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Comment Re:A true American (Score 1) 999

Exaggeration. Many companies provide 30 days of paid holidays but AFAIK only 25 is legally required. Of course there are several public holidays on top of the normal holiday (relating to Christianity) which do not exist in USA or many other, especially non-European, countries. 35 hours a week is also not a standard, I think 38-40 hours is more common in white-collar professions.

Submission + - askslashdot: is it worth upgrading an old GPU to a newer one for OpenCL support?

genik76 writes: I currently have a Radeon HD 3870. For research purposes, I downloaded and tested oclHashcat-plus, only to notice that my GPU doesn't support it (no OpenCL support). I considered upgrading my GPU to something supporting OpenCL, but it is not worth it just to use one program.

Is there any advantage in having a GPU supporting OpenCL in normal home computing usage? Besides browsing and word processing I do some occassional image processing, programming (Eclipse) and video processing.

Submission + - How the inventors of Dragon speech recogniton technology lost everything. (nytimes.com) 5

cjsm writes: James and Janet Baker were the inventors of Dragon Systems speech recogintion software, and after years of work, they created a multimillion dollar company. At the height of the tech boom, with investment offers rolling in, they turned to Goldman Sachs for financial advice. For a five million dollar fee, Goldman hooked them up with Lernout & Hauspie, the Belgium speech recognition company. After consultations with Goldman Sachs, the Bakers traded their company for $580 million in Lernout & Hauspie stock. But it turned out Lernout & Hauspie was involved in cooking their books and went bankrupt. Dragon was sold in a bankruptcy auction to Scansoft, and the Bakers lost everything. Goldman and Sachs itself had decided against investing in Lernout & Hauspie two years previous to this because they were lying about their Asian sales. The Bakers are suing for one billions dollars.

Comment Re:IE8 = "latest" version for many (Score 1) 250

If you work in a big corporation and have to implement a feature for web site and have to support only a certain browser, for example IE 8 and get something done until 5 p.m in the allocated time., do you think that

a) what about the the users who have installed the other browsers? Should I spend the next four hours doing unpaid work to support those as well?
b) go home and spend time with my family/watch a movie/drink a beer/go to a bar

I think the answer is pretty clear.

Comment Re:AOL Offices (Score 1) 141

Interesting is that Simons says

"I only had maybe five to ten T-shirts, a pair of jeans, and a pair of shorts (...)"

This means that he had several at least a couple of hours' periods when he was wearing just his underpants, waiting for his jeans to be washed or dried.

Comment Re:Good one. (Score 0) 114

I think that's more an emotional factor. Like most people care more about a child murdered in the neighbourhood than thousands of children starving in some far-away land. If you combine the suffering of all those people deprived of their £10, the suffering may amount to the same level as depriving one person of £750000. Of course there's no way to know.

Comment Re:Holy Flamebait Batman! (Score 1) 161

Nice summary there, painting the CSIRO as some kind of patent troll. They never claimed that they had "[invented] the concept of wireless LAN", they claimed that they had developed some very clever algorithms dealing with rejecting interference and the like.

The frontpage of CSIRO says "Wireless LAN, CSIRO's #1 invention, is estimated to be in more than three billion devices worldwide.". That doesn't sound like they just invented some clever algorithms.

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