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Comment Human Brain booting linux anyone? (Score 1) 141

Implanting Kernel Source into Brain, Please Wait............ Finished downloading source using ear:// connection, building kernel source.... Rebuilding initramfs........ Booting Linux Kernel, rootfs=/human/head/brain console=/dev/mouth First Successul HUMANDRIOD booted droid:/>

Comment EEPROM & Firmware Updates (Score 1) 238

All FPGA's have cross-point which are connected are left open based on a bit stream. This bit stream is usually present in a EEPROM/EPROM which you program and on startup this program the FPGA. This has been out there in most networking (ever done a firmware upgrade) and other backplane processors. One important reason this is not sued in main stream processors are the time to boot-up and program the cross-points. Also Processors these days tend to run at ASIC timing optimized speeds which an FPGA can never support (mainly because of the increased wireload delay caused by long cross-point wires). One other good reason is processors these days tend to heat up a lot (about 100C) and there is no reliable high-temperature EEPROM that would have reliable long life at this temperature. I am really not sure if this guy has been able to address atleast one if not all of these challenges.
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Microsoft Opposing California Open Doc Bill 191

ZJMX writes "Microsoft is going through its email and phone lists asking people to support their opposition to California A.B. 1668 — 'Open Document Format, Open Source' — by writing to the California Assemblymen involved in this bill (contact info in the link). Apparently they fear that California will join Massachusetts in wanting documents based on open standards in their government. Let's see if this community can raise as much support for the California ODF bill as Microsoft can raise opposition."
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Journal Journal: If I try to submit another story, slap me. Hard. 1

Yeah, yeah, grousing about rejected submissions is lame, I get it. I'm gonna do it anyway. It does get on my nerves when I submit a story, watch it rise to orange in the Firehose, only to be completely ignored. Seven hours later, some Anonymous writes another submission about the same thing. That submission rises to green, but the editors just ignore it. More than 24 hours later, someone posts an (arguably) inferior st

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