Nvidia will likely not be allowed to complete the ARM purchase, because that would give the US government control over ARM exports to China etc. As the current US administration has made a bit of a mess of their China trade policy a lot of voices in the UK and the EU are against the acquisition.
The USB-C connector is an improvement on the wide SuperSpeed (USB 3) micro B connector that you find on many external hard disks and SSDs. That connector basically has a second connector for the SuperSpeed wires.
USB-C allows for charging speeds up to 100W (20V 5A with the right cable), and in its USB 4 version includes Thunderbolt support.
There is a downside: all the different cables, charging cables that support High Speed only, cables that support 3A and cables that support 5A (a built-in chip identifies them), and cables that support Thunderbolt. You need a map to figure it all out.
On the positive side: they'll ALL charge your phone without problems.
> In the modern world is it more necessary to optimise for speed, or optimise for portability?
Depends, if you're trying to run a program on a microcontroller with 1K of flash program memory, and your power source is a small lithium coin cell that has to last 5 years, then your requirements are vastly different from running multithreaded code on a machine with 2-6 cores and 8+ GB of RAM.
Optimizing for portability is not going to do much for you on that 1K microcontroller, you will be writing interrupt handlers and device drivers.
I've done both, but then I'm one of those "old" programmers
So your hanging with a billionaire who always has some really young women around him, and you don't question why one of those women who does not really know you offers to have sex with you? In those circumstances "I didn't know" crosses the line to being willfully ignorant, especially for someone with the intelligence of Minsky. But, you know, getting your jollies is worth potentially damaging someone for life when you're a privileged MIT professor.
So spare me the "witch hunt" BS.
That DES by itself was too weak to withstand a state-funded attack was well known in the 90s, I was not exactly part of the cryptography in-crowd in those days, but I knew that much. I remember discussing the key length issue in a crypto discussion in college in 1985 or so, after a presentation about DES. No hindsight needed.
If by "extremely limited" you mean tens of thousands of people I agree, but it was not exactly a secret. The big issue was that this was before there was "the web" so accessing information about anything was much harder in general, unless you had access to a research library.
Did anybody actually even see this, apart from mr. Wildeboer? I'm running an up-to-date 64-bit CentOS 6 and an up-to-date Chrome beta on CentOS 6, and I have not seen this.
Apple acquired Lala.com a while back:
"Lala uses licensed technology to instantly match songs from a consumer's personal music library with the web-based catalog on lala.com."
Sounds like Music Match to me.
I have bought some books from Manning and O'Reilly, and they live on my laptop and tablet. They're in epub and PDF format, w/o DRM of any kind. They (may) have my name embedded in them, but that keeps me honest....
That's the letters after the last dot in the domain names. So we don't end up with http://barber.mainstreet.eastpodunk/
If you're a GPL fundamentalist you get what you deserve: you get to run a GPL MySQL version.
Calm down, grandpa....
The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
