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Comment More efficient markets (Score 1) 388

by monk.wal on Monday April 18, 2011 @01:44AM (#35852682) Attached to: How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different

Creating technology that increases the chance a customer will find a product that matches their needs and allows companies to more precisely find appropriate clients, seems like it should reduce waste and be a benefit for the economy.

Comment Simulation games (Score 1) 225

by monk.wal on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:44AM (#35556398) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Online Science For 8th Grade Students?

Games like lunar launder are simple, and illustrate some important principals
An example implementation is here http://lander.dunnbypaul.net/

Comment Radio Beacon (Score 1) 279

by monk.wal on Sunday December 19, 2010 @08:55PM (#34611434) Attached to: US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier

If your going to identify your location to the enemy, there must be cheaper options than a smart phone.

New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed 263

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @06:21PM from the deeper-than-my-love-for-you dept.

Velcroman1 writes with this snippet from Fox News: "Using lead weights and depth sounders, scientists have made surprisingly accurate estimates of the ocean's depths in the past. Now, with satellites and radar, researchers have pinned down a more accurate answer to that age-old query: How deep is the ocean? And how big? As long ago as 1888, John Murray dangled lead weights from a rope off a ship to calculate the ocean's volume — the product of area and mean ocean depth. Using satellite data, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute set out to more accurately answer that question — and found out that it's 320 million cubic miles. And despite miles-deep abysses like the Mariana Trench, the ocean's mean depth is just 2.29 miles, thanks to the varied and bumpy ocean floor."

Comment Open graphic card allows specialized innovation (Score 1) 177

by monk.wal on Sunday May 03, 2009 @02:05PM (#27807685) Attached to: Basic Linux Boot On Open Graphics Card

A simple graphic card with an Ethernet port and VNC server would be great for remote installations, especially as it seems you could see the BIOS messages displayed in VGA during system boot.

The next step might be the ability to keep a history of all the VGA pages since the last boot so you could page back through the boot screens and find the problem.

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