daemonburrito's Journal: NPR On Linux/PS3 Supercomputing

NPR's All Things Considered discussed PS3 supercomputing in its Science Out Of The Box segment.

It's old news to most of us, and it's short on details (it's just 2 minutes long), but it cheered me up. It's nice to see a major media outlet with a some science and technology literacy.

Granted, there have been some stinkers on NPR; credulous readings of press releases and interviews with tech "experts" (people with fake nerd glasses whose only qualification is being operate an iphone without assistance), but Jacki Lyden did a great job with this story. Go NPR.

All Tech Considered

[damn_registrars]

Just thought I'd put in a plug for All Tech Considered [npr.org], which is also on NPR. If you know when to catch All Things Considered [npr.org] through your local NPR affiliate, you can catch All Tech Considered at the end of the show every Monday. Generally a fairly short piece, but well done.

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[daemonburrito]

Hmm. Though I have noticed some improvement in that segment lately, it has been an example of what I was complaining about in my JE. What was remarkable about the Science Out Of The Box segment this week was that they mentioned the operating system that runs most of the web's servers and runs 85% of the world's supercomputers by name (and were even able to pronounce it), and they did enough research to know something about a major trend in university labs.

"Tech" reporting too often revolves around increment