Don Marti in comments below notes Reruns of “I Love Lucy†and “Knight Rider†don’t stop working when the studio fails to bring in writers to maintain them. Maybe the programmers are smarter after all.
Soft real-time and QOS (revised)
[ revised version of an older post] “Soft real-time” is a perfect example of the “soft design” noted in an earlier post. There are perfectly good ways of characterizing quality of service (QOS) assurances precisely. Doug Jenson proposes one possible
Free digital content and the daily show
Video about “free digital content”. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w&rel=0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=1]
Hollywood writers are smarter than programmers
The strike in Hollywood is about royalties. The writers, who are used to getting a share of the royalties on their work, want to keep getting royalties on work shown on the internet. The producers are making the claim that
Sparc T2 (niagra 2)
UT architecture seminar today was by Greg Grohoski from Sun – an updated version of his Hot Chips talk. I’m not a big fan of this approach to chip architecture: 8 processors, each with 8 threads, but they are working