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  1. Re:whoopdee doo on Google I/O Day Two · · Score: 1

    Autonomously driving cars are awesome! Think about how many deaths could be prevented and how much more efficient/fast travel would be! Why don't they have a convention for autonomous vehicles with this type of publicity? Syncing stuff between phones and PCs offers about a 0.0000000001% improvement in my life quality. On another note, I see they had some cool contributions on a 1000 core cluster. Good for them.

  2. whoopdee doo on Google I/O Day Two · · Score: 0

    All these things are cool I guess, but not really innovative. Google needs to develop more interest in things that can have an impact on humanity instead of small technical changes to consumer products that only techy nerds care about for 15 minutes. Yes, I know they do useful things, but a whole convention for these little contributions are pointless.

  3. Python + Pygame on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pygame is a pretty nice little package for quickly building 2D games. Fairly decent documentation and best of all, free! http://pygame.org/

  4. Re:CUDA C++ and Thrust on Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit · · Score: 1

    I think that the whole point of the presented AMP work is the portability that is possible. As far as I could tell from the presentation, the same executable was used to explore the various hardware configurations on a single machine. It wasn't necessary to recompile for all of the various architectures, unlike when using CUDA when you would utilize an API to move data back and forth from the GPU. This is pretty cool, and I look forward to reading the details that comes out of this. Hopefully Microsoft is kind enough to publish some white papers..

  5. wow on Termites Eat Over Ten Million Rupees From Indian Bank · · Score: 0

    10 million rupees... That's like 15 bucks! There goes the whole Asian global economy!

  6. I'll believe it when I see it on Cheaper, More Powerful Alternative To FPGAs · · Score: 2

    No mention of how easy these things are to program. Timing constraints will be very tight, and what happens if clock skew carries signals across folds? Any success depends on how well the accompanying tools can implement the standard synthesis flow to support multiple levels.

  7. They missed one on Improving Productivity (With Science) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    #1 improvement to productivity) Closing Slashdot!

  8. Re:Just be glad you're not an elephant on Your Feces Is a Wonderland of Viruses · · Score: 1

    You've turned this perfectly good discussion about poop into an academic discussion. What has the Slashdot become?

  9. Re:So what we are anyway? on Your Feces Is a Wonderland of Viruses · · Score: 1

    We comprise about 1% by weight of bacteria.

    Dibs on next trendy diet infomercial.

  10. Nice. I can imagine most of my Apple owning friends hanging out at such an establishment, drinking a light tazo tea and discussing twitter feed apps.

  11. Random, but related on Some Google Searches Now Blocked In China · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On a sort of random, but related note...
    A recent foray into the underworld of chatroulette led me to a conversation with two Chinese nationals, although admittedly I WAS looking for naked fat bald men... They asked me what I thought of Obama, and I told them I wasn't fond of socialist or communist policies that manage vast amounts of my paycheck for me. I asked them what they thought of their government. Their only response was a single word: "love".
    It showed to me that the average Chinese citizen is keenly aware of the ability of the government to spy on them and monitor activities. It also seemed as though there was some degree of fear. Granted they weren't afraid of talking to me or asking about the United States, but talking about their own government was a big no no, and could bring reprisals.

  12. really? on The State of iPad Satisfaction · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would the average iPad consumer care about the app approval process? The average iPad buyer is not a developer. If that's the best complaint that they can manufacture in this article, I'm inclined to say this is an anti-Apple article with questionable researching techniques. Although, I didn't RTFA, so maybe I missed something.

  13. Re:Same way you get your kids interested in gaming on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    Omitting the brace, in my experience, leads to more errors and bugs down the road. Sure it might take an extra few hundred milliseconds to type (or have Visual Studio auto-complete it for even faster results), but when you want to add something to that while loop you don't run the risk of forgetting to add braces and having the added statement not actually be included in the loop block.

  14. Time to kiss the 70's goodbye on x86 Assembler JWASM Hits Stable Release · · Score: 1

    Pffft... Get out of here with this newfangled assembly. Real men code in native binary.

  15. they took our jobs! on India Moves To Put Its First Man In Space By 2016 · · Score: 1

    I foresee the powerful astronaut union becoming upset by the outsourcing of jobs here.

  16. depends on the college on Does Your College Or University Support Linux? · · Score: 1

    At my University, the respective computer labs of each department is handled internally. When I take one of my rare strolls over to the humanities buildings, their workstations are almost completely Windows XP based machines. In my native CS department however, we have over 200 workstations that are running CentOS Linux distro. We do have a windows server that has remote login enabled. We also have an NX server running a linux remote login. We've got full ssh, ftp capabilities. A friend of mine works in psych department, and she has zero access to any linux or remote login capabilities. So, I would say the more technical your daughters particular field is, the more likely her specific college/major provides the resources she would enjoy.

  17. Re:Hmm on The Outing of Pranknet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really hope you validated this. Wouldn't want some old man getting hundreds of angry phone calls.

  18. Played into his hands on The Outing of Pranknet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now this Malik guy is an internet celebrity, which is exactly what the article states is his desire. All of his actions have suddenly been validated, because hey, he's an internet star. Visits to prankster.com (or whatever, I don't know) probably just went through the roof, generating some ad revenue for him to pay for another full body massage at the corner-shop. Hundreds of jackass 15 year old imitators are already foaming at the mouth to copy these douchebags. While the article was hilarious in pointing out the creepy people behind prankster, they did them a huge favor by introducing them to the rest of the world.

  19. No cash. on Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17 · · Score: 1

    I would call shenanigans as soon as I didn't get any cash out of the machine.

  20. Next up... on Bacterial Computer Solves Hamiltonian Path Problem · · Score: 2, Funny

    Foot fungus solves graph coloring!

  21. Apple on CTO Says Support Should Never Be Necessary · · Score: 1

    This approach worked for Apple, didn't it? Make stupidly simple products so any idiot with a single finger can use it.

  22. Re:Most deserving on F-22 Raptor Cancelled · · Score: 1

    I agree. "Peace Through Strength" was a popular Reagan term!

  23. Re:That's a lot of code on 0 A.D. Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    doh

  24. That's a lot of code on 0 A.D. Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    175,000+ lines of codes. Conservatively, there is 10 bugs per 1000 lines of code.[ref] Thus, there are at least 175 bugs in the game.

  25. VHDL on VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs? · · Score: 2, Informative

    My university has been very successful using VHDL in our intro embedded programs. Check out this book on VHDL programming: http://www.amazon.com/VHDL-Digital-Design-Frank-Vahid/dp/0470052635