We're not anti-social We're just not user friendly
The 2012 DCI summer performance schedule for the Santa Clara Vanguard has been posted here and on the DCI website. To Be Announced (TBA) means we’re currently working on facilities for that day, however, if you can connect the dots and find that we might be in your area, we’d certainly be interested in hearing [...]
malraid writes “The White House has issued a statement in which they refuse to comment on the petition to investigate Chris Dodd for bribery from the MPAA to pass legislation. The reason given: ‘because it requests a specific law enforcement action.’” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
http://www.mattowenmusic.com http://Www.youtube.com/mattowen23 Several videos of looping rock tuba and modern covers by Matt Owen!!! Submitted by Matt
MojoKid writes “When AMD announced the high-end Radeon HD 7970, a lower cost Radeon HD 7950 based on the same GPU was planned to arrive a few weeks later. The GPU, which is based on AMD’s new architecture dubbed Graphics Core Next, is manufactured using TSMC’s 28nm process and features a whopping 4.31 billion transistors. [...]
sciencehabit writes “In a new study, neuroscientists connected a network of electrodes to the hearing centers of 15 patients’ brains and recorded the brain activity while they listened to words like ‘jazz’ or ‘Waldo.’ They saw that each word generated its own unique pattern in the brain. So they developed two different computer programs that [...]
alphadogg writes “Many IT departments are struggling with Apple’s ‘take it or leave it’ attitude, based on discussions last week at MacIT, which is Macworld|iWorld’s companion conference for IT professionals. Much of the questioning following technical presentations wasn’t about Apple technology or products. It was about the complexities and confusions of trying to sort out [...]
Dear Auntie, I have a prom question (cue everyone’s foreheads hitting their keyboards as they scream “WHY?!?”). But first some background! I’m a senior, and my girlfriend, who’ll we’ll call Rosie, is a sophomore. We’ve been together for ~4 months, and she’s awesome. Really, really awesome. We’ve met each other’s parents, hang out all the [...]
New submitter jpwilliams writes “Gizmag reports that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have tested a 10-inch bullet that can be fired from a smooth-bore rifle to hit a laser-marked target one mile away. The bullet ‘includes an optical sensor in the nose to detect a laser beam on a target. The sensor sends information to [...]
jfruh writes “Mandriva, a venerable Linux distro, is on the verge of shutting down. One of its main problems is that it never grew into more than just an OS vendor. The big players in the commercial Linux space — Red Hat, SuSE, Canonical — all built Linux into their larger computing visions. Is there [...]
Submitted by Daniel E. After the Cadets’ championship this year we didn’t hesitate a minute to change the number of championships on our instrument truck!…