Comment Yawn (Score 1) 132
Wake me up when their drivers are fast AND correct.
Comment Re:Same Story / Different Day (Score 1) 247
Does anyone know if MS Windows has introduced a UT internal time yet? If not, then we can reliably predict that such bugs will continue to plague their users.
According to an old MS guy [1], Windows NT stores UTC time internally but maintains the BIOS in local time. 1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/02/224672.aspx
Comment Re:Full text in case the link gets taken down (Score 1) 354
Hiring standards vary according to the team because the needs of the team vary according to the team and according to what that person is going to be doing.
Just to play Devil's Advocate, what if the team was incompetent? It's not unheard of where all the good people leave the team, leading to hiring choices for similarly, incapable new employees.
Submission + - Windows 8 will have super fast boot times (windows8update.com)
An anonymous reader writes: This post describes about yet another blog post from Steven Sinofsky where he talks about new features in Windows 8. He talks extensively about how they planned to achieve faster bootup times for the operating system.
Submission + - Monthly Ubuntu Releases Have Been Proposed (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Scott James Remnant, the former Ubuntu Developer Manager at Canonical and current Ubuntu Technical Board leader, has proposed a new monthly release process for Ubuntu Linux. He acknowledges that with the six month releases there's features that end up landing way too soon, leaving them in a sour state for users. With his monthly proposal, Remnant hopes to relieve this by handling alpha, beta, and normal releases concurrently. It's unknown whether Canonical will accept the policy at this time.
Submission + - FPS no more? New methods reveal deeper GPU issues (techreport.com)
crookedvulture writes: Graphics hardware reviews have long used frames per second to measure performance. The thing is, an awful lot of frames are generated in a single second. Calculating the FPS can mask brief moments of perceptible stuttering that only a closer inspection of individual frame times can quantify. This article explores the subject in much greater detail. Along the way, it also effectively illustrates the "micro-stuttering" attributed to multi-GPU solutions like SLI and CrossFire. AMD and Nvidia both concede that stuttering is a real problem for modern graphics hardware, and benchmarking methods may need to change to properly take it into account.
Submission + - Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate (politico.com)
nephorm writes: "The Senate gave final approval to the first major overhaul of the nation’s patent law in more than a half century Thursday, sending the America Invents Act to President Barack Obama for his signature.
The legislation won overwhelming approval in an 89-9 vote." Fee diversion from the USPTO will continue.
The legislation won overwhelming approval in an 89-9 vote." Fee diversion from the USPTO will continue.
Comment Re:I like not equals assignment operators (Score 1) 623
:= was originally an ALGOL 58 feature, but I digress. The real problem is not with operator ==, but with C allowing assignment in the conditional part of if statements.
Comment Re:Java killer? (Score 1) 623
The new assignment operator ":="
Oh look, someone revived the Clipper dBASE compiler / Pascal syntax.
No, someone revived the the ALGOL 58 syntax (yes, that is 1958) . Everything old will be new again
Comment Re:Home Labs? (Score 3, Informative) 206
Well, the "Smart Mama" (Jennifer Taggert) is someone that actually makes money through her XRF gun. According to the site below, she charges $5 per test or $100 per hour.
http://www.thesmartmama.com/xrf-testing/
Here's a media article where two families paid her to test their toys:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501674.html
Comment Re:No because they are different (Score 1) 205
GCD sounds exactly like Microsoft's "Concurrency Run-time Resource Manager" to me. Except they've already incorporated it into the kernel while MS has just started mentioning about incorporating it into the NT kernel for future releases.
Comment Re:VM? (Score 1) 422
Ok, so what about using the *host* OS for banking use, and the *guest* OS for daily use?
Comment Re:Just ovveride? (Score 1) 157
My personal favourite for taking out such information in Photoshop is to use the Patch tool. Copying over a piece of the background over the letters/numbers erases them in such a way that looks like they never existed before.
Feed NVIDIA launches Tesla: GPUs are the new CPUs (engadget.com)
Filed under: Desktops
We've seen a couple cautious attempts at leveraging the raw floating-point capabilities of modern high-powered graphics cards, but NVIDIA is taking the gloves off with the launch of Tesla, its new general-purpose computing platform built on the 8-series graphics cards we all know and love. According to NVIDIA, the only way to skirt the inevitable collapse of Moore's Law is to join the GPU and CPU together, so two of the three Tesla configs are in the form of workstation upgrades -- a $1,499 single GPU PCI Express card and a $7,500 dual-GPU "deskside supercomputer" that plugs into a custom PCI controller. The truly crazy can pony up a full $12,000 for NVIDIA's first rack units, the four-GPU Tesla S870, which has a peak performance of 2 Teraflops. We're hearing the card and deskside unit will be available in August and that the servers will start shipping in November or December -- perfect for the Engadget Folding@Home holiday rush.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Submission + - Lawsuit shows how to sue spammers (com.com)
mytrip writes: "A recent decision in a lawsuit filed against a Florida credit counseling company offers a promising road map to follow for suing spammers.
An investigation of the sender traced the source back to a business called The Credit Counseling Foundation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hylkema, a Slashdot reader who once had an e-mail address at the aptly named Suespammers.org, filed a lawsuit in Washington claiming that Credit Counseling was spamming in violation of two state laws, and obtained a default judgment when the company never showed up to defend itself.
After receiving at least nine unsolicited e-mail messages offering credit counseling services, Washington state resident Joseph Hylkema did more than just consign the spam to his junk mail folder: he decided to get even.
Washington state law allows for damages of $1,000 per e-mail message. According to an announcement that Hylkema made in March 2002, though, a judge awarded him a default judgment of $31,575."
An investigation of the sender traced the source back to a business called The Credit Counseling Foundation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hylkema, a Slashdot reader who once had an e-mail address at the aptly named Suespammers.org, filed a lawsuit in Washington claiming that Credit Counseling was spamming in violation of two state laws, and obtained a default judgment when the company never showed up to defend itself.
After receiving at least nine unsolicited e-mail messages offering credit counseling services, Washington state resident Joseph Hylkema did more than just consign the spam to his junk mail folder: he decided to get even.
Washington state law allows for damages of $1,000 per e-mail message. According to an announcement that Hylkema made in March 2002, though, a judge awarded him a default judgment of $31,575."
