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Comment Re:It can't generate good guitar solos (Score 1) 52

by jacksonic on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:51PM (#63245451) Attached to: Google Created an AI That Can Generate Music From Text Descriptions, But Won't Release It

A classic!

Comment It can't generate good guitar solos (Score 4, Funny) 52

by jacksonic on Friday January 27, 2023 @02:43PM (#63245073) Attached to: Google Created an AI That Can Generate Music From Text Descriptions, But Won't Release It

Because it always adds too many fingers...

Sears To Convert Old Auto Centers Into National Chain of Data Centers 167

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 14, 2013 @07:10PM from the where's-roebuck-all-this-time? dept.

1sockchuck writes "Sears plans to convert dozens of Sears Auto Center stores into a national chain of server farms, saying it wants to be "the McDonald's or Starbucks of data centers." The strategy is an evolution of Sears Holdings' previously announced plan to turn old Sears and Kmart stores into IT centers. Instead, it will focus on the more than 700 Sears Auto Centers, which include many stand-alone cement buildings on mall perimeters. Ubiquity Critical Environments, the data center arm of Sears, will team with Schneider Electric to turn these sites into data centers. They'll use repeatable modular designs to add power and cooling infrastructure, targeting at least 23 smaller cities where there currently aren't many options for IT outsourcing."

Comment Re:catch me up now someone? (Score 2) 130

by jacksonic on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @03:07PM (#45403881) Attached to: AMD Confirms Kaveri APU Is a 512-GPU Core Integrated Processor

The best benefit I find is the need for only a single heatsink. One giant radiator and a single large, slow case fan, and you have an extremely quiet system.

Comment Finally, the savior of the PC (Score 1) 54

by jacksonic on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:17AM (#43482311) Attached to: HP To Package Leap Motion Sensor Into — Not Just With — Some Devices

With all the fancy touch enabled UIs floating around on tablets and phones, the PC can finally make a similar evolutionary advancement. Touch screens on the desktop or a laptop are annoying to reach for, but a device sitting in the keyboard is even closer at hand than a mouse. Windows 8 doesn't seem so silly now.

Comment Re:Everyone gets a planet.... (Score 2) 142

by jacksonic on Friday April 12, 2013 @03:45PM (#43434999) Attached to: IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet

Asimov's Spacers tried that, and look how it worked out for them...

Comment Exactly what Windows 8 needed at launch (Score 2) 108

by jacksonic on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @02:29PM (#43294547) Attached to: The Leap Motion Controller is Sort of Like a Super Kinect (Video)

This turns any computer into a touchscreen. It should have come built in to all windows 8 keyboards: the metro tiles would finally make sense.

Comment That's why Qt is awesome (Score 1) 418

by jacksonic on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @03:26PM (#43082063) Attached to: Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow

It does the job, but over and above that Qt has excellent and thorough documentation. Trying to move to other frameworks can be frustrating when their docs are terse or missing entirely.

Comment Just blend the web and local programs (Score 1) 431

by jacksonic on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:42PM (#26658153) Attached to: The Case Against Web Apps

Qt took the step by allowing webkit and widgets to commingle... you can have local code running inside your browser, which can render local or remote content.

I like C++ better than Javascript anyway :P

Comment Bah! (Score 2, Insightful) 141

by jacksonic on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @03:46PM (#20560161) Attached to: Pre-Order Valve Games Via Steam Next Week, Enter the TF2 Beta

True fans will shell out whatever monies are necessary to get their hands on the ambrosia that is Team Fortress 2.

Submission + - Police objecting to tickets from red-light cameras

Submitted by

caffiend666

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @12:21PM

caffiend666 writes: "According to this Dallas Morning New article, any "...Dallas police officer in a marked squad car who is captured on the city's cameras running a red light will have to pay the $75 fine if the incident doesn't comply with state law... Many police officers are angry about the proposed policy. The prevailing belief among officers has been that they can run red lights as they see fit." How is this a case for or against governments relying on un-biased automated systems? Or, should anyone be able to control who is recorded on camera and who is held accountable?"

Journal Journal: Anyone know of a cheap dedicated hosting company? 2

Journal by TheRaven64 on Thursday April 12, 2007 @12:05PM

My current hosting company wants to put their prices up. I currently have a Mac Mini running OpenBSD colocated with them. I am looking to move, and have the following minimum needs:

1GHz CPU,
512MB of RAM,
1IP,
50GB/month of transfer,
OpenBSD or FreeBSD.

The Platinum Age of CRPGs 112

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 12, 2007 @11:55AM from the my-favorite-coin-denomination dept.

Matt Barton writes "I've just posted my third (and final) installment on CRPG history at GamaSutra: The Platinum and Modern Ages. This article covers the many classics released between 1994 and 2004, including Fallout, Planescape: Torment, Ultima Underworld, and of course Baldur's Gate, Diablo, and The Elder Scrolls. It also discusses why WoW and other MMORPGs aren't descended from these CRPGs (but rather MUDs). The Platinum Age produced the finest CRPGs ever made — but the future of the stand-alone, single-player CRPG looks grim."

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