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Rahul Sood: Computing Devices of the New Era Need a Soul(xbitlabs.com)
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Some corrections. NetBurst was not 'cheating' by using a long pipeline to get higher clock speeds. NetBurst was purposely designed to get higher clock speeds therefore better performance. Intel thought it would get to 4 ghz, 5 ghz, 6 ghz, a
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Apparently ARM does list Intel as a license holder of the ARM11 and ARM7 (i.e. classic) designs. It is not listed, though, as a licensor of new Cortex designs. [1] Note that an ARM license has both an up front fee and a per unit royalty. Wi
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Regarding your social engineering comment, I think this is a side effect of digital content distribution in general. With all the scaling handled for you more or less for free, success is just a matter of gaining mindshare. It has been happ
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A few nits to pick... 1) PowerPC is pretty alive and well. The Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii (U), and Playstation 3 all use PowerPC chips. There are a lot of these. IBM's Linux/AIX servers are all PowerPC and IBM incidentally makes the chips for t
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I don't think a touch based eInk Kindle is coming this year. I predict Amazon is going to try to use the same Android-based OS from the Kindle Tablet for the touch based eInk Kindle. Amazon will need to completely abandon the existing Kindl
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Vegetarians are pretty diverse and really can't be considered as a single group. Some vegetarians eat fish, some sneak pepperoni pizza, some eat dairy, some will eat anything but steak, some extend the definition beyond food to clothing and
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Just to add, it appears there is Google Talk support available in synergy by extension. [1] Hulu did work via support Flash on webOS. Although it was just recently blocked, there are apparently ways to unblock it. [2] And I'm sure we're all
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The deal may get blocked, but your argument and thinking are completely wrong. Just like in any criminal or civil trial in the United States both sides can settle and the plaintiff (i.e. the DOJ) can drop the suit. Once the plaintiff drops
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Google should relent on this issue. It's clear the policy is polarizing and even Google should have the good sense to react to customer feedback. It is not in Facebook's position to do what it wants because it can nor should Google be that
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AOL Mail, AIM, MapQuest and other odd services seem like a good fit for IAC [1]. Really, IAC might be able to buy the whole lot and rebrand itself as the new AOL. Barry Diller seems to have figured out how to efficiently run a hodgepodge of
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PG, was this pledge created in response to litigation you have experienced with YC companies? There doesn't seem to be much evidence companies with fewer than 25 employees are getting sued unless there's something left unspoken here. I thin
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There are at least a few problems with that happening from what I'm aware. 1) That would require Verizon's cooperation and it isn't the company under scrutiny. For all Verizon cares AT&T's merger can fail and those guys can get stuffed
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The DOJ may be using its leverage to get better concessions out of AT&T. Basically, because AT&T set such a big cancellation fee for itself, the DOJ can bargain up to just less than that amount. It's saying, "shape up or we'll serio
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Amazon's 7-inch will be its answer to the Nook Color, and will probably hit the same price point. It should be no more expensive than $250 and maybe as low as $199. Amazon might even use ads to reach the low point. It will be slightly faste
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I think the jury is still out on the Motorola deal. That is a lot of money just for patents. Even for Google's checkbook. And if Google intends to spin off the hardware business expect it to take an even bigger loss on its investment. If Go
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Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.
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This has been forwarded before and I agree with detractors to this kind of thinking. First, HP is a big company that has much better ways to turn money into more money than making something people are unwilling to buy at a reasonable price.
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I suspect this is just HP clearing out the supply chain of already purchased parts and units still at the factory. HP's cost is probably just a few dollars per unit to ship and possibly assemble them. I find it hard to believe anyone approv
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I think this is pretty gimmicky, although that might be good enough for a certain subset of casual bar food kinds of restaurants. If you want a more efficient restaurant, this is certainly not the best way to get it. Put the menu up on a bi
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938470 This was discussed yesterday as well, although the DigiTimes link is the original source of the rumor. Keep in mind DigiTimes also originated the refuted rumor that Samsung would buy HP's PC bus
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Samsung is not a M&A company. That really hurts the chances of this happening even if there are forces within Samsung and HP pushing for it. The top management is skeptical of successful mergers, and at a tightly controlled company such
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It is astounding how people, WSJ contributors inclusive, only see HP as a pusher of cheap laptops and crappy inkjet printers. Assuming I'm reading these numbers correctly[1], the PC division posted earnings of $567 million in Q3 2011. Compa
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I think one of the factors working against the QR code is it does not have a recognizable uniform function. The code can contain an text or data in any number of formats which isn't apparent to the naked eye. The text might be a URL, or it
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Signals intelligence and counter-intelligence is a narrow view of how computers can impact the battlefield. While the NSA and CIA may have some capability beyond listening in on enemy communications, I question whether the responsibility to
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The parent had a specific question about Apple's profits outside of hardware sales. Third party advertisements do not make money for Apple.
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To me copyrights for APIs should be treated the same as for recipes and games. You can't copyright the list of ingredients or design, respectively, but you can copyright any text or images that goes with it. In the case of an API, the speci
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Apple has suggested the App Store is just above break even [1]. I personally find this believable. I download at least 15 free apps for every paid app. It might even be worse. Approving, hosting, and marketing all those free apps comes at a
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It should be noted that the 8gb iPhone 3GS was not available at launch. It was added to the lineup as the budget option only after the iPhone 4 was released [1]. So this should not be a real surprise. The real question is what Apple will do
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Computer hacking as a new battlefield is inevitable if not already a reality. Much like how at one time in the US there was no Air Force and airplanes were part of the Army, right now there is no Cyber Force and hackers are part of the Air

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