Comment Mod parent up: 64-bit FLASH FOR LINUX IS OUT! (Score 1) 493
Parent-guy, you should give your post better titles so people will not assume it's not just the millionth empty riff.
Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours 166
krewemaynard writes "Google has announced that they were able to sort one petabyte of data in 6 hours and 2 minutes across 4,000 computers. According to the Google Blog, '... to put this amount in perspective, it is 12 times the amount of archived web data in the US Library of Congress as of May 2008. In comparison, consider that the aggregate size of data processed by all instances of MapReduce at Google was on average 20PB per day in January 2008.' The technology making this possible is MapReduce 'a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets.' We discussed it a few months ago. Google has also posted a video from their Technology RoundTable discussing MapReduce."
The World's Heaviest Robot 142
Roland Piquepaille writes "This distinction goes to a future autonomous version of the 700-tons Caterpillar mining truck. In this article, Discovery News reports that Caterpillar engineers and computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up to develop this autonomous truck. Japan-based Komatsu has already delivered autonomous mining trucks to its customers, but these are smaller than the Caterpillar ones. Both companies are transforming their trucks into 'robots' for three reasons. Improvements in safety, efficiency and productivity will reduce costs and increase availability."
Comment GMOs bad - listen to this & be convinced: (Score 1) 340
It's a recent piece - this lasts an hour I think, but it's worth it.
http://media.libsyn.com/media/deconstructingdinner /DD062206.mp3
A /very/ short version is (listen, really), that they can only change genes crudely, you don't know what else has changed along with the intended one. The lack of controls, and the effects, will shock you. And this is recent, say, end of 2005.
http://media.libsyn.com/media/deconstructingdinne
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