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  1. Re:which patents? on Samsung Seeking Ban of iPhone 4S in Europe · · Score: 1

    If you can't spot the equalities, I seriously suggest you see a brain surgant, because something must have realy went wrong with the cognitive developments in your brain before your birth...

    Yes, Samsung copied the GUI, just as much as Apple totaly ripped of Xerox icons concept. This is such a tiny ant-fucking-small nittpicking bullshit argument...

  2. Re:Lameness on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    Visionary my ass. He had the best speeches. I watched every WWDC, even though I'm a militant hater of everything Apple.

    Apple, under his command, stole everything they could from Xerox, Braun (design, including the clickwheel) and LG (iPhone 4 design from the LG Prada phone) to even Samsung (iPad design from a digital picture frame).

    Steve was awesome. His company (Apple) was a total ripoff.

  3. Re:which patents? on Samsung Seeking Ban of iPhone 4S in Europe · · Score: 1

    Copy designs? I don't know, but who's copying who here? Look at this pre-iPad released Samsung picture frame:
    http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/03/samsungpictureframe.jpg

    Or how about the iPhone 4, I mean, LG Prada that got released in 2006?:
    http://www.letsgomobile.org/images/reviews/0019/lg-prada-1c.jpg

    You tell me, what's so original about the iPhone 4 and iPad? Seems like Apple is the one who's copying.

  4. Re:and salvation is in da cloud on The Nine Circles of IT Hell · · Score: 1

    You don't have to do it exactly like Nasa; there's always boss over boss, so to speak.

    What you can do is plan, write your entire program in UML first, with carefull thinking.

    If your boss sais: "I want this right now!", then you give your planning to your boss and you say "Go write it, then" and he'll be all like "WTF... That amount of paperwork?!". "100 times more complexity than your sportscar, boss. What... You thought we were alien?".

    Go make 9-5 days in casual, but corporate fancy clothes. If your boss comes running in like a lunatic, you look at him with your corporate, calm look and ask him if he wants to cool down first. Make it look like you know WTF you're doing.

  5. Re:and salvation is in da cloud on The Nine Circles of IT Hell · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No. The only salvation is professionalism.

    I realise that I will be shot for saying this, but how come that the only thing that's running horribly in an entire company, is the IT department?

    There is a way to just make near-bug-free software on time and the evidence for that rediculous claim is NASA.

    I took the liberty of finding the answer to everyone's horror. But before you click on it, you do have to realise that your playground will be over once implementing the solution.

    All text-only print-format before your head realy explodes out of anger (ofcourse): http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print

  6. Re:Dangerous on Ask Slashdot: How to Exploit Post-Cataract Ultraviolet Vision? · · Score: 1

    It just so happens that when you heat those "inorganically" formed cells, they replicate under high temperatures and create daughter cells.

    So you were saying?

  7. Re:Dangerous on Ask Slashdot: How to Exploit Post-Cataract Ultraviolet Vision? · · Score: 0

    If you define life as a composition of bacteria, then... Maybe.

    However... All life is made out of bacteria. Bacteria are well known to be able to live (and even if not; then hibernate) anywhere.

    Do considder that the Earth isn't the only source of life. There is numerous evidence that Earth is not the only place where bacteria form into logic based shapes.

    For example: we've had meteors visiting our atmosphere and rained down in organic shaped forms. One event has been the wel documented 'blood rain' in India. Lab analysis showed red blood cells without DNA.

    So the conclusion of my post would be that there is no ground for saying "well... Biology can't stand UV light".

  8. Re:Is performance really an issue? on Tom's Hardware Pits Newest Firefox, Opera and Chrome Against Each Other · · Score: 2

    Don't forget that you can count full HD 1080p movie streaming and soon WebGL to that list. The web is becomming partialy not just streaming content, but also software to run it.

    CSS and Javascript are non-binary works of Widgets and that has to be run in a user proces.

    I wouldn't cringe if I were you; new abstraction layers always cause a performance hit. This has been going on for ages:
    -From assembly to C;
    -From CLI to GUI;
    -From simple framebuffer rendering to Compositing;
    -From static to dynamic GUIs;
    -From 2D to 3D games;
    -From OpenGL to Raytracing;
    -From triangles to voxels.

    Acknowledge things move beyond their previous itterations, and also except that Slashdot would be a pain to navigate in HTMLv1, for example...

  9. Re:Well, 85% of scientists are wrong, then. on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    That depends on what theory you believe in and how you look at it. If you're talking about a third dimensional container (like ether) being nessecairy to hold another two dimensional universe; that might not nessecairily be needed.

    However if we were to go with the more controversional theory that the big bang got created by colliding universes causing a 'ribble' in the plane of our universe (string stuff) then we do need a third dimensional 'ether/container'.

    Of course if we're talking about Lisi's theory; the universe is a coral with all possible branches, then you are totaly correct.

  10. Re:Where the Hell is panel decoupled from shell? on GNOME 3.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Mutter is the Gnome 3's EGL accelerated window manager.

    Metacity with Intel's Clutter EGL library.

    Fun fact: Mutter is German for Mother.

  11. Re:Well, 85% of scientists are wrong, then. on Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly · · Score: 1

    It's actually kind of funny that according to science; the earth is flat, just like the rest of the universe, but that it's represented to us holographicaly and therefore it appears to us as a three dimensional allignment of matter.

    It seems as if you don't know anything about both subjects at all. All you do was look at a photograph of the earth and prematurely jumped to a very unscientific conclusion.

  12. Re:One step closer to "Ghost in the Shell" on Scientists Restore Lost Brain Function In Rat With Synthetic Device · · Score: 1

    If we can replace a cell with something that acts just like a healthy brain cell, then yes, I would still be me.

    However; replacing an entire brain region with a chip that acts the same and is compatible with the brain, but is not your brain, then... no.

    I don't care if my brain works with biological cells or Lego, as long as it still IS my brain.

  13. Re:One step closer to "Ghost in the Shell" on Scientists Restore Lost Brain Function In Rat With Synthetic Device · · Score: 1

    Define alive after some part of your brain has been replaced by a computer chip... In this particular case it's a small instinctive piece of brain with predictable behavior that got replaced. In the worst cases you'd lose some fear dissorder, because fear lives there.

    But given that this is just a chip; it's not your brain. Essentialy you replace your brain with all it's distinctions and quirks with a processor that just acts like as it is (some part of) a brain, but it's not.

    Way too scary to actualy think about this... You'd probably look as if you'd be human again, but the question is if you'd even know it yourself...

  14. Re:No human motivation needed; scrap capitalism. on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    As long as they can keep their two villa's and five sportcars... why not?

    Let's say that they would be rewarded for their aprov- er... revolutionary insights that led humanity forward.

  15. Re:yo dawg on Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor · · Score: 1

    Correction: Worthless for floating point.

  16. Re:yo dawg on Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor · · Score: 1

    I saw a T4 blade version with 300GB costing around 600 euro's and a terminal costing around 100 euro's, so I figured that a rack/workstation could add up to just around a 1000 dollars. But according to the replies, this is probably impossible to get (1) and worthless for anything that doesn't float (2).

    Sadly...

  17. Re:Single thread performance on Oracle Demos New SPARC T4 Processor · · Score: 1

    A lot of CPUs in one CPU with low power consumption sounds nice, but that sounds a lot like a GPU setup to me.

    Given that GPGPUs are taking over, I smell that they are in need for another problem. My guess is that this powerhouse is seriously going to kick Intel in the balls with Intels failing demonstrations of realtime raytracing.

    So where can I get my hands on a Sparc workstation? >:-)

  18. No human motivation needed; scrap capitalism. on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    We invented money, so that people would step up to clean sewers, build shit they didn't want to build out of themselves, etc.

    So when we can have robots do all the shitwork for us, we can scrap money and start thinking about the future.

    What if everybody could just persue their dreams? Think of it as "I want to make my own OS", "I want to solve environmental issues" and "I want to be the next Mozart".

    We don't need the money. Likewise that also scraps communism and all these derivatives, if that's what you're thinking...

    Let's all freaking evolve our society into something worth living for!

  19. Re:quantum repeaters??? on Will Quantum Computing Make It Out of the Lab? · · Score: 1

    that's not a quantum system... that's what the internet is now.

    No shit, Sherlock. But it's not quantum based. How else do you want to make a fully working quantum computer, if you can't have a quantum based network 'card'?

    PS: Google starting English sentences with capitals...

  20. Re:Will Quantum Computing make it out of the lab? on Will Quantum Computing Make It Out of the Lab? · · Score: 1

    Now you'll never know its momemtum...

  21. Re:quantum repeaters??? on Will Quantum Computing Make It Out of the Lab? · · Score: 1

    We're talking internet right here. The problem faced with long-distance quantum stuff is that the bigger the lenght of the channel, the higher the probability of error.

    So how do you implement this? You make a shitload of entangled particle pairs in such a way that it works like an error-correction-protocol (computers, hmkey? They proces, duh) and then send the result by means of more entagled particle pairs to the next repeater, or until the package has reached its destination.

    You could have Googled that, you know...

  22. Re:Awesome on Microsoft Patents Module-Based Smartphone · · Score: 1

    No and I definately don't want to reduce the efficiency further...

  23. Re:Faster, yes, but... on The Mythical Tunnel Between CERN and Central Italy · · Score: 1

    This math-soup is getting pretty rediculous...

  24. Re:Awesome on Microsoft Patents Module-Based Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the current state of wireless power is that it isn't 100% efficient (which is kinda obvious). So you probably don't want to shave 25% battery life off of your mobile...

  25. Re:War Chest on Microsoft Patents Module-Based Smartphone · · Score: 1

    I don't know what's worse:
    -Microsoft being a patent troll, or;
    -Stupid companies buying it.