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US CompSci Enrollment Leaps For 5th Straight Year 176

Posted by timothy on Friday March 08, 2013 @09:28PM from the they-heard-about-the-snacks-and-dancing dept.

dcblogs writes "The number of new undergraduate computing majors in U.S. computer science departments increased more than 29% last year, a pace called 'astonishing' by the Computing Research Association. The increase was the fifth straight annual computer science enrollment gain, according to the CRA's annual survey of computer science departments at Ph.D.-granting institutions. The survey also found that more students are earning a Ph.D., with 1,929 degrees granted — an 8.2% increase over the prior year. The pool of undergraduate students represented in the CRA survey is 67,850. Of that number, 57,500 are in computer science."

Feed Engadget: VIA readying one-watt Eden processor? (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Friday August 17, 2007 @11:52PM

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds

Apparently, VIA is hoping to stretch the battery life of devices that sport its forthcoming ULV processor, as the chip manages to hum along at 500MHz yet only consumes one-watt of power. According to DigiTimes, the company announced the CPU during a press conference held yesterday, and also noted that it will "adopt the same VIA V4 bus and 21- x 21-millimeter nanoBGA2 packaging as other Eden models." Reportedly, several industrial PC makers "including Advantech have already adopted the new Eden ULV processor" and hopes to have products shipping to market later this month, and if this thing actually does sip power as its creator suggests, we've all ideas Advantech won't be the last firm placing an order.

[Via Wired]

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Comment Piracy (Score 1) 239

by mulle on Friday December 10, 2004 @02:27PM (#11053557) Attached to: TheOpenCD 2.0 Released

I'd say that the biggest obstacle for free software, as in beer and/or as in speech, is that the Average Joe simply borrows a CD with commercial software from someone and thus the actual price of the software in question becomes a non-issue.

I honestly think that one of the best things that could happen to the free software community would be if Microsoft could somehow make it impossible to use priated versions of their software.

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