Posts by phillr

The NPU: Neural processing unit or needless pricey upsell?

A RTX 4000 - class GPU has a TOPS rating somewhere in the 1,000 range. Why should I get a CPU with an added NPU that is in the range of 40-50 TOPS, when with a software shim, I should be able to use the processing horsepower I already have installed?

Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2

POPCNT is also handy when implementing disk space allocation algorithms, error correction, process scheduling, and compact data structures. Those are things that can be useful inside an operating system.

Re: Linux's moment

Not really. Linux has been pretty active in ejecting old architectures. Is 386 still supported?

Chirp! Let's hear it for data over audio

The hacking potential is enormous. Imagine what's going on with the attack against Phillips Hue light bulbs, but using Chirp audio data transmission. Imagine spying on all those audible data transmissions.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Google 'screwed over' its non-millennials – now they can all fight back

Not very inventive on Google's part. There are plenty of ways to legally discriminate against older applicants; they just take a little more work.

Memo to Microsoft, RIM, Nokia: Quit copying Apple!

Painless?

"Microsoft makes enterprise IT relatively painless."

It does? For who? Certainly not the people who have to implement and support it.

Microsoft Tag emerges from beta

MS Tag data storage

The MS tag likely only stores a unique serial number, which is associated with the link by the referral to Microsoft's databases. This would be massively different than QR, which stores all the data in the printed code itself.