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by rkalla 15y ago
sit, you are exactly right and they are going that route with the Opteron's. The 16-core Opterons were announced a while ago, I believe there is GPU infrastructure in the desktop chips (similar to what Intel is doing with the always-include
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Steve Yegg's Platform Rant (Copy)(pastebin.com)
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by rkalla 15y ago
XBit did a good calling out what AMD is doing here that is different (and in its infancy, disappointing with traditional benchmarks). AMD has decided to step back from the brink of maximum-speed per core, to maximum-cores-per-chip. If you l
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by rkalla 15y ago
Sony seems to be learning its lesson... it disclosed the hack attempts, locked the accounts and are looking into securing the login system further as a result of this. As an aside, I would point out that XBL hack reports (with purchased/sto
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Flowchart to NPR's Top 100 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books(myextralife.com)
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by rkalla 15y ago
Couldn't click "Up" enough times on this. The difference in productivity between a day preceded by a good night's sleep and one where I stayed up late then got up early are probably 50-75% for me. Diet, exercise, weight loss, meditation, wa
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by rkalla 15y ago
In a similar vein of "alternative ways to maximally leverage JSON" there is the Universal Binary JSON Specification http://ubjson.org Unlike BSON or BJSON, UBJSON is 1:1 compatible with the original JSON spec, it doesn't introduce any inc
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by rkalla 15y ago
If they had changed the "4S" to "5" with identical hardware I think he would have been happy ;) The camera updates alone were brilliant.
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by rkalla 15y ago
> In this case, it's less so that it's a "hipster artist", but it's more that he's a "douchebag artist" with a bullshit patent. Bullshit patents cost all of us money by distracting people from doing awesome stuff. All y
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by rkalla 15y ago
Underdog was probably the wrong choice for the code snippet, surely you understood my point was popular-vs-unpopular.
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by rkalla 15y ago
I am going to take an unpopular stance here... I think. When patents are enforced by big legal entities, we all scream foul, "Patents are meant to protect the little guy, not make lawyers rich!" Now we have a musician (a "little guy") suing
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POLYGLOT - a program in eight languages(ideology.com.au)
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Easy DNS adds GeoDNS for $9.95/mo(blog.easydns.org)
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by rkalla 15y ago
Absolutely right, I should have clarified that I was speaking from a "first-cut" perspective. Out of the gate, say tomorrow, when this law starts getting leveraged against folks I was saying that getting your phone searched specifically bec
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by rkalla 15y ago
heh, absolutely agreed there. I think the police have a hard enough job as it is.
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by rkalla 15y ago
For those (like me): rac-on-teur: A person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way. Also, found this interesting site in the process of defining that word: http://www.theraconteurs.com/
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by rkalla 15y ago
> Even though I feel that Safety on the roads is paramount and that there are way too many people that talk or text while on their phones This law isn't about keeping people safer, whether you were on your phone or not the officer has t
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by rkalla 15y ago
The court ruled that this is OK because your phone is considered a "container", given that, I believe the same rules for saying "Go ahead and search my trunk, but I don't have a key" applies -- assuming the cop doesn't just pry it open in s
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Illinois iPASS replacement required, new devices has camera in it.(yro.slashdot.org)
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California appeals court approves cell phone search during traffic stop(theblaze.com)
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Breakdown of how Windows gets infected with malware(net-security.org)
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by rkalla 15y ago
Peldi, something similar to this happened to me for a number of years (I've run my own WP site for 6 years now); every 3 months or so, no matter what I did to lock the site down it would get reinfected with malware. It got so frustrating th
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Apple iPhone 4S (Feature Summary)
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by rkalla 15y ago
For anyone on the fence about the claims, 20/20 did an investigation[1] of the BBB and found exactly the same thing. They worked with companies with complaints against them and low ratings that were called by BBB representatives asking them
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by rkalla 15y ago
As much as this whole Ted-gate thing has turned into a amped up argument of sorts, there has been a significant amount of knowledge for everyone shaken out of the trees about node.js as a result. Take for example this implementation, how ma
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Should I use MongoDB or CouchDB?(plus.google.com)
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by rkalla 15y ago
Ah, got it! This is one of the biggest failings of SimpleDB that I think keeps it held back from being a huge success, the region dependency of it and the seeming lack of support from Amazon (the only product whose forums frequently go a we
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by rkalla 15y ago
Damn, shykes you are exactly right it was just an edge location and Route53 node, not an EC2 region. Sorry about that guys.
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by rkalla 15y ago
mix, EC2 just opened a Sao Paulo EC2 data center this week or last week, so you are good to go. $0.25/GB though so it is a bit pricey.
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by rkalla 15y ago
Example Game: http://rescuefox.mozillalabs.com/src/index.html Geek.com Submission: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/mozilla-paladin-project-i... (currently not responding, hopefully load will lighten up soon)

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