Comment Ms. Bitters was right (Score 1) 421
I believe this covers the important aspects of this story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjNBzyLqDPM
Comment Impractical (Score 1) 67
I find this whole idea hard to swallow.
Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 561
The newer MS keyboards are pretty awful, but their mice are not too bad still.
Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents 167
Dupple writes with news carried by the BBC of a gigantic tech-patent case that (seemingly for once) doesn't involve Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, or Google:
"'U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology faces having to pay one of the biggest ever patent damage awards. A jury in Pittsburgh found the firm guilty of infringing two hard disk innovations owned by local university Carnegie Mellon.' Though the company claims that the CMU patents weren't valid because the university hadn't invented anything new, saying a Seagate patent of 14 months earlier described everything that the CMU patents do, the jury found that Marvell's chips infringed claim 4 of Patent No. 6,201,839 and claim 2 of Patent No. 6,438,180. "method and apparatus for correlation-sensitive adaptive sequence detection" and "soft and hard sequence detection in ISI memory channels.' 'It said Marvell should pay $1.17bn (£723m) in compensation — however that sum could be multiplied up to three times by the judge because the jury had also said the act had been "wilful." Marvell's shares fell more than 10%.'"
Comment Reverse the charges (Score 4, Insightful) 148
Right, so the real people responsible will be charged now? The ones who left seriously insecure military computers connected to the internet? </naive>
Comment Lunokhod? (Score 1) 32
Hasn't this already happened?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme
Comment Re:Clouds (Score 1) 52
I was one of those people on the beach. Stupid cloud
Comment Re:Don't watch it (Score 5, Insightful) 515
That won't work, most of them haven't watched it anyway.
Comment Re:Range of that Weather-Balloon's WiFi (Score 5, Informative) 141
You don't realise how cheap the sondes are. There are hundreds launched every day, and they don't get them back. They have to be incredibly cheap and there are no GSM technologies cheaper than a simple FM radio.
There are technical limitations too - GSM only works up to about 5km, above that they will likely fail. Sondes usually fly to about 30km.
Comment Hard to get? (Score 1) 155
These are not difficult to get now, except if you order from RS. They're the only supplier that has failed to deliver one within a week. CPC and Farnell are pushing them out pretty quickly now. Not sure about Maplin.
Comment Re:Do they have a course on how to order one... (Score 1) 99
I've gotten one from a couple of different sellers now, the only one who so far hasn't delivered is RS. All the rest have been very quick.
Comment Re:Hogwash (Score 5, Funny) 625
What, he doesn't have a secret lab in his bedroom?
Comment Re:ARM has some advantages (Score 1) 406
Intel is not an acronym, you don't need to type it in capitals. Looks really odd.
Comment Re:Funding schmunding (Score 1) 165
I have one sitting on my desk right now. Although I ordered it on the morning of release, and it only arrive last week.
Comment GIR! (Score 1) 608
Nobody else could be the turkey. Nobody.
