acak - Slashdot User

Comment The battery age matters (Score 2) 254

by acak on Friday November 04, 2011 @01:56AM (#37944676) Attached to: My phone's battery lasts ...

The other factor is the age of the battery. I still use the Moto RAZR I bought 2 years ago - the talk time back then was about 6 hours. Now it's down to about 3 hours. Same goes for standby time.

Comment Re:the way to go (Score 4, Insightful) 743

by acak on Thursday November 03, 2011 @06:40PM (#37941534) Attached to: Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates

Too often the interviewer's questions are loaded in two different ways - there is no one right answer and not understanding this or dismissing anything outside the narrow set of answers he/she is looking for shows a lack of maturity on the interviewers side of the table.

Comment Fine, I'll say it... (Score 1) 332

by acak on Saturday September 24, 2011 @12:09PM (#37502194) Attached to: Is ARM Ever Coming To the Desktop?

... 2012 will be the year of ARM in the desktop!

Comment Re:I am an HFT programmer (Score 1) 791

by acak on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:02PM (#36939468) Attached to: How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries

For an large enterprise developer who has worked about five years on .NET and Java, could you outline a path towards becoming an HFT programmer?

Thanks.

Submission + - DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables Illegal, Face Recall 1

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Sunday July 10, 2011 @02:08PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "PC Magazine reports that the licensing company overseeing the HDMI specification has confirmed that existing Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters which are designed by several cable makers and sold by several PC OEMs, are apparently illegal and could be recalled. According to Charlene Wan, director of marketing for HDMI LLC, any cable that does not include HDMI connectors on both ends violates the specification. "The HDMI specification defines an HDMI cable as having ONLY HDMI connectors on the ends," says Wan. "Anything else is not a licensed use of the specification and therefore, not allowed." That apparently includes Apple's mini-DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters, which are sold by Belkin on Apple's Web site. However a representative for Belkin denies that the cable it sells on Apple's Web site is illegal. "Essentially, the product you mention in your post is not out of compliance because it is just an adaptor and not a cable," the representative wrote in an email. "We do not sell a cable with a male Mini-DP and male HDMI port, which is what falls out of compliance with the spec. HDMI does recognize a product that has a Mini-DP connector and HDMI receptacle with an internal active circuitry as it falls into the definition of a source device." There may also be a glimmer of hope, in that HDMI Org understands that there is a need for this type of cable: "We do recognise that there may be a market need for a cable solution rather than a dongle solution. However, at this time, there is no way to produce these cable products in a licensed manner.""

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