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  1. Silver on High-end CPU Coolers Reviewed and Compared · · Score: 2

    If they are high-end, why are they silver and not black in colour?

  2. Re:Isn't that the same as saying no? on Chinese Seek Greater Say In UK Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    You're talking about the French, right?

  3. Re:No need for cameras. on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    Most GPS devices are inaccurate. They don't take elevation change, or even elevation at all in to the equation. D-GPS would be a better option, don't know any domestic GPS units to have them.

  4. Re:Uh huh on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only it didn't require power and A/C, and if only it didn't require support. Power costs for one of these beasts is most likely all by itself more than it would cost to buy a modern replacement.

    That's why we have OS X. It's powered by the users own sense of self importance.

    It's Unix certified too.

  5. Re:Yeah, but on 13-Inch Haswell-Powered MacBook Air With PCIe SSD Tested · · Score: 0

    It's an Apple product, of course it does. It gets its performance form the users sense of one's self-importance.

  6. Re:seems the Mac premium is disappearing on 13-Inch Haswell-Powered MacBook Air With PCIe SSD Tested · · Score: 2

    Any external USB CD-ROM drive works. They start at around $15.

  7. Re:Quite so! on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    It is not the technical skills and experience employees find lacking. It is teamwork and other soft skills, you're not going to get these from working in your basement on a open hardware project.

  8. Re:Quite so! on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    England.

  9. Re:Why Wouldn't It Be? on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Or why are universities not revalidating courses that are more software over EE.

  10. Re:Quite so! on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. As an bachelors with honours engineering graduate I find it almost impossible to get work. Companies are not willing to train people in-house. I'd like to know how many engineering graduates have passed through university and are now doing a job they are qualified to do, looking at 15, 10, 5 years and present day.

    I can't get a job because I haven't got the experience. I can't get the experience because I can't get a job. Catch 22.

  11. Re:Javascript can still be disabled on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    They usually click the button not know what it does. They have no idea what JS is.

  12. Re:Javascript can still be disabled on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 2

    To be honest, the amount of time I have been called out because someone "internet browser isn't working", the usual problem is someone has disabled images of JS.

  13. Re:Javascript can still be disabled on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    It will still remember the choice from your profile as it saves the preference of the toggle UI switch in prefs.js, which is also accessible to edit via about:config.

    If it is a new profile, you have always had to explicitly turn it off in the first place anyway. Quit trolling.

  14. Re:Of course they will. on Firefox OS Smartphones Launching, But Will Anyone Buy One? · · Score: 1

    I've bought two you insensitive clod!

  15. Re:More Battery Issues on Best Buy Recalls MacBook Pro Batteries · · Score: 3, Interesting
  16. Re:single zonally-accurate clock? on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    GMT, that would be the wrong time even in the UK.

  17. slower browsing on Opera Releases Its First Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    I really can't find Turbo mode, the only feature I liked in Opera while using MiFi to save bandwidth and when out in the middle of nowhere with poor reception.

  18. Re:faster bookmarks on Opera Releases Its First Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 5, Informative

    Beat me.

    Someone forgot to sign the version too, playing havoc on my Mac with saved passwords in keychain, dialogue popup for every saved password, I have hundreds of them. A known Chrome bug that's now in Opera Next.

  19. Re:Yes, let's bring that back on Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland · · Score: 2

    Clock speed, Moore's law, what have they got to do with computing power?

    Wirth's law is you enemy.

    Bremermann's limit is waiting for you Goaway.

  20. Re:Strange on Yahoo Board Approves a $1.1B Pricetag For Tumblr · · Score: 2

    I see the strategy. This and a service like Summly mixed together. Intelligent shared content on a huge scale. That could actually be something pretty awesome. Really make Twitter totally obsolete.

  21. Re:Good to know - Steve Hughes - What's wrong wit on In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter · · Score: 2

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b48_1305790944

    German's may not want to watch, in fear of being offended.

  22. Re:Good to know on In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Guess they'll ask to remove Hitler and nazi suggestions.

    Godwin's Law hit already. Geeze!

  23. US != The World

  24. Re:GPU is not that useful for audio on Realtime GPU Audio · · Score: 1

    It would be fanastic for us that work in the audio industry to have some sort of DSP acceleration coprocessors for audio, but there's not enough demand to make that affordable so we can only wait for GPUs to become more flexible and realtime friendly, or CPUs to become more parallel.

    You can very easily buy audio DSP co-processor quite cheaply. Connect via Firewire or USB, PCIe, or as a standalone unit.

    Pro Tools HD being one of the most widely used DSP co-processors. Write your own RTAS or AAX plugin, you can use the DSPs.

    If you really want to get down to prototyping, use Matlab and buy a SHARC dev board.

    DSP is being used in almost all audio hardware these days. Consoles, compressors, EQs, it's all going digital. The demand is huge.

  25. I live in the UK, don't think I have ever seen a F150. I see very few pickups too.