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  1. Re:Looking forwards... on AMD's Kaveri APU Debuts With GCN-based Radeon Graphics · · Score: 0

    Intel's IGP is not the same. It's true that it also uses the same L4 cache, but it is not the same address space. This means data will be duplicated as it needs to be copied from the CPU address space to the GPU address space, even if they share the same physical memory.

  2. Re:Looked into it for a friend's build on AMD's Kaveri APU Debuts With GCN-based Radeon Graphics · · Score: 1

    The APU is more like what an FPU was. Are you claiming FPUs are useless?

  3. Re:Net Neutrality was BAD. Full stop. on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    But the ISPs are saying that the last mile is congested. You're claiming that the issue is the trunk, not the last mile. The cheaper part of being an ISP is the trunk, it is cheaper than the last mile. To say "local content" is cheaper, is false in many situations. Once you get to a certain size, it is cheaper to pay for transit for Netflix traffic than it is to use one of their local CDNs. It's easy to scale bandwidth, it's much harder to scale a datacenter.

  4. Re:The future... on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    +1 scarey

  5. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    I know a few people who love the Metro UI. They navigate it as well as I navigate Win7. 99% of the time, my UI of choice is my Chrome browser or Steam. I rarely interact with the Window's UI anymore. Nearly everything I want to use is not accessed via Windows.

  6. Re: Decreased Costs on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    +9001, vote this up

  7. Re: Decreased Costs on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    Yes, take away her kids, mess them up for life and watch crime skyrocket. Enjoy.

  8. Re: Decreased Costs on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    Education and the removal of poverty. You must fix the family unit, then you will fix the poor from reproducing. Chicken and the egg. Unless you plan on mass executing the poor, you're going to need to educate them, keep their parents out of prison, and get them good jobs.

  9. Re: Decreased Costs on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    Around here, moving in with someone means you lose a large portion of your welfare benefits. In order to get the welfare, you must show your roommate's income. Is your roommate willing to give you their income and tax info?

  10. Re: Decreased Costs on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What are you going to do, put them in prison which costs $60k/year per person? Not helping costs more than giving them money.

  11. Re: here we go again... on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    A "flailing" of arms with a high bias, depending on gender and the object being presented. If it was random, then it shouldn't have had a strong bias.

  12. Re:This is the AP Comp Sci exam on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it completely messed up all of the analogies with the healthcare issue. People are too stupid to know what they need. They get it anyway in the end, we just want them to at least pay for it, and if they can't afford it, they get tax credits. But that's a different discussion. My point is the completely got the whole healthcare argument wrong, so why you'd want to use it to "prove" another issue is beyond me.

  13. Re:here we go again... on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    In the countries with 50:50 splits, women do engineering jobs because they pay well, not because they want to. Don't mix up wanting and having. Across countries, the ratio of women and men who want to do engineering is identical. This means a biological factor that surpasses even culture.

  14. Re:here we go again... on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Females show an adverse reaction to "tech" as early as 1 day old. Are you saying newborns have had time to be influenced? Show a newborn female a doll, and they are interested because it has a face. Show them toy car and they couldn't care less. Show a newborn boy a doll, and it's less interested, show it a car and it wants to grab and hold it.

    Actually, this is linked with testosterone levels during development. Females that had a mother with higher testosterone levels exhibited similar rates of wanting the car over the doll, and visa versa for boys. Guess which gender on average has higher testosterone levels?

    Other surveys, that have gone over many many years and over the top 40 countries, have found that interest levels in tech for women is nearly identical in every country, unaffected by culture. The rate of women actually in tech drastically varies, but many of those women don't enjoy it, they're only in it because they were pushed into it.

    Isn't this the polar opposite of our current issue? We argue that maybe more women would be in tech if we encouraged them. It turns out to be the opposite. They don't want to be in it, but if they are, it's because they were forced into it. The optimal percentage of women in tech should be about the same as the percentage that are interested in it.

  15. Re:This is the AP Comp Sci exam on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1

    That YouTube link was horrible at explaining something that doesn't pertain to this subject.

  16. Re: Seen it on the job: on Senior Managers Are the Worst Information Security Offenders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The value of money is relative to the cost of living. Keep your $100k/year job with $300k house and 3 hours commute. I'll stick with my lower paying job in a smaller town with a $100k house that is much larger than yours and 5 minute commute.

  17. Re:Safety on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    Except 99.5% of the time really just means 100% of the time in certain cases and 0% in other cases. If it's icy outside, you may want to manually drive. It's not like you won't know it's icy out. After a few generations, those cases will almost gone, except driving "off the grid", like dirt paths.

  18. Better Idea on Japan To Create a Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Better yet, use nuclear power designs that can't melt down to matter what. Plenty of them. Still, more knowledge on a subject is almost always a good thing. SCIENCE!

  19. Re:Put a fork in it, it's done. on FBI Edits Mission Statement: Removes Law Enforcement As 'Primary' Purpose · · Score: 1

    We're on a slippery slope. Just give it time, nay saying the president will become a crime.

  20. Re:Cue the climate change deniers ... on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    Global warming increases the std deviation and the mean. So yes, extreme cold and extreme hot are both signs of global warming as it is the signs of a system with more energy and it's trying to get rid of it, but can't.

  21. Re:Cue the climate change deniers ... on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    The last 9 years in a row have been the hottest on record, the other year over 13,000 cities around the world set record highs. Compared to estimated historic values, we are warming up about 20x faster than any other warm up in the past 1,500 years, and we are at a current high. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page3.php

    Turns out once you include the deep ocean, the ocean is warming about 10x faster than our atmosphere. It will be interesting to see what happens once the ocean's average temp starts to approach that of our atmosphere.

    We're not sure if we're the cause of current global warming, but warming it is. Is reducing waste such a bad thing that you'll say it's not worth it? What if you're wrong, then your mentality has doomed us, if we're wrong, meh, no harm done.

  22. Re:Threatning the midwest! on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    I was -24f today without windchill.

  23. Re:Yay more cores that I won't be using much of! on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're both correct. The original Atom cpu was built separately and started before the i7 arch. The new Silvermont "Atom" is based a lot of the i7 arch. It is a huge upgrade to the Atom line. It's like the original i7 fine tuned for power and running on 22nm. Very strong OoO pipeline design. The low power usage is great for a many core design because efficiently is more important than single-threaded performance.

  24. Re:Not cans on Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where do you put $1 coins when at the strip club?

  25. Re: Use public DNS on How One Man Fought His ISP's Bad Behavior and Won · · Score: 1

    Personally use 4.2.2.[1-6] I think they are provided by Level 3. Get great response time here in the Canadian Prairies.

    I've never trusted my ISP's DNS servers.

    Level 3 owns the entire 4.x.x.x /8. Almost ever IP address that starts with "4." is a Level 3 device. Some of L3's customers use some subnets of 4.x, but most L3 customers are enterprise, so they bring their own IP ranges.