Posts by calonddraig

Algorithm used to predict sepsis in hundreds of US hospitals isn’t as good as maker claims — study

NEWS to me

Why not just appropriately roll out something like NEWS2 which is an algorithm for predicting sepsis risk that is so easy even humans can do it...

IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying next door, decides it will make its Power CPU ISA free, too

Re: Not my area of expertise

Oh the irony of Apple going back to Power... I still have an old desklamp g4 as the most comfortable terminal I've ever used, and a powermac g5 to mess around with legacy apps I still support. I can't ever see Apple going back to Power...

In memoriam: See you in Valhalla, Skype Classic. Version 8 can never replace you

P2P

Apart from driving a few network admins mad at our organisation when clients became suoernodes and handled 10 Mbps throughput (this was in 2006 after all) the P2P architecture was interesting.

Is anyone else using a similar architecture any more? I know that SIP is technically P2P in terms of media traffic, but I'm thinking about the initiation and authentication here...

Microsoft officially hangs up on old Skype phones, users fuming

SIP all the way

I use Skype for occasional video chats with customers, as it's still a defecto standard for that (especially with less tech savvy folk). But I'd never dream of using Skype for phone use. Sipgate does all I need, incredibly cheaply.

Remix OS: China's take on an Android operating system – but for PCs

While I'm happy to see Jide's Remix OS doing well, and undoubtedly PC compatibility is huge, I feel rather salty that their support of the ultra-tablet (Which was their first devide) was so short lived. It was released last year as a kickstarter campaign and has not recieved an update to Remix OS 2 (the one in this article). You can kludge that OS onto the ultratablet, but you have to wipe the device to do it. Can't be a**ed doing that as I bought it as a productivity device. Jide have a lot to learn about the 'real world' of productivity where devices need supporting for more than 8 months, and not everyone buys new devices yearly.

$65m write-down, ARM chips ship: A 90-second guide to Planet AMD

It's all about the servers

This is why it's essential that AMD gets back into the server chippery space - What client device people use is irrelevant (and it's trending more towards mobile every day) - the 'cloud' still needs massive numbers of cheap commodity servers. If AMD can make a viable ARM based server SoC (and all the hard work is in the interconnects/IO not the cores) that can run big clusters as well as Intel but cheaper, they’ve won a truly big prize. I’m no fan of market monopolies and Intel’s dominance – let’s not forget that a decade ago, Intel was resting on their laurels – on a truly appalling product (NetBurst and insanely hot running single core CPUs) and it was AMD that jumped off into dual core, and later quad core first. They also extended IA32/x86 for Intel while Intel were still fobbing off the world with Itanium.

Here’s to some competition and a fresh way of engineering products. I wish them well with their ARM based server SoCs.

Mystery Sony big-screen ereader to sport E Ink bender

A4

13 inches would more than fit an A4 sheet. I spend a lot of my time reading academia, most of which is distributed as A4 PDFs that just don't work on a kindle and are hard enough to read on a tablet. Unwieldy or not, if they're selling a 13 inch Ereader, I'm having it.

Wales slams Amazon over lack of Kindle support

Re: The welsh lobby

By the same token, and based on percentages of speakers, the best thing the English could do is drop that impeding language called English, and all go and learn American, Simply isn't global any more, to be forced to learn a backward language when a new superset of it (American) exists.

Get used to it, other countries exist apart from England, and the dream of English imperialism is dead. Monoglot or bilingual, why should we let our language die because it might offend the English? Many English people can speak French, but do we suggest that they stop speaking English because they can speak something else? No. Let people speak what language they are comfortable speaking (or in this case reading!)

Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system

Local Tin

I wonder if they'll be using this on bog standard PC hardware, or if those home-grown MIPS clones they brought out a few years back will get a new outing in locally designed boxen?

Spanish startup to ship first Mozilla-phones

Apple will be salivating on lawsuits already...

Apple may debut low-cost iPhone for emerging markets in 2013

*Snapdragon even!

Since when did Samsung make Dnapdragon CPUs? That would be Qualcomm...

...Get your facts straight and don't try to keep the Apple and Samsung inextricably linked in articles - it gets tiring!

How Intel's faith in x86 cost it the mobile market

RISCy business for ARM

Intel could do a lot worse than buy up or licence the MIPS architecture. Direct competitor to (and architecturally similar to) ARM, and unlike ARM, has already made the jump to 64 bit some time ago...

Kobo Mini 5in compact e-reader review

Size is everything... bigger please.

Great, an even smaller eyestrain-inducing device. Most of my reading these days is academic papers and expert periodical literature - most of which comes in A4 sized PDFs. I would _love_ an ereader with at least a 10'' if not A4 sized screen that could display these natively without a lot of fiddling. And I would be happy to pay up to £200 for it. Why not a tablet? Two reasons, battery life and eyestrain from a glowing screen.

RIM sets date for BlackBerry 10 reveal

Re: RIM and Nokia

I think RIM are in a much stronger position than Nokia, at least they didn't sell their soul to the devil and tie their products to another company and OS (I.E. Microsoft). If BB10 on phones can indeed run android apps, as has been claimed, and is seen, at least by the public, as being more secure than android, it will go far. It may well also become the much-hyped 3rd ecosystem ahead of WP8. As for clunkyness... I hope not - after the lengh of time it's been in development.

Strangely enough, I remember another company about 15 years ago which was commonly believed to be on the verge of total collapse. People even suggested that the only way forward was to licence clones to Dell. They turned their business around and are currently rather popular...

Singapore gov think tank plots SSD takedown

The thinnest storage for your ultrabook... use the A: drive.

Might be best if they pick a different name to market it under... A-Drive smacks too much of floppies for my liking.

Free apps suck your power: researchers

"Among the 21 apps tested were browsers, photo uploaders, newspaper apps, mapping, Twitter, browsers"

..."You said Browsers twice..." Reply: "Well, I like 'em!"

Google Chrome beta turns on native code machine

HTML5 anyone?

This sounds like an attempt to create a technology for writing 'apps for the web' rather than using the web it's self - no thanks. Let HTML5 mature and avoid this nonsense. This is simply an attempt to introduce native apps to the cromebooks in retrospect.