Comment More invites? (Score 1) 1223
Would appreciate it if you still have one to spare. At gmail, user name is joeylrios. TIA.
The Frankentablet: Windows and Android Mashup 121
GMGruman writes "What happens if you take a netbook, remove its keyboard, put Windows 7 in one partition, a custom version of Android 2.2 in another, throw in a Linux bootloader, and physical buttons that match none of these? You get the ViewSonic ViewPad 10, a Frankenstein creation of technology body parts that just don't fit together. As this InfoWorld review shows, it's definitely a 'were they even thinking?' class of product."
Comment Probably this same old stickler (Score 1) 40
Must be this guy screwing with the launch times again. Jerk.
Comment Re:Why you want to reconfigure on the fly. (Score 1) 108
Is it a huge hassle to offload video rendering to your graphics card?
Comment Amazing use of factors (Score 4, Funny) 108
For those of you who missed TFA, here is a juicy tidbit:
Teig estimates that the footprint of a Tabula chip is less than a third of an equivalent FPGA, making it five times cheaper to make, while providing more than double the density of logic and roughly four times the performance.
That is 6X more impressive than any other use of factors in a sentence... ever.
Comment Sounds short (Score 1) 997
Complaining about 10 or 11 hours? My work day is 1000 hours, like most peoples'. I guess there really are only 10 kinds of people: those that complain about work hours and those that don't.
CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool 104
aesoteric writes "Software giant CA has filed suit against an Australian software developer over a program that allegedly enabled companies to migrate off CA database platforms onto IBM DB2. It claimed the software 'reproduced' portions of confidential source and object codes without permission and deprived CA of license fees. CA also disputed claims that its database platform was 'dying.'"
Comment Literature search (Score 4, Insightful) 279
If this is true:
I've no experience on [research papers], not even read a complete one
Then you will likely have a hard time writing a legitimate paper. A key aspect of most papers is a comparison of your work to work previously published. You need to establish how yours is novel. Without ever reading any other articles, I doubt you'll be able to do that successfully. Of course you'd need to do this to get a patent as well if you go the route others seem to be suggesting.
Comment Re:Don't you love weasel language (Score 1) 124
Carnival Rube: Hey honey, let's see how good this guy is. What'd I win?
Navin: Uh, anything in this general area right in here. Anything below the stereo and on this side of the bicentennial glasses. Anything between the ashtrays and the thimble. Anything in this three inches right in here in this area. That includes the Chiclets, but not the erasers.
Sam Ramji Answers Your Questions 81
A couple weeks back you asked some questions of new CodePlex Foundation President Sam Ramji. He has responded and expressed interest in participating in the discussion at some point. If you have follow up questions feel free to drop them in the discussion so he can address them as he has time.
US FTC Sues Intel For Anti-Competitive Practices 230
Vigile writes "And here Intel was about to get out of 2009 with only a modestly embarrassing year. While Intel and AMD settled their own antitrust and patent lawsuits in November, the FTC didn't think that was good enough and has decided to sue Intel for anti-competitive practices. While the suits in Europe and in the US civil courts have hurt Intel's pocketbook and its reputation, the FTC lawsuit could very likely be the most damaging towards the company's ability to practice business as they see fit. The official hearing is set for September of 2010 but we will likely hear news filtering out about the evidence and charges well before that. One interesting charge that has already arisen: that Intel systematically changed its widely-used compiler to stunt the performance of competing processors."
Nielsen Struggles To Track Modern Viewing Habits 248
RobotRunAmok writes "The Nielsen Company has been the principal entity tracking TV shows' popularity, and, by extension, their potential profitability. But as our media consumption practices change, some believe that Nielsen's methods have not kept pace. A new consortium including networks owned by NBC Universal, Time Warner, News Corp, Viacom, CBS, Discovery, and Walt Disney — along with major advertisers — is calling for the creation of a new audience measurement service, and planning to solicit bids from outside firms by the fourth quarter of this year. Nielsen says they're not worried about so many of their customers ganging up on them, having just invested more than a billion dollars in research to stay modern. Except that today Nielsen announced they would pointedly not be adding weights to DVR households, and that adding weights for the presence of a personal computer or Internet access in under-represented households would provide 'no significant change or enhancement' to its national TV ratings sample. The pundits deride Nielsen's 'archaic' methodology and 'disco-era tactics,' but others scoff that such a consortium will only 'put the foxes in charge of the henhouse.' Stay tuned..."
Comment Re:One in twenty? (Score 1) 884
Yes, those odds seem inconceivably low. If an unguided rock can hit a plane with that frequency (1 in 20 times), you'd think we'd be able to develop an anti-ballistic missile system that worked.
They said there was a 1 in 20 chance that some plane in the last 20 years could have been taken down with a meteor. Not that 1 in 20 meteors takes down a plane.
Comment Re:What are "ribbens"? (Score 5, Funny) 64
...he's just making up new words on the fly.
With all the unzipping going on, making up words on the fly is probably OK in this instance.
Submission + - David Arneson, co-creator of D&D, dies at age (mercurynews.com)
Alotau writes: Following a two-year battle with cancer, David Arneson died Tuseday at the age of 61. He was a co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons. In an e-mail statement released by his family shortly after his death Tuesday, his daughter Malia Weinhagen, of Maplewood, Minn., said 'the biggest thing about my dad's world is he wanted people to have fun in life. I think we get distracted by the everyday things you have to do in life and we forget to enjoy life and have fun.'
Besides his daughter, Arneson is survived by his father, John, and two grandchildren.
Besides his daughter, Arneson is survived by his father, John, and two grandchildren.
