maddmike - Slashdot User

Comment Easy way for Tesla to make money (Score 1) 523

by maddmike on Thursday June 23, 2011 @02:17PM (#36544640) Attached to: Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster

All they have to do is start selling the electric motor they put in the Roadster.

Anyone who has looked into doing an electric car conversion can tell you the motor in the roadster is much better than anything else on the market in terms of size to power output. They have the market locked down though so you can't buy them.

Comment Developers = Managers?? (Score 1) 370

by maddmike on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @04:43PM (#35142602) Attached to: Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation

While on the surface this sounds like a great idea, I can't help but look back on 15 years of developing software and realize that the people who were the best at with the technical issue were usually the worst at handling the personell and political issues. Just because you good at something doesn't mean you are good at getting other people to do the same thing. It seems that there is a balance point somewhere between business people and tech savy people they need to find.

Comment Re:What'll you bet... (Score 1) 601

by maddmike on Thursday April 08, 2010 @11:15AM (#31776662) Attached to: IE9 Throws Down the Hardware Acceleration Gauntlet

it's so instead of just getting annoying script errors you will get a BSOD when a web page has errors.

Submission + - The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Monday February 08, 2010 @11:31AM

snydeq writes: "Apple's reticence on revealing details prior to a product's launch is legendary. But when Apple extends this silence beyond a product's unveiling, more often than not, the product cannot deliver the functionality that has been asked about. InfoWorld's Galen Gruman lists eight key questions for the iPad, all of which Apple has kept silent about. Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad? Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email? Does the iPad support VPN and configuration management? 'I have no doubt the iPad will be compelling to some users. But I now have major concerns that it will fulfill the potential beyond being an iTunes delivery screen that I and other industry observers saw,' Gruman writes."

Graphene Transistors 10x Faster Than Silicon 170

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 05, 2010 @11:19AM from the can't-be-too-rich-either dept.

Asadullah Ahmad writes "IBM has created transistors made from carbon atoms, which operate at 100 gigahertz, while using a manufacturing process that is compatible with current semiconductor fabrication. With silicon close to its physical limits, graphene seems like a viable replacement until quantum computing gets to desktop. Quoting: 'Researchers have previously made graphene transistors using laborious mechanical methods, for example by flaking off sheets of graphene from graphite; the fastest transistors made this way have reached speeds of up to 26 gigahertz. Transistors made using similar methods have not equaled these speeds.'" The other day we discussed what sounds like similar research by a group of scientists at Tohoku University; that team did not produce transistors, however.

PS3 Hacked? 296

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 25, 2010 @07:35AM from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post: "I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG."

Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 25, 2010 @12:26AM from the one-man's-readable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"

Comment Re:They force you to lease software (Score 1) 1016

by maddmike on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @11:54AM (#28942293) Attached to: California Student Arrested For Console Hacking

It sounds like he was modding consoles for other people. The article states:
Last May, ICE agents executed a federal search warrant at Crippen's home, where they seized more than a dozen Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony video game consoles.

People were paying him to mod their consoles.

Comment Nutrient Value (Score 1) 921

by maddmike on Thursday July 30, 2009 @11:55AM (#28883201) Attached to: UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food

One of the best things I read in Michael Pollans "In Defense of Food" was that an apple grown today has only about 30% of the nutrients of one grow 50 years ago probably because the spend so much less time on the vine and in very nutrient stared soil. This is probably one of the reason we are all getting so fat, we are eating 3 times as much to get the same nutrients.

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