Everyone hates patch Tuesday. For the target demographic of tablet devices dealing with patch after patch for the OS and plug-ins would completely ruin the experience. While the typical geek has no problem with patches, we are sadly not the target demographic for tablet devices.
...should include a sample of some code that attempts to perform logical operations based on the outcome of floating point operations. Anyone who attempts to check the result of a floating point operation for equality without normalizing precision should be shown to the door and never called back.
Why is everyone getting hung up over the issue of physical property when the value of said object, a single telephone, is inconsequential compared to the value of the intellectual property it represents (millions of R&D dollars). The simple fact is that this device represents a TRADE SECRET and its owners are legally obligated to protect it as such. By going after petty criminal charges rather than asserting that they adequately protected their IP they are leaving the door wide open to knockoff producers to flood the market without any legal recourse as that Apple did not do due diligence in protecting their trade secrets relating to the 4G iPhone.
We already have enough Bluetooth headset users walking around giving the appearance that they are talking to themselves. Now these same people are going to look like they are having their solo discussions in sign language.
I remember reading an article not too long ago about the process of cleaning jet engines on the tarmac and the benefits of increased fuel efficiency associated with including this technique as part of regular scheduled maintenance. Is anyone reading this qualified to discuss how efficient this process would be at removing volcanic ash?
Someone tell the producers of The Downfall that they cannot godwin use of the godwin clip. Its like dividing by zero, the consequences are never worth it no matter how badly you want to do it.
How many unwanted pregnancies could be prevented if Ecstasy tablets included a dose of birth control hormones? Club kids would make wonderful lab rats.
Ubisoft has never understood how to do online multiplayer gaming correctly. It has been all downhill since the original Far Cry game and they will never see another penny of my gaming cash. Steam on the other hand is almost perfect. Almost.
Remember when HP spun off Agilent? They basically sold their soul to in the name of becoming a cash generating machine. No one I know associates HP with innovation anymore. It will be sad if the same comes to pass with Motorola.
As more computationally intensive applications migrate their heavy lifting to the cloud the thin-client paradigm becomes much more compelling. I'm certain that CPU/chipset vendors would gladly accept the low margins associated with netbook & nettop machines if there is a corresponding uptick in the enterprise server market.
Several online tools were available to test for vulnerabilities on individual PCs back when Kaminsky discovered the sad state of DNS security. Is there a similar test for available for cable modems? How about a list of susceptible devices? I'd rather not put blind faith in my ISP to keep me out of harms way.
So I can finally get support for my Hauppauge HD tuner without compiling super-glitchy drivers? This would be awesome if my cable provider wasn't moving all non local broadcast stations off ClearQAM next month. By the time MythTV rolls out CableCard support online streaming providers will have made it obsolete.
You and I know these devices do nothing, the guys waving them around at the checkpoints know they do nothing but the would-be bombers aren't quite as confident. All it takes is one nervous twitch and WHAM! They are detained, searched and questioned. Find one needle in the haystack this way and soon the word gets around. This is quite a fine bit of social engineering, IMHO. Too bad about the exorbitant price tag.
There are many medical imaging applications which could improve diagnosis without subjecting patients to ionizing radiation, yet very little if any R&D dollars are invested to productize them given that all the major medical imaging vendors are heavily invested in 'big iron' solutions such as CT and digital XRay. As long the current ecosystem is in place these companies will push their multimillion dollar imaging systems while throwing in Ultrasound and laproscopy systems merely to sweeten the deal. This is one area where eastern countries are way ahead of the west in that care providers seek imaging solutions based on utility, not on the reimbursement rates per procedure.
Every organization I have dealt with since the dawn of SharePoint still has 90% of the sites every created up and 'available' even if they haven't had any content updates in the last 5 years. Counting 'zombie' SharePoint sites is a nice way to pad your deployment stats, IMHO. SharePoint is overkill for dead projects where no one will ever look at anything other than the executive summary of your lessons learned document.
With its limited range and channel hopping abilities Bluetooth avoids having to compete as much for bandwidth in the very congested spectrum occupied by WiFi. In a perfect world WiFi power consumption may be able to compete with Bluetooth, but Bluetooth remains power efficient even under less than ideal conditions, aka the real world of office buildings, apartment complexes. I really wish UWB would have gained traction in the market. Having a fat pipe at power levels comparable to Bluetooth really opens up some interesting possibilities.
Those wonderfully sane and rational folks on the committee in charge of the SCSI protocol once upon a time defined a media sector as 512 bytes, and the capacity of a media device as the number of addressable sectors (LBAs) it supported. So yes, lets totally shiat upon the legacy of some fine engineers whose standardization efforts we have all benefitted from for the sake of appeasing the marketing droids of the world.
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Actually they are calling it an APU (accelerated processing unit), FWIW.
Everyone hates patch Tuesday. For the target demographic of tablet devices dealing with patch after patch for the OS and plug-ins would completely ruin the experience. While the typical geek has no problem with patches, we are sadly not the target demographic for tablet devices.
...should include a sample of some code that attempts to perform logical operations based on the outcome of floating point operations. Anyone who attempts to check the result of a floating point operation for equality without normalizing precision should be shown to the door and never called back.
Why is everyone getting hung up over the issue of physical property when the value of said object, a single telephone, is inconsequential compared to the value of the intellectual property it represents (millions of R&D dollars). The simple fact is that this device represents a TRADE SECRET and its owners are legally obligated to protect it as such. By going after petty criminal charges rather than asserting that they adequately protected their IP they are leaving the door wide open to knockoff producers to flood the market without any legal recourse as that Apple did not do due diligence in protecting their trade secrets relating to the 4G iPhone.
See you at the flea market, Mr. Jobs.
We already have enough Bluetooth headset users walking around giving the appearance that they are talking to themselves. Now these same people are going to look like they are having their solo discussions in sign language.
I remember reading an article not too long ago about the process of cleaning jet engines on the tarmac and the benefits of increased fuel efficiency associated with including this technique as part of regular scheduled maintenance. Is anyone reading this qualified to discuss how efficient this process would be at removing volcanic ash?
Someone tell the producers of The Downfall that they cannot godwin use of the godwin clip. Its like dividing by zero, the consequences are never worth it no matter how badly you want to do it.
If this thing can be rigged to cook bacon then even I might buy one.
Some would argue that we have that already in the USA, hence the rich conservatives blocking health care reform to maintain their superiority.
How many unwanted pregnancies could be prevented if Ecstasy tablets included a dose of birth control hormones? Club kids would make wonderful lab rats.
Ubisoft has never understood how to do online multiplayer gaming correctly. It has been all downhill since the original Far Cry game and they will never see another penny of my gaming cash. Steam on the other hand is almost perfect. Almost.
Remember when HP spun off Agilent? They basically sold their soul to in the name of becoming a cash generating machine. No one I know associates HP with innovation anymore. It will be sad if the same comes to pass with Motorola.
I guess the semiconductor industry is overdue for new buzzword and "fusion" is it.
As more computationally intensive applications migrate their heavy lifting to the cloud the thin-client paradigm becomes much more compelling. I'm certain that CPU/chipset vendors would gladly accept the low margins associated with netbook & nettop machines if there is a corresponding uptick in the enterprise server market.
There is only one reason for the existence of the Internet
They have gone too far! It is already too late now that the damage has been done.
If cocaine emitted a detectable neutron signature the war on drugs would have been won years ago, IMHO.
Several online tools were available to test for vulnerabilities on individual PCs back when Kaminsky discovered the sad state of DNS security. Is there a similar test for available for cable modems? How about a list of susceptible devices? I'd rather not put blind faith in my ISP to keep me out of harms way.
So I can finally get support for my Hauppauge HD tuner without compiling super-glitchy drivers? This would be awesome if my cable provider wasn't moving all non local broadcast stations off ClearQAM next month. By the time MythTV rolls out CableCard support online streaming providers will have made it obsolete.
*shakes tiny fist at comcast*
You and I know these devices do nothing, the guys waving them around at the checkpoints know they do nothing but the would-be bombers aren't quite as confident. All it takes is one nervous twitch and WHAM! They are detained, searched and questioned. Find one needle in the haystack this way and soon the word gets around. This is quite a fine bit of social engineering, IMHO. Too bad about the exorbitant price tag.
There are many medical imaging applications which could improve diagnosis without subjecting patients to ionizing radiation, yet very little if any R&D dollars are invested to productize them given that all the major medical imaging vendors are heavily invested in 'big iron' solutions such as CT and digital XRay. As long the current ecosystem is in place these companies will push their multimillion dollar imaging systems while throwing in Ultrasound and laproscopy systems merely to sweeten the deal. This is one area where eastern countries are way ahead of the west in that care providers seek imaging solutions based on utility, not on the reimbursement rates per procedure.
Every organization I have dealt with since the dawn of SharePoint still has 90% of the sites every created up and 'available' even if they haven't had any content updates in the last 5 years. Counting 'zombie' SharePoint sites is a nice way to pad your deployment stats, IMHO. SharePoint is overkill for dead projects where no one will ever look at anything other than the executive summary of your lessons learned document.
"Bluetooth uses less power".
With its limited range and channel hopping abilities Bluetooth avoids having to compete as much for bandwidth in the very congested spectrum occupied by WiFi. In a perfect world WiFi power consumption may be able to compete with Bluetooth, but Bluetooth remains power efficient even under less than ideal conditions, aka the real world of office buildings, apartment complexes. I really wish UWB would have gained traction in the market. Having a fat pipe at power levels comparable to Bluetooth really opens up some interesting possibilities.
Based on comparing actual submissions to headlines making the front page I find this article to be rather deficient in the woodscrew content.
*glaring@you, soulskill*
Those wonderfully sane and rational folks on the committee in charge of the SCSI protocol once upon a time defined a media sector as 512 bytes, and the capacity of a media device as the number of addressable sectors (LBAs) it supported. So yes, lets totally shiat upon the legacy of some fine engineers whose standardization efforts we have all benefitted from for the sake of appeasing the marketing droids of the world.