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I've already virtually eliminated gasoline consumption.
They are way late to the game.
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Virtually.
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Apple could be forced to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in damages after losing a patent lawsuit over its processors.
The case relates to Apple's A7, A8 and A8X processors used in the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and various iPads. In the latest of many patent disputes for Apple, a US District Court jury agreed Tuesday that the company infringed on a 1998 patent held by the University of Wisconsin. Apple now faces damages of up to $862 million (around £560 million or AU$1.1 billion). That's basically chump change to Apple.
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But, it's not chump change to their investors, is it?
Apple has been patent trolled by a University. Very cool.
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They don't give any details in that article. The patent is for a predictive algorithm used in out-of-order schedulers. They also sued Intel several years ago for the same patent.
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Just too late for Ada Lovelace day, but a very interesting read nonetheless.
PS. Have the Hamsters been given enough coffee today? The site seems to be running very slowly, when posting comments.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is still night-time in Canada...wakie wakie[^]
(But it IS seems to be slow than usual)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I find it slow in everything, clicking on links, loading pages... I thought it was something on the network here but apparently it is not.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Attackers are exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in fully patched versions of Adobe's Flash Player so they can surreptitiously install malware on end users' computers, security researchers warned Tuesday. Do you still need more reasons why you should disable Flash?
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In other news, politicians found to be economical with the truth, ursines found to defecate in arboreal areas, ...
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The latest preview release of Windows 10 includes the first glimpse of a new feature designed to eliminate one specific activation headache. When this change rolls out to the general public next month, you'll be able to use your Windows 7 or 8.1 product key to complete a Windows 10 upgrade. We could all use a few less hassles in life.
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Aaaannd the crowd goes wild.
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A California real estate development company plans to install Tesla batteries in nearly two dozen of its highest profile offices in the Los Angeles area. For $1M a year in energy cost savings I'd install em' too.
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Once again, BlackBerry CEO John Chen, the man brought into save the long-foundering mobile company, has said he's willing to kill BlackBerry's smartphone business. He's been saying that publicly for nearly a year, effectively letting customers know to go elsewhere.
Maybe the idea was to get customers to show their commitment to BlackBerry devices; if so that strategy has backfired -- BlackBerry device sales continue to decline to trivial numbers (now fewer than 3.5 million a year, or what Apple sells in five days), despite a series of new models of every conceivable design in the last two years. Do you agree? Have any CPians actually bought a new BB device recently?
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Never owned a BlackBerry, but people who had them loved them.
I think he should just open source the whole thing!
Marc
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I recently bought a Blackberry Passport to replace my old Blackberry Curve. The new Passport is amazing, it's much more powerful and easier to use than my wife's Android or my son's iPhone (he is dumping the iPhone and plans to get a Passport). I love it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Of all the investment fads and manias over the past few decades, none have been as big of a fizzle as the craze for nanotech stocks. Nanotechnology never had its Facebook, its multibillion dollar blockbuster IPO that made clear how a new technology is changing the world.
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Media hypes.
Investors who don't understand tech invest.
Rinse, repeat, stocks go crazy, stocks crash.
Marc
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The “Named Colors” section of the CSS Color Module Level 4—the latest specification for color values and properties within the Cascading Style Sheets language—are 141 standard colors. Where do such abstract names come from, and why are they a part of something as methodical as writing code?
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The evolution of accessible radio standards over the last 25 years has led to a plethora of ways to pass information collected at a large number of data-gathering devices (sensors, cameras, microphones) to the cloud, and send commands back from the cloud to act on the information. The evolution of the Internet of Things is still in progress.
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I'm pretty sure it involves tin cans, alot of string, baling wire and some spit...
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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I'm fairly it involves tin cans, baling wire, and spit...
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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In the US, it's Tubes - series of tubes.
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