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This furlough is an attempt to prevent another round of layoffs. Another round of layoffs would cause IBM to reconsider which projects are necessary and start eliminating projects …

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/cloud/ They are. IBM's mainframe business is quickly becoming a dinosaur, cloud or not. The furlough is a way to prevent another round of …

estimated $1.6 mil a month for > 12 months? For a meme generator? I'd say they had a good run.

Seems like some of these homeowners would pay $30k to not have this program, or for some control over the final product. I could imagine some rich guy paying $15k to keep his secti…

IBM has had private clouds for a few years now. It's not like AWS where anyone can click and spin up an instance. It's geared towards very large companies. These companies have bee…

Wont this just amplify existing trends instead of exposing new ones?

Like pushing ads to the phones.

few months - year...

Quite a few. It puts food on my table.... :)

Why would POWER be affected by this decision? Everyone and their mother sells a x86 server. Hard to make a profit when everyone is competing. How many other companies sell POWER ha…

Really? I'd love a new pair of glasses.

The 100GB of cloud storage is worth $5 a month/$60 year. I'm hoping Google starts throwing around storage with all their future devices. Maybe on the Nexus 4?

I think you underestimated the cost of major cities in UK.

Apple apparently abandoned ZFS to adopt specific subsets of the technology. Someone else mentioned 4 GB of the SSD is for write cache (log device). Guessing the other XGB is the tr…

My guess it's using some tech similar to ZFS. Creating a 4GB log drive for writing, and the rest as a cache drive. Sounds like they abandoned the adaption of ZFS to make their own …

I'm sure google is sitting on a treasure chest of map related patents, too.

No, 256 MB of RAM on each rasp. It's 16GB of storage on each rasp.

He sold 1.3m shares out of the 113mil he has? "Scrambles to offload his shares" = 1.1%?

fuzzy hashing and a database? Break the content into parts, and generate scores for each part. calculate a hash entry for each part and enter into a database. Compare against exist…

Do you still dislike Steams DRM on 30Mbps?

Sure, sometimes you don't have a choice. But saying progress cant be made because it cant accommodate the edge cases is absurd. Dont like Steams DRM? Dont use it. But dont bitch ab…

.2Mbps = .025MB/s

Right. But saying you cant have internet based DRM because you dont have a capable connection is equivalent to denying the last 5 years of progress.

.2Mbps...maybe that's your real problem? DRM is here to stay, and internet drm is increasingly popular. Maybe time to upgrade your connection?

As someone without facebook, care to enlighten me as to what happens?