Posts by John Smith 19

New upgrade "Quite good."

For Intel's wallet perhaps.

And using all 6 cores on the same job?

Heartbeat waveforms are *very* odd

They are nothing like the sort of thing you'd see in electrical systems (unless they are faulty electrical systems).

And BTW you're heart going into MI is not subtle.

Clever tech (and the other sensors make it sound like a good exercise and body health monitor) but otherwise....

"roaming the North American continent" "giant sloth"

Ever been to Maclaine, Texas?

So forget about presumption of innocence

Let's be clear, this information is only being retained because the DEA thinks anyone could be a criminal.

That alone should trouble every lawyer trained in a common law legal system.

Kind of sad.

People keep banging on about a tapeless world but you try stuffing someone else flash drive into that incompatible hole.

Still a few players left.

Time to stock up I guess.

Yet another giga Government IT project

What could possibly go wrong?

On the upside big bucks for con-tractors and conslutants.

Yay. You're email in *there* hands. Good thing this is not the cloud?

Ohh.

I'd add "Wolfsbane" and "The Cool War."

I've never read Staruburst but I have read the short story "The Gold at the Starbow's End."

I'm not sure but I think it describes arithmetic coding for data compression for beginners.

RIP. Probably needs a beer tribute.

*Look* at the list. It's got damm all to do with pron. It's a nightmare dump of Clare Perry's

fears.

What would Trevorpott do?

Aside from not get into that stupid an error in the first place?

"pleased.." "developed an IDa solution that can be implemented without new legislation. "

I''ll just bet they are.

Given what a clustf**k the ID cards bill was.

Tony Blair is long gone but his infection is as virulent as ever.

"will enable people to assert their identity online safely and securely"

It is a "service" the government (IE a bunch of senior civil servants and the occasional gong hunting Minster) demand

it will be neither safe nor secure.

X ray with micrometre resolution?

Well certainly possible in theory buy I suspect they had to crank the output to "11."

Good news for science, perhaps not so good news for frogs?

Toasted frog anyone?

I have heard of the film "Blood Rayne."

And having heard of it from a friend I had no further desire to see it.

Ever.

Note it's "The Copyright Holders."

IE F**k the artist who actually created the work.

Note that 0.8% is one of top *15* investors globally.

It takes a lot of money to buy a significant amount of MS stock, unless you bought (and held it) from a long time ago.

Normal accountancy rules you needs at least 20% for serious influence and 51% for control.

"Slice and Dice?" One can hope so. But yes the classic moves from here are a)Cull the loss making divisions b)Cut the R&D budget, although in MS's case that's more like cut the innovative-companies-we-can-buy-cheap budget.

It's like someone saw "Enemy of the State" in 1998 and thought "I want that."

And 15 years later they have it.

The programme has been completely successful.

DoS attack by business rival?

Just getting my tinfoil hat out.

2 systems needs same date being entered into them is sign of big fail

Either get one master, one slave or merge them.

What technology.

A mag tract 0.6mm wide and a head gap of 2 micrometres in 1963. Just to put that in perspective very early IC's were something like 10x that.

I've always thought Phillips were a technology powerhouse but have made some awful timing mistakes. DCC for example. But they got CC and CD. That's quite a good run for 1 company.

I did not know they had anything to do with it.

Live & learn.

I wish the de-merger every success.

So "Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity" *not* temporary after all

But don't worry, no one knows about it.

Yay for another cost cutting implementation tactic

As for wheather this is used IRL.

How would you know?

Trojan horse?

Compiler targets underlyingcore functions in Intel based Android phones --> users rave about sharper performance, crisper game play, whatever enabled by faster executing core code --> Word of mouth increases sales of Intel based Android phones --> Fat bonuses and trebles all round.

But that Ubuntu malarkey sounds like a real handicap on this plan.

And of course while in theory an Intel written compiler should have some great tweaks, since they should be the best motivated people to explore their own architecture there is one question.

Where are the benchmarks for execution, not compilation?

And given Intel's dealing with hardware benchmarks "proving" their embedded processors are better than ARM's (which they weren't) could you trust those results?

A few points on dimensions. A current transistor is about 140 *atoms* wide

And the gate oxide is about 1/10 that.

So roughly 2^7 width halvings gets you to 1 atom wide transistors.

At that point you've just about run out of atoms

But what about multiple layers. Well know you've n x 130W per chip to get rid of.

You are probably looking at chip packages with internal fluid heat pipe cooling to do this.

Or you cold go with the very low power neural simulation architecture started by Carver Mead more than a decade ago.

So it's an Intel processor linked to Intel's choice of peripherals mfg on Intel's fab lines.

At whatever Intel wants to charge for it.

Perhaps Intel has guessed analyed the market carefully and this is indeed the perfect match for the phone capabilities customers demand for tomorrow. They do have lots of highly paid staff to do stuff like that.

I sense they still don't quite get the idea of customization. You know, the whole parts tailored to your specifications incorporating the peripherals you want on them?

Not to worry though. Intel have a very large cash pile left so they can afford another mistake.

Proceed with this nonsense at flank speed say I.

It *looks* like the Victorians *should* have been capable of doing this

But I suspect it needs a surprising amount of late 20th century engineering know how (CAD/FAE high quality steels and the ability to cast and/or weld very big parts) to actually deliver it.

But it's one hell of an achievement. It's practical, highly energy efficient (from the number quoted to move those kinds of mass) and graceful

"High frame rate hologram generator."

That might be a teensy bit of a problem.

Conceptually you can view this as a 3d display, with "voxels" (as the MI people call them) and 3 scanning light sources (that does not necessarily need a LASER system).

OTOH you can go with real holograms so you need to generate a 2d interference pattern (recorded from the imaginary object and a LASER reference beam inside the computer) then write that on the display and illuminate with your real LASER.

About 50-70 times a second. or 3 of them (different because of the wavelengths) superimposed to give a color hologram.

Back in the day I guessed something with Surface Acoustic Waves would be the way to go but no one seems to have run with it.

After that I'm guessing the finger sized motion tracking in real time will be a piece of odure.

I wonder if Americans apreciate the "Miranda" irony.

The card US cops are meant to read out (anything you say may be used in evidence against you etc etc) used to be called "Miranderising" because it was failure to notify another suspect called Miranda that caused it to be introduced.

""The Cabinet Office [which runs GDS] is always interested in hearing what people think,"

Isn't that what GCHQ is for?

It certainly seems to be what they do, in partnership with their American cousins.

But think what a great way to go to *Mars*

With near term launch systems you will never get the kind of radiation shielding. In that sense it is the ultimate in In Situ Resource Utilization.

Sure it might not look very aerodynamic and the lander will need to b parked on it's backside going out but this baby would be the Mercedes S class of space transport. 5-10 metres of rock between you and any 'nad frying radiation.

Now if NASA talked about it on that basis.....

Thumbs up for someone (maybe) thinking they don't need a new spacecraft that masses 12x the ISS built on Earth

Mars in our lifetime?

Processing requirements for embedded systems are often over estimated

The processor that flew the Saturn V had about the speed of a pocket calculator. But atmospheric flight is much tougher. At this scale the draught from an open door is a hurricane.

We've come along way from the Shuttle's GPC of 100lb+ and 0.4MIPS capability.

This is clearly "Top Gear."

Pass pointers to data rather than data itself...

Erlang?

Interestingly now that world + dog has standardised on IEEE floating point standard and given most of these systems are back end (minimal user interaction ) it should be fairly easy to write portable code.

Efficient portable code is a different question......

So 10secs in 50 mins --> DCMA takedown notice.

You'd have to ba major league corporate a***hole to do that.

Which is what "Liberation Music" appears to be.