Comment: Re:CS Degrees @ UCSF = NO JOBS FOR BS! (Score 2) 93
UCSF doesn't even teach computer science; UCSF is a medical school.
The article is about CCSF (a community college).
The article is about CCSF (a community college).
Comment: Re:Pincus (Score 1) 554
There's a star thing?!
Comment: A joke. (Score 1) 156
Two hydrogens and one oxygen walk into a bar. The three get together and say, let's get wet!
It's friday... cut me a break.
It's friday... cut me a break.
Comment: RIP Steve (Score 1) 1613
What a bummer... Steve was one of the few people who inspired me to be as crazy as I have been over the years.
It's weird to have chills after hearing the news. As an ex-Apple employee, I hope that the engineering culture he created continues to live on.
It's weird to have chills after hearing the news. As an ex-Apple employee, I hope that the engineering culture he created continues to live on.
Comment: My attempt at geek humor... (Score 1) 1088
Maybe they measured the distance between two points using kM instead of KiM which leaves them off by about 24 meters per kM...
Comment: Electronics do interfere (Score 1) 220
EMI from electronic devices do affect navigational systems. If you want a demo of this in your house, put your iPad next to a magnetic compass and watch it swing.
In the little Cessna that I fly, my portable GPS will cause the compass to be off by as much as 3-4 degrees.
I know this is much different than commercial jetliners -- I don't claim to know how commercial jet navigational systems are built. I do know that most of the FAA regulations (such as turning off portable electronic devices) are typically created from incidents that have happened in the past.
In the little Cessna that I fly, my portable GPS will cause the compass to be off by as much as 3-4 degrees.
I know this is much different than commercial jetliners -- I don't claim to know how commercial jet navigational systems are built. I do know that most of the FAA regulations (such as turning off portable electronic devices) are typically created from incidents that have happened in the past.
Comment: pulled, not pushed. (Score 2, Insightful) 267
Software updates are pulled from the client, not pushed to the client. There's an important difference between the two and the phrases shouldn't be used interchangeably.
For software pushes, see: Amazon Kindle + 1984 book deletion
Sun Releasing 8-Core Niagara 2 Processor
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An anonymous reader writes "Sun Microsystems is set to announce its eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the centerpiece of Sun's "Throughput Computing" effort. Along with having more cores than the quads from Intel and AMD, the Niagara 2 have dual, on-chip 10G Ethernet ports with crytopgraphic capability. Sun doesn't get much processor press, because the chips are used only in its own CoolThreads servers, but Niagara 2 will probably be the fastest processor out there when its released, other than perhaps the also little-known 4-GHz IBM Power 6."