Comment Re: Yes (Score 1) 264
But give me a book on the history of computing? Yes please!
May I recommend âoeThe Soul of a New Machineâ by Tracy Kidder. As a fellow 5 digit uuid slashdotter, you are old enough to remember the pre-PC days. For those of you with shorter attention spans there is a https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...â>youtube book review.
Comment Re: Remember AltaVista (Score 1) 79
Comment Time to build a better process (Score 1) 70
Comment Reminds me of bubble memory (Score 3, Interesting) 33
Comment Re: I'm still trying to figure out. (Score 1) 23
Comment Re:Also, Itanium (Score 1) 152
Comment Excuse my ignorance (Score 2) 45
Comment My grandkid scares me (Score 1) 120
Comment Exit Strategy (Score 4, Insightful) 54
"The Lionsgate catalog is too small to create a model"
Translation: We assumed this would be easy, it's not, and this is the excuse we came up with to justify all the investor money we have burned.
Comment AI has Alzheimer's? (Score 1) 59
Comment Fuchsia? (Score 5, Insightful) 71
Comment Hardware is not obsolete (Score 4, Interesting) 221
Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete....
The hardware isn't obsolete, Microsoft just decided that it was the easiest way to end backwards compatibility. Isn't it strange that an emulated TPM is good enough for a cloud VM but not for a personal desktop? I wonder if we will see this again if TPM 2.0 breaks and newer hardware is once again "required"
Submission + - China builds Thorium reactor based on abandoned US design (interestingengineering.com)
Thorium Salt reactors are safer (think lava vs explosive steam), less radioactive, and the scientists involved were able to refuel the reactor without having to shut it down. A 10 MW unit is expected to be online by 2030.