The 11/17 division bug was in nearly every Intel Pentium processor on the Syracuse University campus in 1999, and showed up in my statistics textbook as well. Intel had to replace every chip it sold during that era.
Computer/Calculator math is perfect in nearly every true implementation these days. Network transmission errors have gone away by error corrections. The problems of the 1970s are no longer a factor, the new set of problems is mainly the generation of heat in computers, time consumed, and compression of video.
Intel seems to be having problems again, while AMD is rolling out 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadrippers this week. AMD's got the high-end processor market all to itself, while Intel is revealing that they were never that good as they advertised.
Intel could have had a monopoly if they didn't make the Pentium bug math error. Computers are supposed to be "perfect" at computations, but the Intel bug threw some court cases in the wrong direction. I'm not sure they can be trusted anymore.
Now AMD is rolling out processor changes that were discussed here on Slashdot years ago, and they're off in the speed races and higher core limits. (Intel maxes out at about 6, new Threadripers offer 32 hyperthreaded cores that simulate 64 processors.)
Intel better go back to the drawing boards... they're behind in a game they used to always win.
The 3rd party sellers that offer Prime Shipping are as good as Amazon's own sales department... but used items in the world of computing just don't add up... and I don't want thieving parents to be able to sell the items their kids aren't using. EBay is filled with such auctions and Gift Card Rescue keeps selling stolen gift cards, but Amazon is good at keeping new items.
And as the story was modified at the top, this sale sure should be pulled because the seller marked New for a Used item.
Piracy on the grand scale seems to indicate the copyright holders wanted publicity.
Back in the bad Napster days, there were big artists suing, but little artists loved getting played anyway. Paid Napster showed up, and proved the only thing Napster was missing was the paywall.
Back in the bad BitTorrent days, blockbuster movie owners started suing, but small time movies with messages started loving the attention. It was too easy to get a movie on demand, and that lead to the current pay-walled systems like Napster, Amazon Prime and other Downloads, and Hulu.
Now we're up to the end of the bad ROM days, Nintendo started suing, and there's solid retro consoles out there... what's next to get pay-walled?
Mario is Nintendo's Mickey Mouse... and even if Mario Bros. falls into public domain, Super Mario Bros. would have even longer to go.
Steamboat Willie is known as Mickey Mouse's first appearance... but it had to be redrawn in order for there to be any clips to use in today's media, therefore restarting the copyright clock.
Satellite comes with HD movie channels and PPV options on DirecTV and Dish for movies... and twitch games haven't advanced beyond first person shooters.
DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite services) provide rural America with HDTV and High-Speed slow-ping Internet services... this is vital to farms and large yard houses out in the midwest where cable doesn't reach well.
Cambridge Analytics failed because they couldn't find a way to make money off of the user data it collected, so where's the value in making user data collection apps?
Seems like FB is doing the right thing by requiring app-store like code review... and shutting off the apps that don't comply with new rules... a rare move on their part.
Raspberry Pi represents to our children what we were growing up with in the 90s... small processor and storage sizes, and dirt cheap hardware. There's many kid efforts in teaching computers that are just not discussed on Slashdot.
Anybody remember the Nickelodeon Saturday Morning show "Total Panic" with Steve Gibson warning about the failures of Amiga systems and other computers of the 80s in 1990?
Amigas, MS-DOS, and Apple IIs are now dead... there's a lot of remembrances of them and DirectX/OpenGL have taken over our graphical needs, so there's not much point in reviving them.
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The 11/17 division bug was in nearly every Intel Pentium processor on the Syracuse University campus in 1999, and showed up in my statistics textbook as well. Intel had to replace every chip it sold during that era.
Computer/Calculator math is perfect in nearly every true implementation these days. Network transmission errors have gone away by error corrections. The problems of the 1970s are no longer a factor, the new set of problems is mainly the generation of heat in computers, time consumed, and compression of video.
Seems like everybody's leaving a hacker hole in their products these days... are we really safe?
Intel seems to be having problems again, while AMD is rolling out 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadrippers this week. AMD's got the high-end processor market all to itself, while Intel is revealing that they were never that good as they advertised.
Intel could have had a monopoly if they didn't make the Pentium bug math error. Computers are supposed to be "perfect" at computations, but the Intel bug threw some court cases in the wrong direction. I'm not sure they can be trusted anymore.
Now AMD is rolling out processor changes that were discussed here on Slashdot years ago, and they're off in the speed races and higher core limits. (Intel maxes out at about 6, new Threadripers offer 32 hyperthreaded cores that simulate 64 processors.)
Intel better go back to the drawing boards... they're behind in a game they used to always win.
The 3rd party sellers that offer Prime Shipping are as good as Amazon's own sales department... but used items in the world of computing just don't add up... and I don't want thieving parents to be able to sell the items their kids aren't using. EBay is filled with such auctions and Gift Card Rescue keeps selling stolen gift cards, but Amazon is good at keeping new items.
And as the story was modified at the top, this sale sure should be pulled because the seller marked New for a Used item.
Genesis Flashback accepts cartridges if you've still got 'em... so you can go beyond the built in games.
It's a classic court case. A steals from B, and then A makes the stolen item better... B is awarded the better item in the end.
Piracy on the grand scale seems to indicate the copyright holders wanted publicity.
Back in the bad Napster days, there were big artists suing, but little artists loved getting played anyway. Paid Napster showed up, and proved the only thing Napster was missing was the paywall.
Back in the bad BitTorrent days, blockbuster movie owners started suing, but small time movies with messages started loving the attention. It was too easy to get a movie on demand, and that lead to the current pay-walled systems like Napster, Amazon Prime and other Downloads, and Hulu.
Now we're up to the end of the bad ROM days, Nintendo started suing, and there's solid retro consoles out there... what's next to get pay-walled?
Mario is Nintendo's Mickey Mouse... and even if Mario Bros. falls into public domain, Super Mario Bros. would have even longer to go.
Steamboat Willie is known as Mickey Mouse's first appearance... but it had to be redrawn in order for there to be any clips to use in today's media, therefore restarting the copyright clock.
Not so sure about that... the Internet purges illegal and old works all of the time.
Atari has a 2600 reboot, Nintendo has NES Retro and SNES Retro, and there's a Sega Genesis Flashback console as well. All in stores now!
The "cable monopoly" is created by Comcast/Charter/etc. not willing to move into each other's territory.
Satellite comes with HD movie channels and PPV options on DirecTV and Dish for movies... and twitch games haven't advanced beyond first person shooters.
We already have that on our bills. It's called Universal Service Fee.
DBS (Direct Broadcast Satellite services) provide rural America with HDTV and High-Speed slow-ping Internet services... this is vital to farms and large yard houses out in the midwest where cable doesn't reach well.
No, I mean 1980s.
Looking at this and the story above in the index, it seems like a lot of app stores are realizing they need to view the code of third-party apps.
Cambridge Analytics failed because they couldn't find a way to make money off of the user data it collected, so where's the value in making user data collection apps?
Seems like FB is doing the right thing by requiring app-store like code review... and shutting off the apps that don't comply with new rules... a rare move on their part.
Raspberry Pi represents to our children what we were growing up with in the 90s... small processor and storage sizes, and dirt cheap hardware. There's many kid efforts in teaching computers that are just not discussed on Slashdot.
Joystick ports were replaced by USB... it's easy to get a throwback joystick these days.
No typo... Amiga was a popular graphics computer of the 80s.
Your post must have been delayed on a 20-lightyear link....
The standards of today make computers a lot safer and easier to depose of... remember Tandys which would explode the capacitors if moved?
Anybody remember the Nickelodeon Saturday Morning show "Total Panic" with Steve Gibson warning about the failures of Amiga systems and other computers of the 80s in 1990?
Amigas, MS-DOS, and Apple IIs are now dead... there's a lot of remembrances of them and DirectX/OpenGL have taken over our graphical needs, so there's not much point in reviving them.
Amazon has been profitable for the last several years, so this year's profit is no big surprise.
Old media chestnuts die hard... Amazon existed for several years unprofitable, but now is a 1000+ a share stock.