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Comment Re:So how many have SATA ports? (Score 1) 81

SATA
and
USB.

I gfigure USB is common but SATA is hard to find.

SATA is not hard to find. *Dual* SATA is hard to find and dual SATA with dual Ethernet is basically non-existant among ARM boards.

I have a PCduino Nano that I picked up at a raffle. It's a cute little board but single ethernet means it can't be a router or a firewall. Single SATA means no RAID so it doesn't really have any business being a server either.

Comment Re:PC with SODIMMs? (Score 1) 42

So what's a DDR3L (1.35V) SODIMM? I have no clue what the difference is between LPDDR and something like DDR3L, but you sound like someone knowledgeable enough to answer.

DDR3L is lower voltage but otherwise identical to DDR3. LPDDR is an entirely different line used mostly in cell phones. LPDDR3 has no relationship to DDR3, just as LPDDR2 had no relationship to DDR2 and LPDDR4 has no relationship to DDR4.

Comment Re:PC with SODIMMs? (Score 3, Informative) 42

There are no DIMMs for LPDDR, SO or otherwise. The price for low IO power is no termination resistors. The means you only get adequate signal integrity with short, point to point traces. Edge connector buses need not apply.

SODIMMs use the same DDR protocol as desktop DIMMs, but usually contain fewer chips and wider buses to each chip.

Comment More important: how is this happening? (Score 4, Insightful) 70

Unfortunately, TFA doesn't suggest the question. Gamma bursts were not expected on Earth because they are created by nuclear interactions. Common for stars and other cosmic objects but not expected in thunderstorms. The source could be electrical, which means they are technically x-rays but at a higher energy then thought possible. Alternatively, there is significant nuclear fusion going on in those storms.

Submission + - The Vanishing American Male Worker

HughPickens.com writes: Binyamin Appelbaum writes at the NYT that the share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent as many men have decided that low-wage work will not improve their lives, in part because deep changes in American society have made it easier for them to live without working. These changes include the availability of federal disability benefits; the decline of marriage, which means fewer men provide for children; and the rise of the Internet, which has reduced the isolation of unemployment. Technology has made unemployment less lonely says Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, who argues that the Internet allows men to entertain themselves and find friends and sexual partners at a much lower cost than did previous generations. Perhaps most important, it has become harder for men to find higher-paying jobs as foreign competition and technological advances have eliminated many of the jobs open to high school graduates. The trend was pushed to new heights by the last recession, with 20 percent of prime-age men not working in 2009 before partly receding. But the recovery is unlikely to be complete. "Like turtles flipped onto their backs, many people who stop working struggle to get back on their feet," writes Appelbaum. "Some people take years to return to the work force, and others never do "

A study published in October by scholars at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies estimated that 37 percent of the decline in male employment since 1979 can be explained by this retreat from marriage and fatherhood (PDF). “When the legal, entry-level economy isn’t providing a wage that allows someone a convincing and realistic option to become an adult — to go out and get married and form a household — it demoralizes them and shunts them into illegal economies,” says Philippe Bourgois, an anthropologist who has studied the lives of young men in urban areas. “It’s not a choice that has made them happy. They would much rather be adults in a respectful job that pays them and promises them benefits.”

Comment Making ENIAC run again (Score 2) 126

Gleason realized early on that he couldn’t make his portion of ENIAC run actual calculations—such an endeavor would require all 40 panels

I wonder if Gleason of other preservationists have considered building functional replicas of the missing panels. Doing so would be the first step is bringing the relics to life again as a functioning computer.

Of course, that would not be the end of the project:

, not to mention thousands of new components and technical know-how that had long been forgotten.

But perhaps a workable project to restore ENIAC to working order could inspire the re-discovery of such knowledge. Often of technical knowledge thought to be lost is not really lost, just misplaced. Somebody knows or knows who knows but they need to be inspired to come forward or follow up on their hunch.

Comment Re:Bullshit Stats. (Score 1) 496

Because person by person is how you hire people. I would think that the last thing we would want would be "take it or leave it" job offers. Look what it has done to cell phone contracts, EULAs, utility contracts, heck just about anything.

"take it or leave it" works just fine for shoes, hotels, electronic equipment and most everything else we exchange money for. The key is you need enough competition that "leave it" becomes a real, practical choice.

Comment Not a jet pack (Score 4, Informative) 55

Despite appearances, there is no "jet" or "rocket" engine. It is a pair of ducted fans driven by a four cylinder gasoline engine.

It isn't a pack either. The weight of the machine is borne by a large frame that the pilot steps onto.

It is really an odd sort of helicopter. It looks really cool and it is much more compact than a normal helicopter but it is not a jet-pack.

Comment Last generation to die (Score 3, Interesting) 187

I expect to live just long enough to be told "we can not extend life and health substantially, possibly indefinitely, but not for anyone already as old as you"

Or maybe not. Given that I expect it will take 20 years from the big breakthrough to a practical treatment and I'm already 46, I should be seeing signs already that the research is getting close.

Comment Re:TV on the pocket screen.... (Score 4, Insightful) 40

Aereo was an attempt to make local TV be receivable on cell phones and computers, but the copyright license wasn't negotiated properly. Why can't the iPhone have a ATSC chip inside it?

What would be the point? You need a rather large, well aimed antenna to reliably receive broadcast TV as anyone who has tried to use "rabbit ears" can tell you. Even the largest phablet is not large enough for such an antenna and no one will want to aim it at the tower.

Comment Re:Don't we already do that? (Score 1) 110

No, that only works for those who speak or read the same language.

Vs "thought language" which is likely to be unique to each individual. At least with spoken languages there are strong incentives to iron out the differences so that a different people in a group can communicate. And still there is continuous drift. In the history of human kind, there has been no incentive or even influence to make internal thoughts compatible.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 201

The Z3 Compact is no exception. It has a 4.6" screen, making it much closer in size to to the 4.95" Nexus 5 than the 3.5" Iphone 4 that is the usual benchmark for a small phone. It also has a screen resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. That's not bad but it is definitely cut down from the 1080 x 1920 pixels of the full size Z3.

The other mini's are worse, of course, but the Z3 Compact is the not the savior of small phone aficionados.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 3, Interesting) 201

The page that the Nexus 6 is presented on still has a link to the Nexus 5. My personal theory at this time (unproven) is that they're keeping the Nexus 5 around as their lower-end model, since they don't have anything to replace its price point with. Hell, the Nexus 5 page now shows the device running Android L (Lollipop.)

While the Nexus 5 is not as enormous as the Nexus 6, it is anything but small.

Which is the chief problem with the various "mini" models available today. Not a one is actually a small, well featured phone. They are simply old and/or reduced spec phones every bit as big as the first wave of large phones.

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