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To sandblast the oxide layer off the GaS ingots.

Yes, I know what it means and includes. Android, which is one of the biggest unixes right now, doesn't use GNU. iOS, which is another one of the biggest unixes right now, doesn't u…

How many of them actually intimately use the GNU userland as opposed to Xorg and whatever libc's installed? GNU's an increasingly irrelevant portion of unix and unixlike systems --…

True, but I'm curious to see what the rest of the Threadripper line shakes up to be. The $599 chip only has 28 pcie lanes, which isn't enough to run two gpus at full speed. In comp…

The high end compute stick has a core m5, not an atom. http://ark.intel.com/products/91979/Intel-Compute-Stick-STK2...

Consultations tend to be relatively inexpensive, and a lot of lawyers in the realm of employment law will work on a contingency basis -- you pay a certain percentage of the settlem…

Using any sort of device -- be it a phone app that keeps track of random number seeds, or an old school blackjack computer that works via foot taps -- has been illegal for a long w…

I've worked on a codebase where a jsp app would call an API served by a mod_perl app, which would call a remote API to a c++ app. Technical bankruptcy can and does creep up even in…

Yes. There are a bunch of cores, plus SMT. The datasheets for their parts give equivalent performance depending on how many threads you have. XMOS chips are in that category of Nea…

It's targeting the chromebook market of a curated marketplace for apps.

You have to sign lots of NDAs and other docs, give company details, describe the product you want to develop, just to get a look at the datasheets [1]. To put that in perspective, …

Switching tasks is expensive [1]. Twice as many cores running at half the speed can be considerably faster in the real world because you're not constantly stopping to flush the cac…

It needs a lot of pins because it's an I/O monster. The socket is going to support their high end server chips with 8 memory channels. Plus, all of their high end line supports 128…

The media isn't biased as much as you think. It's anti-confrontational, which means stories about things people are upset about often get minified. However, the Washington Times, w…

It's more than a speed increase. There's memory usage benefits -- because it's not a VM, you don't need to dedicate a fixed amount of memory, regardless of what you're doing. The m…

I'm thinking so, given they say that they can print displays and memory. That suggests that they can do a pretty decent number of semiconductors, which indeed could be rather usefu…

The big problem with the E310 is that after you've prototyped something and want to design a custom board, you've got a much more difficult task ahead of you. The AVR needs a signi…

It's "only" ten miles, but it connects BART with VTA's light rail system, which means that the 8 miles to Sunnyvale from Great Mall. Given that part of the schedule changes planned…

There's already a ferry system in the bay to points where it's feasible to to put docks. However, much of the bay is less than ten feet deep, with gentle slopes, which make ferries…

These are completely separate hires from the rest of the BART system. Because Santa Clara County didn't buy into the system in the 60s, choosing to build a network of expressways i…

It's open 20 hours a day, so you're going to need at least 3 shifts. It's open 7 days a week, so you're going to need at least two sets of employees per shift, and there are two st…

One of the things on VTA's plan for Measure B funds is to extend the light rail further down 85. So, with any hope, you should have a transit station that's a lot closer.

The measure to fund it passed, to the money's there. It's just gonna take 10-15 years to build it.

Systems like Debian, though, have the ability to add custom repositories. So after the initial, possibly small package that just configures the sources.list, everything's handled w…