Bill of Death - Slashdot User

Comment True - I use white noise instead (Score 1) 405

by Bill of Death on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @06:36PM (#40161387) Attached to: Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity?

I do find music - especially music I like - to be distracting. Which is why I often listen to white (or brown) noise on my headphones in the office. Blocks out office noise without being distracting.

Comment Re:WTF is "ISO C"? (Score 1) 378

by Bill of Death on Sunday December 25, 2011 @01:32AM (#38486738) Attached to: ISO Updates C Standard

The standards bodies' names should answer your question. ANSI: A = American. ISO: I =International. An American standard isn't good enough for many people, no matter how open; they want an "International" standard with the associated level of bureaucracy.

Comment Re:Colors in photographs (Score 2, Informative) 129

by Bill of Death on Thursday September 10, 2009 @12:05AM (#29375013) Attached to: Hubble Releases First Post-Upgrade Images

Because, when using a color filter array, you throw away 2/3 of your light. Plus it's inflexible.

Comment Re:Culture of Secrecy (Score 5, Informative) 514

by Bill of Death on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @04:54PM (#28774711) Attached to: Chinese Employee Loses iPhone Prototype, Kills Self

False. The four pairs of New Balance shoes currently in my house were all made in China.

Comment Vicariously through my kids (Score 1) 396

by Bill of Death on Monday July 13, 2009 @10:56AM (#28676429) Attached to: My toy collection is ...

I don't have any toys. But my kids do: video games, Legos, etc. Of course, I have to spend a lot of time with the toys and games so I can teach my kids...

Microsoft Confirms October 22 Release Date For Windows 7 182

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @10:40AM from the pretending-to-be-surprised dept.

techwrench was one of several readers to send word that Microsoft has officially announced Windows 7 will be generally available on October 22nd. They also mentioned the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program: "This program enables participating retailers and OEMs to offer a special deal to upgrade to Windows 7 for customers purchasing a qualifying PC. I'll be doing another blog post about this program with a date and more details when we get closer to availability. Obviously, Release To Manufacturing (RTM) is an important milestone on the path to GA. We anticipate that we'll be able to make the RTM code for Windows 7 available to our partners sometime in the 2nd half of July. We also expect to be able to make RTM code for Windows Server 2008 R2 available to our partners in this time frame as well."

Comment Verilog in Silicon Valley (Score 2, Informative) 301

by Bill of Death on Sunday May 31, 2009 @02:38PM (#28159987) Attached to: VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs?

I've worked at several top chip companies in Silicon Valley, in graphics and telecom industries, and they're 100% Verilog. I also suggest learning System Verilog as well, especially for testbench development.

Comment Blood Music (Score 1) 397

by Bill of Death on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @11:37AM (#27586797) Attached to: Are Human Beings Organisms Or Living Ecosystems?

I recommend the SF novel "Blood Music" by Greg Bear which considers the idea that humans and other animals exist to host bacteria and viruses, which are the true masters.

Comment GDB (Score 2, Interesting) 776

by Bill of Death on Monday March 09, 2009 @12:46AM (#27117915) Attached to: Favorite on-screen calculator?

Since it supports C-style expressions and hex values.

Comment Re:real-time simulation?! (Score 2, Insightful) 67

by Bill of Death on Saturday October 13, 2007 @12:01AM (#20963261) Attached to: Inside Nvidia's Testing Facilities

No, they cannot simulate the hardware designs anywhere near real-time. Using hardware emulation, they can run real software on real PCs, but still not near full speed.

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