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Comment Slowdown Felt in India (Score 2) 166

by inhuman.games on Thursday March 28, 2013 @08:25AM (#43301699) Attached to: Egyptian Forces Capture 3 Divers Trying To Cut Undersea Internet Cable

"Dear Customer, Due to international undersea cable system down between India to Europe, you may face slow issues in some sites. Inconvenience regretted-Beamtele". I just got that message from my Indian ISP, Beam Telecom. Some European sites are noticeably slower for me here in India.

Comment Philippines? (Score 1) 94

by inhuman.games on Sunday July 08, 2012 @01:07PM (#40583105) Attached to: TIME DotCom and Facebook Invest In Massive Undersea Internet Cable Project

From the map, it looks like they are skipping the Philippines. I wonder why. I thought the Philippine population was blowing up, and I think they are also heavy Facebook users.

Comment Re:Recent graduates are worthless (Score 1) 785

by inhuman.games on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @06:35PM (#34921410) Attached to: Should Younger Developers Be Paid More?

Based on the people I've hired, I totally agree with you. Funny how most people here are defending the recent grad in the article. I guess we have a lot of young devs here.

Comment Experience Counts (Score 1) 785

by inhuman.games on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @05:42PM (#34920650) Attached to: Should Younger Developers Be Paid More?

I'd be upset too. It means management doesn't understand that senior developer is almost always better than a fresh grad. Hot emerging technologies are easy to pick up for the senior development and in the long run, his overall wisdom will pay off. Without that wisdom, young guns make high-level mistakes and write code with more bugs.

Submission + - Next Generation of Windows to Run on ARM Chip

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @11:02PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "Sharon Chan reports in the Seattle Times that at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft showed the next generation of Windows running natively on an ARM chip design, commonly used in the mobile computing world, indicating a schism with Intel, the chip maker Microsoft has worked with closely with throughout the history of Windows and the PC. The Microsoft demonstration showed Word, PowerPoint and high definition video running on a prototype ARM chipset made by Texas Instruments, Nvidia. "It's part of our plans for the next generation of Windows.," says Steve Sinofsky, president of Windows division. "That's all under the hood." According to a report in the WSJ, the long-running alliance between Microsoft and Intel is coming to a day of reckoning as sales of tablets, smartphones and televisions using rival technologies take off, pushing the two technology giants to go their separate ways. The rise of smartphones and more recently, tablets has strained the relationship as Intel's chips haven't been able to match the low-power consumption of chips based on designs licensed from ARM and Intel has also thumbed its nose at Microsoft by collaborating with Microsoft archrival Google on the Chrome OS, Google's operating system that will compete with Windows in the netbook computer market. "I think it's a deep fracture," says venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gassee regarding relations between Microsoft and Intel."

Comment Re:Headline Is So Very Wrong (Score 1) 1193

by inhuman.games on Thursday October 21, 2010 @01:50PM (#33976458) Attached to: How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes

As the sole proprietor of a small software company I pay 15% business tax. I have to compete with large software companies that who pay less taxes? Isn't it enough that the large companies have dominate market share? Small companies should pay no tax and large ones should pay high tax -- because the large companies (whether intentional or not) use their power to against smaller companies.

Comment Buffalo has good ping times (Score 4, Interesting) 162

by inhuman.games on Sunday October 03, 2010 @03:27PM (#33778088) Attached to: The New Data Center Capital of America

Geographically speaking, I think Buffalo is better than Silicon Valley for a server -- if you have European customers. My server in Buffalo had good latency for users in both North America and Europe. My server in Silicon Valley had worse latency for my European users. I'm surprised there aren't more data centers in the New York area.

Comment More like 2022 (Score 1) 242

by inhuman.games on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @04:37PM (#30923994) Attached to: India Moves To Put Its First Man In Space By 2016

If an Indian gives you a time estimate, you need to double it.

BioWare Targeting Spring 2011 For Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch 82

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @04:55AM from the may-the-force-eventually-be-with-you dept.

MTV's Multiplayer blog reports on comments from BioWare employee Sean Dahlberg, which indicate that they are aiming to release the game in spring 2011. He said, "While we have not announced a specific date, we can confirm that we are targeting a spring 2011 release for Star Wars: The Old Republic. We've got a lot of exciting updates and reveals planned throughout 2010, including the first-ever hands-on testing for the game. ... We can't wait to share more about the game with you as we progress through the year, so make sure you stay tuned to the official website for details." Recent posts to the game's developer blog provide details on the Imperial Agent and the Jedi Knight. They also released a video which gives insight into their design process for the Dark Side.

Comment They'll be back (Score 1) 757

by inhuman.games on Monday October 19, 2009 @03:45PM (#29798813) Attached to: The US's Reverse Brain Drain

They'll be back by their 40s.

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