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Hacking E.T. for the Atari 2600 to make it better(neocomputer.org)
23 points by steveb 14y ago|1 comments
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Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices (internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org)
200 points by steveb 14y ago|46 comments
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30th anniversary of the release of Lotus 1-2-3(danbricklin.com)
1 points by steveb 14y ago|0 comments
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The Surprising Menger Sponge Slice(simonsfoundation.org)
2 points by steveb 14y ago|0 comments
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by steveb 14y ago
Each card (not core) is running an embedded version of Linux. Binaries are almost all linked to busybox. You can mount NFS shares to share data. The embedded systems need specially compiled binaries. With the Intel compiler, this is usually
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by steveb 14y ago
St. Louis, Missouri - 2 Software Engineers - Fulltime Major global financial corporation. We are seeking 2 software engineers with strong C++/Java/Python skills to develop grid software and implement visualization of financial data. The rol
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There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem(arxiv.org)
1 points by steveb 15y ago|0 comments
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Apple ][ game server(asciiexpress.net)
159 points by steveb 15y ago|52 comments
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[video] Time-lapse view of the earth from the ISS(vimeo.com)
13 points by steveb 15y ago|0 comments
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by steveb 15y ago
There are several billion people using many billions of devices every day. From the code in your microwave to massive computing clusters, virtually all of our software can trace its ancestry back to this man's intellectual output. I'm etern
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by steveb 15y ago
NeXT sold maybe 50,000 systems in 5 years, less than the number of PCs that a typical large company has stuffed in cubicles. And from that small install base, emerged the first Web browser, Doom, and Mathematica. They were amazing, if flawe
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by steveb 15y ago
Fiscal years don't always match calendar years. Microsoft's Q4 ends on June 30th. http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn... I don't think you can say that tablets are bought in addition to PCs, as we've seen PC sales
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by steveb 15y ago
If we estimate around 80MM PCs sold in a quarter, MS generates about $60 Windows revenue for every PC sold, but their costs are about $22 (from Q411 results Rev $4.7B, Profit $2.9B). It will be hard for them to the cut license fee unless th
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by steveb 15y ago
Tag search results: Metro 81 HTML5 25 c# 9 c++ 12 javascript 15 Silverlight 0 WPF 0
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by steveb 15y ago
I find it hard to reconcile the term free market with the monopoly status granted in a patent, but this is the system we have and MS would be wrong to not respond in this way. The goal here is to make Android uneconomic for handset makers,
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by steveb 15y ago
Jobs failed multiple times early in his career! 1980: Apple III released, bombs and is killed in 1984 1982: Jobs is kicked out of the Lisa Project, joins the Macintosh project 1984: Mac released. It is overpriced and has tepid sales. 1985:
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by steveb 15y ago
To me slashdot was critical in galvanizing the geek community and bringing free software to the mainstream in the late 90's. The comments added incredible value and created a community that I had not come across anywhere else. I think the h
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by steveb 15y ago
This is the OS that is supposed to carry MS until at least 2015. If they are going to unveil the cool stuff during BUILD, why just not wait a couple of weeks? - The examples seem dated, like people copying pictures over USB drives in the er
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by steveb 15y ago
I see Amazon and B&N taking a big chunk out of the low-cost tablet market, and it will be hard for anyone else to compete. They can sell direct to consumers and capture more revenue. They have a vested interest in locking customers into
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by steveb 15y ago
HP gets about 5-6% operating margin on PCs: HP personal systems group: http://h30261.www3.hp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71087&p=irol-n... Personal Systems Group (PSG) revenue declined 3% year over year with a 5.9% operating margin. Dell had
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by steveb 15y ago
Apple's path of disruption continues. I hope they open source WebOS, but they will probably sell it for the patents based on what MMI got from Google. I wish Nokia would have bought Palm. Expect the PC market to be disrupted next by Apple w
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by steveb 15y ago
HP needs to open source WebOS. Make it the best touchscreen interface for Linux and build a community around it. They don't really have any other options. They have low single-digit market share. There's not much money to be made selling a
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by steveb 15y ago
Mashable has renamed their account to be an individual (Pete Cashmore, the CEO). "Mashable will be launching a new business profile and building it up from scratch once business accounts are available. This account will continue to exist, b
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by steveb 15y ago
Based on U.S. market share, Android would be selling about 10 million a quarter in the U.S., so depending on growth they may or may not be the ones to displace Windows first. In order to get to 15 million this quarter, Android would have to
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by steveb 15y ago
iOS is about to displace Windows/DOS as the top selling OS in the U.S. A Microsoft OS has probably been the top seller for the last 30 years. Just a rough back of the envelope calculation is 12-13 million iOS devices sold in the U.S. this
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by steveb 15y ago
Very cool! I'd love to read how the PNG hack works. To see if your browser supports webgl, go to http://webglreport.sourceforge.net/ On a pokey mac mini, I get a few frames per second and about 5-15% CPU use in Firefox and chrome
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by steveb 15y ago
I wonder how much longer the big losses at Bing will be allowed to continue. The Yearly growth in Google's revenue this quarter alone is almost equal to the entire annual revenue of Microsoft's online division. Google is growing at 25-30+%
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by steveb 15y ago
Link to the page: http://wheelsofsteel.net/
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Building a HTML5/CSS/JS Turntable app(schillmania.com)
2 points by steveb 15y ago|1 comments
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by steveb 15y ago
"The men realized they had a commodity. But no one would touch it: Mad Libs was too gamelike for book publishers and too booklike for game manufacturers. So in the late 1950s they published it themselves, storing the first printing — 14,000

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