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Sony Adopts Objective-C and GNUstep Frameworks 345

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 25, 2010 @09:55AM from the new-way-of-doing-things dept.

EMB Numbers writes "Sony has revealed that the new SNAP development environment for 'consumer electronics' is based on Objective-C and the open source GNUstep implementation of Apple's Openstep spec. While Apple has continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac OS X, GNUstep has preserved the original standard. Anyone familiar with Cocoa Touch and iOS will feel right at home developing for Sony. There may even be some source code compatibility between the platforms. The world continues to chase apple — probably for the better."

The Best Robots of 2009 51

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @09:59PM from the best-of-show dept.

kkleiner writes "Singularity Hub has just unveiled its second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome."

Comment Re:TheCus make higher performing NASes (Score 1) 517

by belorion on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @08:57PM (#26140249) Attached to: SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput?

Ooops. That should state 25MB/s write and 40 MB/s read ... and 200 MBit write and 320 MBit read

Comment TheCus make higher performing NASes (Score 1) 517

by belorion on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @08:43PM (#26140119) Attached to: SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput?

I have several thecus NASes (http://www.thecus.com/) the N5200, the N5200Pro and I'm looking into a N7700 or a N8800. They all have Gigabit ethernet connections. They are more expensive than purpose built boxes - but they are "set it and forget it" appliances - which is where there value comes from.

I can sustain approx 25MB/s write and 40 MB/s on my N5200. NOTE: That's bytes not bits. In otherwords 200Mbit read throughput and 320Mbit write throughput. This is far better than the other domestic of SOHO NASes - which is why thecus tends to win awards http://www.thecus.com/news_contentx.php?nid=827 , http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/holiday-gift-guide,2065-12.html

If you contrast this with one of my windows RAID arrays (100+MB/s read 100/MB write - array to array or just streaming) it looks rather poor.

If you want something that you can just forget about and will give reasonable performance then TheCus is what you want ... if you want better performance than a custom built server is what you want (Windows or Linux).

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