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Comment Solid business plan (Score 1) 32

by tyggna on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:27PM (#52602565) Attached to: Oracle To Buy Cloud-Software Provider NetSuite For $9.3 Billion

Oracle buys more intellectual property so they can attempt to generate more revenue via lawsuits rather than by doing anything useful

Comment Good guy Nintendo (Score 1) 192

by tyggna on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:40PM (#52577835) Attached to: Nintendo Shares Plummet After Investors Realize It Doesn't Actually Make Pokemon Go

I realize there's the enlightened self-interest in play here, but this is really a kind move on Nintendo's part.

1) There's a huge increase in valuation for their company.
Nintendo employees (especially VP and C-level) could make a lot of money off of this fact. Ultimately, that money is coming from a bunch of investors because these guys get paid in stock and stock options.

2) The investors made the wrong investment, so they'd either lose or gain money based on a false premise.
So, Nintendo is being the nice guys here by setting them straight. Their execs could've just cashed all their stock options right now and ran. Instead, they issue a statement helping to set these investors straight before they lose any more. It saves Nintendo's reputation as a long-term investment, but they also built a good will with investors.

3) Nintendo didn't need to do this
They have the cash reserves to essentially self-fund all their projects. They could've burnt through good will in the short term and made a ton of money, but they didn't. They aren't in need of investment capital and haven't been for 20+ years.

Good on you Nintendo for being an outstanding corporate citizen.

Submission + - Altera (Intel) presents a new ram architecture 4x faster than DDR4 (techonline.com)

Submitted by tyggna on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:50AM

tyggna writes: While DDR4 can achieve up to 256gbps, Altera has developed a new style of RAM that puts an FPGA controller in between memory and the processor, and boasts that they can see bandwidth near 1tbps, and potentially increase their throughput in the future.

Submission + - FCC votes along party lines to regulate entire Internet

Submitted by jbdigriz on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:44PM

jbdigriz writes: In a stunning power grab, the FCC has extended Title II, not just to the loosely and flexibly defined "broadband" market, but to the Internet as a whole, wired and wireless, including even interconnects, making ISPs common carriers of telecom services, with the possible exception of dial-up providers (dunno, haven't seen the order yet). The commission voted also to override state law in NC and TN to remove restrictions on community broadband. Ars Technica has more info here. Lawyers, start filing. I'm sure the upshot will not be enshrinement of incumbents, of course. Or "openness" as defined by Fairness Committees of "Stake Holders." Right, suckers.

Submission + - FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations On 3-2 Vote

Submitted by Just Some Guy on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:37PM

Just Some Guy writes: After years of argument and record-breaking citizen participation, the FCC voted along party lines to enact regulations (hypothetically) limiting carriers' ability to slow down their competitors' traffic. While a full analysis of the regulations isn't available yet, initial signs are very promising.

Said carriers have already deployed their press releases.

Submission + - Net Neutrality passes (theverge.com)

Submitted by muggs on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:17PM

muggs writes: What does this mean going forward?

Comment What happens when someone breaks it? (Score 1) 55

by tyggna on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @05:54PM (#48860323) Attached to: Jim Blasko Explains BitCoin Spinoff 'Unbreakable Coin' (Video 1 of 2)

Unbreakable coin, well, except for this one time. . .

Comment Re:Academic wankery at its finest (Score 2) 154

by tyggna on Friday January 16, 2015 @05:53PM (#48834521) Attached to: The Anthropocene Epoch Began With 1945 Atomic Bomb Test, Scientists Say

All science is either mathematics, or stamp collecting. This would be printing a stamp and adding it to a collection of already printed stamps.

Submission + - The Legacy of CPU Features Since 1980s

Submitted by jones_supa on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @04:26AM

jones_supa writes: This is a response to the following question from David Albert:

My mental model of CPUs is stuck in the 1980s: basically boxes that do arithmetic, logic, bit twiddling and shifting, and loading and storing things in memory. I’m vaguely aware of various newer developments like vector instructions (SIMD) and the idea that newer CPUs have support for virtualization (though I have no idea what that means in practice).

An article by Dan Luu answers this question and provides a good overview of various cool tricks modern CPUs can perform. The slightly older presentation Compiler++ by Jim Radigan also gives some insight on how C++ translates to modern instruction sets.

Comment Your a mean one (Score 2) 118

by tyggna on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:15PM (#48628883) Attached to: Grinch Vulnerability Could Put a Hole In Your Linux Stocking

For trying to steal some of the IT spotlight on Linux, but you'll never dampen our GNU spirit--largely because this vulnerability isn't really a big deal and most of us who use it are educated enough to know that.

Comment Let down (Score 1) 41

by tyggna on Friday December 05, 2014 @05:47PM (#48534415) Attached to: Ultrasound Used To Create Haptics That Can Be Touched and Felt

Went and read the article (hey, someone on slashdot had to put up the $15). Anyway, at the end they had participants see if they could correctly guess the shape, and about 90% of them could. The haptic field produced here is no where near strong enough to stop or hinder hand movement. I imagine that the closest sensation to this in real life would be running your hand under a balloon and feeling the shape by how your hand hairs respond.

Submission + - Intel Invests Billions in Mobile Ambitions (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett on Friday December 05, 2014 @04:37PM

itwbennett writes: The allure of mobile devices has led Intel to take some uncharacteristic moves, partnering with Chinese companies to build some smartphone and tablet chips, and relying on third parties to manufacture those chips. Intel is betting the partnerships will accelerate its business in China, where smartphone shipments are booming. But the company wants to regain complete control over manufacturing, and on Thursday said it was investing $1.6 billion over 15 years in a China plant for mobile chip development and manufacturing.

Submission + - Robo-Wars: The regulation of robotic weapons (robohub.org)

Submitted by Hallie Siegel on Friday December 05, 2014 @03:43PM

Hallie Siegel writes: Robotic weapons, whether autonomous or remote controlled, have generated widespread controversy in recent years.
Alex Leveringhaus, author of a recent Oxford Martin School policy paper titled Robo-Wars: The Regulation of Robotic Weapons discusses the ethics of autonomous weapons, urges governments to recognise the increasing prominence of these weapons in contemporary and future forms of warfare, and proposes steps towards suitable regulation. This article is part of a series on regulating robotics.

Submission + - The Orion Spacecraft Runs On 12-Year-Old Computer Tech (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123 on Friday December 05, 2014 @03:12PM

Lucas123 writes: While NASA's Orion spacecraft, which blasted off on a successful test flight today, may be preparing for a first-of-its-kind mission to carry astronauts to Mars and other deep-space missions, the technology inside of it is no where near leading edge. In fact, its computers and its processors are 12 years old — making them ancient in tech years. The spacecraft, according to one NASA engineer, is built to be rugged and reliable in the face of G forces, massive amounts of radiation and the other rigors of space."Compared to the [Intel] Core i5 in your laptop, it's much slower — much less powerful. It's probably not any faster than your smartphone," Matt Lemke, NASA's deputy manager for Orion's avionics, power and software team, told Computerworld. Lemke said the spacecraft was built to be rugged and reliable — not necessarily smart. That's why there are two flight computers. Orion's main computer was built by Honeywell as a flight computer originally for Boeing's 787 jet airliner.

Submission + - IBM Researchers: Old Laptop Batteries Can Power Slums

Submitted by mrspoonsi on Friday December 05, 2014 @11:52AM

mrspoonsi writes: Old laptop batteries still have enough life in them to power homes in slums, researchers have said. An IBM study analysed a sample of discarded batteries and found 70% had enough power to keep an LED light on more than four hours a day for a year. Researchers said using discarded batteries is cheaper than existing power options, and also helps deal with the mounting e-waste problem. The concept was trialled in the Indian city of Bangalore this year. The adapted power packs are expected to prove popular with street vendors, who are not on the electric grid, as well as poor families living in slums. The IBM team created what they called an UrJar — a device that uses lithium-ion cells from the old batteries to power low-energy DC devices, such as a light. The researchers are aiming to help the approximately 400 million people in India who are off grid.

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