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New I/O Standard Bids To Replace Mini PCI Express 31

DeviceGuru writes "LinuxDevices reports that a group of companies today unveiled — and demonstrated products based on — a tiny new PCI Express expansion standard. Although it's somewhat larger than the PCI Express Mini Card, the tiny new 43mm x 65mm FeaturePak card's high density 230-pin edgecard connector provides twice the number of PCI Express and USB 2.0 channels to the host computer, plus 100 lines dedicated to general purpose I/O, of which 34 signal pairs are implemented with enhanced isolation for use in applications such as gigabit Ethernet or high-precision analog I/O. While FeaturePaks will certainly be used in all sorts of embedded devices (medical instruments, test equipment, etc.), the tiny cards could also be used for developing configurable consumer devices, for example to add an embedded firewall/router or security processor to laptop or notebook computers, or for modular functionality in TV set-top-boxes and Internet edge devices." The president of Diamond Systems, which invented the new card, said "Following the FeaturePak initiative's initial launch, we intend to turn the FeaturePak specification, trademark, and logo over to a suitable standards organization so it can become an industry-wide, open-architecture, embedded standard" (but to use the logo you have to join the organization).

Comment jaded (Score 5, Insightful) 599

the problem with having older programmers like myself is that they are fully tired of being jerked around
by incompetent management. if you've worked in 20 shops, and run a few yourself, you're alot less
likely to happily pull an all nighter to try to get the release out the door. you understand
that this all could have been taken care of months ago, and you went to some pains to point that
out then.

the other kind of older programmer has just given up. they know better, but they understand
that bitching isn't going to solve anything and they need the health insurance. they look alot
less capable then they are because they just agree with everything and try to get out the door
by 5.

younger programmers dont know any better, they will believe whatever you say

Comment bugzilla (Score 1) 428

you need to write a front end to draw lines

but it has a database backend that you can augment, has prioritization,
dependencies, user assignment, completion estimates and completion dates

it may suck, but it seems substantially more useful than the tools that were made
for the purpose

Comment Re:What's the big deal? (Score 1) 533

except for -
    - security leaks
    - differential pricing
    - security agencies deciding that you dont fit a common pattern and
        targetting you for additional surveillance
    - impact on your credit rating
    - ability to get certain kinds of insurance at all
    - when the marketers in question aren't just selecting legitimate ads, but scams
    - we just changed our privacy policy and the last 10 years of data on
        you is available to anyone for the low low price of 0.0001 USD
    - our company was acquired by a company whose contact information is a p.o. box in moldava ....
   

Comment Re:How does it deal with replication latency? (Score 1) 137

this isn't true. a fully recoverable abstraction can be maintained without digging into
the architecture. you just need a point periodically where you flush everything and define a
consistent checkpoint

personally i prefer doing this in the database, or operating system, or application, but suggesting
that you cant do this underneath is simply wrong. it just comes down to performance

Comment Re:bad design (Score 1) 381

actually, fuck off. language design people have distilled the semantics of sql down to something with is actually composable, compilable, able to be evaluated in a distributed context, and actually..useful. datalog. mercury.

sql is a festering sore. its a poorly conceived idea that for random reasons survived

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