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  1. Re:Anthropometrics on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You silly person, that's not how customers think. They will choose the cheapest offer, and complain about the quality. Your only hope is to not offer such cheap options.

  2. Re:Switching is too hard? on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Says Switching ISPs Is Too Hard · · Score: 1

    In my city, ISPs have access keys to most apartments. Whenever I've called an ISP to install, they'd just stop over and start drilling. As long as you lived there, they'd do almost anything you wanted. When fiber came to town, the ISP started running fiber to not just apartments, but houses, even non-customers. Not a customer? Doesn't matter, they have right-of-way access and will dig up your lawn. Part of the reason people don't like too many ISPs.

    It was funny when they installed fiber at my apartment. They didn't want to run the fiber under the driveway to get to another house, so they trenched around my apartment and through someone else's backyard, who was not a customer. This is normal if you live in the city.

  3. Re:question it nonsensical on Should Cyborgs Have the Same Privacy Rights As Humans? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the brain is just a computer and should be treated as one under law. Laws should only care if the computer is self aware. Cyborg is just an augmented human, but still a human, which is a self aware computer.

  4. Re: Is there any point continuing GCC's developmen on LLVM 3.5 Brings C++1y Improvements, Unified 64-bit ARM Backend · · Score: 1

    The GCC team is merging with LLVM. Even they think GCC is hopeless in the long run.

  5. Re:Tick/Tock has become NOP/NOP on Intel Discloses Core M Broadwell Speeds, Feeds and Performance Expectations · · Score: 1

    Many data centers are entirely limited by power and cooling. Advances in power savings indirectly increases speeds. Not to mention smaller batteries.

  6. Re:Imagine, a Beowulf cluster of these! on Intel Discloses Core M Broadwell Speeds, Feeds and Performance Expectations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Smartphones CPUs use more along the lines of 0.2watt max with below 0.01watt idle.

  7. Re:Isn't that cutting it kinda close on Newly Discovered Asteroid To Pass Within Geostationary Orbit Sunday · · Score: 1

    But not to your house. At least there's a lot of ocean to land in.

  8. Re:Great idea at the concept stage. on UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP · · Score: 1

    Most IPv4 hardware can't handle modern Internet speeds, which are increasing 50% every year. Some newer tech is improving closer 3x per year. You'll get left in the dust sticking with IPv4 only infrastructure hardware for big networks.

  9. Re: It ain't no Team Fortress Classic on Changing the Rules of a 15-Year-Old Game: Quake Live Update Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    I remember when it was called QuakeSpy. The days of getting snipped in the water of 2fort and asking "how did you see me?!", to get a response of "QuakeGL with a Voodoo". I eventually got a Voodoo2 12MB, which had a 4MB frame buffer and two sets of 4MB texture buffers, one for each TMU, but the textures were duplicated, so wasted memory. The Voodoo2 could process "textels", which allowed a single layer of transparent textures with almost no performance cost. I purchased an after market Stealth cooler, because the basic card didn't use a heatsink

    I used that Voodoo2 all the way into CounterStrike. I played on the first public beta. At many times, there were no people online playing CS, so I would hang out in the lowest ping server waiting. With about 3-8 CS servers to choose from, there wasn't much choice. It seems there are a few more CS servers these days.

  10. Re:Memory decline on Magnetic Stimulation Boosts Memory In Humans · · Score: 1

    I watch A LOT of anime, like 2-12 hours per day, but my day job involves a lot of thinking, and my general hobbies involve a lot of thinking and reading/learning. I'm on /., so use whatever stereotype.

    An example is I was also very interested in Japanese many years back in college, around 22. I started to to self teach the Hiragana. I only made it a small way in because I had issues remembering the characters, even though I spent over a month trying to remember them. I'm now 30 and I have recently taken up trying to learn Japanese again, and in two days, I had the entire Hiragana memorized to where I could quickly read the characters. That's a HUGE difference in ability to remember. Same thing with the Katakana.

    For nearly my entire life, I've had issues remembering people's names. It took me months to learn the names of the people who sat next to me in class throughout my entire schooling life. Even post graduation, it took me months to learn the under 10 people's names that I worked with every day. Now I hear a name once, and I almost always remember it.

    I must say that my interest have recently changed in the past few years. I feel as if I'm learning less and less new stuff in my field of expertise and my interest in other stuff that I used to hate(mostly because of my lack to remember stuff), like history or other cultures, has dramatically increased. It's kind of strange, because I'm highly introverted, but my quest to learn is forcing me to go outside my normal areas of comfort that I have had for my entire life until now.

  11. Memory decline on Magnetic Stimulation Boosts Memory In Humans · · Score: 2

    I have actually found my memory has been getting better with age, but I had a horrible memory as a child. I've been finding that the more I learn, the more ways I have to associate knowledge, allowing me to better recall or learn new knowledge.

  12. Re:This is a myth that is not true on Research Shows RISC vs. CISC Doesn't Matter · · Score: 1

    9) This is how x86 has been doing it for decades. Does not matter if it's wrong, it's how it's done.

  13. Re:Netflix support? on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    You can use Chrome 38 beta in Linux to watch Netflix natively via HTML5 because of the DRM module. Not sure if it's in 37, but it is alive and working in beta.

  14. Re:Stability improvements? on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    "Stability" in the context of video rendering can also include not noticing rendering jitter because of increased performance or more "stable" performance.

  15. Re:The tabs are slightly sucky on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 1

    Using the newest version of Firefox at work, I have this lovely issue where our intranet website causes Firefox to hesitate for about 10 seconds, during which I can't even change tabs. Not only does Chrome fully load the page about 2x-3x faster, but I can switch tabs while it's rendering.

  16. Re:Why not a master password for the PW manager? on Chromium 37 Launches With Major Security Fixes, 64-bit Windows Support · · Score: 2

    Windows does not only save encrypted data for a user that can be decrypted by any application, but also on a per user+application basis. This way no other application can decrypt the data. I would assume Chrome uses this part of the API. Of course this assumes no flaws in design and implementation.

  17. Re:Mod parent to infinity on Climate Scientist Pioneer Talks About the Furture of Geoengineering · · Score: 1

    Hyrdo contributes more per watt to the greenhouse effect than coal. All that methane created by anaerobic processes is much worse than CO2 at trapping heat.

  18. Re:Flip the switch on Fermilab Begins Testing Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    I thought the saying was as soon as we figure everything out, the current universe will be destroyed and a new and crazier one will be created.

  19. Re:Sperm to frogs on Why Do Humans Grow Up So Slowly? Blame the Brain · · Score: 1

    maybe every 2 months if you're near the peak

    Try every few days. I remember the annoyance of making sure I cleaned out the pipes before sleeping over at anyone's house. During my peak, it wasn't uncommon to take care of business a few hours before bed and still having the issue.

    There was an interview with some astronauts that mentioned they just had some more professional sounding phrase of something like 'private time'. Not to mention the prostate cancer risk between daily and monthly release is about 3x worse for monthly. This has been found in several independent studies around the world, and it's a very consistent ratio. The doctors said to start young and be consistent. Most of your cancer risk from lack of release seems to "build" during your teen to early 30s.

    They still don't know if it's causational or not, but it is extremely correlated to a very low margin of error.

  20. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I hear real servers can go from tens of minutes down to tens of seconds because of the number of devices that need to be registered. Parallel initialization and loading, it helps.

  21. Re:Aids not the problem on 13-Year-Old Finds Fungus Deadly To AIDS Patients Growing On Trees · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great way to get rid of the Flu or Cold.

  22. Re:Or... on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 1

    Gamers are people who spend time

    It's not just "spend time", "gamer" also implies a certain amount of obsession. "Casual gamer" covers the gamut, but just "gamer" is between Casual and Hardcore. I would bet that most people, who others consider to be gamers, would also add that just spending time does not make one a gamer, but also the amount of zealously one has while playing their games.

  23. Re:Amazing on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 1

    I think marketing just sullied the word "gamer" by including people who play casual mobile games. Playing candy crush on a bus does not a gamer make. A "gamer" is someone who lives and breaths gaming, not "someone who plays games". The whole point of the term was to distinguish them from the normal populace of people who play games. If someone is playing candy crush something like 4+ hours while at home while the rest of their family feels neglected, then I think they could earn that title. But the other main point is that it's a life style, and not a briefly lived fad.

  24. Re:tax by transaction on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 1

    Groceries are not taxed, may want to use another example.

  25. Re: "Not eradicated" isn't needed on New Research Suggests Cancer May Be an Intrinsic Property of Cells · · Score: 1

    Most people get cancer after they've reproduced, so there is virtually no evolutionary pressure.