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Comment Re:B-2 Stealth (Score 0) 253

by wgibson (#33712346) Attached to: The Ancient Computers Powering the Space Race

There was definitely more to the A1000 than "emphasis on graphics and sound".

I am no authority on this, and I have no information on the B-2, but I may speculate... The Amiga 1000 was a modular approach, with a replaceable CPU daughter-card, the kickstart ROM replaced by "Writable Control Storage", et cetera.

Also, consider how clocking was done, this may be of relevance to the "equivalent of an Amiga 1000".

All frequencies in the Amiga 1000 are derived from this frequency as it simplified glue logic and allowed the Amiga 1000 to make do with a single cheap mass-produced crystal. The chipset was also designed to synchronize all operations so the hardware always ran in 100% real-time without any wait-state delays.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000#Technical_information
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Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff 413

Posted by samzenpus from the dead-mans-curve dept.
necro81 writes "Jimi Heselden, the British multi-millionaire defense contractor and philanthropist, who bought the Segway company last December from inventor Dean Kamen, died yesterday after an accident while riding one of the machines. While using a ruggedized X2 version of the two-wheeled balancing scooter at his estate in North Yorkshire, he apparently drove over the edge of a precipice and into the River Wharfe. He was found later by a passerby and declared dead on the scene."

Comment Re:Part of the Problem (Score 0) 253

by wgibson (#33711914) Attached to: The Ancient Computers Powering the Space Race

hmm.

Inquiring about the same, would it make any difference if it was an ARM chip?

Well, no. If it's not designed as radiation hardened initially, it will be a major cost for make it rad-hardened, regardless of the fundamental architecture. And the market for these devices is still relatively tiny ...

Comment Re:Interesting criminal justice system in the US (Score 0) 149

by wgibson (#33711512) Attached to: Man Gets 10 Years For VoIP Hacking

Simple deportation for a large-scale theft like this is actually somewhat of a reward if the crook had enough sense to move the money he was making off his crime out of the country.

Top that off with a couple of years in prison, those offshore money are going to have grown thanks to a simple thing like interest rate ... So, the result: a rehabilitated person with a nice fat bank account deported ...
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Submission + - Iris Scanning Set To Secure City in Mexico (singularityhub.com) 2

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris and face scanning technologies from Global Rainmakers, Inc. will allow people to use their eyes to prove their identify, withdraw money from an ATM, get help at a hospital, and even ride the bus. Whether you’re jealous or intimidated by Leon’s adoption of widespread eye identification you should pay attention to the project – similar biometric checkpoints are coming to locations near you. Some are already in place.

Submission + - HTML 5 Canvas Accessibility Row (w3.org) 1

Submitted by Downchuck
Downchuck writes: Over on the low traffic canvas API mailing list, Ian Hixie, the chief editor of the HTML 5 specs has drawn a line in the sand: "writing editors in [canvas] makes little to no sense". Several proposals intended to make HTML 5 more accessible to screen readers and other WAI interests have been postponed, as Ian takes a hard stance on how canvas should and should not be used.

Comment Re:Source code not really accessible (Score 1) 204

by wgibson (#25457517) Attached to: Google Opens Up Android Codebase

1) Who the heck uses Git? I know a lot of important companies do, but most people do not.

Quite a lot of people have actually read the manuals of git, and are using it in all manner of projects.

2) Who the heck is going to download 2.1GB just to look at 1-2 files in the source-code? That's just insane.

So don't!

They should make the source browseable directly off their website to spare us all this headache.

Ehm. This thing about documentation. Oh, and the acronym RTFA... At least I did not, and I hope that few others do, have any difficulty locating the gitweb repository at http://android.kernel.org/

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