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New IrDA Spec Shoots for 100Mbit/s Data Rate
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article at DeviceForge, the Infrared Data Association has adopted a new high speed IR communications protocol. This new protocol promises to deliver possible speed up to 100Mbit/s transfer rates. From the article: 'Of note, existing IrDA-enabled devices can be upgraded to the new protocol, thus offering the opportunity to accelerate the IrDA data transfer rates of devices in the field via a software update.'"
What are you talking about. When has Slashdot _ever_ corrected and edited submittors content? That's right, never. Slashdot isn't getting worse, it has always been this way but people are complaining more and more. And yes, Slashdot has also always had it's share of meaningless blog-style junk, like news posts about Taco's marriage, april first spoofs and Jon Katz. Take it or leave it, but I wish you'd stop complaining.
Try out fish, the friendly interactive shell.
I am sorry to report this news!
Abe Vigoda was a struggling actor for decades. His first big break was a small, occasionally recurring role on Dark Shadows, the 1960s low-budget haunted house soap opera. A much bigger break was the role of the doomed mobster Tessio in 1972's The Godfather.
In 1975, Vigoda landed "Fish," his most famous role, the perpetually complaining, decrepit senior citizen cop on as Barney Miller. Vigoda was only 54 at the time, and off-camera he was still in good shape, regularly jogging and playing handball.
After playing the ancient detective on BM and its lukewarmly-received spin-off, Fish, Vigoda played old age for laughs in Look Who's Talking (1989) and an ongoing series of even more forgettable films. He played "Sal the Wheezer" in the cartoon Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993).
People magazine mistakenly reported Abe Vigoda's death in 1982. Twenty years later, people still stop Vigoda on the street and tell him he looks like the late Abe Vigoda.
(OK, so this submission thankfully didn't end with "Is this the end of Bluetooth?", but you know what I'm talking about.)
Anyway, complaining in the comments is probably pointless from a practical point of view. But the motivation is sound. The point is asking editors to be a little less trigger happy about posting stories without having at least checked to see if the summary is crazy. They don't have to rewrite it, just be more judicious in their use of the Post button. Story submitters will unconsciously (or not) adapt their style to reflect what they read on the front page.
With the laundry minutes. I7 that. are there? Let's faster chip
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