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  1. Re:This all seems kind of wonky on Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share · · Score: 1

    Same thing as comparing Windows vs. Macs.

    I guess Google is trying to pull MS in the 80s/90s with cell phones today.

  2. Re:Painful on Preserving Great Tech For Posterity — the 6502 · · Score: 5, Informative

    6502 made up for lack of registers with extra addressing modes, but they were relatively uniform across the instruction set, making the instruction set simpler and more orthogonal, whereas many x80 instructions designate specific (and different) registers for operand, making the instruction set rather ugly. You could see the nasty root of x86 instruction set even then, although, as you said, it wasn't so bad because 8080/z80 was much simpler.

    6502 didn't have multiply either, and it's true z80 was more powerful in several ways.

  3. Re:"Machine Language for Beginners" on Preserving Great Tech For Posterity — the 6502 · · Score: 1

    Same here. Once they started throwing in real/protected modes and MMUs, I knew I was far from the "metal".

  4. Re:Painful on Preserving Great Tech For Posterity — the 6502 · · Score: 2

    Way simpler than 8080/Z80.

  5. Rudakrus on French Minister Sells Surveillance Legislation With Fake Benefits · · Score: 0

    That's inconceivable.

    I have no idea what the fuck this is about.

  6. Guess on When Smart People Make Bad Employees · · Score: 1

    I'd bet a good small portion of the crowd here falls into one (or more) of those categories, in varying degree.

    Of course, you age and mellow out, and hopefully wise up. Or else.

  7. Re:The Gnome on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    They tasered you, bro?

  8. Re:Begging on Wikipedia Meets $16M Budget Goal · · Score: 1

    Public radio do have good amount of ads. You know all those sponsor messages that their announcers sneak in at each break and at the beginning/end of some syndicated shows?

    "Commercial-free" is a sneaky phrase.

  9. Kids these days on How Do You Prove Software Testing Saves Money? · · Score: 1

    I don't have a solution to your problem, but I can tell you the shit only gets worse.

    You're welcome. :)

  10. Re:Already debunked on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    Well, you "right" is our pinko commie raving lefty fringe. :-)

  11. Re:Hmmmmm on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    Why not?

  12. Re:Yes it does. on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 2

    Better yet, "statistical evidence". Unreproducible stat evidence is oxymoron.

  13. Re:Stupid is as stupid does. on Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sometimes, natural selection comes up short. But sooner or later...

  14. Re:Mugabe on Wikileaks and Democracy In Zimbabwe · · Score: 1

    Nice job, you Brits did.

  15. Those little... on German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pay up, you little bastards.

  16. Re:he's right on Mathematics As the Most Misunderstood Subject · · Score: 2

    But when the "amateur" proof turns out to be correct, the work is duly recognized in math, like that of the Russkie recluse. But no such luck in philosophy where "correct" is a malleable concept.

  17. Fast remote X connection... on NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Such a niche tech. Who are their customer base?

  18. Idle? on Woman Sues Google Over Street View Shots of Her Underwear · · Score: 0

    Why is this filed under "idle"? This is important shit.

    Anyone got the woman's pics?

  19. Re:Color me Stupid on Obama FCC Caves On Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    If you'd stopped drinking cool aid, you wouldn't ask such a stupid question.

  20. Spilled milk on Google Declines To Turn Over Harvested Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    Don't know which is worse, Google collecting it, or it being turned over to government.

  21. Re:Obligatory on Microsoft Puts the Kibosh On Kinect Sex Game Plans · · Score: 1

    You one of those that don't take "no" for an answer, eh.

    Pro Tip: Don't go to Sweden. ;-)

  22. Re:Poof. on Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? · · Score: 2

    Let this be a lesson to all who think about majoring in art history or philosophy and smoke pot all thru four years.

  23. No relationship between cost and quality on Is Going To an Elite College Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    The only choice is between state/public schools and private schools, as cost of private school do not vary according to quality/reputation.

    USC costs about the same as Stanford, and I know where I would send my kids between these two. On the other hand, if it was Berkeley vs. Standford, the cost would be a big factor.

  24. Real Culprit on Free Radicals May Not Be Cause of Aging · · Score: 2

    Free radicals don't cause aging, staring at Perl code does. Drives you to drink and makes you lose hair, too.

  25. Re:Obama achieved something on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    True. You either accept gays into service, or you don't. It was a crap compromise to keep the gays in at the time, but it's long past its expiration date.