Comment Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score 2, Informative) 437

by ReadErr on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @10:28AM (#27224909) Attached to: Wikileaks Pages Added To Australian Internet Blacklist

Lots of countries have "freedom of information" laws. They might have different names, but the idea is the same.

Comment Come to Europe (Score 1) 210

by ReadErr on Saturday January 03, 2009 @05:03PM (#26314065) Attached to: AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength

Where 3G and 2G are on entirely different frequencies, so carriers don't have to choose which one they'll support this week...

Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3 302

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @03:31PM from the wait-until-it's-all-one-chip dept.

will_die writes "The people at iSuppli have taken apart an October 2008 version of the PlayStation 3 to create a bill of materials, along with providing a comparison to original PS3. The article provides information about the changes Sony has made. One of the big ones was that the hardware has gone from costing $690.23 to the current price of $448.73. This was done using a combination of removing parts (currently 2,820 vs. the original 4,048), cutting the cost of the CPU ($46.46 vs. $64.40), and cutting the cost of the graphics processor to $58.01 from $83.17."

Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? 1563

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @12:03PM from the thomas-sowell-can-speak-to-that dept.

ruheling writes "From yesterday's New York Times: ' What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?' In many US universities, over the past decade, there has been deliberate effort to integrate and encourage women and girls to get more involved in the 'hard' sciences, engineering, and math. However, instead of the proportion of women to men increasing, in Computer Science the opposite is actually true. Specifically, in 2001-2, only 28 percent of all undergraduate degrees in computer science went to women. Now many computer science departments report that women now make up less than 10 percent of the newest undergraduates. What's going on here, folks?"

New "MP3 100% Compatible" Logo For DRM-Free Music 263

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @11:29PM from the plays-for-sure-this-time-we-really-mean-it dept.

Sockatume writes "A coalition of seven UK digital music stores have created a logo for DRM-free, MP3 music. The 'MP3: 100% Compatible' logo allows the stores to emphasize the advantages of the format, namely that MP3 files will run on any device and won't keel over and die as DRM-laden files are wont to. The BPI — the UK equivalent of the RIAA — is backing the scheme, emphasizing that it will also allow users to identify legitimate stores."

Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web 370

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @09:00AM from the now-it-can-be-told dept.

Incon writes "Builder AU reports that Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Aker has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types."

Comment Re:Well, this could be a potential goldmine... (Score 1) 237

by ReadErr on Monday September 08, 2003 @07:55AM (#6898504) Attached to: Solar System Fossils Found By Hubble

Don't forget the Cargo Scoop Conversion, or you'll blow up trying to scoop up the minerals.