Comment Re:Kind of lame (Score 1) 14
Best comment in a long time on
+1 Funny
Comment No real change - just hype... (Score 1) 13
This is just marketing BS and no real change. Don't fall for the hype. It a ridiculous amount of pressure for companies to come up with something ground breaking around AI at the moment.
Comment Re:Build once, sell many (Score 1) 77
Spot on.
I used to work in telecom and this was basically the reasoning. The so called "Over The Top" big tech companies were seen as raping the telcom operators of their lucrative business and in the end someone had to pay for the brand new infrastructure investments.
Comment Re:Hoping for another small reef in the Pacific (Score 1) 143
+1 couldn't agree more...
Comment Re: The New World Problem (Score 1) 15
The new world player base declines. Then Amazon announces that more resources will be added to the development. Hmm, something isnâ(TM)t right, wonder what.
Comment Re:Is anyone actually buying these books? (Score 1) 40
Because there are more people out there blissfully unaware of ChatGPT than people using it actively. So there is a large market.
Comment Finally! (Score 2) 35
Finally some real news for nerds on stuff that actually matters!
Comment Re: I did some work for creative once (Score 1) 79
Interesting, I actually bought a 64MB MuVu mp3 player back in the day. It was great and had long battery life and a really small form factor.
Comment Supply and demand (Score 1) 73
Well... if your price increase to a 10-year high, then don't be surprised that the sales dropped to a 10-year low.
Comment Great... (Score -1, Flamebait) 111
Just replace one drug (alcohol) with another drug (mushrooms). Now you'll be hooked to the psychedelics instead of the alcohol, yeay!
Comment Major investor... (Score 2) 22
He used to proceeds to buy take-away food. Sounds like a brilliant investor
Comment 31 days and counting now... (Score 1) 5
The RSS feed has broken the slashdot reader app on Apple app store as well. Stories are not being updated. Fix would be great.
Submission + - Scientists Find a Means to Boil Water More Efficiently (mit.edu)
joshuark writes: MIT engineers design surfaces that boil more efficiently.
The improved efficiency comes from a combination of three different kinds of surface modifications, at different size scales. The new findings are described in the journal Advanced Materials in a research paper.
The potential impact of the improved efficiency; boiling water is an energy-intensive step at the heart of a wide range of industrial processes, including most electricity generating plants, many chemical production systems, and even cooling systems for electronics.
Perhaps this discovery will give new meaning to the old adage, "A watched pot never boils..."
Josh K.
The improved efficiency comes from a combination of three different kinds of surface modifications, at different size scales. The new findings are described in the journal Advanced Materials in a research paper.
The potential impact of the improved efficiency; boiling water is an energy-intensive step at the heart of a wide range of industrial processes, including most electricity generating plants, many chemical production systems, and even cooling systems for electronics.
Perhaps this discovery will give new meaning to the old adage, "A watched pot never boils..."
Josh K.
Comment IIS is out of reach for China (Score 4, Insightful) 42
According to Wikipedia: "China's incentive to build its own space station was amplified after NASA refused Chinese participation in the International Space Station in 2011".
Clearly the Chinese are now eager to compete for the superpower throne and are working hard on getting there own presence in space and some firsts of their own.
Submission + - Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people's cell phones (insidenova.com) 1
Beerismydad writes: A Virginia man was secretly tracked by Chester County Police detectives using a warrant, which ordered Verizon to regularly ping the man's location and report it to police. The catch? The man was not named as a suspect in the warrant and has not been charged with a crime since the investigation began.
According to InsideNova, a local online news source for Northern Virginia, "The case offers a glimpse into a surveillance technique that’s become commonplace for police but is mostly unknown among the general public: cell phone location tracking."
According to InsideNova, a local online news source for Northern Virginia, "The case offers a glimpse into a surveillance technique that’s become commonplace for police but is mostly unknown among the general public: cell phone location tracking."
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