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  1. "all the Uber news lately"

    These stories were always there. What you are seeing is the collapse of the Uber hype bubble.

  2. Power vs. Power on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    The people who are actually paying for the products are interested in

    a) Power in: do the same about of computation at half the power so my battery will last longer.
    b) Power Out: do the same amount of computation at half the power so I can use twice as many devices without blowing by power budget.

    Data centers are limited by how much heat you can extract per square foot. Desktops are limited by how loud the fan is. Mobile is limited by the battery size.

    Therefore, the designers are designing what people are actually willing to pay for.

  3. Re:An ounce of gold is nothing on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    With a cap on quantity of bitcoins they are inherently deflationary... unless you are arguing that no one will ever denominate anything else in bitcoin.

  4. Re:An ounce of gold is nothing on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This argument is meaningful only if all gold holdings were denominated in bitcoin and nothing else was denominated in bitcoin. 0 out of 2 conditions are true.

  5. Re:This Means Very Little. on Nobody Likes Uber Anymore, Recent Reviews and Ratings On App Store Suggest (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone is pushing an agenda, maybe someone used to be pushing an agenda.

  6. "our demo of macOS Sierra refusing to install working software from non-appstore vendors."

    A demo which results in the software being installed...

  7. When the price change leads to an increase in supply to return the market to equilibrium, it is not price gouging.

  8. Why do I need three phone lines? I can only talk on one phone at a time.

  9. Words with multiple uses are extra bad with flash, since you also have the levels stored in an MLC bitcells, the levels of bitcells stacked on the die, and the die stacked in the package.

  10. It's a package with 16 stacked die at 512 gigabits per die, which is 1 terabyte in total.

    It is (mostly) a mistake to refer that as a chip rather than a package, but there is nothing that is 1 terabit that is referred to as a terabyte.

  11. Re:Anyone remember when cents/GB was used? on Toshiba Plans To Ship a 1TB Flash Chip To Manufacturers This Spring (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    " it does little for cost"

    It does a lot for cost because you can double capacity without moving to the next process node.

    Any cost savings of a process shrink were due to the fact that the same capacity chip was half the size, therefore you got approximately ~2x the chips per wafer. This is useful for logic, but with storage no one wants the same capacity they want more capacity. Now with process costs eating away the chips per wafer gains, you're much better off staying with an old process if you don't need performance gains. The equipment is paid for, the process is stable, and you can tighten up the fudge factors you put in to account for variation.

  12. Re:Not that expensive on Studios Push for $50 Early Home Movie Rentals (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    "to watch new movies"

    Except they're not new movies. The article says "some 17 days after their theatrical opening". At that point, might as well wait until they are $1 at Redbox.

  13. Re:How the hell is this still a problem? on Arby's Probes Possible Data Breach Affecting 355,000 Credit Cards (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    a) Inventory tracking and ordering
    b) Fast-food specific: send order to kitchen

  14. Re:They Want Export Bans Lifted on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel has no fabs in either Germany or Malaysia. There is some packaging and test in Malaysia, though.

    If you are thinking of design, the cellular modem group (purchased from Infineon) has a major design center in Munich, and the Penang design center formerly did work on big cores.

  15. Re:As usual, the vendor knows best. on Sony's Latest Smartphone Camera Sensor Can Shoot At 1,000fps (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The high frame rate is just the inverse of the short sensor scanning time. You need this to avoid rolling shutter effects when you don't have an actual shutter. The fact that you can capture a lot of frame is just an interesting side effect.

  16. Why is this shocking? on Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Where the hell do you people work that putting an EMO switch on heavy machinery is considered a burden?

  17. Which underscores the point that the problem wasn't a lack of financing per se but a lack of a business case.

  18. But you can get financing on the basis of the income stream you can show you are going to have on the basis of the pre-orders.

  19. Re:The cap'n has turned on the electronic device l on JetBlue Giving All Passengers Free In-Flight 'Fly-Fi' High-Speed Wi-Fi (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    "repurpose the "No Smoking" light to one where the pilot can indicate when we're allowed to get our portable electronic devices out or when it's time to put them away again"

    You mean like this? https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/...

  20. "Likely some marketing guy doesn't understand fractions"

    Likely some pedant doesn't understand that it's easier for people, including pedants, to compare fractions with a common denominator.

  21. Re:Casio F-91W on Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? · · Score: 1

    Would a "terrorist" moderation be +1 or -1?

  22. Re:Wow on Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Outperformed the ruble!

  23. Re:Open Hardware? on Hands On With the First Open-Source Microcontroller (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, there are no open formats that can store a complete board level design, only interchange formats for the emitted PCB layers.

    (As far as I know, there are no open formats that can store a complete any level design)

  24. Re:"microcontroller" vs. "PCB"? on Hands On With the First Open-Source Microcontroller (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    SiFive does have a repo for the Freedom to generate configured RTL verilog and an FPGA target too: https://github.com/sifive/free...

  25. Re:ftdi? sigh ;( on Hands On With the First Open-Source Microcontroller (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    "or you can roll your own fairly easily with a cheap microcontroller"

    Yo dawg, I heard you liked microcontrollers, so I put a microcontroller with your microcontroller so you can serially communicate with your serial communications.