Comment Rodney Zaks' "Programming rhe Z80" (Score 1) 515
...and 90,000 hours practicing. Still learning.
Comment Re: Nothing went "wrong" (Score 4, Informative) 50
16 year old company has had two profitable years--both due to patent settlements. It has half the subscribers it had ten years ago and four times the employees. It may be a great device but it has always been a lousy business for post-ipo investors.
Comment Re: Nothing went "wrong" (Score 1) 50
Tivo has been a financial disaster from the start for everyone but the founders, ipo underwriters and employees. QPlay repeats that pattern but spares public shareholders' pocketbooks.
Own Your Own Fighter Jet 222
gimmebeer writes "The Russian Sukhoi SU-27 has a top speed of Mach 1.8 (more than 1,300 mph) and has a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1 to 1. That means it can accelerate while climbing straight up. It was designed to fight against the best the US had to offer, and now it can be yours for the price of a mediocre used business jet."
Comment Goto DIYDrones.com (Score 1) 259
Next time try googling before you post here.
Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser 188
igrigorik writes "The generality and simplicity of Google's Map-Reduce is what makes it such a powerful tool. However, what if instead of using proprietary protocols we could crowd-source the CPU power of millions of users online every day? Javascript is the most widely deployed language — every browser can run it — and we could use it to push the job to the client. Then, all we would need is a browser and an HTTP server to power our self-assembling supercomputer (proof of concept + code). Imagine if all it took to join a compute job was to open a URL."
Submission + - Satirist Gets Three Months; the Judge, Likely More (nytimes.com)
ponraul writes: When Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., 58, sentenced Hillary Transue, 17, on a harassment charge stemming from a MySpace parody of her high school's assistant principal, Hillary expected to be let off with a stern lecture; instead, the Wilkes-Barre, PA area teen got three months in a commercially operated juvenile detention center.
In a reversal of fortune, Ciavarella and, his colleague, Judge Conahan, 56, find themselves trying to plea-bargain a 87 month sentence in Federal correctional facilities relating to a kick-back scheme that netted the pair $2.6 Million and PA Child Care 5000 inmates.
Comment The reason for the debate is.... (Score 2, Interesting) 564
...a perfectly engineered wing would break at 150.000001% Anything stronger is over-engineered and represents an unnecessary weight penalty. (Other versions of the 777 video make this same point; the engineers were sweating the fact that the wing did NOT break at 151, 152 or 153) The reason for breaking the 787 wing is to prove that it is not over-engineered. The problem is the geometry of the carbon fiber wing flexion may allow the tips to flex and touch without representing meaningful aerodynamic loading. Once you've pulled the tips past vertical you've entered he realm of the hoop wing and exited the realm of meaningful testing and data.
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