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14nm. Wow. Just... wow.
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Samsung, GlobalFoundries ink exclusive, multi-year 14nm FinFET deal
Record labels sue Pandora over vintage song royalties
Monday 21st April 2014 21:02 GMT 
Re: Ah good old New York
The states have been the worst abusers by far. The 10th was never meant to imply the states were sovereign in any way, yet the states have and continue to assert it does. The last time they pushed too far resulted in a civil war. The US is a UNITED states, not a confederation. The Federal government will ALWAYS be the ultimate power over the states. And always was.
As for the 10th, it in no way limits Congress' power to regulate ALL commerce of the USA as it sees fit. Again, the states are NOT separate, sovereign entities. This is a fiction created by those who wish create their own little fiefdom.
Saturday 19th April 2014 21:39 GMT
Ah good old New York
The state that constantly refuses to recognize the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. Or any other parts of the Constitution.
"The Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to regulate commerce in order to ensure that the flow of interstate commerce is free from local restraints imposed by various states."
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Commerce+Clause
El Reg drills into IBM: The storage biz's got that sinking feeling
Monday 21st April 2014 20:50 GMT
IBM is leaving the hardware biz
I have to agree with MadMike. The long range goal of IBM is getting out of the hardware manufacturing game.
"Business Services" pays better. Round robin email, endless meetings and arcane contracts and employee rules are far cheaper than actually having real engineers and knowledgeable techs.
This of course means they will have to change their name to IBS, or iBS. This will more accurately reflect their new offering, BS. (bullshit for those not familiar with the abbreviation)
Because after all, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. It's cheaper. And it certainly plays to their current strength.
Ex–Apple CEO John Sculley: Ousting Steve Jobs 'was a mistake'
Monday 21st April 2014 20:33 GMT
Re: Biggest Mistake?
Compete? They could have been getting royalties AND still selling OS's.
And thanks to the lesser cost of the Power PCs, more companies were adopting them as the basic desktop tool.
Were. Once Apple killed them, the x86 platform became, by default, the cheaper platform.
Apple also had a nifty little server at one time, the Xserve. Again, for price and performance, it beat the pants off anything in its spec range. Killed off by Apple.
Kidding? I was there. I saw first hand how they sabotaged themselves over and over in the enterprise market and then the business market in general.
WTF happened to Pac-Man?
Most Americans doubt Big Bang, not too sure about evolution, climate change – survey
Monday 21st April 2014 20:12 GMT
Breaking News!!
Most Americans are stupid. Scientists unsure why. Congress vows to study the matter. Business leaders say educated workforce "too expensive and waste of time" and "would cost consumers in the long run due to associated costs having to be passed along." Supreme Court rules corporations more human than humans and deserve more rights.
This story when we come from the break.
"BRAWNDO!! IT'S GOT ELECTROLYTES!"
LOHAN and the amazing technicolor spaceplane
AMD posts $1.4bn in sales, beats Wall Street moneymen's predictions
KILLER ROBOTS, DNA TAMPERING and PEEPING CYBORGS: the future looks bright!
Saturday 19th April 2014 22:08 GMT
Re: Most of the things people regard as threats are what hope there exist for the future.
"Yes. There is no way around that the rise of machine labor will inevitably mean mass unemployment, and under the current rules of economy the result would indeed be that the vast majority of the population living in slums, surviving on handouts, while those who own the robotic factories lead lives of unimaginable wealth. "
"Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress
As scary and most likely prediction of the future as was William Gibson's.
Recommended reading.
Number crunching suggests Yahoo! US is worth less than nothing
Saturday 19th April 2014 21:47 GMT
Re: Marrissa has worked pretty hard
Wow Don. Your inside knowledge is often astounding. (compliment)
Having been near to a few power players myself and seen how they act, your posts have the ring of truth that no amount of PR bullcrap will ever change for me.
I would sincerely like to meet you one day.
Friday 18th April 2014 20:56 GMT
The reason is simple enough
The reason is actually quite simple: there is NO consistency in their design.
Yahoo has to be the largest badly designed website ever. Poor interface, no continuity and ever wackier code.
Yes, it really is that simple.
That will be $3 million, please. Oh, you actually want it fixed? Fire the lead developers/managers. That bit of advice is for free.
R.I.P. LADEE: Probe smashes into lunar surface at 3,600mph
Liftoff! SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts Dragon on third resupply mission to ISS
NASA finds first Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone around star
Friday 18th April 2014 21:10 GMT
Red Dwarf?
It's cold outside
There's no kind of atmosphere
I'm all alone, more or less
Let me fly far away from here
Fun, Fun, Fun, in the Sun, Sun, Sun
I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice
Goldfish shoals, nibbling on my toes
Fun, Fun, Fun in the Sun, Sun, Sun
Fun, Fun, Fun in the Sun, Sun, Sun
written by Howard Goodall and sang by Jenna Russell.
(I LOVE this song)
Arts and crafts store Michaels says 3 million credit cards exposed in breach
Leaked photos may indicate slimmer next-generation iPad
Opportunity selfie: Martian winds have given the spunky ol' rover a spring cleaning
MIT boffins moot tsunami-proof floating nuke power plants
IRS boss on XP migration: 'Classic fix the airplane while you're flying it attempt'
Thursday 17th April 2014 18:03 GMT
Somebody dropped the ball
Blame anyone you want, but ultimately the blame always lies with upper manglement for piss poor planning.
So in this case it's either the IRS CIO or Congress. I'm going with Congress and specifically the House because they've had a bone to pick over the right wing non-profit "committees" initial status filings that were heavily scrutinized which they thought was onerous.
US mobile firms cave on kill switch, agree to install anti-theft code
Thursday 17th April 2014 17:51 GMT
What am I missing?
If they have an easy way for the customer to do this, wouldn't it mean they sell more phones?
That said:
- This should have a been available from day one.
- There are several apps that already do this.
- Just report your phone stolen to your phone company and they will brick it. I have bricked MANY phones at my previous jobs. Serial+IMEI+SIM# = BRICKED.
Don't let no-hire pact suit witnesses call Steve Jobs a bullyboy, plead Apple and Google
HP: Lenovo's buy of IBM x86 biz is bad, bad, bad...
Monday 14th April 2014 19:06 GMT
Re: Cisco servers?
Where am I getting that info?
I built and shipped the damn things. By the thousands at the factory.
Admittedly, that was a few, though not many, years ago. (WAY past the NDA, BTW) The only difference between them and the HPs was the faceplate and loaded software.
I know more about HP servers and who buys them than I ever wanted to.
Thanks for the update Graeme. I missed the contract change over. As for 10 years ago, they were still being made by HP just 4 years ago. I was there.
Russian deputy PM: 'We are coming to the Moon FOREVER'
Saturday 12th April 2014 18:49 GMT
Re: Could not have timed it better
Marketing Hack, the last men on the moon landed in 1972. Apollo 17. Eugene Cernan being the last man.
You're correct. It was not 47 years. Typo on my part. It was 42 years ago.
And while the US "spends less of its GDP on defense than it did during the Apollo program era, and produces more college grads and scientists now than then," it still produces less scientists and engineers as a percentage of its population and outspends on defense the next top 10 countries combined.
My point being is that the US lost the momentum and most likely the long term gain.
Saturday 12th April 2014 01:28 GMT
Could not have timed it better
The US has not landed a man on the moon in 47 years. This is a serious loss of momentum, will and advantage.
Given the US's current obsession with military might and pure financial greed and the disdain by its general populace for all things science, it will probably never regain those advantages.
They have timed this well.
NSA denies it knew about and USED Heartbleed encryption flaw for TWO YEARS
US taxman blows Win XP deadline, must now spend millions on custom support
Forget the beach 'n' boardwalk, check out the Santa Cruz STEVE JOBS FOUNTAIN
Innovation creates instability, you say? BLASPHEMY, you SCUM
Friday 11th April 2014 20:41 GMT
I continue to amazed
I continue to amazed at just how reliable and commoditized people think IT is.
Until it fails.
Then it becomes poetic justice.
"Ass is permanent" indeed! :rofl:
As for innovation, these days it usually means, as one poster here put it quite succinctly, "work on it and work in until it no longer works. There! See how busy and industrious and innovative I am!" And then yes, get all pissy when you call them on the bullcrap.
Apple has THREE TIMES as much cash as US govt, TWICE the UK
FTC: OK Facebook, swallow WhatsApp – but NO selling people's data without permission
Sony battery recall as VAIO goes out with a bang, not a whimper
Heartbleed vuln under ACTIVE ATTACK as hackers map soft spots
It may be ILLEGAL to run Heartbleed health checks – IT lawyer
Top Secret US payload launched into space successfully
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