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Comment Irony (Score 1) 97

by kiltyj on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @06:35PM (#37392546) Attached to: Happy Programmer Day!

Kinda funny that the Programmer Day FAQ lists Programmer's Day as Sept. 12th for leap years, but the countdown on the homepage fails to take this into account. You'd think the countdown value being greater than 365 days today would be a dead giveaway to their... programmers...

Comment Thread != Process (Score 5, Informative) 278

by kiltyj on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:04AM (#30651390) Attached to: Testing a Pre-Release, Parallel Firefox

Firefox, in its official version, still lacks support for multi-threading

Firefox certainly supports multi-threading. A thread is not the same thing as a process.

Comment Re:Avoid the Osborne Effect (Score 1) 305

by kiltyj on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @07:37PM (#28447233) Attached to: Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger

the mini only came in 1G and 2G. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_mini

Read that page again... The iPod Mini came in two generations (maybe that's where you got 1G and 2G?), but the second generation came in 4GB and 6GB versions.

Comment Re:Choice fodder! (Score 1) 554

by kiltyj on Saturday April 04, 2009 @03:57PM (#27459767) Attached to: Quebec Says 'Non' To English-Only Video Games

Technically the US is not "officially" an English speaking country, either. We have no official language as a country (though many states do).

Comment Re:Search engine... (Score 2, Interesting) 776

by kiltyj on Sunday March 08, 2009 @11:57PM (#27117679) Attached to: Favorite on-screen calculator?

Not that there probably aren't better examples of the problem you brought up, but for the specific example you gave:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=WtB&q=sqrt(5+acres)&btnG=Search
But also, you can often just ignore the unit conversions until the end of the equation, using the "in" syntax:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sqrt(5+acres+%2B+3+square+meters)+in+inches
or for an extreme example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=(((3.5*g*(in%5E(-3)))*(9.8%20*m*(s%5E(-2)))*sin(0.15%20radians+2%20degrees))/(1000*(Pa*s)))*(((4*m)*(0.1*ft))-(((0.1*m)%5E2)/2))%20in%20knots

Comment Re:XOR encryption can be good (Score 1) 238

by kiltyj on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @02:18PM (#22477610) Attached to: Cracking a Crypto Hard Drive Case

If you're looking to export a product from the US, including strong AES encryption will get you hassle regarding ITAR. Yes Virginia, encryption algorithms are considered munitions by the US government. The optimist in me would like to think that in-house crypto solutions are implemented to avoid ITAR issues, and not that someone "knows a better solution."

Very interesting stuff. Santas, and all!

Submission + - New/Old Form of Nanomechanical Computing Proposed (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @10:25AM

eldavojohn writes: "The BBC is reporting on a newly proposed type of nanomechanical computer that mimics J. H. Müller & Charles Babbage's work on mechanical computational devices — just on a much smaller level. The paper is published today in the New Journal of Physics and cites three reasons to build a nanocomputer with nanomechanical transistors over bipolar junction transistors or field effect transistors: "(i) mechanical elements are more robust to electromagnetic shocks than current dynamic random access memory (DRAM) based purely on complimentary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, (ii) the power dissipated can be orders of magnitude below CMOS and (iii) the operating temperature of such an NMC can be an order of magnitude above that of conventional CMOS." Perhaps the future of computing (the Difference Engine) has been sitting in a museum right under our noses for well over a hundred years?"

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