Innovation. ClimateChange. IBM. Blueprints drawn up for quantum computer RAM - tech - 21 August. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively. To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Find out about our cookies and how to change them Log in Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password close My New Scientist Look for Science Jobs Will an anti-viral drug put paid to measles? Criminal gang connections mapped via phone metadata No more primal soup: Creating life without water Slow-motion tremors make megaquake more likely Zoologger: Gender-bending cave insects found in Brazil TODAY: 15:10 17 April 2014 Newly discovered insects called Neotrogla are anatomically reversed: males have a vagina and the females a penis Win a VIP trip to the Science Museum in London TODAY: 14:26 17 April 2014 The story of climate change gets star treatment TODAY: 12:01 17 April 2014 Stem cells debacle: Obokata admits enhancing images.
Alt Text: New Cult Spares Members From Early Adopters’ Pain | Un. There are many strange religions in this mixed-up, modern world — Discordianism, Pastafarianism, the Church of the Subgenius — but one of strangest and most popular is the Cult of the New. People will pay more than twice as much to see a first-run movie compared to seeing it in a second-run theater or renting it and watching it at home. They’ll pay $50 for a videogame that will clearly be a $20 “greatest hits” game before too long. They buy novels in hardback, comic books in their original run rather than waiting for the anthology. And then there are all those people paying $600 for video cards that, six months from now, will cost less than the shiny, full-bleed folding pamphlets currently being used to advertise the hardware. It seems to me that the best way to instantly raise your standard of living is to live in the past. The problem is that it’s hard living out of sync with the world around you.
That’s why I’m going to start my own cult. Alt Text: A Belligerent Guide to Board Games. Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server - NYTimes.c. The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time | Technologizer. Digg“To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.” So goes an old quip attributed to Paul Ehrlich. He was right. One of the defining things about computers is that they–or, more specifically, the people who program them–get so many things so very wrong. Hence the need for error messages, which have been around nearly as long as computers themselves.. In theory, error messages should be painful at worst and boring at best. They tend to be cryptic; they rarely offer an apology even when one is due; they like to provide useless information like hexadecimal numbers and to withhold facts that would be useful, like plain-English explanations of how to right want went wrong.
In fact, people have an emotional attachment to many of them–like Proust’s Madeleine, an error message from a machine out of your past can transport you back in time. And then there’s this article–my stab at rounding up the major error messages of the past thirty years or so. Ready? 13. 12. 11. Data stored in live neurons - tech - 08 June 2007 - New Scientis. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively.
To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Find out about our cookies and how to change them Tech Log in Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password close My New Scientist Look for Science Jobs Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer When software writes the news Why a hacker got paid for finding the Heartbleed bug TODAY: 16:14 11 April 2014 The payment this week for spotting a major bug that damages web security is meant to set a trend, rewarding those who report bugs rather than exploit them Start-ups fuel boom in small-scale nuclear power INSIGHT: 16:00 11 April 2014 A new wave of nuclear scientists aims to build small-scale reactors that provide carbon-free power more cheaply and safely than today's huge power plants NEWS: 13:00 11 April 2014 Most read.
Technology | Wireless energy promise powers up. A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality. US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires. The setup, reported in the journal Science, made a 60W light bulb glow from a distance of 2m (7ft). WiTricity, as it is called, exploits simple physics and could be adapted to charge other devices such as laptops.
"There is nothing in this that would have prevented them inventing this 10 or even 20 years ago," commented Professor Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London who has seen the experiments. "But I think there is an issue of time. Professor Moti Segev of the Israel Institute of Technology described the work as "truly pioneering". Energy gap "We had a strong faith in our theory but experiments are the ultimate test," said team member Assistant Professor Marin Soljacic. "These results are encouraging. Power cycle. The requirements translation challenge --- can you meet it? PC World - The Web's Most Useful Sites. The lowly browser is becoming the most powerful piece of software on your computer. Despite the promises of chip makers and PC manufacturers, a Web application like Gmail running on a massive server farm thousands of miles away can often be faster and more reliable than the best client-based program.
Developers are pushing browsers to their limits by creating even better online alternatives to desktop apps, ranging from spreadsheets to instant messaging tools to full-blown operating systems. However, storing your data remotely raises privacy and security concerns, and Web apps that rely on JavaScript are ripe targets for hackers. Browsers still struggle to mimic the interfaces of desktop programs, and no browser yet has an "application mode" that lets it appear on your desktop instead of as just another browser window among ten others. Despite these limitations, innovative, agile, and low-cost Web services are blooming across the Internet's landscape.
BadVista Blog — BadVista. Microsoft's Vista isn't compatible with SQL Server - D. (Business 2.0 Magazine) -- If you followed Microsoft in the 1990s, you knew it as a company that deftly moved from strength to strength, leveraging its dominance in one area of software to command other parts of the tech business. That company's long gone, folks. The latest evidence that Microsoft (Charts) has lost its Midas Touch? Its bid for a bigger piece of the $14 billion database business, a sector now ruled by Oracle (Charts) and IBM (Charts).
Until now, Microsoft has been doing what it does best to attract corporate customers: It has tied its SQL Server database management software to programs running on Windows desktops. But now Microsoft has a problem. So companies looking to install Vista, which went on sale to corporate customers Nov. 30, are going to have to get their database management software someplace else.
Microsoft has effectively just handed its chief rivals an early holiday present. Instead, IBM has beaten Microsoft to the punch. The key word here is "eventually. " Animation vs Animator 2. Definitive guide: Windows Vista and XP head to head. So you’ve heard all the hype about Windows Vista, but wonder what it means for you. Here’s the definitive guide on how Microsoft’s Windows Vista stacks up against XP: XP: In the original Windows XP, and with the first service pack or SP1, both versions still in use today, Windows XP has a built-in firewall that gave relatively good protection against hackers breaking into your computer. The 2nd service pack, or SP2, improved the firewall to protect you from people trying to get it, and bad programs trying to get access out to the Internet, but it is still considered relatively basic compared with commercial offerings. Anyone serious about security should replace it with a good third party firewall or Internet security suite.
All versions of Windows XP are also able to be set to download Windows updates automatically. A new ‘user account control’ system tries to protect you from yourself, so you don’t accidentally make changes to important system settings without being warned first. Google Watch : Yahoo Declines to Help Google in Authors Guild La. » Die, C, die! 5 reasons to UN-learn C. I've been programming in C for over 20 years now. I've written C compilers, C debuggers, other languages, games, clients, servers, you name it. Dog-eared editions of K&R and Steele decorate my shelves. So I know C. And yet, I'm sick of it. SICK. So it was with some trepidation that I read a blog on why every programmer should learn C. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. I could go on, but 5 is enough for now; I feel better already. Ten Completely Obnoxious Reasons Why Yahoo is Doomed.