alkiel - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Neat (Score 1) 210

by alkiel on Saturday January 31, 2009 @08:26PM (#26680927) Attached to: Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record

It's perfectly reasonable to extrapolate just a LITTLE bit and imagine a very large factory that can make every part used in the factory itself, from the ICs in the control circuitry to lubricants for the moving parts. Said factory already exists, it is just distributed across the world and currently depends on human labor for many things.

Amazing thing is, many cells in your body are such factories!

Feed Friday Squid Blogging: "Invisibility Cloak Materials Made from Reflective Self-A (schneier.com)

From feed by bsfeed on Friday June 08, 2007 @07:12PM

Security and squid: A new study into the biophysical properties of a highly reflective and self-organizing squid protein called reflectin will inform researchers about the process of “bottom-up” synthesis of nanoscale structures and could lead to the development of thin-film...

Feed Surface computers: debunking Microsoft and Han (theregister.com)

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Comment Original design (Score 1) 766

by alkiel on Friday December 01, 2000 @07:47AM (#589075) Attached to: Why Linux Lovers Jilt Java

Java was intended as a language to control hardware interfaces and creating web applets is not its main application. Java produces easily readable code - which can be modified after months of developer-inactivity without checking up on language skills first. On the hardware side of things we've seen java doing wonderful things in the world of embedded systems.

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