Comment Wafers not Chips (Score 3, Informative) 13
This deal was about 300mm wafers (the substrate on which chips are manufactured) not 300mm chips. TechCrunch got the terminology wrong.
Comment No Economic Information (Score 2) 283
The authors are a condensed matter physicist and a lawyer. No economists there. So the "global financial crisis" they refer to could be that some countries benefit, others lose, that some companies make higher profits and others go bankrupt. How is that different from today's "crises"? An economist could help.
Comment Not for AT&T Business (Score 1) 66
Doesn't work for business accounts, so no good for folks that put their mobiles under a business account (like many consultants).
Comment Getting Things Done, David Allen (Score 1) 247
"Getting Things Done" by David Allen is certainly not a computer science book, but many successful computer scientists and entrepreneurs I know have read it and use its principles. GTD helps us organize and maintain their opportunities, plans and intents into a structure. It gets our to-do items out of our heads and into an organized system, so we can focus on one thing at a time. This was one of the most transformative books I've read, and I have a computer science Ph.D.
Solar Car Speed Record Smashed 72
An anonymous reader writes with word from Australia that "There's a new world record for the fastest solar-powered land vehicle: 88 km/h average speed over one kilometre in a lightweight car that uses about the same power as a toaster." As the article goes on to explain, this solar racer, built last year by students from the University of New South Wales, managed to nab that speed record earlier this month on an Australian navy base airstrip.
Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur 109
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Guardian reports that paleontologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast called Kosmoceratops richardsoni that stood 16 feet tall with a 6-foot skull equipped with 15 horns and lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah. 'These animals are basically over-sized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,' says Scott Sampson, a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History."
Comment Re:depends (Score 1) 1137
Municipal buses frequently have bike racks. San Francisco bay area bus lines have them. Regional trains allow bikes on board, etc.
Comment Re:Slightly OT: Obtaining current imagery? (Score 1) 535
I hypothesize Google pays for these images, and they are more likely to pay for recent high-res (i.e. more expensive) metropolitan images because there is greater demand (primarily from Google Maps rather than Google Earth). That's why your images are low-res and old. I'm pretty sure Google doesn't own any satellites. It's very expensive to deploy a satellite, and several companies have gone bankrupt with satellite-based products (Iridium is the most notable one, Sirius/XM may soon join the club). If such companies don't recover their costs, they will tank.
I would suggest that you make a case with Digital Globe to see if they will donate images in exchange for some kind of co-promotion. Such as, If you find the downed plane, you will say Digital Globe helped. It's worth a shot.
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