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  1. Re:Sweet on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IBM's later chips have AltiVec, even though they have nothing to do with Apple anymore.

  2. Re:But can I play Quake on it? on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 1

    You could probably set this up with a supercomputer displaying over parallel high-speed links to a medium-sized to large SGI Origin 3000-series.

  3. Re:Great on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    COBOL for supercomputers? I don't think so. More FORTRAN. COBOL is used for business code. These machines are primarily used for modeling.

  4. Re:Sweet on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. The PowerPC architecture is mostly a subset of POWER. The POWER processors have all of the instructions of PowerPC, plus more. And they're built a little more robustly, since they're designed for the enterprise server market.

  5. Re:Sweet on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I actually do have extra POWER hardware in my basement. And my living room. And my dining room.

  6. Re:Please note... on NVidia Reportedly Will Exit Chipset Business · · Score: 1

    A chipset is just a SET of multiple CHIPS working together to solve a problem. You're oversimplifying. There's nothing stopping nVidia from providing a chipset which implements the GeForce architecture.

  7. Re:The worst part on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then all a terrorist would have to do is to make life easier for the screeners. This is garbage. All of it.

  8. Re:Here we Go.... on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    There's one part you're missing... the difference isn't so much in the engine as in the transmission gearing.

  9. Re:Here we Go.... on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    He is indeed talking about GaAs, but in any case, there's InP and Ge remaining when the Ga is gone.

  10. Re:Here we Go.... on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    It would be a better idea to use mirrors rather than lenses. The lenses would have to be extremely large and unmanageably heavy. Mirrors could be light, spread over the ground, and segmented.

  11. Re:Here we Go.... on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Infrared is the wrong solution. You want to track shorter wavelengths, which pass through the atmosphere unimpeded. The infrared in the atmosphere is very diffuse when the sun is up, due to re-radiation from the ground and air.

  12. Re:I like blow jobs on Apple After Jobs · · Score: 1

    Or it just plain wasn't funny...

  13. Re:Try Dubai.. on Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World? · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is a "borse"?

  14. Re:Hardware on Microsoft's "Mojave Experiment" Teaser Site Goes Live · · Score: 1

    public void Pot()
    {
            Kettle.black();
    }

  15. Not so simple. on Paul Vixie Responds To DNS Hole Skeptics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Only if you have a method for authenticating the other side of the phone conversation.

  16. Re:my $0.02 on How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't have even written the program.

  17. Bleh! on Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater · · Score: 1

    Hoard != Horde

    Bleh!!!

  18. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    It has all those (except for the Linux part, but that's a red herring), and can carry a sizeable BGP feed and talk DECnet and ATM and do all sorts of other stuff the Linksys doesn't even try doing.

  19. Re:poison? on P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the morality lesson of the day, Mr. Coward. Or can I call you Anonymous?

  20. Re:It needs Azureus? on P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    void Pot()
    {
              Kettle(black);
    }

  21. Google Spelling Correction on P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I absolutely HATE Google spelling correction. It often tries to correct obscure words I haven't misspelled and gives me far too many irrelevant hits. It also forces me to go back and add quotes around everything. It sucks.

    I also don't like that they drop punctuation out of their search terms. Sometimes I WANT to search for ";;" or something.

  22. Re:I had no clue people still upgraded firmwares. on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    I didn't make any recommendation per se, I was just mentioning that the WRT54G is not a panacea: there are things the 1800-series does better. You may not need those, but if you do, the device is available.

  23. Re:Resurrecting ancient extinct species... on Bits of Tassie Tiger Brought Back from Extinction · · Score: 1

    I think it's our responsibility, using genetic engineering, to create rapidly-breeding predatory animals and rapidly-mutating virii to ensure that the Earth will be rid of us once and for all.

  24. Re:First Save the ones on the verge of extinction on Bits of Tassie Tiger Brought Back from Extinction · · Score: 1

    I would LOVE to have a miniature pet lap-elephant! That would kick ass!

  25. Re:First Save the ones on the verge of extinction on Bits of Tassie Tiger Brought Back from Extinction · · Score: 1

    I don't hate America per se. I hate mankind in general.
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/misanthrope