Comment A pound of cure has 16 times the budget (Score 1) 30
as an ounce of prevention.
Comment You will own nothing and be happy (Score 2) 296
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Funny I used to laugh at conspiracy theorists, these days it seems they have read the spoilers
Comment Windows isn't done till lotus won't run (Score 1) 124
Ah the memories. it's fun to see some things don't change
Comment Re:Dead Hand (Score 1) 77
We have a doomsday weapon gap
Comment That's nice (Score 3, Funny) 77
Did the AIs agree?
Comment Better article (Score 5, Informative) 34
https://spacenews.com/ast-spac...
The original article is damn near useless. Turns out the satellite uses a large phased array to complete the call. No idea how many calls it can handle simultaneously or what effect that will have on costs.
Comment It's funny they told you what they are up to (Score 1) 8
But no one seems to have noticed.
ensure that methodology and metrics are at the heart of how we determine what is a good climate investment, and what investment will have the greatest positive effect on the mission to build tech for a regenerative world."
If I were a VC (technically I may have been, shrug) I'd certainly want to control what was permissible in the market and which of my competitors was permitted. This seems like a cheap power grab at 10 times the price.
Arm is Developing Its Own Advanced Chip (ft.com) 31
"Arm is developing its own chip," reports the Financial Times, "to showcase the capabilities of its designs, as the SoftBank-owned group seeks to attract new customers and fuel growth following a blockbuster IPO later this year."
The company will team up with manufacturing partners to develop the new chip, according to people briefed on the move who describe it as the most advanced chipmaking effort the Cambridge-headquartered group has ever embarked upon. The effort comes just as SoftBank seeks to drive up Arm's profits and attract investors to a planned listing on New York's Nasdaq exchange... The hope is that the prototype will allow it to demonstrate the power and capabilities of its designs to the wider market.
Arm has previously built some test chips with partners including Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, largely aimed at enabling software developers to gain familiarity with new products. However, multiple industry executives told the FT that its newest chip — on which it started work in the past six months — is "more advanced" than ever before. Arm has also formed a bigger team that will execute the effort and is targeting the product at chip manufacturers more than software developers, they said...
Rumblings about Arm's chipmaking moves have stoked fears in the semiconductor industry that if it makes a good enough chip, it could seek to sell it in the future and thereby become a competitor to some of its biggest customers, such as MediaTek or Qualcomm. People close to Arm insist there are no plans to sell or license the product and that it is only working on a prototype. Arm declined to comment.
The article cites "people briefed on the move" as saying that Arm plans to build prototype chips for laptops, mobile devices, and other electronics. "The team will also expand on Arm's existing efforts to enhance the performance and security of designs, as well as bolster developer access to its products. "
The article points out that the head of Arm's engineering team previously oversaw the development of Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip.
Arm has previously built some test chips with partners including Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, largely aimed at enabling software developers to gain familiarity with new products. However, multiple industry executives told the FT that its newest chip — on which it started work in the past six months — is "more advanced" than ever before. Arm has also formed a bigger team that will execute the effort and is targeting the product at chip manufacturers more than software developers, they said...
Rumblings about Arm's chipmaking moves have stoked fears in the semiconductor industry that if it makes a good enough chip, it could seek to sell it in the future and thereby become a competitor to some of its biggest customers, such as MediaTek or Qualcomm. People close to Arm insist there are no plans to sell or license the product and that it is only working on a prototype. Arm declined to comment.
The article cites "people briefed on the move" as saying that Arm plans to build prototype chips for laptops, mobile devices, and other electronics. "The team will also expand on Arm's existing efforts to enhance the performance and security of designs, as well as bolster developer access to its products. "
The article points out that the head of Arm's engineering team previously oversaw the development of Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip.
Comment You only think you have made a purchase on Steam (Score 4, Insightful) 129
In reality you don't even have the rights that someone who bought the dvd does.
Using their "service" is just inviting them to eventually screw you over.
Comment Re:But wait... (Score 1) 79
Somehow, I would be willing to bet that there are ulterior motives for the countries position.
Comment Too much trouble to mention the country? (Score 1) 122
I realize Slashdot is pretty much dead, killed off by its own ideological intolerance, but is it too much to ask that it at least pretends to be a news site?
5 Ws and an H too hard to understand while you are getting upset over someone using a pronoun you don't like or cowering before a mythical catastrophe that in a few years will have other people's descendants laughing at you. (Lets face it you aren't going to have descendants at best you may think you had them)
Comment Argument is the same as Drexler's Nanotech (Score 3, Interesting) 60
Trying to put moratoriums on its development, will just drive it underground and make certain the people who should have nothing to do with it control it.
Instead we should be making this the biggest highest profile research project possible, preferably with large public prizes for hitting milestones.
Comment Be nice if judgement day were televised (Score 0, Offtopic) 153
I am rooting for the terminators, if they win, it should increase the avg IQ on the planet by an enormous amount.
Comment Really doesn't seem so great (Score 1) 104
Isn't going to do crap for them when they get only 4 hours in the winter
going from 1000-1400 to 1100-1500 isn't going to matter much
Might as well switch to GMT and be done with it
At the equinoxes it will be 0700-1900 for daylight
Summer solstice 0300-2300
If they really wanted to be closer to EU businesses should have gone at least 1 more time zone. That way people could be in the dark midnight to 4am and they would have light all afternoon in the winter
Comment The Cake Is A Lie (Score 3, Funny) 55
NT
