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  • M00Cs! and the Academy where the hype meets the roadway

    http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/01/27/inside-the-first-year-data-from-mitx-and-harvardx.aspx – Campus Technology “While 50 percent of MOOC registrants dropped off within a week or two of enrolling, attrition rates decreased substantially after that window.” So with a 50% attrition rate everyone has to keep in mind those overwhelmingly large enrollment are not representative of the typical definition of the word “student”. They are shopping.…

  • IBM Goes Modular And Flashy With X6 Systems – Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The memory channel storage modules were developed by SanDisk in conjunction with Diablo Technologies, and are called UltraDIMM by SanDisk. The modules put flash memory created by SanDisk (which has a flash partnership with Toshiba) that has a SATA interface on a memory stick. Diablo has created a chipset that converts the SATA protocol to…

  • Leaked Intel roadmap’ promises… er, gear that could die after 7 months [Chris Mellor for theregister.com]

      Chris Mellor – The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/09/intel_ssd_roadmappery/   Chris does a quick write-up of a leaked SSD roadmap from Intel. Seems like we’re now in a performance plateau on the consumer/business end of the scale for SATA based SSD drives. I haven’t seen an uptick in Read/Write performance in a long time. Back in the…

  • OCZ sells out to Toshiba (it’s been good to know yuh’)

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/03/toshiba_buys_ocz/ Seems like it was only two years ago when OCZ bought out memory controller and intellectual property (IP) holder Indilinx for it’s own branded SSD products. At the time everyone was buying SandForce memory controllers to keep up with the Joneses. Speed-wise and performance-wise SandForce was king. But with so many competitors about using…

  • John Carmack – Oculus Rift two great tastes…

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/carmack_goes_to_oculus_rift/ id Software has formally announced Carmack has left the building. Prior to this week he was on a sabbatical from id, doing consulting/advisory work for the folks putting the Oculus Rift together. Work being done now is to improve the speed of the refresh on the video screens. That’s really the last biggest hurdle…

  • Sebastian Thrun and Udacity

    Sebastian Thrun and Udacity MOOCs may not be the future of higher education. But they will be the future of Corporate Training. You can bet money on that. In fact money IS being bet on that right now. Udacity has gone from attempting to create a higher ed paradigm shifting option to a more conventional…

  • Anandtech – New LSI series of Flash Memory Controllers

    May the SandForce be with you Nice writeup from Anandtech regarding the press release from LSI about it’s new 3rd generation flash memory controllers. The 3000 series takes over from the 2200 and 1200 series that preceded it as the era of SSDs was just beginning to dawn (remember those heady days of 32GB SSD…

  • Delia Derbyshire – BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Dr. Who Theme

    Delia Derbyshire – BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Dr. Who Theme It’s 50 years since the first episode of Dr. Who aired on the BBC. How will you celebrate? I’m reading this wonder tract from The Register.com (British Tech website) and marveling both at the detail and expertise that went into original recordings made by Derbyshire…

  • Every new iPhone tool deserves another

    Every new iPhone tool deserves another I note from iFixit.com tear downs in the recent past that an Apple iPhone can sometimes require lots of heating and softening of adhesive. iPhone 5s while it requires a tool, at least shows some sign of requiring less heating/melting of adhesive. The tool I’ve linked to is a special…

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