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Google acquires Motorola-> 0

Submitted by Drongo14 on Monday August 15 2011, @07:46AM

Drongo14 writes "Google has just bought Motorola. Now they'll finally have a patent portfolio..."
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AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver 138

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 07 2011, @12:26PM
from the incremental-promise-fulfillment dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has just released their open-source driver for the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards (sans the Cayman GPUs) with KMS, 2D, and 3D acceleration."

Comment: They should go through my collection... (Score 1) 174

by Drongo14 on Thursday November 05 2009, @06:23PM (#30000742) Attached to: Going Head To Head With Genius On Playlists

Best thing for them to do would be to crawl last.fm. Some pretty esotheric musical tastes there.

Comment: Re:Cold Equations (Score 1) 1021

by Drongo14 on Monday October 05 2009, @06:21PM (#29650941) Attached to: What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class?

Oh yes, I remember that one. It chilled me to the bone. I hated it like Brussels sprouts... ... and boy is it a good story. For me it's been 'only' 30 years, but nevertheless...

And I recommend it.

Comment: Re:I've asked some "high profile" hobbyists the sa (Score 2, Interesting) 185

by Drongo14 on Tuesday July 14 2009, @04:35PM (#28695827) Attached to: Suggestions For Learning FPGA Development At Home?

I especially like Altera's "Nios Embedded Evaluation Kit" (aka the NEEK). It has its own TFT, sound codec, analog video input, ethernet and lots more. It also has a thriving uClinux community and they're working on including MMU support. Plus, you don't need a programming adapter for it - just put your hardware design on an SD card, insert into NEEK, power up, and off you go. Ok, it costs $449, but you can do far more than push a few buttons and let LEDs light up.