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assbot: TI Investor Relations -
TI reports 2Q13 financial results and shareholder returns
decimation: for
the same reason
that no one sells actually useful mining gear
decimation: He did make an interesting point
though - no one sells actually useful simulation
tools
BingoBoingo: decimation: Given
the volume of production who much can a
Ti-83,89, or 36 really cost per unit?
decimation: right, he explained
that he just "goes and buys
the latest core i7 and
the latest asus motherboard and
that's
the spec machine for
the year"
decimation: he said people in Linear are perfectly happy
to wait 6 hours for a simulation
to run
decimation: there is an amusing moment when
the interviewer asks "why don't you put your spice on a server for remote users" and he went on a rant about how
that would not be benficial
decimation: when asked about
that point, he said
that he was developing on winblows because "that's what everyone uses"
decimation: lol surely
the calculator division isn't what's supporting
TI
these days
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well in
TI's case
their cash cow are
those calculators which sell based on
their approval for varying
tests (much in
the way old Unix and crypto survives on FIPS, et al)
decimation: the interviewer is not
the best... but
the guest is interesting. Apparently LTspice compiles its own custom assembly code when you run a simulation.
assbot: An Interview with Mike Engelhardt - SPICE Simulator Synteresis |
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
decimation: and
they failed
to make
that work. Or...
the Chinese overlords in Lenovo
took umbarage at
the competition
decimation: well, in
this case
the "cash cow" was just window dressing on chinese manufacturing anyway
BingoBoingo: Problem is similar
to
the one killing AsicMiner
BingoBoingo: decimation:
The problem many electronics manufacturers have is
they can't pull a
Texas instruments and marginally increment
their cash cows
twice a decade
decimation: I
think
the bottom line is
that
the Chinese government is far more willing
to subsidize electronics manufacturing
than
the US is
decimation: "Motorola's intention was
to offset
the inherently higher cost of manufacturing in
the US, compared with places like China, by being able
to get handsets
to customers quicker, and manage
the Moto Maker customization process on home
turf. But, despite churning out 100,000 Moto Xs a week at one point and progressively making
the handset cheaper,
the 'born in
the USA' vision hasn't paid dividends."
assbot: Motorola
to close its Moto X plant in
Texas by
the end of
the year
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BingoBoingo: Well, so far playing with OpenBSD I have
to say one of my favorite parts is
the error messages, danielpbarron can you corroberate
this?
assbot: VICE
to Gawker: Fuck You and Fuck Your Garbage Click-Bait 'Journalism' | VICE United States
BingoBoingo: I also like
the War Games knockoff, 'Manhattan Project' with
the guy who played an alien in a sitcom
BingoBoingo: I imagine it is more profitable now
to hedge difficulty Bitbets with a mining farm
than vice versa
dub: i have
the wargames soundtrack on vinyl
assbot: Amazon.com: Bitfury
Twin Chip Asic Bitcoin 4-5 Gh/s USB Miner: Computers & Accessories
cazalla: that's such a good bet
that one
assbot: BitBet - Hillary Clinton
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to 1)
BingoBoingo: benkay: Imma guessing
the dollar is crashing because of
the recent Hilary pumping
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BingoBoingo: I just
take such polite evasions as personal concessions
they could not honor
the history of
their Alma Mater due
to personal fail
benkay: "if he does eventually find out you went
to Yale, he will be offended
that you have judged him incapable of gracefully handling
that fact." i mean probably he couldn't have
benkay: "If, on
the other hand, you refuse
to
tell someone you went
to Harvard,
that reflects poorly on you—it implies
that, on some level, you buy into
the overblown mythos of Harvard and
the presumption of Ivy League superiority."
BingoBoingo: It's obvious
they are merely afraid of embarrassing
the Alma Mater
assbot: Harvard grads say "I went
to college in Boston"? And call it
the H-Bomb? Get over yourselves, Ivy Leaguers.
BingoBoingo: So apparently XFCE is supposed
to have a
theme called "stellar" which replicates
the characteristics of CDE on Solaris. I can't seem
to find it.
benkay: and
then incite arbitrary hatred between
them instead of
the nominally long-standing
tradition of 'service'
benkay: i
think
they should give fraternaties lots of guns
assbot: 14 Bros Charged in Fraternity Hazing
That Cost a Pledge One
Testicle
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benkay: hey JorgePasada you coming
to
the next pdx-together?
bloctoc: I hereby run
the Charles Shrem Institute
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benkay: "That suggests
that
Twitter users are unable
to distinguish between posts generated by humans and by bots."
assbot: How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated
Twitter | MIT
Technology Review
assbot: Livingston man accused of hiding meth inside fake AA battery - News -
The Eagle
jborkl: still very very much a work iin progress on
the charts and data- I have
the data bound into a bunch of charts but and working on
the displays
mike_c: jborkl:
that page is busted.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform
that last pic,... suppose
to be
tamper protection or what
FabianB: '“You can calculate
the probability of something bad happening in security, and present it
to your executives”, she continued, “But no matter what scoring system you use,
they may choose not
to do anything until
the probability equals 1'
assbot: Cheeseburger Risk: Not for
the Faint of Heart | Sonatype Blog
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Around here
there is a big box
type store called "Rural King" has more useful materials for electronics security
than Best Buy
☟︎ BingoBoingo is starting
to suspect a release version Loper machine might not be a man portable Lisp machine...
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: I'm guessing it's particular power characteristics might have a finger print
that could help GHCQ in analyzing logged line noise.
kakobrekla: what of importance could be logged
there?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yeah, it's always interesting when you can't
trust your input devices's controllers.
assbot: What does GCHQ know about our devices
that we don't? | Privacy International
BingoBoingo: Also interesting, how much
time would be spent searching system Z bar cabinet full of disco lights for
things
that might be data storage.
kakobrekla: if your profile is high enough i can see
them do it.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Also for
the parachute building exercise. If I have a lot of machines an intruder has less chance of finding
the "secrets" machine or machines.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Apparently
they are a great environment for playing with Genera
BingoBoingo: Also on
the wantlist is an IBM mainframe case for conversion
to a bar cabinet.
BingoBoingo: Alpha is already on
the want list,
those
things have kept
their value like nothing else.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
The warnings are appreciated.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
Thinking on
the subject of your old HP workstation when I get a new place I am
thinking about finding something similar (if not HP maybe SGI) for a combination local file server and end
table.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I
thought it was actually a bit smaller
than
that, but... books...