20111117

Alien rats take on prey's role

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-15738837
The struggle of the alien rats :p
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Europe and crisis for democracy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-15754521
The age of the technocracy. WoD ftw
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South Park Renewed Through Season 20!

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SOUTH PARK" RENEWED THROUGH SEASON 20!

CREATORS TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE
AGREE TO KEEP THE ICONIC SERIES IN ORIGINAL EPISODES THROUGH 2016
Season 15 Finale Premieres Tonight At 10:00 P.M.

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All-New Season 15 Episodes Available In HD Exclusively On Xbox
LIVE, iTunes, Sony
PlayStation Network, Amazon Video On Demand
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New York, November 16, 2011 - Trey Parker and Matt Stone have reached a new deal with COMEDY CENTRAL to extend cable's longest-running animated series, "South Park," it was announced today by Michele Ganeless, president, COMEDY CENTRAL. The deal for three additional seasons ensures the top-rated Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series will remain in original episodes through 2016 and a milestone 20th season. Parker and Stone will continue to write, direct and edit every episode of "South Park," as they have since the premiere of the series in 1997.

"The collective genius of Matt and Trey knows no bounds," said Ganeless. "Week after week and season after season they continue to surprise and delight 'South Park' fans, and that includes all of us here at COMEDY CENTRAL. We're thrilled that the adventures of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman will continue through 2016."

"COMEDY CENTRAL has been our home for 15 years and we love working there," said Parker and Stone. "'South Park' is a blast and we can't wait to make more."

Recently voted "The Greatest Animated TV Series" in a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly, "South Park," which wraps its 15th season tonight, averaged over 3.5 million viewers per episode during its most recent season (most current data), in which it was the #1 show in all of television among Men 18-24 in Wednesday Prime and the #1 show in cable among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34, Adults 18-24, Men 18-34 and Men 18-24 in Wednesday Prime. The series has also accumulated 35 million fans on Facebook, making it the most-liked series in cable and the #3 series in all of television.

"South Park" launched on August 13, 1997 and premiered its 15th season on April 27, 2011.Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are executive producers, along with Anne Garefino, of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning "South Park." Frank C. Agnone II is the supervising producer. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. "South Park's" Web site is www.southparkstudios.com. The series airs Wednesday nights at 10:00 p.m. and repeats later that night at midnight (all times ET/PT).

 
 

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20111116

Intel outs new single chip capable of teraflop performance

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via SlashGear by Shane McGlaun on 11/16/11

I've been piddling with tech since I was in grade school. Thinking back to that old Tandy computer I had as a kid and comparing it to the 6-core beast we have on desktops today it's amazing how tech has changed over the decades. I often wonder what sort of tech my kids will be toting around 20 years from now. Intel has a new chip that hits at what the future will be like.

The latest chip from Intel is a 1-teraflop beast that has over 50-cores. Intel is testing the processor inside a computer at the SC11 supercomputer conference in Seattle. The little chip that is pushing out so much performance is the size of a matchbook and called Knights Ferry. The architecture of the chip is called many integrated core or MIC.

To put a bit of perspective on the teraflop number, that means that the chip is capable of a trillion floating-point operations per second. The photo above is of a slide from the presentation that sums things up nicely. The Knights Bridge chip needs a single PCIe slot to hit 1TF. Back in 1997 to hit 1TF performance took 9,298 Pentium II Xeon processors and 72 cabinets. How's that for progress?

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20111115

Intel 4004, world's first commercial microprocessor, celebrates 40th birthday

 
 

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Pull out the candles and champagne, because the Intel 4004 is celebrating a major birthday today -- the big four-oh. That's right, it's been exactly four decades since Intel unveiled the world's first commercially available CPU, with an Electronic News ad that ran on November 15th, 1971. It all began in 1969, when Japan's Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation asked Intel to create 12 chips for its Busicom 141-PF calculator. With that assignment, engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff and Stanley Mazor set about designing what would prove to be a groundbreaking innovation -- a 4-bit, 16-pin microprocessor with a full 2,300 MOS transistors, and about 740kHZ of horsepower. The 4004's ten micron feature size may seem gargantuan by contemporary standards, but at the time, it was rather remarkable -- especially considering that the processor was constructed from a single piece of silicon. In fact, Faggin was so proud of his creation that he decided to initial its design with "FF," in appropriate recognition of a true work of art. Hit up the coverage links below for more background on the Intel 4004, including a graphic history of the microprocessor, from the Inquirer.

Intel 4004, world's first commercial microprocessor, celebrates 40th birthday, ages gracefully originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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20111110

11/07/11 PHD comic: 'I've looked at it'

 
 

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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham
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title: "I've looked at it" - originally published 11/7/2011

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No rhinos remain in West Africa

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-15663982

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20111108

White House denies alien contact

The fact that the US government (it already sounds as a conspiracy) needed a formal declaration rather than a simple dismissal of the issue is proof by itself that it not only has proof for extraterrestrial life, but indication that there has been also contact, treaties and non-disclosure agreements with the aliens.

 
 

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via BBC News - Home on 11/8/11

The US government has formally declared it has no knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life, in response to petitions submitted to the White House.

 
 

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20111107

Tui prepares for Greek euro exit

I love business continuity :D

Always be prepared

 
 

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via BBC News - Home on 11/6/11

German tour operator Tui asks hotels in Greece to sign new contracts specifying how bills will be paid if Greece leaves the euro.

 
 

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20111102

Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/01/carmack-doom-3s-engine-ready-for-open-sourcing-awaiting-ok/
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HTC grabs lead in US smartphone sales

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HTC FTW
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NASA developing tractor beams, no plans for Death Star... yet (video)

 
 

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via Engadget by James Trew on 11/1/11

Fully functional LightSabre aside, a tractor beam has to be high on most geek wish-lists; lucky for you NASA has started working on one. Before you drop your sandwich (or whatever that object in your left hand is), this won't be for sucking up star cruisers, but the more modest task of sample and space dust collection. The basic concept has already been proven, but now NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist has given boffins $100,000 to make the dream a reality. Three potential methods are already on the table, which in lay-terms resemble laser tweezers, a light vortex and a conceptual rippling beam. Once developed, it could signal the end of traditional mechanical sample collecting -- and just plain luck -- consigning robotic arms to the history books. Check the video after the break for science-tastic mock up of how it might work.

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20111101

Greece PM faces party rebellion

The Clan's are marching 'gainst the Law
Bagpipers play the tunes of war
Death or glory I will find
Rebellion on my mind
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou should resign, say six leading members of his party, as one MP defects and the opposition calls for early elections.

 
 

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20111031

10/31/11 PHD comic: 'Division of Labor'

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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham
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title: "Division of Labor" - originally published 10/31/2011

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Russian clocks stay on summertime

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-europe-15512177
Who needs daylight either ways.. it's overrated.
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20111027

What is the definition of the credit (or debit) card in C/C++?


typedef Money * creditCard;

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Eurozone: Now for the hard work

The eurozone as a superstate..
I really like the idea of Greece being the analogue of Florida (a.k.a. the sunshine state), when comparing the two countries (i.e. the US and the EU :P).
Greece ain't got something like Cape Canaveral, but it has an impressive history.

 
 

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via BBC News - Home on 10/27/11

Eurozone leaders have delivered a rescue package with more detail than investors feared it would, but which is less ambitious than they would ideally like to see.

 
 

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Asus Transformer Prime tablet snapped with new keyboard dock in tow

nicely done

 
 

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via SlashGear by Shane McGlaun on 10/27/11

Like many geeks today, we have a soft spot for tablets. Not just any tablet mind you, only tablets that are cool. The new Asus Transformer Prime tablet is certainly cool and the tablet has turned up in some new pictures. The new pics show the tablet with a new keyboard dock. We don't have all the details on the Transformer Prime at this point, but we do have a bunch of rumors about what the tablet will have inside.

The Prime is expected to sport a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip inside and run the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The tablet has an aluminum frame and the big feature is the keyboard dock that turns the tablet into a notebook so you can type faster and more comfortably. The keyboard the dock uses appears to be your standard Asus fare with chicklet keys and an irritatingly small right shift key.

Other things about the tablet include a 10-inch screen, audio ports, micro-HDMI output and a microSD card slot. The official announcement and full specs of the machine are expected on November 9. I hope the tablet lives up to the rumors and doesn't cost a fortune, it looks pretty cool.

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NASUM Is Back!

http://www.metalreviews.com/news/article.php4?id=2351
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20111026

Τα 45 σχολεία που θα λειτουργήσουν ως πρότυπα ανακοίνωσε το υπουργείο Παιδείας

Ανάβρυτα FTW \m/

 
 

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Πέντε μήνες μετά την ψήφιση του σχετικού νόμου, το υπουργείο Παιδείας έδωσε στη δημοσιότητα τη λίστα με τα 45 σχολεία που θα λειτουργήσουν ως πρότυπα. Η σχετική επιλογή έγινε από τη Διοικούσα Επιτροπή Πρότυπων Πειραματικών Σχολείων. Πρόκειται για 15 ολοήμερα δημοτικά, 15 γυμνάσια και 15 λύκεια σε όλη τη χώρα.

 
 

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