MarginalWatcher - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Typical american slasdotters (Score 0) 78

by MarginalWatcher on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @03:05AM (#45648315) Attached to: EU Warns Nokia Not To Become a Patent Troll

Monsanto, a corporation that has literally created PCBs that cover the entire planet [...]

Thought you meant printed circuit boards there for a minute before I Googled them...

Comment Re:mod up^ (Score 0) 134

by MarginalWatcher on Friday November 08, 2013 @03:07AM (#45365779) Attached to: Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists

Are you sure that's what the link contains? Maybe AC wasn't telling the truth, and instead the link is the answer to life, the universe and everything. How can you NOT look at the link now?

Comment Re:Lisp s-expression notation can be readable (Score 1) 179

by MarginalWatcher on Monday October 14, 2013 @11:11AM (#45122469) Attached to: GNU Make 4.0 Released

Check out http://readable.sourceforge.net./ This adds additional abbreviations to s-expressions, just like 'x currently means (quote x), so that people can produce much more readable code and data. It's implemented in Scheme and Common Lisp, and is released as open source software using the MIT license.

Looks a lot like m-expressions to me.

Comment ffft (Score 1) 201

by MarginalWatcher on Thursday September 12, 2013 @05:31AM (#44828033) Attached to: He Fixed 300,000+ Machines - America's Oldest Typewriter Repairman Dies At 96

ffft: Fast Fucking Fourier Transform :-)

Comment Plants in micro-gravity (Score 1) 168

by MarginalWatcher on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @10:52AM (#44819863) Attached to: Space Food From Space Farms

OT: Are they growing them in microgravity or some sort of spin-induced inertial "gravity" close to Earth's? Just wonder what plants growing in zero-G conditions would look like...

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 134

by MarginalWatcher on Friday January 30, 2009 @05:03PM (#26671977) Attached to: PC's Waste Heat Could Add To Processing Power

MSI did it last year: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=newsdesc&news_no=591

Comment Re:I love 3D (Score 1) 156

by MarginalWatcher on Friday December 12, 2008 @08:13PM (#26098811) Attached to: Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined

The fact is, desktop has never been 2D. It has always been 3D.

Ever seen Windows 1.0?

Comment Offtopic (Score 0) 125

by MarginalWatcher on Monday December 08, 2008 @07:00PM (#26041403) Attached to: Nmap Network Scanning

Whiskey Tango Farva? Not to put Nmap or Zenmap down, but WTF? If I've missed something and Fyodor is entitled to a multi-page ad, I apologise.

Feed New Scientist: Carbon nanotube plucked by nano-tweezers (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Saturday September 29, 2007 @05:32AM

The delicate feat will allow nanoscale objects to be manipulated in 3D, making nanoconstruction more precise and versatile

Citrix Announces Agreement to Acquire XenSource 86

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday August 18, 2007 @11:01AM from the two-great-tastes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'Citrix has signed a definitive agreement to acquire XenSource a leader in enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solutions. The acquisition moves Citrix into adjacent and fast growing datacenter and desktop virtualization markets.' For nearly $500 million, including about $100 million of unvested options, Citrix would be purchasing VMWare's closest competitor in the server virtualization market, with XenEnterprise v4 offering technology similar to VMWare's flagship product — and arguably overtake them as a combined solution, as VMWare offers little in the realm of application and desktop virtualization. Though subject to the customary closing conditions, both boards of directors have approved the transaction, and the deal is expected to close in Q4 of 2007."

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