Comment Is it really so farfetched? (Score 2) 63
Microsoft already makes a ton of money from Android.
Comment Not enough infomation (Score 1) 465
The answer would really depend on the nature of the problem. If you are doing more statistics type processing then R is commonly used in academia. Python might be good in the short and medium term, but you will probably want to get acquainted with C++ if you are serious.
Comment misleading title and story (Score 1) 157
The story makes it sound like there's no support for Fortran in MPI but there totally is:
https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/mpi/
I recognize that some kind of abstraction layer in a support library on top of MPI might be useful, but let's call it what it is.
Comment What about Canada? (Score 1) 404
I'm holding my breath!
Tunisian Gov't Spies On Facebook; Does the US? 221
jfruhlinger writes "Tunisians logging into Facebook encountered extra JavaScript, probably a sign of their repressive government's attempt to spy on them. The question is: does the US government do the same thing, just more subtly? We're not talking about agents friending you on Facebook to get more information about you; we're talking monitoring your supposedly private information behind the scenes."
Project M Could Send Every Scientist To the Moon, By Proxy 150
An anonymous reader writes with this interesting bit of speculation: "NASA can put humanoids on the Moon in just 1000 days. They would be controlled by scientists on Earth using motion capture suits, giving them the feeling of being on the lunar surface. If they can achieve this for real, the results for science research of our satellite could be amazing."
