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    Comcast Faces Lawsuit Over Home Wi-Fi Routers

    I quit using my Buffao wireless and Surfboard modem and gained about 20 Mbps for about 50 Mbps peak, 30 Mbps sustainable...after I switched to Comcast's Arris rental. That was awesome for me, and I live in the sticks so I don't have to worry about sharing my bandwidth with anybody. If I lived...
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    Apple Files Patent for On-Demand Power Generation from Wind Turbines at Any Time

    [citation]am i in trouble...can apple sue me?citation] No, you can show prior art and through witness can prove that your idea was first... Your idea is different, anyway. The patent in question is for an method/invention which pumps a fluid through the blades of conventional wind machines...
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    Apple Files Patent for On-Demand Power Generation from Wind Turbines at Any Time

    [citation]GulliNo, what is more probable is that nobody thought to patent it because it just hooking up two existing broad inventions...citation] What two broad inventions, specifically, are you referring to? I cannot find any other organization, American or international, which has attempted...
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    NASA Shuts Down Last Mainframe, Signals End of an Era

    phillipwA Mac IS a PC. :-) Yep, a PC by another name. My guess is the general population doesn't realize that parallel data centers computing far outweighs the usefulness of a single mainframe. The gov't is just now catching onto the cheaper method that the internet thrives on. Big wheels...
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    Apple Files Patent for On-Demand Power Generation from Wind Turbines at Any Time

    noob2222 Do you or have you ever found something that would make a computer or program better? You could patent this idea to protect and develop the idea if you wanted. If you are not a computer or software manufacturer, but just a user, then you are in the same position as Apple. They are a...
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    NASA Shuts Down Last Mainframe, Signals End of an Era

    [citation]ramon zarat"...2- In fact, name any military conflict since world war 2 ending with the attacker permanently taking over the attacked country. Answer: none" I beg to differ...Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and many countries on the African continent have changed borders, ownership...
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    Xeon Phi: Intel's Larrabee-Derived Card In TACC's Supercomputer

    Sock account? Nah...and not an attack if you re-read the thread. Unless one is a hardware developer/mfr then one cannot just "stick" these things together...that was my point. If you are a hardware developer/mfr, then it sounds like you could do better. I suggest that...then we can spec it...
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    Xeon Phi: Intel's Larrabee-Derived Card In TACC's Supercomputer

    palladin9479...These are only partially x86 CPUs, or more specifically their really slow x86 CPU's with a huge a$$ SIMD vector processor glued onto it. Sounds simple...why didn't you or any other internet engineer do this? Or is it really not that simple?
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    Xeon Phi: Intel's Larrabee-Derived Card In TACC's Supercomputer

    memadmaxOk, the hardware looks decent.But, there's one problem: Intel is relying on programmers being able to optimize to a high degree for this setup...And that is the problem, programmers these days are lazy...It used to be you would spend a whole day optimizing loops using counters and timers...