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Embedded systems are computer systems that are designed to perform a specific task. They are typically used in cars, appliances, and medical equipment. Embedded systems are often real-time systems, meaning they must respond to events quickly.
Wagner James Au has a writeup and pictures from a recent “in-world” labor protest that took place in Second Life. The company in question: IBM. The aggrieved: 1850 avatars, including some bananas and triangles. Link. Original link is https://boingboing.net/2007/09/27/bananas-and-triangle.html
News that IBM has a corporate campus in Second Life is so last year ago. Launching a union protest against IBM in Second Life is where it’s at now. At least according to John Wood of Tigmoo, a blog network for UK labor unions, with a site in SL. “An Italian labor union RSU is […]
Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago. Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, until 2018, the lead developer of the Linux kernel, the operating system kernel for most Linux […]