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Comment Re:It’s a bubble (Score 1) 23

They're ramping up regardless through. Quite a few new fabs are being built and capacity of existing ones is being expanded. Also we're seeing new entrants into the market, like Chinese CXMT that have brought their DDR5 tech to the market. Finally Taiwanese are taking another shot at the DDR market as Nanya is finishing build-out of their Fab 5A which is intended for 10nm grade processes, which means that DDR4 and LPDDR4 supply will soon grow significantly as that fab starts.

Comment Re:I would have liked that. (Score 1) 26

Worth noting that in some regions, it's called DCM

Fundamentally, it's a module that integrates online connectivity. Data Communications Integrated Module, Data Communication Module, etc.

Without it, car will have zero connectivity unless you give it access through your phone or something similar.

Comment Google Glass (Score 1) 39

I remember getting an e-mail for purchasing Google Glass. They were pretty expensive ($1k or $2k NZDI think?). Glad I didn't get them since they were killed off and were paperweights within a few years. There are some videos of people who have gotten some more life out of them, but all the original apps and services for it are gone.

Comment Bad for adults (Score 1) 147

Social media is bad for adults. This has nothing to do with children what so ever. It has to do with pushing for more identity verification to permanent identified each and every person with every single online request they make. It's the telescreen spying on everything you do. Anyone who thinks this has anything to do with protecting youths is not realizing what's really in play here.

Comment Re:Goes back far... (Score 1) 32

I wish that cancerous blight on humanity could have been avoided, but in the early days people did run Minecraft servers locally and even dead games like Star Wars Galaxies have gotten reverse engineered implementations:

https://github.com/ProjectSWGC...

So I guess that evil would be unavoidable.

Comment HTTPS (Score 2) 168

Half of our recent candidates can't even get past the most basic phone screening.

"What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?"

"Well , I know HTTPS is the secure version."

"Well, what makes it secure?"

There is so much opportunity is this fucking basic technology question to show off what you know. You can talk about CAs, (browser and system), how websites identify themselves, how people use to pay a lot of certs but now we have LetsEncrypt, how even some of the paid cert providers now use ACME challenges LetsEncrypted pioneered, man-in-the-middle, certification revocation ... or hell, just fucking say it initiates a public/private key exchange! I'd even take "Secure Socket Layer," (even though it's TLS now) as a fucking bare minimum for our mid-level opening.

Zero clue what-so-ever. Some people can explain SQL-injection, but barely. If you're not out west, the talent pool is pretty bad out there.

Comment Goes back far... (Score 4, Interesting) 32

This goes back really far with Blizzard. I think it was 2000 or 2001 when they sent a cease and desist to an open source project called bnetd. It let you host your own Warcraft I/II and Starcraft games. It could also allow people to use pirated betas of Warcraft 3 in multiplayer mode on a local network. Back in this year, Counterstrike was still a mod and everyone hosted games locally using the free Half-Life server Valve provided (that could run on Linux).

Gamers should have turned away from games that didn't allow local hosting, but not enough did and here we are.

Comment Re:Silly. (Score 1) 75

The point was quite obvious in context. You stated, and I quote:

"Two years of testing and development doesn't seem unrealistic."

I pointed out the obvious. It's been over 50% longer than that.

But beyond that, "solid state battery is eternally a few years away" has been a thing for well over a decade at this point. It's the same marketing category as "fusion on planet's surface is 50 years away" and "lithium air batteries are 20 years away".

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