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Roland Piquepaille Dies 288

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 09, 2009 @02:33PM from the in-memoriam dept.

overheardinpdx writes "I'm sad to report that longtime HPC technology pundit Roland Piquepaille (rpiquepa) died this past Tuesday. Many of you may know of him through his blog, his submissions to Slashdot, and his many years of software visualization work at SGI and Cray Research. I worked with Roland 20 years ago at Cray, where we both wrote tech stories for the company newsletter. With his focus on how new technologies modify our way of life, Roland was really doing Slashdot-type reporting before there was a World Wide Web. Rest in peace, Roland. You will be missed." The notice of Roland's passing was posted on the Cray Research alumni group on Linked-In by Matthias Fouquet-Lapar. There will be a ceremony on Monday Jan. 12, at 10:30 am Paris time, at Père Lachaise.

Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 537

by Snapster1 on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @01:49PM (#25139233) Attached to: Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test

There is already HD over analog if your TV can handle it.

No such thing as HD over analog, at least not in the United States, AFAIK. Either you have a digital ATSC tuner built-in or you don't. If you don't you can buy a set-top box that will convert the signal from digital to analog so your old analog only tuner tv can tune the new digital broadcast signal. HD is just coming along for the ride with the digital conversion because you can put a lot more stuff in a digital signal than an analog signal of the same bandwidth.

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