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Submission + - 25 Microchips That Shook the World (ieee.org)

Submitted by wjousts on Friday May 01, 2009 @03:38PM

wjousts writes: IEEE Spectrum online has an interesting article on "25 Microchips That Shook the World", including such classics as the Signetics NE555 Timer, MOS Technology 6502 Microprocessor (Apple II, Commodore PET and the brain of Bender) and the Intel 8088 Microprocessor.

Among the many great chips that have emerged from fabs during the half-century reign of the integrated circuit, a small group stands out. Their designs proved so cutting-edge, so out of the box, so ahead of their time, that we are left groping for more technology clichés to describe them. Suffice it to say that they gave us the technology that made our brief, otherwise tedious existence in this universe worth living.

Submission + - EU parliament to vote on net censorship on May 5th

Submitted by on Friday May 01, 2009 @03:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: It seems that EU parliament is pushing forward initiative to censor internet access, selling it as "packages" "suiting customer needs". Make sure you express your lack of enthusiasm, as well as you remember how your MP voted. After all, few weeks before elections MPs should be looking for your votes.

Comment Re:True story (Score 1) 731

by ahsile on Thursday April 30, 2009 @12:26PM (#27774397) Attached to: Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss

... No. No. No. If two keys resolve to the same hash it should chain the key/value pairs together. Take a look at the picture here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Collision_resolution

Journal Journal: werd

Journal by ahsile on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @05:57PM

yo

Comment Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? (Score 1) 1582

by ahsile on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @05:56PM (#27424307) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

lolololol

Comment Re:Ah, the era of homepages ... (Score 1) 430

by ahsile on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @03:24PM (#26985217) Attached to: Jurassic Web

Nice link. I was thinking the same thing when I read the article... and no mention of usenet, or any other cool portions of the net (such as IRC, MUDs, etc).

Comment As if the terms weren't draconian enough... (Score 1) 260

by ahsile on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @10:04AM (#26901277) Attached to: Facebook Reverts ToS Change After User Uproar

Making users agree that they could keep your content indefinitely was insanity. I guess we wait and see what their next version looks like after they 'fix' it.

Comment Re:Options (Score 1) 326

by ahsile on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @10:07PM (#26807487) Attached to: Shifting Apps To ARM Chips Could Save Laptop Batteries

I'll have to check that out, thanks. Trying to create a decent layout in Dia is like trying to eat nails. Sadly it was the best I could find previously.

Comment Re:take a tour at OWASP site (Score 4, Insightful) 195

by ahsile on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @04:16PM (#26802759) Attached to: Website Security Without Breaking the Bank?

Um, no. Parameterized queries are much safer.

Submission + - Bill Gates on 640k (1989)

Submitted by

billgatesforpresiden

on Friday March 02, 2007 @08:07PM

billgatesforpresiden writes: "There's an article at NewsForge about a recently recovered talk that Bill Gates gave back in 1989. He covers many other topics, including OS/2, software piracy, the history of the software industry, and his role at Microsoft. In particular, Gates talks about how in 1981, he thought that 640k would be good enough for at least 10 years. Do we finally have proof of Gates' "640k ought to be enough for anybody" quote?"

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