Comment Re:Question for the rocket scientist(s)... (Score 1) 48
I guess it would be suboptimal to discover that Lutetia has a moon when it already fills the windscreen of the probe...
Comment Beware of cooling side effects (Score 2, Insightful) 262
Be sure to factor in the thrust generated by the extremely powerful cooling fan - you wouldn't want your box taking off...
Comment Re:pics and it still didn't happen (Score 1) 263
The problem is that they still could claim the stuff has "been put there later". Really, there is no stopping these people.
Comment Re:murder weapon? (Score 1) 839
People without a gun might have resorted to sulking, shouting, or maybe punching somebody in the head at worst. The sheer availability of guns makes them more likely to get used. Look at how many people in the US are getting killed by handguns each year (and how often by their own gun), and compare that to countries with strict gun laws such as Germany (my home country). And, of course, culture plays a huge role - in Canada (my wife's home country) many people have guns, but don't use at them each other.
Comment Re:PHBs take note, please? (Score 1) 538
Applause.
I'm currently working for a company that doesn't invest 2 cents into their developers (who really need to take a hint or two) but spends millions on procedures, methods, and locked down software design tools that will not raise the standard of the ones who insist on staying behind but hinder the ones who are able to do it better.
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Submission + - Geologists discover world's largest fossil forest
solitas writes: The St.Louis post-Dispatch says that geologists have discovered the remains of one of the world's oldest tropical rainforests, preserved in the ceiling of a coal mine 250 feet below the surface.
The four-square-mile fossil forest — the largest find ever — is just south of Danville in Vermilion County, Ill., in the 300-million-year-old Herrin coal bed, a 6-foot-thick strip mined by a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Peabody Coal.
No photos; but a graphic about how they believe it happened.
The four-square-mile fossil forest — the largest find ever — is just south of Danville in Vermilion County, Ill., in the 300-million-year-old Herrin coal bed, a 6-foot-thick strip mined by a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Peabody Coal.
No photos; but a graphic about how they believe it happened.
Feed IBM's BlueGene L supercomputer simulates half a mouse brain (engadget.com)
Filed under: Desktops
Efforts to model the human brain (on IBM's Blue Gene, ironically) haven't reached the point of finality just yet, but it looks like the supercomputer has already tackled a smaller, albeit similar task at the University of Nevada. The research team, which collaborated with gurus from the IBM Almaden Research Lab, have ran a "cortical simulator that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse's brain on the BlueGene L," and considering that it took about eight million neurons into consideration without totally crashing, it remains a fairly impressive achievement. Notably, the process was so intensive that it was only ran for ten seconds at a speed "ten times slower than real-time," and while the team is already looking forward to speeding things up and taking the whole mind into account, it was noted that the simulation (expectedly) "lacked some structures seen in an actual brain." Now, if only these guys could figure out how to mimic the brain and offer up external storage to aid our failing memories.[Thanks, Richard L.]
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