Comment Re:Except... (Score 1) 126

by RadioheadKid on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @07:34PM (#48463213) Attached to: How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap

Colossus wasn't general purpose, so ENIAC was the first general purpose.

Comment Re:the first built in the US (Score 2) 126

by RadioheadKid on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @07:33PM (#48463211) Attached to: How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap

It was the first general purpose.

Comment Re:ENIAC wasn't the first (Score 0) 126

by RadioheadKid on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @07:32PM (#48463207) Attached to: How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap

Colossus wasn't general purpose.

Comment Levie runs Box not Dropbox (Score 1) 275

by RadioheadKid on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @02:16PM (#47767265) Attached to: Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google

Aaron Levie is co-founder and CEO of Box not Dropbox..

Comment Re:slashdot == stagnated (Score 2) 835

by RadioheadKid on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @10:09PM (#36980666) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce

Dude that's nothing, Sports Center has whole stories base on one tweet...

Comment We had these... (Score 5, Insightful) 279

by RadioheadKid on Saturday October 02, 2010 @02:44PM (#33771386) Attached to: Genetically Altering Trees To Sequester More Carbon

..they were called rain forests, we decided we didn't need them and wanted to raise cattle instead...

Comment Re:DRAM errors? (Score 1) 333

by RadioheadKid on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @08:32PM (#29664937) Attached to: Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed

We've known about them for a long time, why do you think there are three computers on the space shuttle...

Comment What about soft errors due to chip packaging? (Score 1) 333

by RadioheadKid on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @08:29PM (#29664921) Attached to: Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed

I find conclusion 7 a bit presumptuous. Soft errors are also caused by alpha particles emitted by contaminants in a chip's packaging in addition to cosmic rays. You could imagine that certain DIMMs might have lower quality (i.e. more contaminated) packaging than other DIMMs.

Comment Re:Concerns: (Score 1) 492

by RadioheadKid on Friday December 19, 2008 @05:30PM (#26177667) Attached to: Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming

1) Where does the energy come from to spray this water?

Duh...coal!