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Comment Re:Weird (Score 1) 316

by DrDNA on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @03:33PM (#25223469) Attached to: AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old

What they mean when they say the AIDS virus is 100 years old is that it was transmitted from apes (chimpanzees) to humans 100 years ago. The chimpanzee virus it came from is called SIV-cpz. It, in turn, evolved from other, related viruses. So it didn't just form out of whole cloth. It evolved from something related.

Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista 600

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @02:42AM from the favorite-whipping-boy dept.

PoliTech notes in a journal entry that "Vista is the gift that just keeps on giving." "Speaking during SanDisk's second-quarter earnings conference call, Chairman and [CEO] Eli Harari said that Windows Vista will present a special challenge for solid state drive makers. 'As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk,' he said... 'The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,' he said. 'Unfortunately, (SSDs) performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we'll start sampling end of this year, early next year.' Harari said this challenge alone is putting SanDisk behind schedule. "We have very good internal controller technology... That said, I'd say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment.'"

Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit? 470

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @12:52AM from the seemed-like-a-good-idea dept.

eldavojohn writes "After seeing some applications from Google and participating in the Google Codejam (which seems to be built using the GWT), I kind of expected to see websites spring up left and right based off the GWT. Well, it's been a year and a half since they open sourced it and I have to admit that I am more than a little disappointed by its low profile in the UI community. I've been trolling their blog and have seen a few books out on it. But the one thing I'm not seeing is its use outside of Google. I've worked through the examples and tutorials at home and though I've been impressed with the speed, I am disturbed by the actual result — a whole ton of generated Javascript. But this is the first UI technology I've found where I can write in the native language of the server (Java) to generate and unit-test the UI code. Aside from Google's use and the games of Ryan Dewsbury like KDice & GPokr, does anyone know of major sites using the GWT? If you don't and you've used it yourself, why isn't it taking off? Is it too immature? Is it a solution to a problem that already has too many solutions? Is it fundamentally lacking in some way?"

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