Comment What no pirate comments? (Score 3, Funny) 165

by carl0ski on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @06:24PM (#31177174) Attached to: No Glasses Needed For TI's New 3D Display

I'll say it. This is what the movie industry needs to deal with those pesky pirates. What wooden legged, one eyed pirate is going to steal a 3d film that requires two good eyes :)

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:02AM from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."

Comment Re:possibly DEC Alpha, but not x86 (Score 1, Insightful) 144

by carl0ski on Friday December 28, 2007 @04:15AM (#21837572) Attached to: Google Apps Slow to Replace Competition

i never actually seen a Socket 6 motherboard
I owned Socket 7 mainboards

I had a K6-2 with the wonderful multiplier 2x = 6x that AMD was kind enough to offer.

I upgraded from Pentium nonMMX 100mhz to K6-2 500mhz @ 6x 83mhz 460mhz
on a terrible board with max multiplier 3.5 or Pentium 233.

Comment The Apprentice (Score 5, Funny) 215

by TheOtherKiwi on Wednesday September 06, 2006 @08:39PM (#16056506) Attached to: Stephen Hawking Looking for Assistant

He should run a TV show to find his next apprentice...oh, whoops.

Journal Journal: Medivac needed Lokitorrent is down in the field

Journal by carl0ski on Thursday February 10, 2005 @06:16PM

There are websites that provide legal downloads. This is not one of them. This website has been permanently shut down by court order because it facilitates the illegal downloading of copyrighted motion pictures. The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity. Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft, and is not anonym

Journal Journal: Duh

Journal by TheOtherKiwi on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @08:23PM

"------ What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand ----"

The part that allows dumb fucks like you to blindly follow where other dumb fucks have gone before.