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Comment Re:Intel Softcores (Score 0) 151

by artsrc on Monday November 21, 2011 @11:26PM (#38132216) Attached to: Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets

I think the business model is different. Intel makes complete CPU products and sells them. ARM sells chip designs which customer then use in custom chips for their phones. Maybe Intel would be better trying to compete with Apple and Samsung rather than with ARM.

Comment Re:What a stupid headline (Score 0) 319

by artsrc on Monday October 10, 2011 @07:18AM (#37660552) Attached to: .NET Programmers In Demand, Despite MS Moves To Metro

Windows shops need software now, but they might the software to last a while. They also might like there software to run on some iPads that the Sales team are buying. So perhaps they might look at other options, like HTML UI's for applications where that is appropriate.

Comment Re:Dev environment (Score 0) 523

by artsrc on Thursday August 18, 2011 @02:22AM (#37126582) Attached to: Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation

The only real work for me is developing software. Others do different things than me and feel they are doing real work.

Comment Re:And the information will be sent out (Score 0) 116

by artsrc on Thursday August 18, 2011 @02:11AM (#37126532) Attached to: Australian 'Electronic Pigeon Hole' Could Replace Gov't Snail Mail

Isn't this the point though? Every real, valuable service can be delivered over high quality copper now, and over wireless soon, so the NBN is not valuable from a technical standpoint. Its value in creating a democratically controlled network is a different question.

Comment Re:Interesting idea (Score 0) 116

by artsrc on Thursday August 18, 2011 @01:57AM (#37126500) Attached to: Australian 'Electronic Pigeon Hole' Could Replace Gov't Snail Mail

If I was in power I would invest heavily in the postal system on the expectation that online sales will increase, and that while some online purchases, like games, books, videos, and music do not require physical delivery others do.

Comment Re:Two things (Score 0) 523

by artsrc on Thursday August 18, 2011 @01:50AM (#37126482) Attached to: Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation

> 1.) iPads are not replacements for PCs. iPads are not a replacement for this PC. But they are for some people who use their PC's for different things than me. So the question is what % of PCs can be replaced by iPads.

Comment Re:Wrong, repeating myth (Score 0) 523

by artsrc on Thursday August 18, 2011 @01:23AM (#37126364) Attached to: Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation

Many business applications run via a web page. No-one from IT touches the iPads owned in my team. As for advantages, iPads turn on instantly, and 3G is more common than it is with Laptops. One person I know from an IT department loves iPads. It is a tool their users love, that get stuff done at lower prices, with a much lower cost of ownership than laptops. But they do also write application that run on the iPad.

Comment Re:Ridiculous study (Score 0) 482

by artsrc on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @01:00AM (#36968676) Attached to: Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies

Exponential growth is where growth is a factor of the current economic size. So say we keep investing a good % of our income in increasing our income, I think we will get exponential economic growth. Of course we won't and can't get exponential use of energy. But the quality of our iPhone software can increase exponentially for a long time. Exponential growth in energy usage stopped a while ago as the author stated. His point about the agricultural sector is of course wrong. Agriculture is about to experience a boom. People want better wine and food. Not more just better.

Comment Re:Words can't describe... (Score 0) 417

by artsrc on Sunday July 10, 2011 @11:36PM (#36716862) Attached to: DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing

I think this is the difference between Trade Mark law and other infringements on freedom. Trademark law can prevent these cables being marketed as HDMI. Other laws prevent them being made and sold.

Comment Re:The Native App Will Never Die... (Score 0) 168

by artsrc on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @01:06AM (#36593256) Attached to: Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps

I find that the annoying thing about HTML/JavaScript are that they are not brittle. Errors that in other languages would provoke an exception are siliently ignored. To a certain extent the errors you outline are ameliorated by tools and experience. JQuery is a tool which helps provide consistecy. Tere are tools/documentation which describes the behavoir between the various environments. Good developers know the pitfalls and don't go overboard with CSS. Good Web Developers win by writing applications that don't do everything correctly out of the gate, but find it easy to deploy new version and to evolve towards a successful solution.

Comment Re:pfffft twatter tweeter (Score 0) 157

by artsrc on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @12:03AM (#31255304) Attached to: How Twitter Is Moving To the Cassandra Database

> The more interesting aspect of all of this 'NoSQL' movement is how they believe that if they achieve some speed improvement against some relational databases, how that makes them so much better. Or the most interesting aspect of the NoSQL movement is that many of the most successful web companies have rejected the SQL orthodoxy and achieved great success. As someone in a conservative, SQL only, environment this is interesting. > Is there really a huge issue with rdbms speeds? There has always been issues with database speed, we have plenty. Some are best solved by adding an index, caching some results or re-writing a query. Some might be best solved by switching to Cassandra or using the file system.

Comment Re:pfffft twatter tweeter (Score 0) 157

by artsrc on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @11:55PM (#31255224) Attached to: How Twitter Is Moving To the Cassandra Database

RDBMS systems did not invent ACID. There were solid ACID databases on mainframes before SQL or the relational model were thought of. The non-relational ACID databases were faster than relational databases then, and they still are after 40 years of work on relational databases. You seem to be conflating ACID and RDBMS. ACID is not free. However there are many issues with the relational model and with the SQL implementations that additionally negatively impact performance. The relational model provides a logical model for data. This model if sometimes less convenient than other models (Object Oriented etc.). This model is frequently harder to provider an efficient implementation for than other models (key/value etc.). It is likely that the SQL vendors will respond by claims. Claims are free. They won't respond with a low cost, fully scalable, Oracle App Engine with an SQL backend, running on low cost commodity hardware, with low administration costs. They won't because they can't.

Comment Re:pfffft twatter tweeter (Score 0) 157

by artsrc on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @11:35PM (#31255084) Attached to: How Twitter Is Moving To the Cassandra Database

From what I can tell Google's Big Table is more ACID than your banks Oracle. Big Table commits on two node before it considers its write successful. Your banks Oracle commits on one and schedules replication to Arizona for as soon as possible.

Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 0) 1136

by artsrc on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @12:37AM (#31164834) Attached to: A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow

Ocean acidification is a negative impact of CO2 pollution, but is it a direct result of CO2, rather than an indirect effect of climate change.

Comment Re:Wonder how they will work this out... (Score 0) 536

by artsrc on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @11:05PM (#29892847) Attached to: Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man

The best definition of species is evolving: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2009/2682256.htm On the other hand I don't think Neanderthals were a different species.

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