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John Hodgman Asks Obama, "Are You a Nerd?" 147

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @02:01PM from the gooble-gobble-one-of-us-one-of-us dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Watch a video of comedian John Hodgman speak after Barack Obama at the recent Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in DC and discuss the central question of our age: "how we can heal the great and shameful division that has plagued our nation for so long — the age old conflict between jocks and nerds" and ask Obama: Are you now, or have you ever been, a nerd?"

Journal Journal: WiFi - A Warning Signal

Journal by Morty Vicar on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @03:20AM

The BBC has an article asking if WiFi signals are damaging to us, especially children. In one example the investigators found that radio frequency radiation levels in some schools are up to three times the level found in the main beam of intensity from mobile phone masts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6674675.stm

Journal Journal: Is Microsoft actively astroturfing slashdot? 3

Journal by Evets on Sunday May 20, 2007 @05:25AM

Could Microsoft be actively astroturfing slashdot? When a discussion starts with an offhand comment laughing at an MS Products' supposed security and ends with attacks on Apache and Linux you really start to wonder.

Rollable E Ink Displays Get Real 116

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 18, 2007 @12:02PM from the just-don't-crease-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype of a functional electronic-document reader, called the Readius, which could unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. Unfortunately, that was only a prototype. According to Cnet, however, Polymer Vision, which spun out from Philips in 2006, has redesigned the Readius and turned it into a real product that it is going to be available by the end of this year. There are some notable differences between this Readius and the prototype version, in particular, the ability to display 16 shades of grey instead of just 4 and the connectivity options. What doesn't make sense though, is given the energy efficiency and easy-to-read high contrast functionality of E Ink, why other than Motorola with its Motofone, has no other cell phone manufacturer incorporated E Ink technology into its handsets?"

Creating Power From Wasted Heat 186

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 17, 2007 @08:31PM from the that's-borg-technology dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Today, about 90 percent of the world's electricity is created through an indirect and inefficient conversion of heat. It is estimated that two thirds of the heat used by thermoelectric converters are wasted and released. But now, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have found a new way to convert this wasted heat into electricity by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles. So far, this method of creating electricity creation is in its very early stage, but if it can scale up to mass production it may lead to a new and inexpensive source of energy."

Comment Re:Fibre Channel = Fire Wire (Score 1) 112

by wpaulson on Monday February 19, 2001 @09:14AM (#420789) Attached to: Fibre Channel For The Masses

FireWire isn't related to Fibre Channel in any way, other than serving some similar needs. Fibre Channel was invented by the large storage companies to be a extremely high speed interface to peripheral devices, without any cost compromise. It is/was intended to replace mainframe "channel" peripheral interfaces. The link technology that Fibre Channel invented was reused by Gigabit Ethernet, with Ethernet framing rather than FC. FireWire was invented by Apple, standardized by IEEE as 1394, and called i.Link by Sony. It was invented as a consumer level, high speed interface with optimizations for audio/video transport. It's much slower than Fibre Channel, and much much less expensive.

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