Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
Intel

Submission + - Intel says Clover Trail won't work with Linux (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Intel's Clover Trail Atom processor can be seen in various non-descript laptops around IDF and the firm provided a lot of architectural details on the chip, confirming details such as dual-core and a number of power states. However Intel said Clover Trail "is a Windows 8 chip" and that "the chip cannot run Linux".

While Intel's claim that Clover Trail won't run Linux is not quite true — after all it is an x86 instruction set so there is no major reason why the Linux kernel and userland will not run — given that the firm will not support it, device makers are unlikely to produce Linux Clover Trail devices for their own support reasons.
Japan

Submission + - Japan Aims to Abandon Nuclear Power by 2030s (nytimes.com)

Submitted by
mdsolar
mdsolar writes: "Reuters reports "Japan's government said it intends to stop using nuclear power by the 2030s, marking a major shift from policy goals set before last year's Fukushima disaster that sought to increase the share of atomic energy to more than half of electricity supply.

Japan joins countries such as Germany and Switzerland in turning away from nuclear power after last year's earthquake unleashed a tsunami that swamped the Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986. Japan was the third-biggest user of atomic energy before the disaster.

In abandoning atomic power, Japan aims to triple the share of renewable power to 30 percent of its energy mix, but will remain a top importer of oil, coal and gas for the foreseeable future.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's unpopular government, which could face an election this year, had faced intense lobbying from industries to maintain atomic energy and also concerns from its major ally, the United States, which supplied it with nuclear technology in the 1950s."

Meanwhile the US nuclear renaissance appears to be unraveling. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/unraveling-the-nuclear-renaissance/
 "
Chrome

Submission + - Google Cuts Chrome Page Load Times in Half (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It appears as if Google has quietly implemented the SPDY HTTP replacements in Chrome (well, we knew that), and its websites. All its websites were recently updated with SPDY features that address some of the HTTP latency issues. The result? Google says the pageload times were cut about in half. SPDY will be open source, so there is some hope that other browser manufacturers will add SPDY as well.
Firefox

Submission + - Windows browser ballot: the winners and the losers (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
Barence
Barence writes: "It's a year since the Windows browser ballot came into being in Europe — but has it made any difference? PC Pro has surveyed the minor browser makers — who theoretically had the most to gain from the ballot — to find out what impact it's had on their business. The answers are very mixed. One of the 12, FlashPeak SlimBrowser, claims it's resulted in fewer than 200 download per day. Others claim it's transformed their business. One thing is for certain: the big boys still dominate."

Submission + - How to Build an Open Source House (overtheunderground.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I'm starting a project that I hope that the engineers, makers and general DIYers in the Slashdot crowd can help out with. The full story's on the website, but the short version is as follows: my aim is to make a cheap, recycled, sustainable building, to document the process fully and to release anything that would help others to do the same. I intend to use an old train carriage as the shell, but the ideas should extend to shipping containers, aeroplane fuselages or anything similar. I know I'm not the first to do this, but I can't see anyone else who's provided a detailed step-by-step account of the build, complete with plans and the rest. Before I start, though, I'm trying to draw on as much collective experience as possible, and to head off mistakes before they happen. My question to Slashdot is simple: what do you think I need to know before I begin?
Businesses

Submission + - Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite Grandma Problem 1

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "Is a concert ticket a piece of property that its holder has the right to buy and sell as he sees fit, or is it merely a seat-rental contract subject to restrictions determined by its issuer? The Washington Post reports that in an effort to thwart scalpers and dampen ticket reselling on the so-called secondary market, musicians as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus, and Metallica have adopted "paperless ticketing" for some or all of the seats at their live shows as ticket issuers Ticketmaster and Veritix tout paperless tickets as a way to eliminate worries about lost, stolen or counterfeit tickets, and to banish long will-call lines. But paperless tickets aren't really tickets at all but essentially personal seat reservations, secured electronically like airline tickets where fans buy tickets with a credit card and must then go to the venue with the same credit card and a photo ID to gain admittance. The problem is that Ticketmaster's paperless tickets can't be transferred from a buyer to a second party and the inability to pass along a seat creates what's become known in the industry as the "grandma" problem because it's almost impossible for a grandma living at one end of the country to buy a paperless ticket as gift for a grandchild living at the other end. Without the ability to transfer virtual tickets, brokers and dealers fear being run out of business and consumers have a harder time selling unwanted tickets. "People should be free to give away or sell their tickets to whomever they want, whenever they want," says Gary Adler, a Washington attorney who represents the National Association of Ticket Brokers, a resellers' group that includes StubHub. "An open market is really best for consumers.""
Science

Submission + - Royal Society releases historic science papers (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by krou
krou writes: The Royal Society has released a number of historic science papers and made them available online via its Trailblazing website to celebrate its 350th anniversary. Among the papers are Benjamin Franklin's notes on his kite-flying experiment, a paper on black holes co-written by Professor Stephen Hawking, manuscripts from Sir Isaac Newton showing "that white light is a mixture of other colours", and a few other interesting details such as "a gruesome account of a 17th Century blood transfusion".
Patents

Encyclopedia Britannica Loses Information-Retrieval Patent Ruling 95

Posted by timothy from the rent-seeking-behavior-thwarted-for-once dept.
angry tapir writes with a snippet from Good Gear Guide: "A notorious patent case about a technology that allows people to search multimedia content may finally be coming to a close. Earlier this week, a judge ruled that two patents initially awarded to Encyclopedia Britannica are invalid. The patents were built on the infamous 5,241,671 patent first unveiled by Compton's NewMedia in 1993 at the Comdex trade show. That patent, which covered the retrieval of information from multimedia content and is now owned by Britannica, would have been relevant to the many companies selling multimedia CD-ROMs at the time."

Slashdot Top Deals

How many weeks are there in a light year?

Close