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Honeycomb To Require Dual-Core Processor 177

Posted by timothy from the expand-the-requirements dept.
adeelarshad82 writes "According to managing director of Korean consumer electronics firm Enspert, Google's new Android Honeycomb tablet OS will require a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor to run properly. That means that many existing Android tablets will not be upgradeable to Honeycomb, as they lack the processor necessary to meet the spec. Currently, Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform is the only chipset in products on the market to include a Cortex-A9, although other manufacturers have said they're moving to the new processor architecture for 2011 products."

Comment Re:how useful is DHT? (Score 1) 87

by YU Nicks NE Way (#22361592) Attached to: Zvents Releases Open Source Cluster Database Based on Google
In my thirty-plus years in the industry, I have seen a disk drive which could support transactional storage. The notion that you're going to write data in a manner which is more reliable than the underlying store is laughable. Even if you check the integrity of the underlying record, how do you know that your integrity check actually tested against the data you'll return next time? You don't; all you know is that the odds that you get back something else are negligibly small -- not zero, but low enough that you can neglect them, just like the word says.

ACID and transactional reliability are useful features of a system, but they are not magic pixie dust which prevents data loss or corruption, and they are not the only way to minimize data loss and corruption. It may be, for instance, that you'll get better reliability out of your system through simple replication -- which has the automatic advantage of making your data easy to geo-replicate.
Google

FTC Approves Google-DoubleClick Deal 56

Posted by kdawson from the one-ad-server-to-rule-them-all dept.
Bogie Lowenstein is one of many readers letting us know that the FTC has approved Google's acquisition of DoubleClick in a 4-to-1 vote. The FTC essentially blew off the privacy concerns about the merger, saying it lacked the legal authority to block the deal on any grounds except antitrust. The EU's review of the deal is still going forward, with a decision due by April 2, 2008; the privacy sensibility there is more sharply focused.
Displays

Stretching Crystals Promise Bendy, Full-Color Displays 117

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the less-eye-stress dept.
NewScientist is reporting that a new approach to crystal formation could help create power-efficient, flexible color displays. These new photonic crystals, structured similar to opals, can be tuned by adjusting the gaps between the crystals. "The beauty of the device is that it can produce the whole spectrum of colors, even ultraviolet and infrared light, using only incident light. As a result, the expensive color filters used in every other color display on the market today, are no longer needed. And because the displays use only reflected ambient light, no power is wasted on back-lighting, as in today's mobile phones, for example. 'They can be viewed just as well in bright sunlight as in indoor light,' team member André Arsenault of the University of Toronto told New Scientist."
Security

Journal Journal: Your Kids Could be Exposing Your Files on the Net

Journal by Alien54
Your kids could be exposing all of your confidential computer files to the entire world. WFXT (Fox 25 TV in Boston) has a video report on kids unwisely changing the sharing options in many P2P software packages, often sharing the entire hard drive without their parent's knowledge. After that, they are just a simple search from trouble. As
The Internet

Journal Journal: ISP pulls the plug on isohunt, podtropolis, and torrentbox.

Journal by spiralwebs
As seen on isohunt.com: " Update, Jan. 16, 2007 Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice, as of 14:45 PST. No doubt related to our lawsuit brought by the MPAA, but we don't have more information at this time until people responsible comes to work tomorrow. We will be back in operation once we sort out this mess with our ISP, or we get new hardware ready from our new ISP. Sit back and enjoy the rest of the internet in the mean time, while it last. For your
Patents

Submission + - Cancer Figher May Not Get Chance Due to No Patent

Submitted by theshowmecanuck
theshowmecanuck writes: In a recent study, researchers at the University of Alberta Department of Medicine have shown that an existing small, relatively non-toxic non-patented molecule, dichloroacetate (DCA), "causes regression in several cancers, including lung, breast, and brain tumors".
"But there's a catch: the drug isn't patented, and pharmaceutical companies may not be interested in funding further research if the treatment won't make them a profit."
DCA is currently used to treat mitochondrial diseases in children. Mitochondria, which are the metabolic power houses of cells, and which also regulate cell death, are damaged in cancerous cells. This gives the cancerous cells an advantage over normal cells and helps protect them against chemotherapy. DCA seems to be able to correct the damage, something that was not thought possible before, causing tumour growth to slow. It doesn't seem to affect normal cells. It has been tested in test tubes and animal subjects. A link to another site in case of slashdotting.

Fleischmann to Work on Commercial Fusion Heater 245

Posted by CowboyNeal from the household-fusion dept.
deeptrace writes "California company D2Fusion has announced they are hiring Dr. Martin Fleischmann (of 'Pons and Fleischmann' fame). The company belives that they can produce a commercial fusion based home heating prototype within a year. They are also looking at other applications, such as using it as a heat source for a commercially available Stirling electrical generator."
Editorial

Journal Journal: String Theory

Journal by rd_syringe

String theory is the trendy pursuit for the physicists in my field. It's untestable and, as famously put, "not even wrong." While it's done some great things for the mathematicians, it's lead entire generations of physicists to pursue it with very little to show for it. Expect more about string theory in this journal as well as related topics to physics.

Comment Re:Using it != getting profits (Score 1) 326

by ambar1073 (#9415470) Attached to: Government-Funded GPL Software
Actually, the analogies are important.

You're right in theory, but it depends which industry you (the government) are trying to promote.

If you are trying to promote an indigenous steel or tomato or widget industry, and you (the government) want those companies to have access to "cheap" software to run their business (we all know Linux and other GPL software are NOT free), then fine -- promoting GPL software is the way to go. Everyone can use it.

However, many countries are using "mandatory GPL" to promote a homegrown SOFTWARE industry, which doesn't work. Without intellectual property that someone can own and make money with, chances are no one is going to be chomping at the bit to make that software based on the government's code.

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