Comment Nascom-1 (Score 1) 523
Z-80 based. 1300 hand soldered joints before it eventually worked. Massive 2K RAM including video memory. Some kind of nanoscopic BASIC
Comment There's an AI toaster already (Score 1) 154
The countdown has begun!
Comment He taught Computer Communications in 1980 at UCL (Score 1) 22
...but IIRC it was mostly the OSI 7-layer model, with a side dish of TCP/IP.
Comment At last! (Score 1) 195
Finally it's threatening the USA... something might be done about it
Comment Naked human overlay? (Score 1) 18
Finally, the X-ray specs they promised me in the comics when I was a kid!
Comment Freedom? (Score 1) 200
Until our new Emperor says "All your planets are belong to us!"
Game over
Submission + - Billionaires Chase for the Holy Grail of Energy: Fusion (bloombergquint.com)
Zorro writes: Not long before he died, tech visionary Paul Allen traveled to the south of France for a personal tour of a 35-country quest to replicate the workings of the Sun. The goal is to one day produce clean, almost limitless energy by fusing atoms together rather than splitting them apart.
Allen wasn’t just a bystander in the hunt for the holy grail of nuclear power. He was among a growing number of ultra-rich clean-energy advocates pouring money into startups that are rushing to produce the first commercially viable fusion reactor long before the $23 billion ITER program’s mid-century forecast.
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Peter Thiel are just three of the billionaires chasing what the late physicist Stephen Hawking called humankind’s most promising technology. Scientists have long known that fusion has the potential to revolutionize the energy industry, but development costs have been too high for all but a handful of governments and investors. Recent advances in exotic materials, 3D printing, machine learning and data processing are all changing that.
Allen wasn’t just a bystander in the hunt for the holy grail of nuclear power. He was among a growing number of ultra-rich clean-energy advocates pouring money into startups that are rushing to produce the first commercially viable fusion reactor long before the $23 billion ITER program’s mid-century forecast.
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Peter Thiel are just three of the billionaires chasing what the late physicist Stephen Hawking called humankind’s most promising technology. Scientists have long known that fusion has the potential to revolutionize the energy industry, but development costs have been too high for all but a handful of governments and investors. Recent advances in exotic materials, 3D printing, machine learning and data processing are all changing that.
Comment Whatever area you can work (Score 1) 239
Planets, moons, asteroids... can we draw some arbitrary line on size? Since a planet can only reasonably mined on the basis of whatever area you can "work", why not apply this rule to all bodies?
Comment 13th Floor (Score 1) 164
Reached the edge of the simulation?
Comment Re:increases exponentially (Score 1) 272
Indeed, I think ~30 million years was calculated for populating the entire galaxy with beings using only sedentary, rocket launched, ark-ships. 300 year voyage followed by 300 years of settlement on each planet before the next diaspora.
Halo Elite Cosplay Puts Others To Shame 115
AndrewGOO9 writes "Pete Mander, a special effects artist from Ontario, Canada seems like he might have either had way too much time on his hands or just really enjoys Halo. Either way, this is one of those costumes that makes all of the cosplayers at a con feel like their best efforts just weren't quite up to par."
Study Shows Standing Up To Bullies Is Good For You 458
It will come as no surprise to anyone who's ever talked to my grandpa, but a recent study has shown that standing up to a bully is good for you. Although being bullied can be stressful and lead to depression, children who returned hostility were found more likely to develop healthy social and emotional skills. From the article: "In a study of American children aged 11 and 12, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, compared those who stood up to aggressors with those who did not. Children who returned hostility with hostility appeared to be the most mature, the researchers found. Boys who stood up to bullies and schoolyard enemies were judged more socially competent by their teachers. Girls who did the same were more popular and more admired by teachers and peers, the researchers found."
Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick 574
OrangeMonkey11 writes "A Santa Fe man who claims to suffer from 'electromagnetic sensitivities' has sued his neighbor after she refused to stop using wireless devices. 59-year-old Arthur Firstenberg claims his sensitivity can be set off by cellphones, routers and other electronic devices. From the article: 'Firstenberg, 59, wanted Raphaela Monribot to limit her use of the devices. "I asked her to work with me," he said. "Basically, she refused." So he sued Monribot in state district court, seeking $530,000 in damages and an injunction to force her to turn off the electronics. "Being the target of this lawsuit has affected me very adversely," Monribot said Friday in response to e-mailed questions. "I feel as if my life and liberty are under attack for no valid reason, and it has forced me to have to defend my very basic human rights."'"
Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582
An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"
Comment Re:Programming without music? (Score 1) 1019
Hmm, I take your point but in this example I think pretty much any programmer could answer a quick question without their balls dropping.
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