Comment: Re:You lost me at vim (Score 1) 531
Evil, obviously.
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Comment: Re:AMD might stand a chance (Score 1) 213
Note the article says ARM *server* processors. In that market, GPUs are totally irrelevant, power usage is secondary to performance, and price of the CPU is a distant third.
Power usage translates directly into heat, so if you have a CPU that takes 10x less power you can cram 10x more of them onto the same server.
Comment: Re:yay? (Score 1) 82
That's exactly what SRV records are for. They first made MX records for email. Then they realized that other services need special records too, and added the service-independent SRV record.
Comment: Re:Direct video access? (Score 1) 128
Unfortunately this means every write to the display now has to go via the kernel instead of going direct.
No, if you mmap() the framebuffer you (as in the application) write directly to video memory (of course, what you say is true if the application uses lseek() and write() instead, but why would it?). The reason it's slower is because drivers make the GPU do all the heavy lifting. The only abstract thing about the Linux framebuffer is that you don't have to map the memory yourself, the kernel drivers do it for you.
Comment: Re:Zero Because: (Score 1) 280
Where did you get all that? All I did was make a joke on Larry's behalf.
Comment: Re:Zero Because: (Score 2) 280
if it isn't ZFS, its only temporary.
Larry Ellison would be proud.
Comment: Re:Toy (Score 1) 206
If this board had a few spare GPIO pins brought out to a header there really wouldn't be a reason for Pi to exist at this point.
Except that it costs twice as much and draws more power, so it you don't need all the extra functionality it's a waste of money and electricity.
Not that I'm saying it's not needed. There probably will be a larger, more expensive version of the Raspberry Pi.
Comment: Re:Wayland vs X (Score 1) 315
x11vnc is not limited to X. It can also remote control a console session on a Linux framebuffer device, and a few other things.
Also, from TFA:
- Jesse has been playing around a bit with some remote Wayland support using libvncserver. He's apparently had some success with this and expects to push some code upstream soon.
So there are already people working on it.
Comment: Re:Isn't SPARC open source? (Score 2) 140
Fujitsu never implemented OpenSPARC. They developed the SPARC64 themselves, and the UltraSPARCs in their machines are manufactured by Oracle.
Comment: Re:Humoralistically, I lean toward ... (Score 1) 114
Not necessarily. These character codes are valid (and correct) in other 8-bit encodings, too (including the majority of ISO-8859). The headers specify UTF-8, though.
Comment: Re:How long does it last? (Score 1) 603
unless you create an infrastructure that regulates how many vehicles can charge at any one time
Like a limited number of refueling stations? If recharging only takes six minutes and needs special equipment (thick cables, giant power transformers, etc.), people probably won't charge their cars at home.
Comment: Re:And... (Score 2, Insightful) 342
Not true. The GPL includes a patent license. By releasing the code under it, Oracle gave everyone the right to use their patents freely.
Comment: Re:Worse than DRM. Much worse. (Score 1) 124
The difference is that with all the things you mentioned, you know the expected lifespan when you pay for them. When you buy a game, you don't expect it to stop working 5 years later, when the company that made it goes out of business.
Recession Cuts Operation That Uses Hair To Clean Up Oil 119
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from the hair-today-gone-tomorrow dept.
Matter of Trust, a nonprofit that uses human hair scraps to make mats to clean up oil spills, finds itself with 18,000 pounds of hair and nobody to process it. Lisa Gautier, who runs the organization, says that the recession has closed many of the textile makers that produced the mats and the warehouse that stored them. Unfortunately for Lisa the hair keeps piling up. From the article: "Hair is good at soaking up oil because, up close, the strands are shaped like a palm tree with scalelike cuticles. Drops of oil naturally cling inside those cuticles, says Blair Blacker, chief executive of the World Response Group. A pound of hair can pick up one quart of oil in a minute, and it can be wrung out and reused up to 100 times, Mrs. Gautier says."
Comment: Re:Still too big (Score 1) 492
Phone electronics are already small enough. Most of a smartphone's power usage is its screen, and most of its weight is its battery. Shrinking the screen will lower the phone's power consumption, thus allowing for a smaller battery.
