Systems software technology and business
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.
According to this rating site. (No comments on the writing level. )
[ 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 definition:
The general case of a deadline (which is a soft deadline) has utility [...]
Video about “free digital content”.
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 since they give away views on YouTube and other internet sites, you know [...]
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 hard on a real problem. The problem is the usual one of high speed processors [...]