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On the occasion of the presentation of the Computer Society's and Hitachi's inaugural Tsutomu Kanai Award for distributed computing, Computer visited recipient Ken Thompson at Lucent's Bell Labs. We were interested in learning about Thompson's early work on Unix and his more recent work in distributed computing. We were especially interested in learning about the creative process within Bell Labs and his sense of where computer science was heading. It's interesting to see how these insights from 1999 match up with the reality of 2012.
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JavaScript has two parents: Scheme and Self. We can thank Self for all of the object-orientedness of JavaScript and indeed we do in our code and our tutorials. However, Scheme played just as important a role in the language’s design, and we would do ourselves ill to overlook JavaScript’s functional heritage. What exactly does it mean for JavaScript to be functional?
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Ooh, look. There's a shiny bandwagon. Let's jump on it.
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As you may know this week Microsoft killed off the Forefront brand, killed some of the Forefront products, and renamed others to reflect their real strategic alignment. This is the natural outcome of a process that started about four years ago, and most specifically two and half years ago, as the economic downturn and resulting budget cuts at Microsoft collided with its ambitions in the security products space. Enterprise security products is where the real money, er... was.
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The iPhone 5 is the latest smartphone to hop on-board the LTE (Long Term Evolution) bandwagon, and for good reason: The mobile broadband standard is fast, flexible, and designed for the future. Yet LTE is still a young technology, full of growing pains. Here’s an overview of where it came from, where it is now, and where it might go from here. Can you hear me now?
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People keep asking why Apple didn’t opt for the micro-USB connector. The answer is simple: that connector isn’t smart enough. It has only 5 pins: +5V, Ground, 2 digital data pins, and a sense pin, so most of the dock connector functions wouldn’t work – only charging and syncing would. Also, the pins are so small that no current plug/connector manufacturer allows the 2A needed for iPad charging. Note that this refers to individual pins; I’ve been told that several devices manage to get around this by some trick or other, but I couldn’t find any standard for doing so. 8 (pins) is enough?
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Since 2005 we showed a prototype of this film at the end of our talks. Some people suggested to put it online, so we made a new, complete one: it shows each and every Unicode 6.0 character. 109.242 characters in total. Starring: 109.242 unicode characters
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Given Apple's reliance on fully licensed ARM cores in the past, the expected performance gains and unpublishable information that started all of this I concluded Apple's A6 SoC likely featured two ARM Cortex A15 cores. It turns out I was wrong. But pleasantly surprised. The A6 is the first Apple SoC to use its own ARMv7 based processor design. The CPU core(s) aren't based on a vanilla A9 or A15 design from ARM IP, but instead are something of Apple's own creation. Here's a look inside Apple's latest, home-grown ARM processor.
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Want an iPhone 5?
Better join the queue[^] then!
Yes, these pair of insert words of choice have started a line 8 days before the phone will be available.
Head over to the article and agree or disagree with the comments! (Get a feeling there won't be many disagree )
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I think I was as excited about the Google Nexus 7 tablet which I pre-ordered and waited three weeks for (online, not outside a store).
/ravi
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as if we don't see dozens of posts from people here clamoring to download every beta and RC from every version of Visual Studio that MS releases. building test VMs to run it on, spending hours downloading beta software, breathlessly describing how the buttons look, what the wizards do, all the new soon-to-be-deprecated frameworks MS has included.
bitch, please. everybody's a fanboy for something.
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At least with downloading a beta or using a beta product, you are at least "using" the product, and as you know beta's can last for months, so at least your are benefiting potentially from using it.
But come on, waiting in line 8 days for a phone........no comparison.
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no, the waiting isn't the same: the silly hype is.
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What kind of moron in general gets in line to buy a phone? Have these people heard of the internet? I pre-ordered my iPhone 5 Friday morning. It took me all of 2 minutes. I'll have it in my hands on the 21st likely before 95% of the people in that line.
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Possibly, but you won't be clapped into the shop by the brain-dead-zombies (sorry, highly trained Apple employees), and interviewed by TVs desperate for any old crap to fill a 24 hour news cycle.
What would be good is buying the phone, coming out of the shop and then proclaiming in front of the cameras that "dammit, I've just realised this is crap. I want a refund".
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BBC New - Malware inserted on PC production lines, says study[^]
Quote: Several new computers have been found carrying malware installed in the factory, suggests a Microsoft study.
One virus called Nitol found by Microsoft steals personal details to help criminals plunder online bank accounts.
Why go to harmful websites when you can buy harmful computers to begin with?
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couldn't be any worse than the bloatware that already comes pre-installed on new PCs
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You mean Windows?
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Easy solution: don't buy a computer, build it yourself. Then there is no software, unless you put it there yourself
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Agreed.
I was about to post "this is an example of why you should always reinstall the OS when you buy a new computer"
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...and for the 99% of people who can barely figure out how to plug in the keyboard?
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Chris Losinger wrote: ...and for the 99% of people who can barely figure out how to plug in the keyboard? Is that the same as the 99% of people?
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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The less of them on computers the better. It might help clean up the "NEED CODE URGENTZ"...
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Either an Xbox or an iPhone.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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