Two Microsoft related sites discussing something similar from very different perspectives Only about one-quarter of households living in developing countries have any form of financial savings with formal banking institutions. Even in countries that have experienced substantial development over the
Airbus computer and electrical problems
Whoops! From Aviation Week According to a bulletin issued by the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), an electrical fault led to a series of display and control problems. These included the intermittent failure of both pilots’ electronic displays and
Free and Open Source Licenses
Interesting discussion here. But many FOSS-based transactions are not commercial in the foregoing sense. Instead, software subject to a FOSS license may come into a product without the producer knowing that this has happened or, in any realistic way, assenting to
Corporate Law and Programming State of the Art
Big companies that want to use our software but don’t want to use our standard EULA keep sending proposed sales contracts that include a really peculiar provision. The provision asks us to guarantee, to represent, to warrant and all that
Modern corporate america meets FSMLabs
New Consultant: “Cort assured me there was a slide deck we could do a deep dive from. Then we can birdcage the low hanging fruit.” Deep dive from the slide deck, indeed.
why microkernels don’t work
Shocking advances in Operating Systems
And here I was complaining about the lack of progress in OS development “This will blow away any RTOS,” said Cauchy. “We speed up execution by doing things like vector interrupts, I/O memory mapping, and turning off timers.” By Gad!
Social Network and Lessig
Two lawsuits provide the frame for The Social Network. One was brought by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, twins at Harvard who thought they had hired Zuckerberg to build for them what Facebook would become. The other was brought by Eduardo
State of the art
int cpu_features[4]; for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++) { cpu_features[get_cur_cpu_number()] = cpuid_get_features(); usleep(100); } for (int j = 0; j < 4; j++) printf(“CPU %d features: %xn”, j, cpu_features[j]); http://www.pagetable.com/?p=372
Mobile phone faking in China
The other crazy thing about the mobile phone market is that it’s not the only one. Windell said he found another market just as big but with a greater focus on finished phones, and then just today I walked into