Recent content by jimmyb

As someone who works in semiconductor engineering I can confidently say that your comment is mostly wrong. Physics is the primary reason that Moore's law is failing - just as the Nature article states.

C# development does not require Visual Studio. There are several free versions of Visual Studio. You can develop for OSX with essentially the same languages as any other OS.

It is possible to save into a raw format, but I don't think that's the concern. Since neither Reuters or the photographers are going to be manipulating the photo, there is no need for them to take or provide photos anything other than the jpg. Since raw formats require additional processing...

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That's not how copyright works. If they're suing for copyright violation they have to show that their copyrights were violated. There is no copyright infringement unless something was copied. Copyright does not grant an exclusive right to all revenue remotely related to the work; it...

It certainly has been discussed with respect to mobile ISPs. See the FCCs request for comment, the multitudes of policy studies, all the discussion online for the past decade, etc. etc. MMS (and SMS) services have long been criticized for having billing way out of line with regular data...

That's irrelevant. Net neutrality is violated when ISPs give certain traffic preferential billing or network access. Money does not need to exchange hands for the service provider to treat traffic in a non-neutral way. It's literally in the name "net neutrality" - they are not treating...

It has been inadequately answered. There's clearly a fundamental conflict with one of the principles of net neutrality, which say ISPs shouldn't have the authority to setup routing and pricing that prefers some content over others. It's irrelevant whether or not T mobile has good...

No disagreement there - I wonder though if a CS program is the right place to teach those skills. Especially in an undergraduate degree, there's a limited amount of subjects one can study and including technical courses that teach skills that aren't really computer science is a hard sell...

Rightly or wrongly, I suspect a lot of students go into CS wanting to broadly learn software engineering. I'm conflicted on the degree to which CS programs ought to be teaching vocational skills.

Anecdotes from a repair shop owner are likely to suffer severely from all sorts of sampling biases. If you want accurate information on build quality and failure rates, then you pretty much have to look at that data directly, which may or may not be easy to obtain. You can find a litany of...

While the Snowden leaks confirmed that the NSA was intercepting and decrypting an enormous amount of internet traffic, they also revealed that there were several communications protocols that they had been unable to break.

I should add that they'll certainly also have differences in their schematic and RTL implementations, beyond just physical implementation.

lol New Mexico is part of Mexico, and New England is part of England.

Each chip is going to have a totally different physical design, so it's not a particularly effective way to compare process area/density. Same goes for power consumption.