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Submission + - SPAM: 1 million $130 laptops already ordered

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alphadogg

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @10:59AM

alphadogg writes: "Quanta Computer has confirmed orders for 1 million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The machines cost $130, though the goal is to get them down to $100. [spam URL stripped]m illion-olpc-laptop-orders.html"

Submission + - Water logic gates built at MIT

Submitted by

ndogg

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @10:46AM

ndogg writes: "This story is all wet. Paulo Blikstein at MIT has created a water computer. The one boolean logic gate he created functions as a half-adder (i.e. both XOR and AND). He then proceeded to create a four bit adder."

Journal Journal: Never marry someone that thinks they're funny 3

Journal by IamBMETammy on Thursday February 15, 2007 @10:43AM

fallen: Read my journal thingy!

me: I did.
Saw your balls.

fallen: :D

me: Very impressive.
Lovely. Really.

fallen: Yay! I'm glad you like it
Did you hear the music too?

me: It's not unusual?
Yes.
Very painful

Charter Implements SiteFinder-Like DNS 206

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 15, 2007 @09:26AM from the fun-and-games dept.

paulbiz writes "Charter Cable's DNS servers have just started resolving all invalid hostnames and pointing them to their own error page. The About page states: 'This service automatically eliminates many of the error pages you may encounter as you surf the web. No software was installed on your computer for this service to work.' It has an 'opt-out' page, but when you use it Charter simply sets a cookie that makes their page redirect errors to Microsoft Live Search instead!" One more reason to use OpenDNS, where you can actually opt out of the custom error page.

Sketch Your Furniture in the Air 86

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 29, 2006 @12:10PM from the thats-just-a-neat-idea dept.

justelite writes "Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialize free hand sketches."

Comment Re:I'm rarely impressed... (Score 1) 221

by poj on Wednesday November 02, 2005 @01:47PM (#13933634) Attached to: Transcoding in 1/5 the Time with Help from the GPU

A very clever use indeed.
If you have hardware that does certain kinds of calculations much more effcient way than a general purpose processor, why not use it?
From an engineering standpoint it's the right thing to do. A GPU is a specialized processor when it comes to certain mathematical operations. If you specialize you can be very good at what you do.

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