Comment Re: Rugrats Rule (Score 1) 43
Fwiw, Mark also did the music for Beakman's World, which is one of my favorites.
Comment Ripe for Biohackery... (Score 2) 333
By that I mean simply grow your own. :)
Aloe is a hardy plant and is perfectly content for you to leave it alone with just a bit of water now and then. It is also happy to give up a branch/frond/whateveryoucallit whenever you need a bit of the sap to soothe a burn.
~ T
Comment In school (Score 2) 320
5th grade. One of the students from an adjacent classroom ran in and breathlessly announced that the shuttle had blown up. Instant silence. My teacher walked to the other 5th grade classroom to confer with the teacher there, then they opened the partition between the two classrooms and wheeled in the TV-and-VCR-on-a-cart so we could all watch the news together. I just remember feeling like I had been kicked in the gut.
Comment Re:And it's just the first step! (Score 1) 83
I see what you did there.
Now go some paper towels and clean it up!
Comment Re:bad summary (Score 1) 121
I've run it in MS-DOS many times. Got a nice rendering of The Ringworld system, complete with background stars and shadow squares. The last time was on a Vista machine. A NEW Vista machine, I made some springs or some such thing. Haven't been back since.
Just curious -- where did your Ringworld scene code come from? I wrote one up back in the mid-90's that had what you describe. ~ Terrin
Comment Re:bad summary (Score 1) 121
Three.
Three of your book covers.
I should know. ;)
~ Terrin
Comment Re:hmmm. I can just imagine the advice... (Score 1) 88
Or Death by Toblerone.
Wolfenstein Gets Ray Traced 184
An anonymous reader writes "After showcasing Quake Wars: Ray Traced a few years ago, Intel is now showing their latest graphics research project using Wolfenstein game content. The new and cool special effects are actually displayed on a laptop using a cloud-based gaming approach with servers that have an Intel Knights Ferry card (many-core) inside. Their blog post has a video and screenshots."
SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket 190
leetrout writes "SpaceX has successfully launched a two-stage rocket, the Falcon 9, into Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 'Liftoff came after hours of delay, sparked initially by launchpad telemetry problems, then by a sailboat that strayed into a restricted area of the launch range. The day's first countdown was aborted at virtually the last second, due to a problem with the engine parameters, but the launch software was adjusted and a second countdown went all the way to the end.'"
Update: 06/04 20:16 GMT by S : Reader mrcaseyj points out Spaceflight Now's coverage, which includes a number of pictures from the launch.
Submission + - Space X Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Rocket (msn.com) 1
leetrout writes: Space X has successfully launched a 2 stage rocket, the Falcon 9, into Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The successful launch came after a failed attempt earlier today. Read the entire article at MSNBC
Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 589
If only I had mod points.
Well played, sir.
Living Free With Linux, Round 2 936
bsk_cw writes "About a month ago, in Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows, Preston Gralla wrote about what life was like for a long-time Windows user trying to live with Linux. His main problems came when he tried to install or update software. Loads of people responded with advice — so he went back and tried again. Here's what he learned, and what did and didn't work for him."
Comment Wheel of Fish! (Score 1) 684
Yes, yes, but what is it if I look inside the box?
You'll find ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. STUPID!
Submission + - Intel to sample flash-killer PRAM this year
Station writes: Intel's new phase-change memory technology (PRAM) will begin sampling this year. Samsung, IBM, and Hitachi are all working on phase-change memory as a successor to flash as it has a lower (~20ns) read latency than flash (50-90ns). 'Intel says they plan to ship the first PRAM modules as a straight-ahead NOR flash replacement so that they can work the kinks out of the design before trying to move it up the memory hierarchy. The company claims a much higher number of read-write cycles (100 million) than flash, as well as a potential 10 years' worth of data retention. NOR flash is typically used as program storage memory for mobile devices like cell phones, while more durable but slower NAND flash is used for mass storage in devices like the iPod nano.'
Submission + - Samsung Begins Shipping Hybrid Hard Drives
writertype writes: "Samsung has become the first company begin shipping hybrid hard drives, we report on ExtremeTech. Unfortunately, there's no word yet (besides "soon") on when retail shipments will begin, or when (or if) 3.5-inch models will be available. Note that these are different than the ReadyBoost USB flash drives optimized for Vista; hybrid drives contain a smaller amount of flash, and work as a write cache for your notebook drive, extending battery life."
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