speech recognition patent has reached the Supreme Court. AT&T has argued that they did not license software using the patent for sales overseas. Microsoft, in the original case, argued "that it wasn't really liable for infringing on AT&T's licensing rights because it only supplied the golden disk to the replicator one time, and that disk did not really contain software in a usable form anyway." With that argument rejected, the case has moved in an unexpected direction. The court is now debating whether or not software is actually patentable."

Submission + - 67 Kilowatt Laser Unveiled

Submitted by

s31523

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @08:21AM

s31523 writes: "We all remember the scene from the movie Real Genius where the nerdy guys get a laser to fire which burns a hole through everything for miles. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced they have a Solid State Heat Capacity Laser (SSHCL) that averages 67kW working in their lab. Developed for the military, Dr. Yamamoto claims this to be a record and is quoted as saying, "I know of no other solid state laser that has achieved 67kW of average output power". The potential uses for this bad boy go well beyond turning a professor's house into Jiffy Pop. Here is what a 40w laser can do, now imagine 67000 watts. Although many lasers have peaked at higher capacities, getting the average sustained power to remain high seems to be the tricky part."

Submission + - New Software Stops Mars Rover Confusion

Submitted by

MattSparkes

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @07:28AM

MattSparkes writes: "The Mars rover Spirit used to get quite confused when it came upon a rock. Because it could only plan routes of a metre or two it couldn't understand how to navigate around large objects, and frequently used to rock back and forth for hours trying to figure it out. NASA have written new software called D* for the rover Opportunity, which should allow it to autonomously plan routes up to 50 metres long. The new software still won't be able to avoid sand-traps though."

Journal Journal: eBay security conspiracy catches on with readers

Journal by ThePhilips on Thursday February 22, 2007 @05:04AM

Interesting RTFA - in comments from readers section - posted on ElReg.

One of the quotes:

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