Re: This is why AMD and NVidia are making ARM chips
I thought HP had a big input to Itanium?
It was doomed from the start. Essentially a server only, high power consumption, flawed design concept.
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Fujitsu picks 64-bit ARM for Japan's monster 1,000-PFLOPS super
Rejoice, fatties: Giving chocolate electric shocks makes it healthier
Tuesday 21st June 2016 14:42 GMT 
my Chocolate ration: Not Gloopy!
Cocoa mass, sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder, emulsifier based on sunflower lecithin, vanilla extract.
Cocoa solids are 81% minumum.
By mass
Fat 43%
Carbohydrate 24% (sugars are 17%)
fibre 15%
protein 10%
salt 0.03%
(suitable for vegetarians)
Any higher cocoa content/less fat DOES NOT make it Gloopy but gritty and powdery. The 85% stuff is terrible.
Mars bars are not Chocolate, but chocolate flavoured sweets.
Cadbury's Dairy Milk is barely chocolate (less than 25%?). I think US Milk chocolate has less cocoa (as it's expensive) and Hershey's do something nasty to the milk, which is why it's disgusting compared to any European chocolate.
Apple pollutes data about you to protect your privacy. But it might not be enough
Tuesday 21st June 2016 10:01 GMT
as Apple hasn’t been on reliant on digital advertising
Well, Google and Facebook almost entirely make money from adverts, maybe entirely.
Apple sells high margin hardware and x3 supermarket margin on iTunes sales. So Apple doesn't need advertising at all.
Are Google and Facebook actually helping to destroy the advertising industry in the long run with their abusive attitude to privacy and consumers?
Meet the 1,000 core chip that can be powered by an AA battery
Monday 20th June 2016 15:39 GMT
Re: 13.1 W.
So when practically idling it might feasibly run off a D cell.
0.7W still isn’t a realistic load, for AA, only possible.
Still sounds like marketing hype. No doubt it's very clever, but mention of an AA cell would be more appropriate for wearable or portable gear at 100th of the normal running power.
Monday 20th June 2016 14:45 GMT
13.1 W.
Not realistically an AA cell. That's 10 amps at 1.3V.
An Alkaline AA cell is 1.56V (fresh) to 0.9V at end point and really ought not to have more than a 50mA load for efficiency. An NiMH at 10mA might have half the capacity as Alkaline but at 1A (plausible maximum) about x5 capacity due to MUCH lower internal resistance, though probably half the label’s AH rating at such high current draw..
Perhaps 20 paralleled Alkaline D Cells, or five paralleled NiMH D cells to have a 10 A rating.
So for half an hour on an AA size NiMH you'd need a bit less than 1.3W load. A tenth.
You've got petabytes of unused storage, says Formation. Er, do we?
TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding pockets £2.8m
Hey cloud lawyer: Can I take my client list with me?
Monday 20th June 2016 12:23 GMT
Initial Contract
Ensure your employment contract says that IP and clients you bring are still yours.
That creative IP you make subsequently is yours, though the company has a time limited exclusive contract to exploit it, or else you are a serf.
That clients you add via your personal magnetism subsequently are yours, ultimately, but the company can exploit them while you work there, otherwise you are serf.
Perhaps stop employers creating false redundancies to get "cheaper" less experienced staff and regarding people merely as a resource to be used up and burnt out.
Apple's 'lappable' iPad Pro concept is far from laughable
Monday 20th June 2016 12:14 GMT
Re: file
""On the upside, iOS now has just enough filesystem so it’s easy to save into Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive"
Er... those are things that work in a browser. Not aspects of a proper filesystem. Anyone using them for other than temporary, non-critical content to collaborate is mad.
I remove things like that that appear in a file browse GUI. I want to make sure I have EVERYTHING on my local file-system and only upload / download copies as needed, which ONLY when 3rd parties used. I use USB or LAN to synchronise my own files, NEVER the internet. The Internet is insecure and unreliable.
Brexit: More cash for mobile operators or consumers? Pick one
Gravitational waves: A new type of astronomy
Filet-O-Phish: Insecure NFC tag relics hidden under Maccas tables
Monday 20th June 2016 11:37 GMT
NFC
NFC should have stayed in Warehouses. Been consistently a fail on security and privacy in retail / payments / travel.
QR codes are OK in theory, but should display the REAL URL with a "Do you want to do this dangerours thing?" QR codes are a similar risk to URL shorteners, or HTML where you can't preview link.
Apple and Android wearables: What iceberg? It’s full steam ahead!
Friday 17th June 2016 14:56 GMT
not the ground-breaking revamp
Because such a thing is fantasy!
You might eventually get better battery life.
it might be useful without internet or the phone (I have a smart watch with GSM phone built in (mini-SIM) that cost under $20 and runs for 3 days, but I don't use it for web, just hands free voice phone calls and text without the phone).
The audio dictation is good. (It has a micro SD card and USB storage mode).
The camera is rotten. For $10 more you can get one with a better camera.
It has all the typical kinds of useless apps.
Slow incremental improvement of what is basically a kids toy.
Should we teach our kids how to program humanity out of existence?
E-books the same as printed ones, says top Euro court egghead
Crims set up fake companies to hoard and sell IPv4 addresses
Safari 10 dumps Flash, Java, Silverlight, QuickTime in the trash
Space Data dudes say Google lifted Loon balloon tune
Thursday 16th June 2016 09:00 GMT
WWI
They used radio on balloons in WWI with Morse code.
Tethered observation blimps used a cabled telephone connection.
It's such a simple and obvious thing to use balloons as data repeaters (which is what Loon does) I can't see why there are patents.
The Elephant in the room is that Loon needs its own licensed spectrum and is irresponsible and pointless. Even if it was sensible, we now know that Alphabet/Google are totally untrustworthy and not fit people to act as an ISP.
Apple struggles with the idea of intelligent life outside Cupertino
Wednesday 15th June 2016 16:17 GMT
Re: AI
" Current approaches to AI are pretty far from "human curated databases" - although there are no doubt still plenty of those around.
The current buzz is "deep learning" systems, which really can be said to be capable of learning with minimal domain-specific pre-programming -"
No it's all marketing. Just "buzz"
We have ONLY made progress in marketing, hype and jargon.
Bad SF.
Wednesday 15th June 2016 12:13 GMT
Re: AI
Current computer systems can't truly learn, they can't meaningfully create, they only encompass the domain they are programmed for. We don't even have a proper definition of intelligence.
Which so called "AI" system like Watson, Cortana, Amazon Echo, Google, Siri etc isn't just a user interface to a human curated database. Can you as an end user (not the maintaining program team) teach one ANYTHING? Can they solve any problem?
They are just variations of so called "Expert systems", which are programs in three parts, capturing information from a trained expert, curating the database and a pseudo subset of natural language to interrogate the database.
They are not even very convincing simulations of intelligence.
I was considering several AI projects based on my years of programming and AI study:
1) To have a program to learn any arbitrary card game from a human with only defining the terms and no games or goals in advance.
2) To have a program to recognise the music in a recording of any arbitrary music, instrumental, vocal only or mixed, then create the music score for each part. Lots of not very good musicians can do this. Having a program play notation via a pair of robot hands on any arbitrary instrument isn't AI, that's almost trivial and more an exercise in electro-mechanical engineering.
I expect, like chess or Go by computer which isn't AI, but brute force, any achievement of this would turn out to be a narrow domain trick, and not AI. Item (2) is much easier than (1) and can be achieved without any AI.
Austrians are most likely to bare all on beaches
Workers rejoice! Marx’s vision will become reality, argues SAP veep
Wednesday 15th June 2016 11:53 GMT
Re: He doesn't mention the workers being the owners of the means
AirBnB hosts and Uber drivers are workers with the normal protections and benefits of an employee stripped. All the worst aspects of being self employed and an employee, while "big data" companies make the real profits.
Same with Amazon, Google, Facebook.
It's not a Marxist vision of the future but all the worst bits of "Fahrenheit 451", "1984", "Shockwave Rider" and Harry Harrison's "To the Stars" trilogy.
The guy is either evil or naive or both.
Astroboffins' discovery gives search for early life a left hand. Or right
Wednesday 15th June 2016 08:17 GMT
Re: Enantiomers (mirror image copies of a chiral molecule)
Natural sugars are sweet.
A right handed synthetic sugar isn't sweet.
You can use a bright light and two polarisers (perhaps two pairs of sunglasses) and sugar solution to test this at home if you can get or make the non-sweet synthetic sugar.
The Microsoft-LinkedIn hookup will be the END of DAYS, I tell you
Tuesday 14th June 2016 10:33 GMT
Canada?
"unless you're on LinkedIn, with a well-crafted and carefully curated profile, you're a nobody"
Must be a stranger place than I thought. I was advised to join LinkedIn about 10 years ago. I decided eventually it was a pointless.
The mutual back patting is tedious and I think even recruiters realise now how pointless it has become. People just collecting "contacts" and their "whatsapp" desire to get your address book and spam everyone on it.
Apple WWDC: OS X is dead, long live macOS
Apple launches HomeKit app – but where are the products?
Tuesday 14th June 2016 08:36 GMT
HomeKit
So they launch a something for Home based IoT
Why do the stupid IoT gadgets need more than a secure browser interface? Assuming people are conned into buying them?
There is an argument for use of a simpler (to run in less RAM & Flash) secure protocol and support the various SRD UHF bands. But does Homekit actually do that?
This is hardly going to boost sales.
NASA's astroboffins spot the largest ever Tatooine planet
Microsoft's paid $60 per LinkedIn user – and it's a bargain, because we're mugs
Monday 13th June 2016 17:55 GMT
Value of personal data
Actually there is no sense in which the violation of Privacy by Google, Whatsapp, LinkedIn, Facebook etc is worth it.
Also the comparisons of $42 / $60 vs a survey of $140 worth is nonsense. The value is not what the site user might put on each piece of data, but how much money the site owner can make per user (usually from adverts) after all running costs. If Users could charge the Site owner a fair amount, then most of these parasites would close as unprofitable.
The business model only works for two reasons:
1) Users actually using the site
2) Advertisers paying site owner to advertise on it.
Ultimately no different to roads and Billboards, except that people's personal data is being exploited AND people are sharing stuff to world + dog and variously damaging privacy and quality of life not just themselves but people they reference who may never even access the site.
Microsoft buys LinkedIn for the price of 36 Instagrams
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn
Monday 13th June 2016 13:27 GMT 
I cancelled
Ages ago I set up a disposable email address,
changed all my details
closed account
deleted email address from my hosting.
Linkedin is just full of nonsense and spammy. Maybe started as Social Networks for professionals, but just ended up rubbish.
I can't think what the MS strategy is.
It's not April 1st.
Thief dresses as Apple Store drone, walks off with $16,000 in iGear
FFS, Twitter. It's not that hard
Saturday 11th June 2016 08:14 GMT
Re: make it go away
Yes, really I like so called "Social Media" companies failing. If only Facebook would follow in footsteps of Myspace, FriendsReunited etc and Twitter would finally go bankrupt.
Parasites that are helping to destroy civilisation and raping your privacy. People can use email to talk to their friends and we already get too much of so called Celebs on TV, Radio and Websites.
Now Google backs everyone's favorite trade pact: The TPP
Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net
Friday 10th June 2016 19:17 GMT
We don't have a technology problem; we have a social problem.
Partly.
We do have the problem that for email that security and white-listing to allow a sender should have been in the design from the start.
We do have the problem that on WWW, security is an afterthought and defaults of all browsers are wrong, cookies, scripts, microphone, webcam, popups etc all should need white listed on a subdomain basis.
Government regulation will clip coders' wings, says Bruce Schneier
Did you know there's a mega cybercrime backlog in Ireland? Now you do
Grim-faced 'naut Malenchenko prepares to return home
Microsoft offers Surface-as-a-Service from its own stores
Bill Gates cooks up poultry recipe for Africans' paltry existence
Apple to kill off Mac OS X?
Thursday 9th June 2016 17:13 GMT
Re: Apple have a mountain to climb
"They have to do what MSFT have painfully achieved over the last 2 years, creating a core OS that'll run from watches to cars"
Actually the stupidest thing ever MS did. As stupid as having WinCE look like Win9x on a tiny screen.
It's better to have different flavours of OS and ESPECIALLY different GUI / UI / UX for different kinds of systems, user input and hugely different screen size.
I'm no Apple fan, but they did the right thing adapting OS X to give iOS and buying in Fingerworks and putting a totally different GUI on iPhone.
The Apple Watch seems to be pointless, but that's a deeper issue than OS, or the too fiddly GUI on it.
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