ericzundel - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Who cares... (Score 1) 212

by ericzundel on Saturday October 03, 2009 @09:53PM (#29631891) Attached to: Nvidia Fakes Fermi Boards At GPU Tech Conference

Besides the 'wood screws', the other claims about this card are incredibly suspect. 1) The connectors not showing through are hard for me to buy from just looking at fuzzy pictures as there are about 8 pixels for each of these solder points to juge from. You don't necessarily see the pins protruding way out on some parts. 2) Some of those parts with "missing" connectors could be surface mount. Like this molex power connector.

Submission + - Software Patents in the New York Times (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

Timothy B. Lee

on Saturday June 09, 2007 @06:57AM

Timothy B. Lee writes: "I've got an article in the New York Times in which I make the case against software patents. Expanding on a point I first made on my blog, I point out that Microsoft has had a change of heart on the patent issue. In 1991, Bill Gates worried that "some large company will patent some obvious thing" and use it to blackmail smaller companies. Now that Microsoft is a large company with a patent war-chest of their own, they don't seem so concerned about abuse of the patent system. I then point out that Verizon's efforts to shut down Vonage are a perfect illustration of Gates's fears."

Submission + - Watching my neighbors watch on-demand television. (slate.com)

Submitted by

Josh Levin, Slate Magazine

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @01:11PM

Josh Levin, Slate Magazine writes: "I have a magical box that allows me to watch other people watch TV — their movies, their sports, their cartoons, and their hour-long procedural dramas. And sometimes, usually around 11:30 on Friday nights, their soft-core pornography. ... I solved the mystery by consulting online message boards. At tech-y sites like AVS Forum, other voyeurs described their adventures in freeloading. Apparently, I was intercepting video-on-demand channels through the power of my Samsung's QAM tuner."

Submission + - Radio wave on Saturn's moon hints at hidden ocean (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by

SleepyHappyDoc

on Monday June 04, 2007 @03:36PM

SleepyHappyDoc writes: "The European Space Agency has announced that a mysterious radio wave may indicate the existence of a hidden ocean underneath the surface of Titan. The Cassini-Huygens spaceprobe, which entered Titan's atmosphere over two years ago, collected evidence and information which has led to this potential discovery. This technology may lead to entirely new ways of finding out information about other planets."

Submission + - Wii to Get New Hardware: Possibly Hard Drive

Submitted by

HoboBob

on Monday June 04, 2007 @03:32PM

HoboBob writes: "It has been suggested that Nintendo will be unveiling some new hardware for the Wii at E-3, and some are speculating that it could be a hard drive. According to the article: 'Confirmation back in April that Neo Geo games will begin being added to Wii's Virtual Console download service adds weight to the speculation, considering Neo Geo games are huge — some clocking in it at up to 330MB. One of those bad boys would put serious strain on the Wii's memory.'"

Submission + - New molecules for a faster Internet

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Thursday January 04, 2007 @01:47PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "An international team of researchers has discovered a new generation of optical molecules which interact 50% more strongly with light than any molecules ever tested. These organic molecules, known as chromophores, have been theorized by physicists at Washington State University, synthesized by chemists in China and tested for their actual optical properties by chemists in Belgium. But if they're excellent candidates for being used in optical technologies such as optical switches and Internet connections, these new materials should not be used before several years — if ever. Read more for additional details and a picture of the physicist who broke a law he established in 1999."

Slashdot Top Deals