Comment Re:Culling (Score 1) 276
...but if that acronym has also been used by Beiber lately I am SOL.
What does the Skilled Occupation List have to do with this?
Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 293
New submitter titten writes The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has announced that the transition to DAB will be completed in 2017. This means that Norway, as the first country in the world to do so, has decided to switch off the FM network. Norway began the transition to DAB in 1995. In recent years two national and several local DAB-networks has been established. 56 per cent of radio listeners use digital radio every day. 55 per cent of households have at least one DAB radio, according to Digitalradio survey by TNS Gallup, continuously measuring the Norwegian`s digital radio habits.
Comment Pressing Enter (Score 1) 276
First of all, I would make it so you can press the Enter key and it conducts your search. Forcing people to either tab or navigate their mouse to the button makes it a little annoying.
Comment Re:Should be micro kernel (Score 1) 209
That's cheating.
And inside, a modern x86 processor is actually a giant hardware emulation of x86 instructions with a RISC/VLIW core... You call it cheating, and I call it optimizing.
They second you try a cool trick like migrating a thread to another machine...
But this would happen with a macrokernel as well... you can't just magically make networking overhead disappear...
Comment Re:Should be micro kernel (Score 1) 209
I wasn't intending on saying that CISC was superior to RISC... what I was more saying is that there has been more money put into CISC processors, and so they develop faster.
It's just a simple fact of money == better access to stuff to make more money.
Comment Re:Should be micro kernel (Score 1) 209
The main reason CISC is faster today is probably more related capital investment needed in production. Intel just have so much more.
This was basically what I was trying to say. More capital investment typically means better outcomes.
A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen 313
merbs writes: After losing a long battle with brain cancer, 2-year-old Matheryn Naovaratpong became the first minor ever to be cryogenically frozen. This article is the story of how a Thai girl was frozen in Bangkok and shipped to Arizona to have her brain preserved in liquid nitrogen, while medical science works on a cure. "Typically we’d move the head from the trunk of the body. We didn't know what their reaction would be from the family, the mortuary, from border officials; this has to go through a number of shipping venues, customs, the TSA and so on. To see a frozen head in a box might have raised a number of red flags. In the U.S. that’s not a big deal, but there, they may not be accustomed."
Comment Re:Shocked he survived (Score 1) 327
You forgot the in-state tuition prices for college.
The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers 104
An anonymous reader writes University of Michigan professors are about to release the design files for a one-cubic-millimeter computer, or mote. They have finally reached a goal set in 1997, when UC Berkeley professor Kristopher Pister coined the term "smart dust" and envisioned computers blanketing the Earth. Such motes are likely to play a key role in the much-ballyhooed Internet of Things. From the article: "When Prabal Dutta accidentally drops a computer, nothing breaks. There’s no crash. The only sound you might hear is a prolonged groan. That’s because these computers are just one cubic millimeter in size, and once they hit the floor, they’re gone. 'We just lose them,' Dutta says. 'It’s worse than jewelry.' To drive the point home, Dutta, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, emails me a photo of 50 of these computers. They barely fill a thimble halfway to its brim."
Comment Re:Can we be sure there are no exploits? (Score 2) 209
Because a physics model isn't an abstraction?
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/435/
Comment Re:Google updates (Score 1) 179
They can force manufacturers to use unlocked bootloaders if they want the official Google version.
But hardly anyone is running the stock Android anyways. They've all expended on the code, and made it different. Almost no one actually uses the "official Google version" at all...
There's no reason whatsoever why Google can't make the same thing a requirement
But they can't because it's open source software. No one could make all of the Linux Distros use the same official kernel... it's not possible, because it's open source, and you can make it yourself.
and would prefer shipping a version of Android with no Google services
But this is already the case. Amazon and Barnes and Noble do not sell Android devices with Google services on them.
I don't get why people have such a difficult time understanding that Google can't wrangle these cats, because it doesn't have an Iron Fist on the source code...
Comment Re:Should be micro kernel (Score 0) 209
I've never seen a true microkernel that has the performance of a monolithic kernel.
I've never seen a RISC processor that can match the performance of the best CISC processors. You know, nevermind the fact that tons of money has been poured into CISC processors making them faster and faster.
Sometimes, it's just a matter of where the attention has been placed.
Comment Re:Offsite (Score 1) 446
Descant? You recommend storing it with some medieval music? "A descant is a form of medieval music in which one singer sang a fixed melody, and others accompanied with improvisations.". Perhaps you meant dessicant?
Comment The people who become Presidential candidates (Score 1) 676
Based on the "choices" we've had over the lasts several decades, I've concluded that the whole thing is rigged just like professional wrestling, and it deserves no more of my attention that that does. Nothing else can explain the farce that's been going on when it comes to the people who are chosen to lead this country.
Autonomous Cars and the Centralization of Driving 181
New submitter arctother writes: Taxicab Subjects has posted a response to a Morgan Stanley analyst's recent take on how driverless cars will shape society in the future. From the article: [R]eally, 'autonomy' is still not the right word for it. Just as the old-fashioned 'automobile' was never truly 'auto-mobile,' but relied, not only on human drivers, but an entire concrete infrastructure built into cities and smeared across the countryside, so the interconnected 'autonomous vehicles' of the future will be even more dependent on the interconnected systems of which they are part. To see this as 'autonomy' is to miss the deeper reality, which will be control. Which is why the important movement reflected in the chart's up-down continuum is not away from 'Human Drivers' to 'Autonomous' cars, but from a relatively decentralized system (which relies on large numbers of people knowing how to drive) to an increasingly centralized system (relying on the knowledge of a small number of people)."
