Worth noting that arm originally stood for Acorn Risc Machine. and Risc stood for Reduced Instruction Set. But that is lost in history now . . . LvS
Posts by Old Hand
19 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jan 2010
5% of the cloud now runs on Arm as chip designer plans 2023 IPO
AMD: Our latest, pricier mega-cache Epyc processors leapfrog Intel’s
EurekAI... Neural network leads chemists to discover 'four new materials'
Today's arms race is all about AI and it's China vs America, says US defense secretary
Choc horror: The UK's Information Commisioner probes its own mammoth £6,248 Hotel Chocolat spend
Watt's next for batteries? It'll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard
Come kneel with us at UK's Cathedral, er, Oil Rig of the Canal: Engineering masterpiece Anderton Boat Lift
Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain
UK Science Museum will reconsider its 'sexist' brain quiz
N. Joseph Woodland, inventor of the barcode, dies at 91
ITU suggests replaceable cables for power supplies
PSUs
Nice idea; most of us have boxes of Wall-Warts for dead equipment. We are able to wield soldering irons better than many, I expect. Some good work has been done already in adopting figure-8 for input and now we need a standard for DC output cables. But not USB, precisely because it already has a power rating too low to be good. Then what to do about the current rating at each voltage? Mustn't overheat them. ??
The Register Comments Guidelines
ModeRATING again
I failed to make clear enough that my questions were not about Thumbs but about the 'slider' and whether it should be applied to the >form< or the >content< of the article. I understand thumbs but don't know WHO or WHAT one is Dis/Approving with the slider; the reporting, or the subject of the report.
Moderating
I'm very pleased to see the amount of care that goes into filtering your posts. Without it the trash level would clearly rise to become unacceptable.
I am curious about the RATING system because I do not understand and cannot discover whether the Rating applies to the form or to the subject of the original article. Much of the reporting is good and some excellent; is THAT what I am rating ??
Some of the proposals/ideas/policies being discussed in articles are rubbish and some are sound; is the raw subject matter of the article what I am rating ??
Old Hand
Facebook 'contributes' €15.3bn to EU economy... bitch
Happy 40th birthday, Intel 4004!
Web surfers stumble upon new planets
Digital content faces rating scrutiny
ICO lets police maintain ANPR location secrecy
What makes them different?
Speed Cameras round here are painted yellow so people learn to slow down even if the case contains no active camera. Some social benefit occurs.
What is different about NCPR Cameras? If people knew where they were (and were concerned) they would take care in those neghbourhoods. If people don't know where they are that social benefit is lost.
Time for one policeman to talkto another policeman?