Posts by Jared Vanderbilt

They chose their name decades ago

Bob

A few years ago at a DOD contractor

We had an after hours "contest" to see who could quickly build a trigger mechanism for a remote device. The winner used a pair of RPI's, relays, and handheld police radios jacked from security cruisers in parking lot. It was up and running in 13 minutes (that included 7 minutes {engineers} to jimmy the locks on the cars).

If we were 16 years old this would have taken less than 5 minutes total.

Two sine waves 180 degrees out of phase

or a lot of fishes head to tail. The inevitable graphical representation of sales share in a duopoly.

Bottom line is what counts

Every Fortune 500 company throws up a smoke screen around their cash cow(s). It's best that the competition not know where the ridiculous margins are to be had.

As far as the investors go, they don't care where the cash comes from, they only care that it continues to flow in. The best way for management to maintain profitability is to obscure its source from those who can take it away.

I arrived at the point where when I see Cisco in a headline

I expect to read an article about another security failure. Job done Cisco.

There will be competition

In states like Colorado voters are approving city governments becoming internet service providers. Taxpayers are spending their own money to upgrade to fiber because the current oligopoly isn't interested in speed, customer service, competition, ...

Would be ok with search and copy if ...

CBP would keep the data confidential ... but you know it's destined for an improperly configured AWS server.

I've already seen this movie ...

Minority Report

He's hosed.

That spook was running bootleg Office. Black choppers from Redmond are en route.

Really, we tried to implement MAC-RAND, but the H/W wasn't working as advertised, so ...

ship it and phuck the users, they'll never notice.

Back to the Pentium III ... err, the Pentium II

Kind of remindes me of the slot processor module first implemented in 1997 on the Pentium II. At least the 350 nm process has been updated.

Don't forget the part about the first iPod being a copy of a Creative's NOMAD player. Same H/W and same S/W, just a different form factor. Creative won a $100M lawsuit years later. By that time Apple had broken through to the consumers.

Promotional gimmick for Apple's new iBall touch. A pointless device created solely for the purpose of patenting the circle.

And then when they sobered up ....

They discovered that one of the strippers had spilled a drink on the instrument cluster and some organic material had gotten mixed in from an unspecified reproductive act. They're still scratching their heads trying to explain the cloudy substance on the external mirror. Although the scratching may be due to microorganism left by the goat they were joyriding.

Most people get thinner before they die

The majority of people with chronic illness lose weight in the years before their death. Six years isn't a very long study. Go back 20 to 30 years, then write a report.

98% of users are "dumb" and 99.95% of corporate clones are "clueless", therefore ....

antivirus is a necessary evil.

Me - when I visit the dark side I pop my SATA cables and swing from a non-persistent Ubuntu live key with a second key for storage.

Why not hop to the digital film 4k format.

That way cinema, tv, projector, pc, mac, slab ... would all support the same f'n standard. I'm sick of paying for pixels that don't get used half the time.

Simple math

A user can mod their PC for less than the cost of a console, and it will perform far better than a console. That mod will also improve other useful PC functions like editing video, ripping CDs, 3d modeling, and other content creation tasks.

No one cares about your cheap Garmin or iPlop

What Gen. Shelton is freaking out about is the degradation of his high end guidance systems used on military aircraft, autopiloted drones, guided ordinance, ...

LightSpeed's cheap transmitters are splattering all over the GPS frequencies. This significantly decreases the accuracy of GPS carrier phase correction processing. Centimeter accuracy suddenly becomes 10 meters or worse.

That might be ok for a nuke, but won't cut it when he's poking a small FAE into a cave entrance or through your bedroom window.

Nice - it's about time Intel got serious about power consumption

It's even better that they are talking about redesigning the Pentium core. It hasn't seen a lot of change since they dropped back to the PIII. Most of the silicon changes since have been dedicated to 64 bit, cache expansion, SSE extensions, memory controller, graphics, and visualization. The core is essentially the same.

IA reimplemented specifically for mips/watt would significantly change computing. A near static design where clock speed matches compute needs would kick arse. No mips demand = near zero power consumption. Instant on is irrelevant if always on consumes only a few milliwatts.

It's not a planet it's a battlestar

Prepare to be conquered by amazon-like women with biological LTE transceivers.