Slashdot Mirror


User: Umbrel

Umbrel's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
61
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 61

  1. First post... :) on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    I hope it also encourage the use of LEDs

  2. Floppy's funeral? on Farewell To the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    Was that ol'pal still alive... I though the burial had been a couple of years ago

  3. Re:Silicon Valley will become K-Valley then? on IBM's Transistor Data Revealed · · Score: 5, Informative

    The improvement is not about increased capacitance in each transistor channel, that would be bad. The capacitance is scpecifically increased in the gate, that means that the gates can be made thicker (less leakage currents = less power consumption) while keeping (or improving) the values for current and voltaje needed to be applied at the gate and the time for the transistor to switch.

  4. Re:Yay first post... :) on OSSDI to Distribute OpenOffice.org in Schools · · Score: 1

    Yep, I noticed but I wanted the first post, so I let my fingers act wihout brain supervision :P

  5. Yay first post... :) on OSSDI to Distribute OpenOffice.org in Schools · · Score: 1

    So, they are not really doning nothing yet... but the mision sounds good, with a good organization pushingig OO to become the standar suite, although I guess that means to give customer / technical support, which is why schools and enterprises don't use more OSS. BTW non profit corporation... isn't that an oxymoron or just a fancy name for fundation (or am I just not used to legal terminology?)

  6. Re:compete against a decade of experience on Intel Discrete Graphics Chips Confirmed · · Score: 1

    In case your are not trying to get modded funny... he ment first chips

  7. Re:Does Dark Matter exist? on Hubble Telescope Maps Dark Matter in 3D · · Score: 1

    I'm certainly short of astrophysical knowledge, as to have an idea about BB vs z-pinch (is z-pinch the effect of threads like grouping of mass), specially since every webpage about astronomy that I've checked (not many) give standar info. AFAIK the "evidence" for BB is some constant expansion of the universe (which of course I don't know if it's really happening) I guess that has been deduced from the red shift and that's why you're mentioning the abnormalities of it. However given what you just said there sould be several galaxies aligned by axis and I haven't heard of that (not that I should or would :) ), also I think that thread-like galaxies should be more usual than spiral galaxies (I think, feel free to ignore) since electromanetic force is far stronger than gravitational. Fun though: since time & mass are related there is no time 0 (neither negative) because when "rewinding" towards BB (if it happened) the closer to it, the longer the time (something like the limit for 1/x when x tend to 0), so even with the BB the universe is still of infinite age. i still don't know why they sey that the BB was XX... years ago

  8. Re:I hate all-in-one devices on AMD's All-in-One Media Machine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most likely we would be better with just USB stackable (wireless?) devices for physical media inputs (VHS, DVD, etc) and a really good software to handle it, or USB a hardware panel. Something like a all(you want)-in-one modular kit.

  9. Re:Does Dark Matter exist? on Hubble Telescope Maps Dark Matter in 3D · · Score: 1

    Thanks, pretty interesting but I dislike the way you call them astrophysicists in general, since you're pointing out that there are some that are pursuing electrouniverse theory, I just don't like such an unaccurate generalization. BTW I think you mixed two subjects, I can't see why the Big Bang theory and the Electric Universe theory are muttually exclusives, since the BB is about the origin and the EU is about the evolution, I mean, EU needs mass and energy for a start and BB just says than mass and energy suddenly popped in (nothing proved but both theories don't deny each other)

  10. Re:Why do we count in base 10 instead of binary... on Why Do We Use x86 CPUs? · · Score: 1

    I think we could assign value = 4 to thumbs (since they are the oposing finger to the others) and then we would be using hexadecimal which is my favorite.

  11. Re:Business needs to pay attention on Xeons, Opterons Compared in Power Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Let's outsource our server farms to Alaska and Siberia, althought IT techs will not be happy with that... I guess