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   by minthd 11y ago

   It's even worse than that.Not using Apple's products is a good way to increase privacy. How ? If you use Google's products(and who doesn't use Google Search ? ) , Google already knows plenty about you. And even if you do
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   by minthd 11y ago

   Doesn't Apple collect searches [1] ? Aren't they planning a Google Now like service[2] ? [1] http://apple.slashdot.org/story/14/10/20/003257/if-youre-con... [2] http://www.imore.c
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   by minthd 11y ago

   Still,can convey be important to the growth/diversification of micron, a ~$35 billion company, without being big and creating at least a medium change in the market ?
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   by minthd 11y ago

   If the story this article tells us is true, the FPGA part(i.e. the "personality ") is optimizied by the guys at convey , which created a variety of profiles for specific application areas - and that supposed to take most of the bu
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   by minthd 11y ago

   They we're recently purchased by micron -the huge memory company.
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   by minthd 11y ago

   If we look at WebKit, And OpenCV and i think OpenGL , the software is really a complement to the real business and are less hard to develop than the main products.Also they are all in the API business - where developers demand open source a
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   The Convey HC-2 Computer – Architectural Overview [pdf](conveycomputer.com)

   19 points by minthd 11y ago|6 comments
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   by minthd 11y ago

   Life in a duopoly is great . Why change things ?
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   by minthd 11y ago

   I know xilinx created a whole new tools(which they releases a couple years ago), and [1] says they moved from simulated annealing. So at least according to the article, they aren't behind altera. [1] http://www.eejournal.com
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    by minthd 11y ago

    In business - "the hard part" == "competitive advantage" . If you open source that , soon you'll see more competitors knocking on your doors. For example, if intel wanted, it could have built a decent FPGA, probabl
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    by minthd 11y ago

    >> Altera's software is miles ahead of Xilinx's. Can you please expand on that ? Also what about partial reconfiguration , isn't xilinx the leader ? isn't that important for general compute ?
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    by minthd 11y ago

    Given that FPGA dev tools are much harder to develop than FPGA chips(at that company scale), i don't think intel will open them.
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    by minthd 11y ago

    >> Fabs love to work with FPGA vendors: the regular structure makes them good targets for new processes I heard that this has changed and mobile chips are being used for "pipe cleaning" in fabs, from a credible source, but i
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    by minthd 11y ago

    Thanks. The guarded pointers look great , and both them and the Burrough model could work well for micro-controllers, and suffer a relatively small penatly. The SAFE-PUMP would probably need a relatively new manufacturing process to make e
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    by minthd 11y ago

    First, congratulations!. Second, while MOOCs are MOOCs are great, they don't fit every type of person.Are people in your country organizing to give the support needed to make MOOC a good fit for everyone ?
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    by minthd 11y ago

    If you want to connect it to a screen, the minimum you'll pay is $19(and maybe more). This isn't that far from the first raspberry pi . So why is it such a big revolution ?
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    by minthd 11y ago

    Thanks! Very interesting, especially the sandia rapid development tool.Could be really useful in creating low-cost mcu's. I've looked through a few of the examples, and they are useful, but they require a different toolset from wh
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    by minthd 11y ago

    Thanks!
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    by minthd 11y ago

    I wonder , are those technologies scalable to micro-controllers ? because there the problem of backward compatibility is significantly reduces - as long as you supply a tcp/ip stack and an efficient compiler, the rest of the code is re
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    by minthd 11y ago

    Very interesting subject, but far too long. can anybody please write a tl;dr ?
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    by minthd 11y ago

    As android user , if you cared about app permissions, all you needed to do was to install cyanogenmod.
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    by minthd 11y ago

    If we're talking about mediums for history,not sure about wikipedia, but i think an high-quality, high volume forum witha good search , like reddit.com/r/askhistorians [1] is a great one , better than books in many cases. A
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    by minthd 11y ago

    It could be that the adapteva model(which talks about a highly focused design) fits a small number of start-ups, that are as a generalization, less appealing to VC's due to smaller markets and returns, and most other companies requir
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    by minthd 11y ago

    Google is starting to sell tango tablets which include 3d-scanning , for everybody ,for $512. So maybe we're not far from what you suggest.
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    by minthd 11y ago

    It shows a tabbed interface of the few most popular discussion threads over reddit.
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    by minthd 11y ago

    >> It's well-known by now that Youtube is not the place to go to find quality discussion. To solve this problem, i use the AlienTube firefox extension, which brings reddit discussions over to youtube.
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    by minthd 11y ago

    The fitting problem in online retail is well known, and some companies have already worked on it: for shoes: http://shoefitr.com/ For clothes : fits.me or "clothes horse" or others. I wonder what prevents amazon f
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    by minthd 11y ago

    >> I dare say that someone that's read a book about, say, any given historical era or person, h Usually history books are on the one hand, so full of details that you'll probably never remember, and on the other hand, rarel
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    by minthd 11y ago

    Youtube lectures are a good source for people who prefer to learn vocally.
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    by minthd 11y ago

    So today, with large efforts of tech standardization and large global markets, we shouldn't have this issue.