At the same Channels Forum in Berlin, Canalys CEO Steve Brazier pointed out AWS, Google and Microsoft has invested $200 billion dollars in capital expenditure into AI infrastructure - datacenters - in 18 months since the start of 2023, and yet less than a tenth of that, he estimated, had ...
It looks like they're stepping up their push to try make ODF the only choice in file formats. I read Tim Bray's post yesterday, but there have actually been a number of other posts folks have pointed out to me as well. Everyone knows that Sun and IBM have a lot riding on ODF ...
That is, a virtual address is pointed to a particular physical endpoint address, where the destination really goes. For example, my company's site, architag.com, is registered with our domain registrar, which publishes it as part of the worldwide domain name service (DNS) database. When ...
“The Guns of August.” The German generals were intent on keeping their trains on time; but the leaders overlooked their chances for stopping the war altogether. TheSchlieffen plancalled for them to strike first. Once the Russians and French mobilized...
Many years ago I pointed out that Full Disk Encryption was at best problematical as it was an “all or nothing” solution and as with “communications” users need to take a layered approach with crypto to, 1, Protect data at rest (stored). 2, Protect data in transit (communicated). 3...
Every item that was manufactured, from pots to guns to clothes, was made as a custom part. Manufacturing a rifle, for example, required hundreds of hours for a skilled gunsmith. A suit was made by a tailor, specifically to fit a particular customer. If some item needed repairing, the ...
Resident Evil 4 has a handful of really great guns to pick from as you slay hundreds of baddies throughout its spooky Spanish village, and in most cases, you'll need to push through a lot of chapters to get to some of the best ones the game has to offer. But in the case of the...
You can build multi-stage coil guns. The first coil gets the projectile moving. As the projectile leaves the first coil, that triggers a switch that turns on the next coil, and so on. Each coil makes the projectile a little bit faster....