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Comment Almost any car from the last 5-10 years should do. (Score 1) 195

by Higaran (#48435467) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Hackable Car?
I'm not sure why you'd want to display the RPM to anyone but the driver, that should be very simple to pull off. The windows SHOULD already work the way you describe, as for the remote starter, those are VERY common now a days and you can get off the shelf parts to in stall one in a few hours.

Submission + - Slashdot Skeptics Were Right About Dual-Core TK1 Performance 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In August, Slashdot published a scoop titled NVIDIAs 64-bit Tegra K1: The Ghost of Transmeta Rides Again, Out of Order. In the comments section, many skeptics chimed in, saying that while the out-of-order architecture being re-introduced by NVIDIA would likely lead to improved benchmarks, real-world use scenarios might experience stalls-aplenty.

Turns out the skeptics were right, as The Verge, Gizmodo, and even the rather Google-biased Android Police have panned the user experience rendered by the 64-bit to be choppy, laggy, slow, and unacceptable. Needless to say, this is rather ironic, considering the chip has been flaunted by NVIDIA as the fastest mobile SoC ever.

After stepping out of the phone game, the lack of design wins for the past few years, the spontaneously cracked trim and weak WiFi antenna on their flagship SHIELD Tablet, it seems that NVIDIA's future in producing fabless mobile SoC's is in serious peril. Stock 64-bit ARM A57/53 cores (which stick to the proven out-of-order architecture) are predicted to be smoking fast, while even the current 32-bit A15, and even A12/17 (which are next generation's midrange cores) provide a very smooth user experience. ARM's high-end stock GPU, the MALI T-T60 series, is no slouch either, and when scaled up to its maximum of 16 cores, provides similar computing power to the 192 Core Kepler architecture used in both the 32-bit A15 and 64-bit Denver variations of the Tegra K1 SoC.

NVIDIA has essentially run out of wildcards to differentiate themselves in the high-end segment, which their own CEO has claimed is all they are aiming for at this point. It would not be far fetched to imagine a world in which NVIDIA totally bows out from the mobile-SoC game in only 1 or 2 years. They simply can't keep losing billions on it year after year, forever; not when the future looks this bleak.

Submission + - The largest Kuiper Belt object isn't Pluto OR Eris

Submitted by StartsWithABang
StartsWithABang writes: Out beyond Neptune, the last of our Solar System’s gas giants, the icy graveyard of failed planetesimals lurks: the Kuiper Belt. Among these mixes of ice, snow, dust and rock are a number of worlds — possibly a few hundred — massive enough to pull themselves into hydrostatic equilibrium. The most famous among them are Pluto, the first one ever discovered, and Eris, of comparable size but undoubtedly more massive. But there’s an even larger, more massive object from the Kuiper Belt than either of these, yet you never hear about it: it’s Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, a true Kuiper Belt object!

Submission + - Don't burn CurrentC at the Apple Pay heresy stake just yet (networkworld.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Barely hatched and condemned as the Anti-Apple Pay, CurrentC could improve shopping experiences in the microcosm of a retailer’s brand in ways that Apple Pay’s brand macrocosm can’t. It’s premature to burn CurrentC at the Apple heresy stake.

Indisputably, Apple Pay is at least more secure than the mag-stripe plastic credit cards. Who benefits from Apple Pay security? The credit card companies, banks, and to a limited extent the retailers that are liable. Consumers aren’t responsible for any fraud whatsoever.

Comment Re:Anyone still going to the movies? (Score 1) 357

by Higaran (#48279607) Attached to: MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters
That only happens at the cheap shows now a days, any good place has online ticket purchasing, and/or kiosks when you can get tickets with out standing in line, at most you have to wait for one person in front of you to finish using the machine. Then they have reserved seating so you can actually pick where you want and you can see what seats are used up around you. Yes it's still a bit pricey, it's worth paying the extra dollar a ticket at the good places because they provide a good experience going to the movies.

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