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  1. Re:intel is using fabs for low power on Intel's 14-nm Broadwell CPU Primed For Slim Tablets · · Score: 1

    StrongARM was before iDevices...

    I mean a 14nm ARM SoC for mobile devices, in fact why wouldn't they now when they push with x86 into this market space?
    Can't be profit margins and they do not care about Windows anymore there, do they?

  2. Re:intel is using fabs for low power on Intel's 14-nm Broadwell CPU Primed For Slim Tablets · · Score: 1

    They have the tech to make the best low power processor(s) on the planet...if only they would make an ARM one!

  3. Re:Real-world Moore's Law is toast... on Intel's 14-nm Broadwell CPU Primed For Slim Tablets · · Score: 1

    So, no more .NET and Java...back to the bare metal!

  4. Re:If information can't be sent faster than C..... on Scientists Find Method To Reliably Teleport Data · · Score: 1

    More like this:
    2 entangled particles exist. One at A and one at B
    Measurement is taken an A. This results in a change of state to both particles (ie makes state of B the same of just measured of A) but the result of the measurement is random.
    Measurement is taken on B.
    Measurement is sent from A to B (via classical channels)
    Now B can then determine that the state of B matches the state at A which proves A&B where quantum-coupled.

  5. Re:It could on Bunnie Huang Shows Off His Open Source Laptop (Video) · · Score: 1

    WinCE != Windows, you'd be better off with Wine, although granted not on ARM.

  6. Re:So who uses IE? on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 1

    So interestingly, would they allow OEMs to bundle another browser with this?

  7. Re:Antitrust on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 1

    The M$ IoT cannot have storage nor local apps as they MUST make you use the $Cloud (for their business model to work)? IoT is for fridge, picture frame, thermostat kind-of stuff...

    These here are likely intended for 9" tabletoids of sort, I think, now that Surface Pro is for Pros and Business and no hear about non-Pro versions....so it's more a replacement for Windows RT (an ARM Windows so to speak)?

    But how they can still go through with this legally I do not understand...pretty sure they spend lots of $$ on lawyers already so they have legs to stand on....

  8. Re:Surface: the only Hope on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Yea, WinRT/Metro is a different user space but there is a "good old desktop" Win32 subsytem in "Windows RT" (this is how they run Office there). An app recompile should do...

    I guess they did not see any value in opening it out. Perhaps due to the real value of "legacy desktop" being the stash of existing x86 applications? Or they were afraid of more confusion (as if Windows RT/Surface/Surface Pro names were not already confusing).

  9. Re:Surface: the only Hope on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 1

    >> It still amazes me that you can't just run normal Windows on the ARM-based surface.
    That would be Windows RT...RiP?

    Business model? In ARM tablet space there is no margin for M$ license.

  10. Re: Not denying something is different from forcin on Did Mozilla Have No Choice But To Add DRM To Firefox? · · Score: 1

    Well, your parents did not get stopped by the DRM. They got stopped by lack of will/time/knowledge to to use bittorrent to access a DRM-free content. Just saying... I agree it does something, I for one avoid buying all disney movies as I cannot make backups for my kids who would trash a dvd in few days.

  11. Re: Air Vehicle Uses RTOS on US Military Drones Migrating To Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes I was thinking solaris or linux as flight control system can't be it. Ground station make more sense. Thanks for clarifying.

    Btw what rtoses do they use?

  12. Re:pay for better stories? on DreamWorks Animation CEO: Movie Downloads Will Move To Pay-By-Screen-Size · · Score: 1

    I like this idea!

    Perhaps bidding per movie view?
    A movie eBay?

  13. Re:Security through Antiquity? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    And this is hard with the very floppy 8" disks...they do not work well after being folded to fit in the pocket...

  14. SACDIN? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    What's the pronunciation?

    "Sucked in" ?

  15. Re:Too good to be true? on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 1

    It has little to do with cost of flash.

    It's about maximizing total profit averaged across all units sold. If they only had 64G model they would have loose many sales due to much higher price point (say they would have to sell it for $400).

  16. makani on Google Buys Drone Maker Titan Aerospace · · Score: 1

    And I thought they wanted makani kiteplains for green energy....they probably want them for the same as the other drones?

  17. A further android fragmentation attempt? on Nokia Announces Nokia X Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    It can have strategic goal to advance Android fragmentation? Granted, rather expensive one at it...

  18. Intel's to follow? NO? on AMD Announces First ARM Processor · · Score: 1

    Why would not Intel, with its fabs and process nodes, produce best ARM around?

    Well it does already as Altera's Stratix 10 would use Intel's 14nm fabs.
    http://newsroom.altera.com/pre...

    But why not Intel itself?

  19. Parallela board on Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone? · · Score: 1

    Another choice - Zynq + transputter @ $100
    http://www.parallella.org/

  20. how on earth conduct such study? on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to know this statistics but how to gather the data?
    If this is involuntary, only sober people would consent. Why take a risk?
    Some sober people would refuse also, perhaps a small group.
    So do they imply refuse" as "drunken" then?

  21. really? if you can patent this, there is no limits on Microsoft Makes an Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties · · Score: 2

    faster-then-light communication patent
    http://www.google.com/patents/US6025810

  22. Re:Didn't know it launched. on Firefox OS 1.1 Released, Mozilla Prepares For 2nd Round of Device Launches · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just found out you can buy a FF OS Phone for $80 on eBay (for development I suppose)

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/281165818989

  23. Re: Vision Engraving and Wolfson ? on The Linux Foundation Releases Annual Linux Development Report · · Score: 1

    Well, I have looked at Wolfson - they specialize in audio (yes including silicon). Still find it interesting that they contribute to linux kernel along IBM's and Googles of the world. And Vision Engraving? Is this the same company: http://www.visionengravers.com/?

  24. Vision Engraving and Wolfson ? on The Linux Foundation Releases Annual Linux Development Report · · Score: 1

    Wow - this seem such a niche market companies (with all due respect) for making top 10 contribution to linux kernel - interesting...

  25. Re:It is the butterfly effect. on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 1

    So hence CFD N-S equations are not (presently?) solvable, hence simulation is used to approximate the answer, would it mean, all imperfections of computations asides, that exact weather forecasting is not possible?

    I suppose hence N-S equations do not have (yet?) mathematical proofs of solutions and smoothness, we cannot yet predict if precise weather forecasting is even theoretically possible?