Comment Re:What this mean... (Score 2) 239
Compatibility is the reason these instructions will never be fixed. AMD implemented correct behavior in the K5 family. It was then reverted to preserve compatibility.
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 353
Checking the current pricing on the t-mobile site, the subsidy for a G1 is $270. There is a mandatory $30 a month data plan though. On the even more plus plan, mandatory data is only $25. The difference is actually $15 per month.
A $270 loan for 2 years at $15 a month is a nominal annual rate of 29.3% or an effective annual rate of 33.6%.
Since this is quite possibly worse than what you could get on a credit card, its a pretty shitty deal.
New Color E-Reader Tech To Challenge E-Ink Dominance 199
Technology Review reports from the Consumer Elecronics Show in Las Vegas that potential e-reader competitors to E-Ink are everywhere. The current market leader in e-book displays is greyscale-only, and it takes a long time to change the display ("turn the page"), so video applications are not possible. E-Ink says they will have a color display shipping by late next year, but it will be dimmer than the current greyscale and its response time will still be too slow for video. The wannabe competitors — Pixel Qi, Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Liquavista, and Kent Displays — all do color and some of them can do video (Pixel Qi, Qualcomm, Liquavista), and some of them (Pixel Qi, Kent) are shipping now.
Comment hqx (Score 3, Interesting) 367
TFA has examples exclusively involving line art and that's pretty much the worst case for standard upscaling techniques. The scaling technique you're been searching for is hqx. Too bad there isn't any way to get it.
