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  1. Re:One of these days .... on Uniloc Patent Case Against Rackspace Tossed for Bogus Patents · · Score: 1

    Software patents are just patents of thought processes. you can't think that way, I patented it!

  2. Re:How many licks does it take to get to the cente on Building Better Body Armor With Nanofoams · · Score: 1

    Ever try to set liquid fuel on fire? I think there are other properties than just "compressibility" that define gases and liquids.

  3. Re:Real topic: on JMS and Wachowskis Teaming Up for New Netflix Funded Scifi Series · · Score: 1

    Can they top Shark Week?

  4. Oversubscription on Ask Slashdot: Enterprise Bitcoin Mining For Go-Green Initiatives? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the power infrastructure is ready to handle every computer increasing power draw by 5x.

  5. Re:We always knew that on Mobile Phone Use Patterns Identify Individuals Better Than Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Anonymized means just that, to be anonymous. They still don't know who you are, only that you're the same person. Anonymous: "(of a person) Not identified by name; of unknown name."

  6. Re:Profound implications! on Mobile Phone Use Patterns Identify Individuals Better Than Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    The point isn't that they can identify who you are, but can have good reason to understand that you are the same anonymous person, entirely based on your habits. Even if your phone number was randomly generated every day, they could still track you, because you are the only person who does what you do the way that you do it.

  7. In Progress on Has Kickstarter Peaked? · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of outstanding KickStarter projects that are being waited on. Assuming these projects start to finish and depending on the quality of the end-products, the people waiting and other people watching will start to reinvest into other projects.

    Society as a whole isn't going to just keep throwing money at a relatively new idea until I gets more "proven".

  8. Re:I don't mind on You Don't 'Own' Your Own Genes · · Score: 1

    RIAA tried to sue Limewire for $75 trillion in damages. It's almost the same as $100 trillion. I don't see how it's more reasonable. http://www.pcworld.com/article/223431/riaa_thinks_limewire_owes_75_trillion_in_damages.html

  9. Re:VMware for free on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    You don't need to pay for anything "first". Anyone can get HyperV for free directly from Microsoft's site, no restrictions, and fully featured except for the GUI management. Luckily, everything the UI can do, powershell can do, and I do mean everything.

  10. Re:VMware for free on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    You can get HyperV for free and put Linux on it for free, with no limitations other than no pretty management UI.

  11. Re:Lesson: Licensing costs suck on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    OpenStack can also manage HyperV and bare-bones HyperV is free. And by "bare-bones", I mean doesn't come with a UI, otherwise has all of the other bells and whistles.

  12. Re:Depends on the bitrate on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 1

    Definition of "highs" may be different or my hearing may be different, so it is subjective to definitions and perceptions. Unless someone gives a frequency range with certain amplitude that is.

  13. Re:Depends on the bitrate on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 1

    I don't, but my ears feel like they want to "pop", like from a pressure differential, when listening to classical/jazz encoded in MP3. Popular music does not do this, but I assume that's because pop music is highly modified compared to a more "live" style music. My ears will actually start to ring after a bit from MP3 in these cases, but it does take a few minutes. It is very uncomfortable for me.

    Fortunately for me, I listen mainly to pop music, so my issues with MP3 doesn't matter much.

    I also find it interesting that I get a similar affect when I have only one ear covered with a headphone. This applies to all music for me. Even with the music quite turned down, if I only have one ear covered, that ear will feel like it wants to "pop", but within seconds of covering the other ear or stopping the sound, the sensation goes away. This sensation is almost identical to the above MP3 issue, but quite a bit stronger. This issue takes under 10 seconds for me to notice, while the MP3 issue takes more like 30 seconds. Really depends on the music.

  14. Re:Hmmm on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 2

    Those apps aren't going away (a lot are there to meet contractual/legal obligations and aren't trivial to redevelop / recertify)

    I have no sympathy for companies that used bad software. They're in their position because of bad business decisions in the first place.

  15. Re:Hmmm on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 2

    Your analogy assumes there were toilets in the first place. Some times it's better to bite the bullet and do things correctly instead of complaining about each time some fragile software breaks because of bad design and bad practice.

  16. Re:What is their to spoil? on Will Legitimacy Spoil Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    Same thing could be said about the dollar bill at some point in time.

  17. Re:Wow on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 1

    You sound warm.

  18. Re:I love working with PV cells on Bosch Finds Solar Business Unprofitable, Exits · · Score: 1

    We're just getting Chinese rare minerals below market value when they make cheaper solar cells. The last-laugh will be from us when we have land-fills full of "cheap" solar-cells and metal cookwear to supply use with materials in the future.

  19. Ogg 64Kbps sounds better than LAME 320Kbps in many sounds, and better across the board at 128Kbps. Either that test was about how well LAME can encode a 60hz single note or those people didn't have "golden ears".

    When a drummer hits a cymbal, the horribleness of MP3 is apparent. Just flip between the compressed and uncompressed in small samples of sound, like 2-3 seconds. It is night and day.

  20. Re:Depends on the bitrate on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No amount of equalizer tuning will fix a bad lossy compression. When I listen to any music with real horn, string, or cymbals, MP3 literally hurts my ears. It will give me an ear ache and a headache after only a minute or two of listening. Other better compression algorithms like ogg will not do this, even at higher volumes. Pop music does not have this issue for me.

  21. Re:Depends on the bitrate on Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For me, MP3 knocks out a lot of highs no matter the bitrate. Listening to most Jazz really brings out the flaws of MP3.

  22. Re:Might be important, but probably not... on Next-Gen Intel Chip Brings Big Gains For Floating-Point Apps · · Score: 2
    http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-xeon-phi-coprocessor-codename-knights-corner

    An important component of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor’s core is its vector processing unit (VPU), shown in Figure 5. The VPU features a novel 512-bit SIMD instruction set, officially known as Intel® Initial Many Core Instructions (Intel® IMCI). Thus, the VPU can execute 16 single-precision (SP) or 8 double-precision (DP) operations per cycle. The VPU also supports Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) instructions and hence can execute 32 SP or 16 DP floating point operations per cycle. It also provides support for integers.

  23. Re:Might be important, but probably not... on Next-Gen Intel Chip Brings Big Gains For Floating-Point Apps · · Score: 1

    Not all multi-threaded code is large matrix friendly and GPUs need large matrix math to become useful.

  24. Re:Nothing new on Researcher: Hackers Can Jam Traffic By Manipulating Real-Time Traffic Data · · Score: 1

    A local light at our busiest intersection went green for all strait traffic. Once people realized what was going on, people naturally started to take turns, even letting the "turn" lanes take their turn even though they were stuck red. It was actually faster than the regular way of the lights working.

  25. Re:still a crime on The Pirate Bay's Oldest Torrent Is Revolution OS · · Score: 1

    Downloading is fine in the USA also, it's the uploading while you download that gets you in trouble.