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Fascinating read! Thanks, Sean. This story reminds me of Edison and Tesla. MAJ

I was once pulled over and the cop told me that my plates register to a Volkswagen and started asking me questions about the Volvo I was driving. Turns out the dispatcher just misread the database info and thought Volvo = Volkswagen. <sigh> MAJ

"A dinosaur could not be immediately reached for comment..." LOL.

I can see AMD using this for their coming ARM CPU implementations, given that ARM isn't that competitive with Intel's offerings from a pure performance POV. ARM likely can stand to gain much from this. Of course, a lot of other things have to take place before we ever get there. However, I...

Whoops! WTF?

I loved Ill 88! That and Photoshop 1.0.1 was how it all got started.

Or, "Why don't you use MS Publisher?" :eek: I had a guy who swore by MS Publisher and thought anyone using XP or ID were nuts, as they were "overpriced and didn't have any features."

I grew up with QuarkXPress, starting with v2.1 on a Mac SE running System 6 at a publishing company some 25 years ago. But, through the years, I came to despise it, just like Quark, the company, despised Mac users. It was only three years ago at a another printing company where I started...

Oh, no. Of course, I always had a terminator on the end of the chain. But, sometimes, a particular ID just didn't work with that particular peripheral in that chain sequence. There's a reason the term SCSI voodoo exists. MAJ

Back in the olden days, we had 50-pin SCSI cables with 3/4-inch thick cables. They had to be oriented correctly, with the retainer clips on each side snapped into place. I didn't complain about the cables or plugs. But, I did complain about getting the SCSI ID numbers correct, where each...

This was NOT the direction I expected things to go! :( MAJ

3 cycles/pixel line drawing is an amazing accomplishment in software optimization. :cool: I remember writing line drawing routines in Z-80 assembly some 30 years ago. Played with a stack-based midpoint algorithm (half, then half again). Then, went to DDA. The fun was trying to get all the...

Hardware graphics acceleration would certainly not be needed for the low rez graphics of a watch. I program a 168MHz ARM Cortex-M4 MCU (STM32F4 series) in C and can draw 15k lines/second on a 320x240 LCD with 16-bit color. Of course, at that speed it's consuming about 400mW with all peripherals...

That link in no way conflicts with valkyriebiker's comments. It actually confirms it. Current, in and of itself, is not dangerous, unless the voltage is high enough to overcome the resistance in the path or the resistance in the path is low enough for current to travel at a specified voltage...

Capable of 4000 lb payload?! These things must be bigger than I thought. MAJ

Well, the lack of comments here indicates that most of Ars' readers are not interested in a life of crime via building botnets. Or... maybe they already know and do this stuff. ;) Interesting article, although I probably spent around 20 seconds glancing through it, only because I enjoy...

Just started using Vienna v3.0.0 Beta. Free and open-source for OS X. Like it. Has an option to sync to Google Reader, which I did. Then, I just turned it back off and am all set up. Only drawback here is that it appends a "[G]" to the RSS name. May have to manually remove it or write a script...

Why can't Google simply disable the audio for these videos? I mean the video is not at issue here, it's the audio. GIven that the videos in question are primarily of visual interest, disabling the audio with a disclaimer would sound like a win-win to me. Not perfect, but better than no video at...

Oh, man. Those were the days, indeed. I never got COMPUTE!, but I was a avid subscriber to BYTE, MacWorld, and MacWeek. Still have a few BYTE magazines in my shelf, plus dozens of MacWeek mags. MAJ

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