Posts by Mage

Still

Apart from power it's likely to be a lot cheaper than Xeon in quantity, maybe also a later version have disk I/O, USB and Networking built in.

Only called Neurons

Any resemblance to anything to do with real brains is just that. It doesn't help with mimicking a real brain as we don't know

* How a brain really works. Saying a brain has neurons isn't useful.

* What is intelligence exactly? If someone gives me a spec, I'll have a slow AI running on my server once I implement it. Storage and existing Data is no issue with an Internet Connection as long as speed doesn't matter. It can learn very much quicker than a baby, child or adult once the basic English is programmed in. Just give me a spec.

* What is sentience?

* What is self-awareness? (though you can test animals with mirrors and blobs of paint. Some behave in a manner that suggests a concept of self and other instances of the animal. But then cats hardly react to reflections or video because the smell is absent.)

Exactly ultimately how is this different from Transputers? Other than simpler elements and more of them using smaller geometry?

If its to sway XP users?

XP users need Firefox and Noscript anyway. as well as a firewall, so no direct 3G dongle, Only use mobile dongle with a WiFi point or ethernet router that has a firewall.

I hope future IE

a) By default has Active X disabled, and if enabled only works on private IP ranges.

b) is standards compliant

Hmmm

Put your original Trojan in a nice free mouse / glide pad / keyboard / USB TV stick (from $6) / USB memory stick.

Use this and the email / webmail interface trick too.

Send to selected executives, ministers etc ...

Why bother with random public.

Ofcom has forked tongue

a) I agree with all the earlier posters. Having a false confidence to click the icons till something happens proves nothing. It's not about technology but use of shiny gadgets with style speced by Marketing and Arts people.

b) Anything published by Ofcom is suspect in methodology. First identify the Ofcom agenda.

Close Galaxies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_galaxies#Closest_galaxies

Deja Vu

Wasn't this the IIS news last month too?

So MS has the lead in Servers that only serve an advert for a domain name. Equivalent to a book publisher whose most sales are adverts on bus shelters?

Laser eavesdropping

yes, it's off the shelf to eavesdrop by a special IR laser on a window and process the reflection. That's quite simple.

This is more complex and defeats special anti-eavesdropping windows.

8-VSB is poor

European DVB-T and especially DVB-T2 is nothing to do with politically chosen 8-VSB

Silentrunners

Does the Registry Execution Point analysis tool here on Silentrunners.org find this?

I find it a very useful tool, coupled with rebooting in safe mode and using a couple of root kit scanners is better to check and clean manually than any performance crippling AV. (see gmer for an old one)

Apple

If there is a real market for this Apple will do it.

They may sue these people out of existence anyway.

Probably nearly all of Beats' staff. It's only a reseller and marketing company.

One app for all?

Maybe for some trivial apps.

But small phones, large phones & small tablets, large tablets, PCs (inc Notebooks) and "Smart" TVs or any of above driving a TV at 1m to 3m viewing distance need 6 flavours of GUI.

Some applications simply are not suitable all classes of device, even if the underlying API and tools let you write one app for all Java (despite some short comings) can either use Programmer's skin or the native GUI / Skin of the target. I've certainly done some applications in Java that are write once and work on Gnome Linux, windows and a mad 320 x 240 PDA device running Debian on ARM.

So are yet again MS jumping from one extreme to the other? Pre Zune & Metro you had the stupidity of Win95 style interface on WinCE. 320 x 240 devices.

So SOMETIMES you can write one app for all platforms. Other times really best usability is a different application for each. Absolutely though the different platforms need different GUIs.

It just isn’t feasible to run both DTT and mobile data services in the same band.

TRUE!

Also the 800MHz sell off was Governmental GREED.

No "Digital dividend" for viewer or Broadcaster.

The Mobile operators have captured the Regulators.

They are using existing 900, 1800, 2100 etc poorly.

It's driven by Licence Revenue. Not logic. Ofcom's agenda (And Comreg and some others) is to abolish Terrestrial TV.

Nothing to see

Poor version of existing tech on a USA only channel.

You can buy expensive x86 family dev boards with Windows

Since forever, with licence for what ever Windows MS was pushing at the time.

Since this one has no networking (WiFi or Ethernet) it seems particularly poor.

Doomed

Wrong CPU. Probably subsidised. Intel has seen 85% drop in Mobile division revenue.

But sadly Tesco here has only ever sold Hudl sleeves. They sell Samsung and Apple though.

DOCSIS etc

Just implement FEC on the physical links and then TCP/IP won't resend as it won't get errors.

Many fixed wireless, coax and satellite links do this already.

Sparrow actually, not even Sparrow Hawk

See XKCD