Comment Re:A debugger does this (Score 1) 113
Wow, I just came to the comment section to talk about using a disassembler on the trs-80 to beat games. Is that you capn K?
Comment Re:So this is Slashdot? (Score 1) 83
We hit the technological singularity about a decade ago. There is no more tech news. How many truly nerd stories come out? Six months of weekly stories on the latest comic book movie? "New" technology that is repackaged stuff that's been around since the 90's? A find of a new exoplanet, black hole or dinosaur bone? What else is there? Most posts here now are either political or security hence politically related.
Comment Re:Depressing (Score 1) 275
-- James Burke (Science Historian)
Comment Re:You'll Have To Claw That Oil Out Of My Cold Dea (Score 1) 589
Wow, the quality of slashdot comments has really declined over the years. Reposting the same canned responses as I can find on any other newsite.
Comment So it goes. (Score 0) 121
Poo-tee-weet
Comment I learned more from BYTE than I did (Score 1) 185
getting my EE in college. Thanks Steve!
Comment Re:Nothing New (Score 1) 258
Logged in to make this comment. People have been doing this for a long while. Over at http://www.cnczone.com/ you can find dozens of people who've built their own machines as well as links any and all material that you might need to buy. And they build all types of machines from 8-axis titanium milling to 2-axis wood routers. It's a fairly big hobbyist industry.
Comment I don't know what it will be like in 2030 (Score 1) 738
but I need two earths now.
Comment Re:Illegal under Net Neutrality (Score 1) 196
Bandwidth is not the same as latency. If I push though 1Mb in 1ms and the other 999ms nothing, it can be quite different than 1kb every 1ms. Both users see data throughput of 1Mb/s, the former would experience unacceptable details for gaming.
Comment From an engineering seminar (Score 1) 366
that I attended for DigitalTV, the claim was made that studies indicated in the US viewers were more concerned with sound and audio whereas in Japan these preferences were reversed.
Comment Adopt a dog (Score 1) 825
Best security system available. At least according to an insurance adjuster relative who told me that security systems don't work. Plus you can have a wonderful companion and maybe even save a life,
Comment Re:Build it... and they will come. (Score 1) 589
Is that even possible? Fuel:battery energy density ratios with efficiency added in are in the neighborhood of 50-100:1.
Comment Re:Wait... They want them to dumb things down... (Score 1) 511
I think it was Feynman who said something like
If you can't explain it to a kindergarten student, then you don't understand it yourself
Better Development Through Competition? 251
theodp writes "Among the tips Derek Sivers offers for how to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen is an intriguing one: hire more than one person to complete your first programming milestone, with the expectation that one will go bad, one will be so-so, and one will be great. 'Yes it means you're paying multiple times for this first milestone,' says Sivers, 'but it's worth it to find a good one.' It's not a new idea — the practice of pitting two different programmers against each other on the same task was noted three decades ago in Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine — but one that never gained widespread acceptance. Should the programming code-off be adopted as a software development best practice?"
A Close Look At Apple's A4 Chip 245
PabloSandoval48 writes "Apple's A4 processor is heavily influenced by Apple's long-established relationship with Samsung and represents an evolution rather than a revolution in circuit design. A team of experts takes a look at the evidence on A4 in an attempt to determine its origins and the influence of recent Apple acquisitions in the area of chip design."
