NotZed - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Likely story! (Score 1) 332

by NotZed on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @01:15AM (#24112109) Attached to: Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format

Even the best and fastest xml parser will be much slower than a binary one (even a pretty badly written one). and that's even assuming it isn't trying to implement all of the stupid little rules you need to implement to make it fully compliant.

Novell's 2004 Case Against Microsoft Moves Forward 197

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 17, 2008 @07:41PM from the on-hold-since-2004 dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Novell's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft for destroying the market for WordPerfect and QuattroPro can now move forward. The Supreme Court denied certiorari to Microsoft's appeal of an appeals court ruling, which is the fancy legal way of saying they ignored Microsoft's appeal and let the previous ruling stand. Novell's complaint is an interesting read, because some of this sounds quite familiar, given how Microsoft is now forcing the standardization of OOXML. Statements like, 'As Microsoft knew, a truly standard file format that was open to all ISVs would have enhanced competition in the market for word processing applications, because such a standard allows the exchange of text files between different word processing applications used by different customers,' and 'Microsoft made other inferior features de facto industry standards,' sound a lot more recent."

Settlement Reached in Verizon GPL Violation Suit 208

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 17, 2008 @05:30PM from the lifetime-of-clicking-i-agree-on-licenses-brought-to-a-halt dept.

eldavojohn writes "A settlement has been reached in the Verizon GPLv2 violation suit. The now famous BusyBox developers, Erick Andersen and Rob Landley, will receive an undisclosed sum from subcontractor Actiontec Electronics. 'Actiontec supplied Verizon with wireless routers for its FiOS broadband service that use an open source program called BusyBox. BusyBox developers Andersen and Landley in December sued Verizon -- claiming that the usage violated terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License.'"

Researchers Design Microchip Ten Times More Efficient 113

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 17, 2008 @03:11PM from the proof-of-concept dept.

WirePosted writes to mention that a new highly efficient microchip has been announced by researchers from MIT and Texas Instruments. The new chip touts up to 10 times more energy efficiency than current generation chips. "One key to the new chip design, Chandrakasan says, was to build a high-efficiency DC-to-DC converter--which reduces the voltage to the lower level--right on the same chip, reducing the number of separate components. The redesigned memory and logic, along with the DC-to-DC converter, are all integrated to realize a complete system-on-a-chip solution."

Slashdot Top Deals