Hoff

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by Hoff 15y ago
x86-64 architecture presently allows 256 TB (48-bits) physical addressing, and Itanium and at least some its operating systems (HP-UX, OpenVMS) have 50-bit physical addressing available. The big HP NUMA boxes are Superdome and Superdome 2,
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Drive-by Gun Scans Prompt Privacy Questions(technologyreview.com)
1 points by Hoff 15y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
...You're being way too reductionist, buying the anti-regulation propaganda. To be sure, there's plenty of bad things to be said about regulations. But it's tremendously naive to believe that a lack of regulations - a case which we have re
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by Hoff 15y ago
AirDrop is a Mac-to-Mac connection, and works only between specific and supported WiFi-connected Mac systems. The connection is directly between Mac systems, and not via WiFi router nor AP. Older WiFi devices don't support the necessary tr
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Safari Extension to Disable Google Link Tracking for URL Copies, History(bruji.com)
1 points by Hoff 15y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
Or taking jobs working on rocket programs for other countries and other militaries, and for private-sector entities in other countries, which I suspect is part of the core of the development program. It's not just private entities in the US
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by Hoff 15y ago
...And particularly when the resulting modern "composite" products (the processor, the battery, the software, the pricing; the whole package) are competitive with the then-current products in the market. There have been many Intel-based tab
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HP Kicks webOS To The Kerb(mondaynote.com)
31 points by Hoff 15y ago|35 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
tl;dr: content-free buzz marketeering for the private beta for a "find something to do" service of some ilk. The service name reminds me of some Yiddish word that I can't quite place for something or someone that's involving badness; it's r
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by Hoff 15y ago
Gasoline differs. Specifically, the regional gasoline blends differ, and incompatibly. Some papers on this topic: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/emuehle/Research%20WP/Gasoline... http://cbey.research.yale.edu/uploads/File/muehlegger_23.pd
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by Hoff 15y ago
I well understand your point, and I respectfully disagree. There's a whole lot more practical knowledge outside of the technologies and tools that the programmers know about and use. Some of the least educated folks I've worked with are arg
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by Hoff 15y ago
I love EMS, and I love being a trauma junkie and staying a street medic with my various emergency services, but let's face it: never well-paid, the world treats EMTs and paramedics like crap. Long hours, working weekends, staying on call, i
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by Hoff 15y ago
Here's the direct link to Schneier's posting: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/11/android_malwar... And the question around Apple's policies is one of the questions in the comments.
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by Hoff 15y ago
Open and Shift modifiers are listed in the help in Lion.
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by Hoff 15y ago
I don't know about whistling, but tone mis-detections were fairly common in the early days with some folks' voices, and they still arise in a few of the systems. We tried to reduce this mis-detection within the hardware and software of a vo
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by Hoff 15y ago
Looks to be browser fragmentation. "Other" (which is massively increased) and IE9 are the only increasing entries in this plot: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200809... While what's in that "other" plot isn't listed
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The Tablet That Refuses to Die (HP Touchpad "Zombie Award")(marketwatch.com)
1 points by Hoff 15y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
Terrible URLs? Yes; they are. For this product, http://hp.com/go/moonshot works
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by Hoff 15y ago
Microsoft has a long history of commencing marketing well before a product is ready. How long was the run-up to Windows Cairo? (Ki-Rho; XP) That can be a very effective way to reduce or eliminate competition, and it's a technique that's he
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Safety nets: hammocks or trampolines?(samefacts.com)
6 points by Hoff 15y ago|0 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
Rewriting a large and complex enterprise-class application is tough enough, and a task that can variously (and expensively) fail. Rewriting the whole of the World Wide Web? Your replacement had better have a solid compatibility and migratio
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by Hoff 15y ago
The site also works with Safari running 10.6 with WebGL enabled, based on a test with 5.1.1.
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Why Innovatio's Wi-Fi Patent Rampage is a Good Thing(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by Hoff 15y ago|1 comments
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by Hoff 15y ago
Related thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3088687
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by Hoff 15y ago
The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), Knuth http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html
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by Hoff 15y ago
There might well be errors here, but what those errors might be is not stated. From the cited article on ports of the libev event loop library: "The whole thing is a bug if you ask me - basically any system interface you touch is broken, wh
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by Hoff 15y ago
If you're curious about the history of this topic, Dava Sobel's Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is well worth reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)
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by Hoff 15y ago
"Privateers" and "mercenaries" have a long history, and more recently "Private Security Contractors" and "Private Military Companies" are widely used. There are also entities which can provide electronic attacks against networks and servers
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by Hoff 15y ago
That summarizes the familiar high-level world of recent times. (But then I'm also old enough to remember when compiler gremlins were ubiquitous.) The lower-level world can be quite a bit more unseemly, what with the unpredictability of occ
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by Hoff 15y ago
Target and Walmart are among the retailers that sell both groceries and Apple products in the same store.

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