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Comment Re:David vs Goliath vs Goliath's Goliath (Score 1) 141

by jjsm on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:48PM (#36979438) Attached to: Computer Scientist Calls For Web Search Shake-Up

Taken from Y Combinator*:

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund by Paul Graham July 2008 ... 16. A form of search that depends on design. Google doesn't have a lot of weaknesses. One of the biggest is that they have no sense of design. They do the next best thing, which is to keep things sparse. But if there were a kind of search that depended a lot on design, a startup might actually be able to beat Google at search. I don't know if there is, but if you do, we'd love to hear from you.

* http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

Comment DPI-Awareness still missing. (Score 3, Interesting) 176

by jjsm on Monday March 07, 2011 @02:16PM (#35408442) Attached to: Firefox 4 RC Vs. IE9 RC: the First Duel

I am using the Firefox 4 RC 1 and my native screen resolution is 1920x1080 (DPI adjusted to 150%). Firefox still ignores my DPI setting (Windows 7 OS). Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari are already aware of DPI settings. Why not Firefox?

Comment Expelled for calling the teacher a bipolar? (Score 1) 669

by jjsm on Sunday March 06, 2011 @09:40AM (#35396450) Attached to: Students Suspended, Expelled Over Facebook Posts

Alejandra Sosa, an honor roll student, said she regretted posting a Facebook status calling her teacher a pedophile. She has been suspended for 10 days.

William Lambert, also an honor roll student, had the same feelings as Sosa after he was reprimanded for calling the same teacher a rapist. He has also been suspended.

Taylor Tindle was *expelled* for posting that the same teacher is bipolar.

OMG, Really?

The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? 472

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 23, 2010 @02:38PM from the in-and-out-and-in-and-out dept.

pinkeen writes "I've used Linux as my work & play OS for 5+ years. The one thing that constantly drives me mad is its IO scheduling. When I'm copying a large amount of data in the background, everything else slows down to a crawl while the CPU utilization stays at 1-2%. The process which does the actual copying is highly prioritized in terms of I/O. This is completely unacceptable for a desktop OS. I've heard about the efforts of Con Kolivas and his Brainfuck Scheduler, but it's unsupported now and probably incompatible with latest kernels. Is there any way to fix this? How do you deal with this? I have a feeling that if this issue was to be fixed, the whole desktop would become way more snappier, even if you're not doing any heavy IO in the background." Update: 10/23 22:06 GMT by T : As reader ehntoo points out in the discussion below, contrary to the submitter's impression, "Con Kolivas is still actively working on BFS, it's not unsupported. He's even got a patch for 2.6.36, which was only released on the 20th. He's also got a patchset out that I use on all my desktops which includes a bunch of tweaks for desktop use." Thanks to ehntoo, and hat tip to Bill Huey.

Comment Re:A good textbook? (Score 1) 145

by jjsm on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @06:36PM (#32818536) Attached to: Quantum Physics For Everybody

With your math background I think that the book 'Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles' by R. Eisberg and R. Resnick would be a good read. That's the book I am reading for a one year class on modern physics.

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