Comment So just like a Citrix client? (Score 1) 190
I've been using Citrix for years. I can't stand it, but it is what corporate wants.
Comment doubters should stand aside (Score 1) 108
"People who say it can't be done should stand out of the way of the people who are doing it"
Yes, there are challenges, but it is just a matter of time.
Comment Re:Units, sigh. (Score 1) 315
There are two kinds of countries. One kind uses metric and the other kind has put men on the moon.
Comment How is this fusion? (Score 5, Interesting) 185
How is this fusion? You are taking a large isotope (boron) and splitting it into alpha particles. This sounds more like radioactive decay, or fission, than fusion.
In addition, the amount of energy released per reaction is fairly small (8.7 MeV per Wikipedia article) and you need to power the lasers, so how far from break even are they? (the article conveniently leaves this out)
Comment Adventure Zone (Score 1) 277
Who doesn't like a good D&D adventure?
Adventure Zone
https://maximumfun.org/episode...
Submission + - Car thieves use laptop and malware to steal more than 30 Jeeps (abc13.com)
altnuc writes: Two thieves in Houston steal more than 30 Jeeps by using a laptop and a stolen database. The thieves simply look up the vehicles VIN number in a stolen database, reprogram a generic key fob, start the car, and drive away.
Chrysler has confirmed that more than 100 of their vehicles have been stolen in the Houston area since November.
Chrysler/Jeep owners should always make sure their vehicles are locked!
Chrysler has confirmed that more than 100 of their vehicles have been stolen in the Houston area since November.
Chrysler/Jeep owners should always make sure their vehicles are locked!
Comment Sucker born every minute (Score 1) 143
"fewer than a dozen students who pay the full price"
There are now fewer than a dozen students who are feeling pretty stupid right now...
Comment Moore wasn't the first, only the most famous. (Score 1) 214
Moore wasn't the first person to recognize this, only the most famous.
See for example:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1PX1HUsIBhnOSOsxcM2HoJZHv-9rtnNPOu-CA--584-UA4GLXxhWz842JmRDy&hl=en
which describes Selengut's results from 1959. Selengut predicted computer speeds would double in
magnitude every 10 years.
Comment Consistent policy is most important (Score 1) 367
One of the problems with e-mail is that employees can have casual conversations about something
that can later be taken out of context. For example, two engineers talk about a procedure that is
really stupid and doesn't mean anything. Five years later, lawyers perform a "discovery" and find
"evidence" that engineers didn't take procedures seriously. Now they can sue.
The problem with saving some of your e-mail is that the lawyers can claim that you deleted incriminating
e-mail and only saved e-mail that proved your side of the story. The answer to that is have a consistent
policy where all e-mail is deleted after some time. 180 days seems awfully short, 1 year seems more
appropriate, but I guess it depends on what kind of business you are in.
Wintel, Universities Team On Parallel Programming 91
kamlapati writes in with a followup from the news last month that Microsoft and Intel are funding a laboratory for research into parallel computing at UC Berkeley. The new development is the imminent delivery of the FPGA-based Berkeley Emulation Engine version 3 (BEE3) that will allow researchers to emulate systems with up to 1,000 cores in order to explore approaches to parallel programming. A Microsoft researcher called BEE3 "a Swiss Army knife of computer research tools."
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