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  1. Re:He can buy it back ... on John McAfee Sues Intel To Use His Own Name (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The business unit was re-branded, since it now does more than create McAfee products. However, the McAfee products are still branded McAfee.

  2. Re: Carbon nanotubes... on New Carbon Nanotube Chip Outperforms Silicon Semiconductors (nanotechweb.org) · · Score: 1

    Not even aligning them... just depending on the bit cell area to be sufficiently larger than the tube area that statistically you'll get enough to land in the right arrangement that ti will work.

    This turns out to be why Fujitsu is commercializing memory arrays. They can apply error correction and row/column redundancy to hide the number of failed bits.

  3. Re:How in the world on Intel Confuses, Rebrands Some Core M Processors As Core I (laptopmag.com) · · Score: 2

    The Y SKUs are the sub-5 Watt SKUs, so you're never in a position to be comparing a Y to a U is you're at the level where you are looking at the 3,5,7 branding.

    If you are at the level where you are looking at the complete model number, then you were already looking at Y vs. U and ignoring the 3,5,7 so this is no additional effort.

  4. Re:Big corporation shipping for Xmas season on Apple Announces Event On September 7: iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2 Expected · · Score: 1

    The point is that they were both regularly scheduled patterns, just a different month. There's nothing about a June pattern that means fewer compromises than September.

  5. Re:Big corporation shipping for Xmas season on Apple Announces Event On September 7: iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2 Expected · · Score: 1

    Why is regularly announcing in September a moral failing while regularly announcing in June was principled?

  6. Re:HD-Traffic vs. SD-Traffic on T-Mobile is Making Its 'Unlimited' Data Plan Even More Confusing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So the technique either a) violates network neutrality, or b) is brittle and will lead to a lot of customer complaints for miscounting

  7. "What's wrong with using RAID to..."

    It's not wrong, it's *irrelevant*. RAID adds nothing to the backup process.

  8. Since introverts spend more timing doing their own work and less time distracting other people from theirs, they increase company productivity, are worth more to the company, so should be paid more to encourage more people to be introverted.

  9. "I don't understand why they wouldn't offer the same drives in SATA packaging"

    The "packaging" is just an PCB with an edge connector, so you can't just make 1 board. (You could use an adapter I suppose.)

  10. Re:Is there something to understand on 'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show (rocknerd.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "It appears as though this is some type of scam, but it's not exactly clear how it's supposed to pay off for them."

    The true mark is the one that thinks they are in on the con.

  11. "Where's the speaker who says "My family has been here for 10 generations!""

    St. Augustine, FL was settled 55 years before the Mayflower families showed up.

  12. Re:Where does Legere thinks he is living ? on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Previously, it would have been roughly the same price per month, so any amount of international usage would be a win. Now it will be $20 extra every month whether I travel or not vs. rapacious AT&T international packages only if I'm traveling.

  13. Re:H1b is a symptom of a bigger problem on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If there really no borders, workers would not need an H-1B to work here.

  14. Re:Humans do not cause this! on Every Month This Year Has Been the Hottest In Recorded History (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    "I'm a big skeptic of climate change because humans do not cause this"

    If you have already settled on answer, that makes you *not* a skeptic.

  15. Re:Is this so hard on AT&T, Apple, Google To Work On 'Robocall' Crackdown (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "There are many legitimate reasons to spoof the number.

    Simply example: call center. "

    Only allow call enters to spoof to a number that they can prove they control. In your scenario, it does them no good to spoof a random phone number. Also, it does no good for the company supplying the cheap outbound lines to do business with a customer that they cannot contact.

  16. Re:I'm happy T-Mobile customer, BUT .... on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was almost going to switch but now they lost me because it will cost me more.

  17. Re:Or you can just pay for what you use! on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ...if you have one of three specific phone models

  18. Re:Where does Legere thinks he is living ? on T-Mobile Brings Back Unlimited Data For All (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I was on the verge of switching my modest $50 plan from AT&T to T-Mobile so I can get the international data included when I travel. However, it would now cost me $20 per month more to be on T-Mobile. Might as well try to figure out the $10 a shot 1 week SIM cards at the airport when I arrive.

  19. Re:Good news for their stock on Cisco Systems To Lay Off About 14,000 Employees, Representing 20% of Global Workforce (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    "Why do you need 70,000 people at a company like that?"

    As sacrifices for the next round of layoffs.

  20. Re:Summary is a bit misleading and lacks context on Intel To Manufacture Rival ARM Chips In Mobile Push · · Score: 1

    "Intel needs to be viewed as several businesses"

    Internally, Intel views itself as fab company, with a few ancillary divisions to keep the fab lines full. Examples of this are:
    1. chipsets, which in addition to enabling system debug before providing engineering samples also extended the productive life of older process nodes;
    2. the "tick tock" model where the process shrink was the tick because it was the important step that made all the money.

    As there have come to be fewer and fewer companies that run a decent fab they've been coming around to the idea that they can use their economies of scale to do foundry runs. They've kept pushing it even though they have had few takers, but if/when it catches on they may decide they don't need to fill the fab lines themselves.

  21. Re:Hybrids ARM successor on Intel To Manufacture Rival ARM Chips In Mobile Push · · Score: 1

    All of the research that I've seen shows that mildly heterogeneous cores never really deliver a benefit greater than using your effort to stuff MOAR COARS onto a die then power gate them effectively. The overheard of making sure the right process gets on the bigger cores type eats up any gains you may make by having a greater number of little cores.

    The cores have to be very different---CPU vs. GPU---and have to already be implemented with the expectation that they are access differently.

  22. Re:Shouldn't have sold XScale... on Intel To Manufacture Rival ARM Chips In Mobile Push · · Score: 1

    The XScale angel is a red herring. That was a specific brand for what is now a boring commodity part that was sold off to a commodity manufacturer at the best possible timing since both parties benefited. What's the last time you heard something exciting about XScale?

    This distracts from the fact that Intel retained full licensing for ARM and that they currently sell components with ARM inside.

  23. Re:really a price increase on AT&T Is Boosting Data Plans, Dropping Overage Fees (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "but raising the access charge per line by $5"

    My access charge is currently $25 and it would go to $20.

  24. Re:Would rather know when it's about to go red... on Audi's Traffic Light Information System Tells You When The Lights Are Going To Turn Green (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You do not need to know the time in this case, you need to know the distance.

    If there is sufficient distance to stop before the intersection when the light is yellow, you stop. Otherwise, you proceed.

  25. Re:pointless stupidity on New Air-Gap Jumper Covertly Transmits Data in Hard-Drive Sounds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    By that measure there is no such thing as an air gap, since it is impossible to construct a computer that contains no programming from some other source.