Posts by Mikel

Neither

I'll take whatever Google comes up with.

Quit the unprofitable business.

PCs aren't a profitable business.

HM

That 64bit Tetra K1 at 15nm, and 8GB of Samsung's 3D RAM stacked on top, and 128GB of fast attached SSD on top of that, please.

John J. Legere's influence

Trash talking CEOs might become the new "thing". I'm all for it. IT could use more sauce.

There is a lot more of this going on than you think

Many other vendors are doing the same thing. This is not to excuse Cisco. It is just to point out that these multibillion dollar corporations take the same shortcuts as the greasy neckbeard at your local mom & pop IT shop. Paying the "big vendor converged infrastructure" premium is not going to protect you from this.

The scale of it

250 different -types- of botnet comprises only 25% of the malicious activity Microsoft is tracking. And one botnet of one type can consist of tens of millions of machines. How many Windows boxes are compromised? All of them?

There is a sea change going on

Between virtualization on the server side and new mobile devices on the client side, the upheaval is going to be huge.

battery?

The battery on these things must be amazing.

Watts

Hopefully they can get the watts down on these.

China

China already went with home grown processors in their current number one supercomputer. Presumably for energy efficiency reasons. It is not a stretch to think Russia might do so too.

Ought to sell hundreds

I hope they make millions of them again.

Mr. Cable

He's not going to do anything.

Payday for Woz finally?

He deserves a big win.

Brass ones

This is how you "jump start" the electric car. I think this is going to accelerate adoption.

Tom Wheeler, FCC Chairman and chief cable industry lobbyist

That PDF you quote broadband competition from has a statistical quirk: it is by census tract. So if one home has Comcast available, one has TWC available, and nobody else has any Internet whatsoever, that counts as "two or more competing broadband providers" for the entire census tract. It has other problems as well. Please be responsible and read the terms and conditions before spreading the misinformation that has been attached to this survey. Read it first at least.

What the?

Leave it to HP to think out of the box and come out with a Chromebox that is expensive.

But wait. These might be interesting with Linux on.

Those 10" runs

When PCI3 was coming out I did a paper on how this was it, the physics of the copper ain't got no more at the run length needed for the industry standard PC. I was called seven kinds of fool of course. It is usually unwise to predict the end of anything in tech.

Hopefully this repeater business won't add so much latency that I'm proven right.

Form factors are changing though, with nodes going in at 1/2 to 1/4th the standard width. Or starting with a clean sheet. Maybe we will see some cool gpgpu designs without the repeater.

A different question

Lenovo has been just barely treading water for a decade. Yet somehow they have enough cash to buy both IBM's x86 server business and Motorola Mobility from Google at the same time. Is it just me, or is there some magic accounting going on?

The combined price of the two is more than 12 years of Lenovo's profits at the current rate.

We all have the ARM device

We have ARM devices and know they work well. The Intel devices are an unknown quantity, and that makes Intel's road an uphill climb here. Obviously many were disappointed by previous generations of their product - but it was only recently that the premium ARM devices became passable. They are not so far behind. If they can get some units in people's hands this problem will go away. Benchmark arguments aren't going to do it.

Fortunately it looks like they have some killer reference designs in the pipeline. If they don't skimp on display quality, and do what they must on pricing they they should be OK.

The new gear looks cool.

Can't wait to see how this performs on a laptop.

Platform fragmentation

If you are buying the phones what difference does that make? You can buy them all the same, or as different as you like.

Apple powered

HP already had a deal with Beats, so let's not read too much into the Cupertino connection, eh?

Sprint is actively hostile to Bring-Your-Own-Phone

T-Mobile is not. If you like to get your Nexus direct and un-tampered with from Google for a prepaid plan T-Mobile will welcome you with open arms. Sprint won't even tell you you can get a SIM that works on their towers from Fring. They certainly won't sell you one.

Vampires don't have partners

The future outcome of these partnerships is writ in the contract itself always. Where is it writ that if Sales force dies, Microsoft gets what they really want.

New thinking from Intel

Just a few years ago this would have been unthinkable. Good on them for choosing a new path!

They will fix this bug

Fellow should have kept his mouth shut.

Netapp dedupe is a scam

The patents are expired. It is essentially Stacker for SAN with bucket hashing. I could have designed this in the 80's.

Won't fix

See: Trustworthy Computing

Taking aim at iPad Air + Macbook Air

Wrong target. Android tabs under $400 are surging to the fore. This has no chance to get share.

A great success

Lenovo seems to finally be turning a profit on IBM's PC business. Good for them.

somebody had to sue

Otherwise they wouldn't fix it.

Making other people rich

Most people don't get this, but the reason why people pay you money for your work is that they turn a profit on it. As soon as you can, look into working for yourself. I guarantee your boss will be the biggest ass, the most demanding jerk you have ever worked for - but you get to keep the money.

Gravity plot

It seems at least some parts of this rocket wound up in an "unplanned orbit".

Peace in our time

Of course the lawyers will find some other way to fill out their calendar.