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There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies-> 0

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on Thursday June 23 2011, @12:18PM

Esther Schindler writes "Every mobile device you own has its own power supply and its own proprietary plug. There oughta be a better way, says Alfred Poor. Fortunately, he reports, the IEEE is coming to the rescue. "Their Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices (UPAMD) Working Group is developing a new standard that will not just address the needs of laptops and tablets, but will be intended to work with just about any electronics device that required between 10 and 240 watts of power," Poor writes. It's about darned time."
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Biggest Changes in C++11 and Why You Should Care)-> 1

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on Monday June 20 2011, @01:33PM

Esther Schindler writes "It’s been 13 years since the first iteration of the C++ language. Danny Kalev, a former member of the C++ standards committee, explains how the programming language has been improved and how it can help you write better code."
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On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're Not a Lesbian-> 1

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on Tuesday June 14 2011, @03:20PM

rsmiller510 writes "The revelation that the 'Gay Girl in Damascus' blog was actually a hoax could have damaging repercussions to other activists trying to get the word out on repressive regimes throughout the world."
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iPad Competitors Can't Play Games-> 0

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on Monday June 13 2011, @06:54AM

rsmiller510 writes "If iPad competitors want to succeed, they need to stop promoting Angry Birds and concentrate on being the best business device possible."
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Do Supercomputers Still Matter?-> 0

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on Thursday June 09 2011, @01:15PM

Esther Schindler writes "The innovations that are redefining the way businesses compute today were made feasible by supercomputers, the first platforms to enable parallel processing on a scale anywhere close to that of the cloud. Supercomputing would have been a lost art had it not been for the capability of everyday PC processors to be stacked together by the thousands — a technology for the high end made possible at the low end. But now, writes Scott Fulton in an exhaustive technical essay, a looming engineering bottleneck may have already rendered it technically and financially impossible for supercomputers to continue evolving at the current rate. Can the cloud go forward if the “grid” on which it’s based grinds to a halt?"
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Big Internet Vendors Back AT&T-T-Mobile Merger-> 0

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on Wednesday June 08 2011, @06:35AM

rsmiller510 writes "Even as the pressure mounts on US regulators to approve the merger, I have a better idea: 4G network sharing while keeping the competition in place."
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Comment: What game changer? (Score 1) 199

by sjvn on Thursday June 02 2011, @12:57PM (#36322680) Attached to: Google WebRTC: Can It Replace Skype?

Skype is P2P VoIP too. This is old technology rehashed one more time. It works OK--I mean there's a reason why Skype's so popular--but if you really want useful open-source VoIP look to SIP implementations.

Steven

The Internet Stands at the Crossroads-> 0

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on Tuesday May 31 2011, @12:38PM

rsmiller510 writes "Governments and the special interests they tend to represent threaten the very foundation of the Internet as we have known it as they fight to take more and more control either in the name of politics or business."
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Will the Next Web Platform Please Hold Still?-> 0

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on Tuesday May 31 2011, @12:07PM

Esther Schindler writes "Feeling a little overwhelmed by changing web standards and new browser choices? You aren't the only one. Mozilla is launching development tracks for the next two editions of its Firefox Web browser — versions 5 and 6 — immediately, with hopes to push both into general release before the end of the year. This while Microsoft previews Internet Explorer 10 on the heels of its IE9 release, and Google projects Chrome 13 just one year after Chrome 7. Meanwhile, HTML5, the next version of the Web’s primary language, appears to have entered a permanent gestation phase. Writes Scott Fulton: All the confusion has prompted Web developers to ask this question: What do we develop our sites against now?

Fulton doesn't just write a general rant: He gets input from several of the people who are creating browsers and standards. And they don't just spout a company line. My favorite quote is from Bruce Lawson, a Web evangelist for Opera Software as well as a long-time contributor to the Accessibility Task Force of the Web Standards Project: “You wouldn’t believe how many e-mails I get saying, ‘Bruce, would you give me some feedback on my HTML5 page,’ and I look at it, and it’s no more HTML5 than my vacuum cleaner. Because it looks snazzy and it’s got a rounded corner and a drop-shadow, people are calling it HTML5.”"
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Facebook Media Ambassador Needs Some Schooling-> 0

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on Thursday May 26 2011, @05:50AM

rsmiller510 writes "I don't want slam a kid for being 25, but a job like Facebook Media Ambassador calls for someone with more experience and seasoning or veteran journalists will eat him alive."
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