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Intel Doubles Capacity of Phase-Change Memory

Comment in News (3 diggs, 1 reply) - on 02/05/2008
Intel's already sampling 512Mb versions (read: 64MB), which is incredibly density for these devices, though they are the binary PCM version. This would effectively double the space (1Gb/128MB), storing the data across all four PCM crystal states. (see comment)
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Torvalds: Microsoft is bluffing on patents

Comment in News (17 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/05/2008
Either that, or it really is pretty much exactly as Torvalds himself says (in the article no less): "[W]hy I don't think Microsoft really seriously would go after patents is when you're a convicted monopolist in the marketplace you really should not be su … (see comment)
1497

Overhaul of net addresses begins

Comment in News (49 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/05/2008
glkhsdflksdfn Edit timer That gives every human being THAT HAS EVER LIVED roughtly two billion addresses. Some other ridiculous comparisons: Every star in the Milky Way gets a couple million. Every cell in your body is individually addressable, with a fe … (see comment)
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Overhaul of net addresses begins

Comment in News (82 diggs, 6 replies) - on 02/05/2008
IPv6 has 2^64 addresses. That gives every human being alive roughly two billion addresses. Every single computer in the entire world can have its own block of a few hundred thousand IPv6 addresses without any significant worry about the future. IPv6 was d … (see comment)
1821

First look: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 4

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/03/2008
Why wouldn't they? Kernel releases are typically supportable for very, very long times, so it makes sense to go with the newest stable kernel possible (in this case 2.6.24), and keep applying updates as they come down the pipeline. The major support issue … (see comment)
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World's Fastest NAND Developed by Intel and Micron

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 02/02/2008
Hmm, doubtful. Even if they were three times more expensive that the most expensive NANDs on the market (which is absurd), you're still only looking at $40/gig. But then again I couldn't see myself paying $160 for 4GB of Flash in today's market. (see comment)
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First look: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 4

Comment in News (6 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/02/2008
For the whole "file browser" mess; all of that code was recently rewritten, means it's still very, very buggy, untranslated and still weird in parts (there are a few strange grammatical issues I've seen, but nothing the language teams won't find and fix q … (see comment)
1092

World's Fastest NAND Developed by Intel and Micron

Comment in News (7 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/02/2008
Flash is non-volatile in the sense that when the power goes away, the data persists. Of course, a surge could damage the device, but it would just as soon damage any hard disk controller as well, so that argument's pretty silly. As for wear and tear, it's … (see comment)
1092

World's Fastest NAND Developed by Intel and Micron

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/02/2008
That's not bad for a first generation product, though at that fast of a read/write rate, you're much more likely to hit bad blocks. Give it a few more generations for the kinks to work out and they'll be back in the millions range again. Or just bond the … (see comment)
1092

World's Fastest NAND Developed by Intel and Micron

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/02/2008
Phones, cameras, embedded device firmwares, the list goes on and on. The interesting thing will be to see what MLC variants are capable of (in both density and speed). (see comment)
243

Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/01/2008
SDL is used by many non-grass roots and small companies. Or are you calling iD, EA, small companies? (see comment)
243

Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/01/2008
Close sourcing their game, sure. Close sourcing a platform-independence layer? Stupid. "Aimbots" and such can be built into the game above the toolkit, or even below it as many game vendors already do, they do NOT need to go into the indirection layer. Th … (see comment)
1078

Linux ready to go green

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/01/2008
Digg, and the dozens of like minded sites, happened to journalism. Who cares if you've got no content, those page views get you ad views, makes you money. Quick, throw a nice LOLcat on the end of that story, that'll increase clicks! (see comment)
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Linux ready to go green

Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/01/2008
Close, actually. Less cycles on CPUs (which allow CPUs like the Core 2 to drop to a lower C* state), and powering off unused hardware (such as spinning down hard disks, turning off extra buses when they're not in use, etc). These are Direct ways that an … (see comment)
243

Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista

Comment in News (-2 diggs, 2 replies) - on 02/01/2008
Sorry, but your post is full of crap. First of all, developers of games don't need DirectX; most developers don't even /want/ DirectX, but their games perform better when using it, so that's what they tend to. What they want, are clean and easy to use AP … (see comment)
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Transmission Becomes Default BitTorrent Client for Ubuntu

Comment in News (6 diggs, 1 reply) - on 01/31/2008
Read the thread: Fedora also chose Transmission to be their default client, and absolutely nobody said anything about it not running on other OSes (especially since Transmission will run just about anywhere, including BeOS). Just about the only space left … (see comment)
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Transmission Becomes Default BitTorrent Client for Ubuntu

Comment in News (28 diggs, 0 replies) - on 01/31/2008
Transmission supports encryption now. (see comment)
1608

Transmission Becomes Default BitTorrent Client for Ubuntu

Comment in News (27 diggs, 1 reply) - on 01/31/2008
Just to make this abundantly clear: Canonical didn't choose this. Ubuntu did. Ubuntu's community of supporters got together, looked at quite a few clients, and chose Transmission. Transmission has a simple, plain to use UI, that's very similar to the to … (see comment)
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Apple subsidizing Apple TV with movie rentals revenue?

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 01/29/2008
Or you know, the device originally cost $200/box to build (so they sold it at $300), now after building a million of them, the price is down to less than $150/box. Economies of scale are just lost on people today. (see comment)
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