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  1. Which sends data to Microsoft. Is that safer?

  2. Re:False. on NVIDIA Tegra K1: First Mobile Chip With Hardware-Accelerated OpenCL · · Score: 1

    False. Sony Xperia has it officially supported since a year. http://developer.sonymobile.co... For the current state of OpenCL on smartphones, see: http://streamcomputing.eu/blog...

  3. Tools available? on NVIDIA Tegra K1: First Mobile Chip With Hardware-Accelerated OpenCL · · Score: 2

    Does it have tools support for OpenCL? For Geforce there is no tools support and without it, and I've found out the hard way that it's too difficult to make it perform without proper insights that tools can give.

  4. The US car industry on France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook · · Score: 1

    If you have to subsidize it, then it ain't culture; it's history.

    Don't bring up the US car industry her. That's mean.

  5. Dakota is getting richer on Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US · · Score: 1

    The map on this page http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/how-oil-made-north-dakota-rich-in-one-map-20131212 also makes clear that oil makes the difference for Dakota. The "increase/decrease of income" completes the heatmap.

  6. Re:Overview of Apple connectors on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 0

    You are only repeating what the others already said. I thought Apple-users were original (think different) and found the environment important, but it seems neither is true - you all think the same different and don't give anything about the environment. You only care about design-decisions.

    Doesn't matter. Just updating my image of Apple-users.

  7. Overview of Apple connectors on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 2

    Say there are 1 million users who just bought latest iPhone and want to have spare chargers. That is extra income of $ 10 Million! In case they used micro-USB, this would have been $ 0.

    I think laptops will be next. Not only MagSafe -> MagSafe 2, but all laptops have too many different connectors.

  8. Re:Not that fast at all on Nvidia Releases Tegra 4 Powered SHIELD Handheld · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link. Release date of iPad 4 is December 2012 (!) and has a much higher resolution to handle. Snapdragon 800 was designed for use in a (high-end) phone. The active cooling suggests Tegra 4 is not fit for mobile devices - I still think the reason for this device is to dump their unsold processor tech.

    I have to say I would welcome mini-computers in the range 15 - 30W. For notebooks this Tegra 4 would be interesting.

  9. 28.8 Wh battery on Nvidia Releases Tegra 4 Powered SHIELD Handheld · · Score: 1

    The battery is huge! An Iphone 5 has a 5.45Wh battery. With that battery the iPhone would easily survive over a week.

  10. Not that fast at all on Nvidia Releases Tegra 4 Powered SHIELD Handheld · · Score: 1

    According to Anandtech only 74.8 GFLOPS - comparable to an iPad 4. Other sources say 96 GFLOPS, but only when in power-hungry overclock mode: image. The real winner for Q4 2013 will be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 - 129 GFLOPS. That leaves Tegra 4 completely in the dust.

    The main reason the Tegra 4 is in no tablet/phone, is because Tegra 3 real performance and power usage was worse than advertised/marketed, and therefore the tablet/phone makers did not trust Tegra 4 would be a good bet. Another (smaller) reason was that NVIDIA is quite pushing their own agenda and brand, whereas other vendors do not meddle with their customer's business so much. Unluckily they did not learn from their experience and suggest in their latest video (the face-demo) that Tegra 5 uses 2 to 3 Watts when under full load - truth is that the load was not given. NVIDIA knows a little too much about marketing...

  11. A marketeer wrote the article on Harlan: a Language That Simplifies GPU Programming · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are several languages that are written on top of OpenCL - that is the whole idea of this API. But if your read the article, it seems this guy was the actual inventor of the wheel.

    Same response happened when some guy made Rootbeer and let some marketeer write an alike article. It was suggested that you could just run existing Java-code on the GPU, but that was not true at all - you had to rewrite the code to the rootbeer-API. This Harlan-project is comparable: just beta-software that has not run into the real limits of GPU-computing - but still making big promises that in contrary to their peers they actually will fix the problem.
    I'm not saying it can be in the future, but just that this article is a marketing-piece with several promises on future advancements.

    Check out Aparapi and VexCL to name just two. There are loads and loads of these solutions - many of these wrappers slowly advance to higher level languages, and have been in the field a lot longer.

  12. More missing elements, to to be discovered. on Shapeshifting: Proposal For a New Periodic Table of the Elements · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The logic of the table is that it predicts missing elements really well. Does this circular table do the same?

  13. That's easier than maintaining Unix boxes on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? · · Score: 1

    When there is a problem with Linux, you fix it. When there is a problem with Windows, you replace it. Make sure you have updated Windows images - this is possible by making a daily image of the system in VMWare is alike. Tweaking of software like databases is possible, but it is cheaper (in terms of hourly price) to just buy more memory and more processing power. Actually these tricks do pretty well on Unix-systems too as an extra solution. As you cannot look into the code, you have to trust others. So make sure you have a good firewall and antivirus-software. I'm not tryng to make fun of windows here; Windows is a black box, so you need to treat it as such.

  14. Banned in Europe on Widely Used Antibacterial Chemical May Impair Muscle Function · · Score: 1

    According to http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3574 and other sources, this research is already years old. Europe has acted on the research in 2010 to ban the additive.

  15. And a server from the USA is hacked by Chinese? on Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Confirm Or Deny Secret Relationship With Google · · Score: 1

    It starts to bug me. Why are there two types of investigation? 1) "The hacker could not be traced as probably several servers were used". 2) "The IP was from China/Russia, so the hacker too". So since it is politically useful to the Americans to point at China, I suggest all hackers to get one of the computer in China. Best is Russia last with all logs at max, then China, then the usual.

  16. ...until the US attacks yet another country? on Iran's Oil Industry Hit By Cyber Attacks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is one country that has most of the nuclear warheads, Interfered in or even started most of the wars in the past 20 years, and is not silent on their goal for world-domination, and guess once, it is not Iran.

  17. Dominant behavior on 'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into US Speech · · Score: 1

    Speaking at lower frequencies is a sign of dominance. See Animal Planet or http://center-for-nonverbal-studies.org/tone.htm If something changed over the past decades is the feeling of dominance by the USA - that reflects in various ways, so it seems.

  18. Re:A world leader as a disruptive patent troll? on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 0

    Agree. The title of this post is also very annoying, especially the word "aggressively" - as if people with big budgets will solve this problem where people with big *brains* have been working on for ages. And also... which money is in the fund? Money borrowed from Japan and China with which the USA tries to force to default with? Come on, USA, focus! Focus!

  19. #ifndef _WIN32 on Microsoft-Skype Deal Poised To Win EU Approval · · Score: 0

    Developer: "Sir, I have fixed the issue that I could not manage to compile try-catch clausules on Linux". Interoperability is not something MS is good at: it works perfect on Windows, works ok on other systems. Sends us back to the era where Linux-users got sold cars with 3 wheels and the conversation with the salesman became sort of funny. As probably mentioned by others, the latest release of Skype isn't that stable and I have a clue the word "keep" in "keep interoperable" will be a nagging word in the future of Linux-releases.

  20. Stubborn Exceptions? on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    Most modern economies are a mix between socialism (healthcare and caring for the elderly, weak and poor) and capitalism (independence and freedom). Communism (independence-void) is an extreme form of socialism and corporationalism (care-void) an extreme form of capitalism. It took me a while to see that the current shift to corporationalism is breaking our freedoms more than we want to see - and still... we just shake our heads about "the brainwashing methods of communism" when reading articles as above. For that reason always vote for "extreme middle" to get a real stable system (referring to Van Kooten en De Bie, but very serious about it).

  21. Re:Why? Bitcoin and Slashdot? on GPGPU Bitcoin Mining Trojan · · Score: 1

    Exactly, as paper money (money backed by "stocks" and other emotional products) works the same way. I like this project as it explains the "normal economy" with stocks has exaclty the same design-flaws - and you point them out quite well. Since bitcoins I start to like the sentence "In money we trust" (or was it god? they get mixed up a lot).

  22. Pirates don't want memory-upgrades then on Windows XP PCs Breed Rootkit Infections · · Score: 3, Informative

    The memory-demands for SP3 have increased a lot - Where SP2 runs well with 512MB, you need at least 800MB for SP3 to run basic software like IE and Office smoothly. Though this is not official, I have seen too many cases with unresponsive PCs after the upgrade. A good reason to revert back to SP2 if people don't know how or dare to upgrade hardware nor want to spend another €300,- to €500,- on a new computer.

  23. Re:picture of the lofar core on LOFAR Telescope Array Grabs First Pulsar Images · · Score: 1
  24. LOFAR and low frequencies on LOFAR Telescope Array Grabs First Pulsar Images · · Score: 1

    Only one interesting comment? Why so many people like to make jokes about Dutch technologies, I really don't know. Or do I just hear complaints about (research) jobs moving to Europe and Asia? Remember some flood in the US not long ago? Remember who helped you how to get prepared for such disasters? So "dykes" should be something you don't laugh about, but respect. They save your life. You probably heard the saying "God created the land, but the Dutch created their own". Just like LOFAR is an unique project, which sees the sky with different eyes. Lower frequencies means different data to be combined with existing HF-data, to complete the picture. Pulsars are an unique phenomenon which stll is not understood at full; reseacrh on lower frequencies Another thing is that LOFAR can look in any direction, whereas normal radio-telescopes can only look into 1 direction. The Netherlands have a very high reputation in (radio) astronomy kept high for several centuries.

  25. ... but does it affect te way we look at spam? on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, offcourse it won't help. Lycos knows that too.

    Yes, it changes the way a lot of people look at spam. On makelovenotspam.com you (should) see a map where you can "click to annoy a spammer". This visualisation of where the spammers are, makes it more clear that it does nog come frome 'somewhere', but from somebody real. And you can really do something about it with a little help from Lycos!

    People who did not have a picture of spam comes from known places, are really changed. This is not about IT-experts, but about ordinary people who hate spam too (and are possible customers of Lycos, ofcourse...). Wait and see for the adverts from Lycos "Lycos, active spam-killer", and you'll be surprised what will happen in a Spanish* court-room, when a spammer sues Lycos...

    *) Lycos is a company from Spain