Comment Re:Time to stop focusing on cutting emissions (Score 1) 521
Indeed. We need to spend our last seconds figuring out ways to make the ocean rise to meet the cliff.
Indeed. We need to spend our last seconds figuring out ways to make the ocean rise to meet the cliff.
Doesn't have to be that old. I wrote, and am still maintaining a program written for an MSP430 that fits into 13k (ok, 12.8k) of code, as it was a 16k part and 3k was used for the bootloader + vector table. It's running right now, controlling power supplies and running PID loops. Actually, it's running about 750,000 copies right now, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Which is why it had to fit into 16k. Every penny counts when you multiply times 3/4 million. And yes, of course it's in C. No worries about memory leaks though, there's no heap. I do worry about the 80 byte stack though, maybe it's time to bump it up to an even 128.
Mac users know better than to open their computers. You might untangle the interwebs in there.
The summary didn't tell me who to root for so I am completely confused.
This is one of those rare events when you are actually rooting for the lawyers.
Hard drive manufacturing started in Singapore due to an availability of high tech and has been migrating steadily north ever since to capture cheaper labor rates as hard drive margins shrank and technical competence in other countries increased. Singapore -> Malasyia -> Thailand -> China.
Surface has a USB port. Surface has an included keyboard. Surface has Windows & Active Directory & a platform supported by the vast majority of software companies.
Surface is a laptop.
It's a dessert topping!
As reported in TFA, the die-shrunk version runs a bit cooler. Which if you know your thermodynamics, is pretty much inevitable if it has lower power consumption.
How much thermodynamics do you need to know that things that draw less power run less hot?
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall
