Comment Caucasians are too damn tall (Score 0) 326
Google shouldn't do it, Caucasians are too damn tall as we learned from the movie Crazy People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iJsdGkl44
Comment Recent DRM Headache (Score 1) 299
I recently purchased the novel Triggers on Kobo's website. On the book's page it listed both Smartphone and Kobo eReaders as compatible devices. Clicking on the Smartphone it shows Blackberry, clicking on Kobo eReaders it shows my 1st Gen Kobo eReader. So I purchase the book, the first book I had purchased in about a year. The book automatically shows up on my Blackberry but I can't open it. It shows up in my Kobo Desktop software where I can read it and when I plug in my eReader it says it has finished transferring it to my eReader but it isn't there after the sync. I ended up needing to use Adobe Digital Editions to transfer it over. This was kind of frustrating as there were scant instructions at all. And I was never able to read it on my Blackberry. (The Blackberry is from work)
Submission + - Companies Hang Up on Apple's iPhone (wsj.com)
WSJdpatton writes: "IPhones can be used for email, but many businesses don't plan to sync them with internal systems used to power Blackberries and Microsoft mobile devices. Employees eager to use the cool new gadget, however, may pressure IT departments to support iPhones even if it means incurring more costs and changing policies."
Submission + - Is parallel programming just too hard?
pcause writes: There has been a lot of
talk recently about the need for programmers to shift paradigms and begin building more parallel applications and systems. The need to do this and the hardware and systems to support it have been around for a while, but we haven't seen a lot of progress. The article says that gaming systems have made progress, but MMOGs are typically years late and I'll bet part of the problem is trying to be more parallel/distributed.
Since this discussion has been going on for over a decade with little progress in terms of widespread change, one has to ask is parallel programming just too difficult for most programmers? Are the tools inadequate or perhaps is it that it is very difficult to think about parallel systems. Maybe it is a fundamental human limit. Will we really see progress in the next 10 years that matches the progress of the silicon?
Since this discussion has been going on for over a decade with little progress in terms of widespread change, one has to ask is parallel programming just too difficult for most programmers? Are the tools inadequate or perhaps is it that it is very difficult to think about parallel systems. Maybe it is a fundamental human limit. Will we really see progress in the next 10 years that matches the progress of the silicon?
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