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Comment Re:Anyone know... (Score 2) 520

by Brikus on Monday March 07, 2011 @09:29PM (#35414376) Attached to: iPad 2 Forces Samsung To Reevaluate Galaxy Tab

Actually Samsung is a horrible example. Samsung is the one of the companies selling components like flash chips, SoCs, and displays to tablet manufacturers like Apple. Since Samsung is one of the tablet makers than can source almost all their own parts in house, I don't see how the price of components is the reason they aren't winning in the tablet market.

Comment Re:Umm, what? (Score 1) 158

by Brikus on Friday November 06, 2009 @04:22PM (#30009102) Attached to: AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage

Which is the best kind of correct ;) Don't feel bad; the alphabet soup of cellular air interfaces and protocols is very confusing.

Comment Re:Umm, what? (Score 1) 158

by Brikus on Friday November 06, 2009 @02:52PM (#30007910) Attached to: AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage

Apple does make a WCDMA/GSM world phone. It's called the iPhone. Although WCDMA does have CDMA in the name, it is actually the 3G air interface used in GSM phones.

Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 1127

by Brikus on Thursday April 02, 2009 @03:13PM (#27434963) Attached to: Linux Needs Critics

Is this a joke? Because many of the FOSS websites I have seen have exactly such a link.

Steve Bourne Talks About the History of Sh 232

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 05, 2009 @01:18PM from the dear-steve-tyvm-xoxo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Steve Bourne, the creator of the Bourne shell, or sh, talks about its history as the default Unix shell of Unix Version 7. Bourne worked on the shell in 1975 and said the process took no more than 6 months. Sh aimed to improve on the Thompson shell. 'I did change the shell so that command scripts could be used as filters. In the original shell this was not really feasible because the standard input for the executing script was the script itself. This change caused quite a disruption to the way people were used to working. I added variables, control flow and command substitution. The case statement allowed strings to be easily matched so that commands could decode their arguments and make decisions based on that. The for loop allowed iteration over a set of strings that were either explicit or by default the arguments that the command was given. I also added an additional quoting mechanism so that you could do variable substitutions within quotes. It was a significant redesign with some of the original flavor of the Thompson shell still there. Also I eliminated goto in favour of flow control primitives like if and for. This was also considered rather radical departure from the existing practice. Command substitution was something else I added because that gives you very general mechanism to do string processing; it allows you to get strings back from commands and use them as the text of the script as if you had typed it directly. I think this was a new idea that I, at least, had not seen in scripting languages, except perhaps LISP,' he says."

Comment Re:The bubble is back! (Score 1) 496

by Brikus on Thursday July 31, 2008 @04:03PM (#24422729) Attached to: Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back

You know what I'm talkin' about!

Submission + - Geek and gadgets set cross-country speed record (wired.com)

Submitted by Brikus on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @01:45AM

Brikus writes: And you thought your car had gadgets. In this story from Wired magazine (http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun), we hear about Alex Roy and his quest to break the record time for a cross USA road trip. One of the biggest roadblocks to breaking the record: highway patrol officers, about 31,000 along the way. So Roy decked out his E39 BMW M5 with a thermal camera, radar/laser detectors, GPS devices, police scanners, and other high-tech gadgets and toys.

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