That's not the architecture in these chips. You're referring to the older Loongson which was a licensed from a MIPS clone designer who had questionable patent situation concerning several patented CPU instructions. These instructions magically appeared in later Loongsons, but that's not the point of this article.
The CPUs in this article are reported to be very similar to DEC Alpha 21164, and it has been reported that no such intellectual property license exists.
Low-latency and good sounding music don't come together in the BlueTooth world.
I've also found that there are lots of BlueTooth speakers and receiver-adapters that don't handshake at the better quality protocols and bitrates. The Logitech BlueTooth receivers work fine but most others do not.
Latency is still crap, hopefully BT 5 might alleviate the problem, but I don't see how to do that and be low power and still good sound quality.
When I walk past the Verizon store in Washington DC Union Station I always receive a text message from the store asking me to come in and shop. It is always on the first time walking past and it's happened about a dozen times so far.
I have an Android phone with Bluetooth, GPS, and NFC turned off, so I don't know how it's doing this.
IBM spent a huge amount of effort on their Windows compatible subsystem. It worked well, but I remember yelling at someone for doing something as innocent as moving the mouse pointer off the Windows subsystem window causing the entire system to crash on OS/2 Warp.
It's still a good operating system. The entire thing should be open-sourced, even if large parts of it were hand-coded in assembly language.
This is what happens when reprocessing is forbidden in the United States.
We don't need very large deep repositories. Reprocessing spent fuel generates power and reduces the amount of dangerous waste. Why don't we do it? Because of some hypothetical proliferation risk that turns out doesn't actually exist in those countries that do reprocess spent fuel.
And we shouldn't be dry-casking, because that makes it so much more difficult to extract and reprocess. God forbid we glassify the waste, spending orders of magnitude more money and effort than it would cost to reprocess fuel.
We figured out a way to reprocess "unusable" anthracite coal waste (culm) profitably. Likewise, the rest of the world has been reprocessing spent nuclear fuel for decades.
What's the Department of Energy's actual problem, here?
They started with hijacking the Download manager last year. Then they added this pointless scanning tool to "optimize" your device. I don't care what is going on but I know it's bad. I removed it from all my devices last year.
Mrs. Clinton's instructions for a staff member to remove markings represents some horribly egregious judgement on her part.
I'm going to abstain from correcting all of the laughably wrong posts about clearance levels and markings in this discussion. So far, nobody has gotten it right, and it's funny to watch everyone correcting each other with even more incorrect information.
I like Amazon Prime but they keep dropping songs and artists. Each month more and more songs in my playlist get "greyed out" until I elect to purchase them.
At least for Amazon Prime Music, sometimes it feels like it's a bait-and-switch scheme.
Sorry to nitpick too much, but the line terminates at Wiehle-Reston East. It's a long time coming, we wish we could take a train to Dulles, really, we do.
Fun fact: Wiehle-Reston East is the only extant station that has parking facilities. There is a station in Tysons Corner with "temporary" paid parking in a privately-owned lot. Lots of folks are parking in the Tysons Corner Center Mall parking facilities, and the mall management is trying to crack down on that. I mean, who wouldn't think to use the mall parking for metro? Oh, well. There's no Metro-provided parking in Tysons, which is a severe fault, but they did it intentionally to ensure people don't use Tysons as a parking lot for Silver Line commuters, or something. *Whatever*.
The stations in "Phase 2" will have parking facilities, but they won't be online until 2020 (sigh).
The selection of Indian gauge was a very real engineering decision. The wider gauge is widely regarded as the most efficient for train size and for stability at speed. We only use standard gauge because it's, well, the standard. India is moving all their railways to 5' 6" Indian gauge which aren't already in that gauge.
Speaking of engineering decisions, one decision BART made that was against the engineers was to save money by reducing the amount of braking systems on each car. As a result, BART trains are physically incapable of emergency braking at their designed top speed, so all trains are restricted to run 10-15 MPH slower than they were designed to.
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That's not the architecture in these chips. You're referring to the older Loongson which was a licensed from a MIPS clone designer who had questionable patent situation concerning several patented CPU instructions. These instructions magically appeared in later Loongsons, but that's not the point of this article.
The CPUs in this article are reported to be very similar to DEC Alpha 21164, and it has been reported that no such intellectual property license exists.
The older systems, like Longson, are MIPS using a questionable license with patent problems.
These systems are directly derived from DEC Alpha.
So, not homegrown, more like "homecloned" from US chips and then enhanced.
In other words, the hard work was already done, and they just took it.
Did we all forget that it is misogynist?
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Low-latency and good sounding music don't come together in the BlueTooth world.
I've also found that there are lots of BlueTooth speakers and receiver-adapters that don't handshake at the better quality protocols and bitrates. The Logitech BlueTooth receivers work fine but most others do not.
Latency is still crap, hopefully BT 5 might alleviate the problem, but I don't see how to do that and be low power and still good sound quality.
When I walk past the Verizon store in Washington DC Union Station I always receive a text message from the store asking me to come in and shop. It is always on the first time walking past and it's happened about a dozen times so far.
I have an Android phone with Bluetooth, GPS, and NFC turned off, so I don't know how it's doing this.
OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are elegant operating systems.
IBM spent a huge amount of effort on their Windows compatible subsystem. It worked well, but I remember yelling at someone for doing something as innocent as moving the mouse pointer off the Windows subsystem window causing the entire system to crash on OS/2 Warp.
It's still a good operating system. The entire thing should be open-sourced, even if large parts of it were hand-coded in assembly language.
This is not an NTFS problem but an old API problem that programs should have stopped using years ago (decades, actually).
Programs like the NPM Nodejs package manager have had, until recently, horrifically long pathnames for no good reason. This fixes that for them.
Nearly any other program doesn't have this problem.
Good job, NPM developers, for forcing MSFT to update a very old API that you still insist on using.
Exactly how has this harmed anyone?
Everyone knows pedometers aren't accurate. This is just a continuation of what we all knew in the 1980s and 1990s.
I don't see how this lawsuit has any merit whatsoever. Whom has it harmed, and how?
What about all the other pedometers, like the ones health insurance companies issue to employees with which points are earned to obtain discounts?
This is what happens when reprocessing is forbidden in the United States.
We don't need very large deep repositories. Reprocessing spent fuel generates power and reduces the amount of dangerous waste. Why don't we do it? Because of some hypothetical proliferation risk that turns out doesn't actually exist in those countries that do reprocess spent fuel.
And we shouldn't be dry-casking, because that makes it so much more difficult to extract and reprocess. God forbid we glassify the waste, spending orders of magnitude more money and effort than it would cost to reprocess fuel.
We figured out a way to reprocess "unusable" anthracite coal waste (culm) profitably. Likewise, the rest of the world has been reprocessing spent nuclear fuel for decades.
What's the Department of Energy's actual problem, here?
Today I learned the term "grows" is a plural nown.
Boeing is concentrating more on human-rated flight from the start. This kind of delay is not unexpected.
I have no need for such a high-capacity card at this time, but I marvel how far technology has progressed in the last few years, let alone months.
I don't recall anyone asking you if you had a damn need for such a high-capacity card at this time.
Before anyone starts arguing about this, I did have the paid version.
They started with hijacking the Download manager last year. Then they added this pointless scanning tool to "optimize" your device. I don't care what is going on but I know it's bad. I removed it from all my devices last year.
At least Amazon requires a notarized letter to turn off 2FA on AWS.
Hahah, yeah, I was being conservative with that time frame.
But then we still have the other almost dead Slashdot sister site http://everything2.com/ formerly known as everything.com.
That site has been a vegetable for at least five years now. Sad to see it go, but this really isn't news.
You can't feed only grass to a chicken. You'll kill it.
I believe in feeding the correct food to animals, like grass for pork and beef, but let's do a little bit a research, please.
Well, at least this report was obtained legally.
Google Calendar has been almost completely useless since SMS reminders went away. What a stupid move. Even Yahoo Calendar still has SMS reminders.
Mrs. Clinton's instructions for a staff member to remove markings represents some horribly egregious judgement on her part.
I'm going to abstain from correcting all of the laughably wrong posts about clearance levels and markings in this discussion. So far, nobody has gotten it right, and it's funny to watch everyone correcting each other with even more incorrect information.
I like Amazon Prime but they keep dropping songs and artists. Each month more and more songs in my playlist get "greyed out" until I elect to purchase them.
At least for Amazon Prime Music, sometimes it feels like it's a bait-and-switch scheme.
Sorry to nitpick too much, but the line terminates at Wiehle-Reston East. It's a long time coming, we wish we could take a train to Dulles, really, we do.
Fun fact: Wiehle-Reston East is the only extant station that has parking facilities. There is a station in Tysons Corner with "temporary" paid parking in a privately-owned lot. Lots of folks are parking in the Tysons Corner Center Mall parking facilities, and the mall management is trying to crack down on that. I mean, who wouldn't think to use the mall parking for metro? Oh, well. There's no Metro-provided parking in Tysons, which is a severe fault, but they did it intentionally to ensure people don't use Tysons as a parking lot for Silver Line commuters, or something. *Whatever*.
The stations in "Phase 2" will have parking facilities, but they won't be online until 2020 (sigh).
The selection of Indian gauge was a very real engineering decision. The wider gauge is widely regarded as the most efficient for train size and for stability at speed. We only use standard gauge because it's, well, the standard. India is moving all their railways to 5' 6" Indian gauge which aren't already in that gauge.
Speaking of engineering decisions, one decision BART made that was against the engineers was to save money by reducing the amount of braking systems on each car. As a result, BART trains are physically incapable of emergency braking at their designed top speed, so all trains are restricted to run 10-15 MPH slower than they were designed to.
No, there are no trains of any kind running to Dulles Airport until the year 2020 at the very earliest.