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Submission + - Butterfly Labs push back bitcoin ASIC delivery (Again) (mineforeman.com)

Submitted by

ASDFnz

on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @07:13PM

ASDFnz writes: "In a not totally unexpected move Butterfly Labs have pushed back the delivery date of their next generation ASIC bitcoin mining products. In a statement on the Butterfly Labs Forums dated the 10th of December BFL_Josh writes “After talking with our liaison tonight and still having not received a final confirmation date, we were as tired of this as everyone else is, so we continued to push for a date and they gave us 30 days from today”.

While he also says in the same statement “it may very well be that things will wrap up sooner than that” with receiving, repacking and outward shipping it seems that the 9th of January is going to be the very earliest anyone is going to have an ASIC device on their desk."

Submission + - Is it worth investing in a high-efficiency power supply? (extremetech.com)

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MrSeb

on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @01:40PM

MrSeb writes: "If you’ve gone shopping for a power supply any time over the last few years, you’ve probably noticed the explosive proliferation of various 80 Plus ratings. As initially conceived, an 80 Plus certification was a way for PSU manufacturers to validate that their power supply units were at least 80% efficient at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of full load. In the pre-80 Plus days, PSU prices normally clustered around a given wattage output. The advent of the various 80 Plus levels has created a second variable that can have a significant impact on unit price. This leads us to three important questions: How much power can you save by moving to a higher-efficiency supply, what’s the premium of doing so, and how long does it take to make back your initial investment? ExtremeTech investigates."

Submission + - Intel Announces Atom S1200 SoC For High Density Servers (hothardware.com)

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @12:02PM

MojoKid writes: "Intel has been promising it for months, and now the company has officially announced the Intel Atom S1200 SoC. The ultra low power chip is designed for the datacenter and provides a high-density solution designed to lower TCO and improve scalability. The 64-bit, dual-core (four total threads with Hyper-Threading technology) Atom S1200 underpins the third generation of Intel’s commercial microservers and feature a mere 6W TDP that allows a density of over 1,000 nodes per rack. The chip also includes ECC and supports Intel Virtualization technology. Intel saw a need for a processor that can handle many simultaneous lightweight workloads, such as dedicated web hosting for sites that individually have minimal requirements, basic L2 switching, and low-end storage needs. Intel did not divulge pricing, but regardless, this device will provide direct competition for AMD's SeaMicro server platform."

Submission + - Unlike Intel, AMD 'committed' to CPU upgrade path (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @12:26PM

An anonymous reader writes: While reports suggest that Intel could be preparing to put a stake in the heart of user-upgradeable CPUs, AMD remains committed to socketed processors.

In an email to ZDNet, an AMD spokesperson said that the company has "a long history of supporting the do-it-yourself and enthusiast desktop market with socketed CPUs and APUs that are compatible with a wide range of motherboard products from our partners," and that this will continue through 2013 and 2014 with the "Kaveri" APU and FX CPU lines.

Submission + - Network's research shows BlackBerrys are used most under the desk (vodafone.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @12:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: In the UK, Vodafone recently revealed some of the decision making behind its free BlackBerry Internet Service tariffs, and found a curious reason as to they RIM's smartphones are still popular with teens: they're easier to use under a desk at school. “One funny insight we’ve heard time and time again from our research,” says Vodafone pay and go head Sten Van Der Ham, “is that with touchscreen phones it’s much more difficult to text each other in school, under your desk.”

Submission + - Microsoft Surface deemed a dud, Q4 sales could come in below 1M units (bgr.com) 1

Submitted by zacharye on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @10:28AM

zacharye writes: While some see potential in Microsoft’s Surface tablet, most industry watchers appear to have written off the device at this point. Orders were reportedly cut in half following a slow launch, and Microsoft’s debut slate has been hammered time and time again by reviewers and analysts. The latest to pile on is Boston-based brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton, which estimates that when all is said and done, Microsoft will have sold fewer than 1 million Surface tablets in the slate’s debut quarter...

Submission + - The Pros and Cons of THQ's Humble Bundle (techgage.com)

Submitted by

Deathspawner

on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @09:13AM

Deathspawner writes: "When Humble Bundle announced its promotion featuring THQ’s games last week, what resulted was on par with a digital atom bomb. Long-time fans of the service felt betrayed, disgusted by the fact that the people behind it would go against their core values for a profit. But — Techgage believes it'd be wise to take a look at the situation from a couple of different angles before raising the pitchforks."

Submission + - Oracle v Google: verdict reached (groklaw.net)

Submitted by

walterbyrd

on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @10:44AM

walterbyrd writes: "Google won everything but the one issue that the judge has to decide anyway, the API SSO issue. The jury found, as they had been instructed to assume for the purposes of deliberation, that APIs can be copyrighted, the structure, sequence and arrangement of APIs, but that is by no means established. The same question, in a b) section, asked if fair use excused any infringement if found, and the jury couldn't resolve that issue. But the judge has to decide whether or not that is true, that APIs can be protected by copyright. That comes later this month. Meanwhile, Oracle prevailed only on 9 lines of code that Google admitted prior to trial to have included by mistake and then removed from current Android. Oracle's own expert, the judge pointed out in court, valued those 9 lines of code at zero. This is 9 lines out of millions. So that means, if we are looking at damages, that so far Oracle has won nothing. There is no liability. You can't have infringement without considering fair use, Google asserts, and there will be briefing on that. Somebody has to decide that fair use issue. And then the judge has to decide about the API copyrightability issue. If he rules that APIs can't be copyrighted, as the EU Court of Justice just ruled, then fair use is moot. And Oracle takes nothing at all from the copyright phase of this litigation, and this was heralded far and wide by Oracle people as the big ticket item, if you recall."

Submission + - What's the best way to learn how to be a Project Manager for around 500-700? (amazon.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @10:37AM

An anonymous reader writes: So my company wants to start training me up to be a project manager, however about all that's left in the budget this year is 500-700 dollars... What do?

Comment Type II diabetes (Score 1) 1

by Scooter_Libby on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @05:02PM (#39861773) Attached to: New diabetes treatment combines insulin and hormone therapy

Though interesting, I wonder how much this is just going to enable the adult-onset diabetes people, to continue the refined sugar-laden diet that got them where they are. I have witnessed too many (overweight) people chugging quarts of sugared soda while having to shoot up insulin.

Submission + - James Gosling favors Oracle, opposes Google in Android trial (wired.com)

Submitted by jmcbain on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @03:55PM

jmcbain writes: Java creator James Gosling states that Google totally slimed Sun and favors Oracle in the trial. "While I have differences with Oracle, in this case, they are in the right," he wrote on his blog. "We were all really disturbed, even [former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz] just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun."

Submission + - New diabetes treatment combines insulin and hormone therapy (patexia.com) 1

Submitted by

ericjones12398

on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @02:44PM

ericjones12398 writes: "Since the introduction of therapeutic insulin in the 1920s, continuous efforts have been made to improve diabetes treatment. Some of the commercially available insulin formulations are characterized by a fast onset of action, while other formulations have a relatively slow onset but prolonged action. Because people suffering from diabetes are subject to chronic treatment over several decades, there is a major need for safe, convenient and life-quality improving insulin formulations."

Submission + - Apple to crush carriers, become direct service provider (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @11:19AM

zacharye writes: Apple’s next huge move isn’t into the television or banking industries according to one expert. Instead, Apple will take on carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless by becoming a direct mobile service provider. Veteran wireless industry strategist Whitey Bluestein, who has managed strategic deals for the likes of AT&T, Intel, T-Mobile, Verizon, Microsoft, Nokia and Best Buy, says Apple will soon begin to offer wireless service directly to iPhone and iPad users. Apple has the distribution channels, digital content portfolio and customer base to make the move, Bluestein says, and it also has more than 250 million credit cards on file for iTunes users who could be billed directly for wireless service...

Submission + - Congress Wants Broken Laser to Zap North Korea's Broken Missiles (wired.com)

Submitted by __aaqpaq9254 on Monday April 30, 2012 @04:57PM

__aaqpaq9254 writes: Noah Schactman has a great piece on the Airborne Laser, the ray gun-equipped 747 that became a symbol of wasteful Pentagon weaponeering. Despite sixteen years and billions of dollars in development, the jet could never reliably blast a missile in trials. Now the House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces wants the Airborne Laser to be used to defend us against the threat of North Korea's failed missiles. Really good read.

Submission + - BYOD policy bites vacationing CEO

Submitted by colinneagle on Monday April 30, 2012 @04:55PM

colinneagle writes: Mimecast CEO Peter Bauer recently found himself at the intersection of consumerization and IT management, falling victim to personal data loss as the result of the internal management policy he himself helped establish.

While on a family vacation in South Africa, Bauer's 5-year-old daughter tried to use his smartphone. After she entered the incorrect PIN code five times, the corporate-installed remote wipe capability kicked in and Bauer lost all of the photos he had taken through the first half of the trip.

The frustration among end users whose personal information can be lost at the hands of their employers' policy is one of the main challenges Bauer says Mimecast has seen as it continues to move forward with its young bring-your-own-device (BYOD) management policy. However, that frustration is both natural and necessary if IT is going to strike a compromise with employees, Bauer says.

"Some pretty key corporate information moves from the secure inner sanctum of your building onto a BYOD device, and if you don't have a way of protecting that stuff, then you're kidding yourself about having information security in place," Bauer says.

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