Posts by larokus

MCAS - what's in a name anyways

I thought it was just a rebranding of the same software used in their Starliner space capsule :D

For a century the world abuses China to take advantage of cheap labour. (Manufacturing, the awful conditions the Chinese faced during railroad construction in north America, etc) Then we chastise them for nicking information to modernize. Now that China is rapidly becoming a world leader in high speed rail, electric cars, drones, AI, robotics, etc, maybe we should potentially consider putting the IP blame game to rest, since world + dog will be looking to copy China IP in a few years time at most. Just thinking aloud.

"hit" movie Gravity

looks to be missing a letter

This isn't going to fly

I'm getting tired of all the droning on about this

Priorities

"LTE will be available in your area soon", they tell me. "We are upgrading in a priority order", they tell me.

“Everything that moves will be autonomous one day”

bless the day I become automated, these nightshifts are exhausting to my mortal existence

Elsewhere reported flight aborted one hour after launch...

It would surely be space debris and not ocean debris that long into the flight.... But I wasn't in the control room so what do I know.

General rule of thumb

If you're that suspiscious your spouse is cheating, you're probably right. Skip the creepware.

In the great white north, better known as kanada.

Live in the woods.

I'm (and given the alternative, genuinely feel) "lucky" to have WiMax here for home internet. It's an obscure and mostly forgotten, almost ancient wireless technology that no longer has any relevance almost anywhere else globally. It came as an alternative a few G's ago, and was being touted as being better than the next G, but of course, wasn't. Save for, it has quite good signal penetration, which, in my case, is good, since I'm occasionally shrouded by trees and snow.

The caveat: capped at 5 Mbps. Imagine your entire life, capped at 5. Media. Video. Games. Everything.

At this point, I'd pay $200 a month for "5G" or "Gigabit LTE"

I can only hope one of the wireless players will answer my prayers.

This might put me in unpopular company, but before you hit that little downvote, send me your bandwidth.

clarocque@gmail.com

Protesting and mobilizing against establishment and the democratic process is destabilizing democracy.

Wall Street, anti Trump rallies, etc etc. I don't need to like my democratically elected leader, in fact I am rarely quite fond of any, but to value democracy is to cast your vote and accept the outcome, or we all risk a far worse outcome than a disappointing election result.

Millenials have adopted a dangerous methodology for starting a conversation.

I hardly think Russia is to blame. Social Media is likely a better candidate.

Not a US trade ban!?

I live in North America, maybe things across the pond are quite different, but ZTE has virtually no presence here. If it isn't Apple or Samsung, there is very little volume here. It's a shame, because HTC Sony and LG have all made some great handsets over the years, but nobody here ever noticed.

And my friends think I'm crazy...

For backing up all of my files and documents to encrypted drives...

"But it just goes to show: things online are not always as they appear in the real world"

Well that really puts a damper on my plan to have 3 blondes at once

OCZ me

I haven't had any experience with ocz SSD's but my heavily overclocked OCZ 1200mhz flex ddr2 has allowed me to still currently play anything virtually on max with an overclocked q6600 dinosaur (using proper updated GPU muscle of course) it'll be a sad day when it gets listed on eBay next year.

nice

Now I can play metro on maximum

I cant wait

To share my cholera selfies

I see the somewhat eery future

Where the big box retailers shelves are completely stocked with thousands of only the top 5 selling products.

It sounds so creepy I'm ordering online so as to avoid having to look.

60 nanometer gap?

The gap itself larger than current transistors?

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong half of the glass here

So I simply plug this dongle in to my smartphone, to touch and hold against another device while transferring whatever at the reported 560mbit/s, whenever it will be that devices adopt the standard. Since I currently have to plug this dongle in, why is it that I'm not just using a USB OTG adapter??? 480mbit/s with the aging usb 2.0 and works with virtually everything. granted a second cable is needed but if you are carrying dongles around, you likely are carrying a bag with enough storage for two usb cables. I have fully adopted NFC initiated bluetooth devices, and I already dislike the 4-8 seconds I need to hold the devices together to get a pair. This transferjet requires contact throughout the entire transfer. Cables also require contact, and usb 3.0 hits a staggering 10-20 gbit/s. Not to mention I'd rather plug two devices in and free up my hands, then continually holding devices together while transferring, selecting files, hold, select files, hold and transfer, hold, hold, hold, followed by a "woops I moved them apart let's do that one again".. etc..

Usb otg for me, u c

While I understand the mission is to have the tech embedded, my transfer process logic still stands. That being said, yes Toshiba, you can certainly put it in my next smartphone, it's just not going to be a factor in my smartphone selection process.

in breaking news..

The US bans all Chinese imports. China reciprocates.

In other news, all retail outlets and department stores across the US close their doors citing merchandise procurement issues. TESLA has announced it has stayed it's plans for a US production facility as it can not secure any lithium. All US lithium ion facilities grind to a halt.

Let's go to our correspondant in China. TSMC has just received an influx of state funded investment to ramp up R&D and production of home grown semiconductors from the likes of Allwinner, Mediatek and Rockchip. TSMC is also being urged to push heavily to have its 14nm fab ready for mid 2015 and is looking on target. In the meantime they are currently producing at 120% capacity at 22nm. Astounding.

But what about the ban on x86 John?

Apparently all the systems here were upgraded last year. No state department needs a new PC for a few years. Additional optimization is being done here on gpu/cpu coprocessing as a stop gap measure, and is showing some really surprising results. It's unbelievable just how break-neck the chinese tech industry has become over the past three years. Looking around I see a wave of 5.5 inch 1080p chinese made smartphones, a size of which the West still has yet to accept without ridiculing one another. They also seem to embrace the technology itself above the name brand stamped on the device. Quite a peculiar way of thinking I'll never understand but it seems to be paying dividends here in China.

John looking around there it somewhat reminds me of the glory days of US manufacturing with the K car.

(ok surely the Sherman is a better representation of glory days but I digress)