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  1. Re:The work is more important than the idea on Linus Torvalds: Talk of Tech Innovation is Bullshit. Shut Up and Get the Work Done (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And yet none of them were available to me for the majority of my life. Why is that? It's because nobody had gotten around to the hard work of turning into something actually useful.

    I think a study of history would find that that we stand on the shoulders of giants in computing and too often claim old ideas as new. Indeed many useful implementations did exist. We should not use our inability to access something as an excuse to not recognize the amazing contributions of those before us.

    Sorry, I wish I could converse more, but spring is coming and I have a lawn to prepare.

    History of Parallel Computing https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca...

    History of Virtualization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Mother of All Demos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    History of the Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    History of Programming Languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re: What a clusterfuck on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Seems like Manning got taken to task and that didn't even involve top secret data.

  3. Re:Unfortunate realities on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    My I suggest Ada with just defined profiles?

  4. Re: Seems simple enough on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 1

    FAA has an airworthiness directive (not safet to fly) against certain cockpit displays in the 777 and 787 because susceptibility to WiFi causing the displays to blank. No always the passenger's device the FAA is worried about not being made correctly. http://blog.apex.aero/ife/faa-highlights-emi-safety-concerns-eve-expected-relaxation-rules-ped/

  5. Re:"fear" words et al on Data Mining Reveals the Emotional Differences In Emails From Men and Women · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the research paper:

    The lexicon has entries for about 24,200 word–sense pairs. The information from different senses of a word is combined by taking the union of all emotions associated with the different senses of the word. This resulted in a word-level emotion association lexicon for about 14,200 word types. These files are together referred to as the NRC Emotion Lexicon version 0.92.

  6. How True on The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) · · Score: 1

    The thing that disturbed me the most about his article was the last sentence:

    Indeed, the most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 is that in a society of enforced leisure, the most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work!

  7. Year of the Linux Desktop? on Valve Begins Listing Linux Requirements For Certain Games On Steam · · Score: 1

    I kid, I kid. But this in pretty cool.

    Of course this day is brought down by RMS

    Now if only there was theme to make Unity look like Pinterest I wouldn't have to convince my wife that Linux was better, she would just know.

  8. Re:ACA is a bridge to a other system at least in p on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 2

    Actually, the Democrats had to compromise to get the votes within themselves. There was no expected votes from Republicans, except maybe Senator Snowe. Senator Nelson was bought out by the Cornhusker kickback, which was removed in the reconciliation process anyways.

  9. Re:umm on Is Australia's CSIRO a Patent Troll? · · Score: 1

    If you file for patents on decade old techniques and then use those patents to sue for millions, you are a "troll"; regardless what else you do. How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million

  10. Re:sure it is on Chevy Volt To Resume Production One Week Early Following Record Sales · · Score: 1

    Serious question. What minivan are you driving? I'm going to be in the market soon.

  11. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    If you had to sell something to pay for the move than the cost was greater than $0 dollars.

  12. Re:Are you rich? Is your dad a senator? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the NDAA doesn't need care if you are a citizen for indefinite detention, see Section 1031.

  13. Re:VS on Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe · · Score: 1

    It's actually more likely to build resistance - because USians pay for their medicine, they are much less likely to complete a course of antibiotics.

    I disagree. Antibiotics aren't a recurring prescription. When you get the script it is for the full course. So you have to pay for the complete treatment or get nothing. There is no in-between.

  14. Re:china copys us stuff and pass it off as there o on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 5, Informative

    For example most microwaves are missing the ability to have constant output with variable power level. Now microwaves duty cycle unless you by the higher end Panasonic with "Inverter Technology". What was once standard component is now a differentiating feature for higher price models.

  15. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    Almost all of the stuff in the released documents were things that would have been reported in newspapers 50 years ago. But in this age of embedded journalism, military officers working as media pundits The People is missing the key ingredient to preventing war, understanding how terrible it is.

    Thank you, I glad to read that someone else understands.

  16. Re:Um, isn't java code GPL? on Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code · · Score: 1

    That is the current main use of Ada, but commercial software could benefit from some of those good practices.

  17. Re:At Last! on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: 1

    BTW. I filed last year taxes with the IRS using this feature. See the free file fillable forms options. The forms do a lot of the basic math calculations also.

  18. Re:Take the subway - or campaign for one to exist. on Should I Take Toyota's Software Update? · · Score: 1

    Actually horse were quite a problem for cities because of manure disposal and dead horses in the street during the industrial revolution. Cars ended up being the solution, not to imply that we still don't deal with a pile of shit from cities today.

  19. Re:Idiotic. on US Coast Guard Intends To Kill LORAN-C · · Score: 1

    It's planned but it's behind schedule and over budget. Also, reports in May 2009 are placing expectations that the GPS constellation will fall below 24 satellites with a possibility of loss of accuracy.

  20. Re:What did you expect? on Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations · · Score: 1

    Jury nullification exist in the US. Only juries are not told that they have the option and defense is not allowed to educate the jury about the option.

  21. Re:Impossible to operate? on LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird · · Score: 1

    How does a piece of bread dropped from the sky by a bid or airplane get on a busbar inside a building?

  22. Re:This kind of upsets me on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    If that means I get my "stimulus" money back.

  23. Re:Is it even necessary? on FCC/DOT Want High-Tech Cure For Distracted Driving · · Score: 1

    In Wisconsin, accidents related to cell phone usage have roughly equaled the reduction in accident drunk driving accidents for drivers under 21, leading to no net improvement for that category. Sadly, it is a problem, not just a bandwagon.

  24. Re:Poor QA on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 1

    The Patriot has at least 8 confirmed kills. Granted all occured in the second Iraq war, but we should stop spreading lies.

    http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2005-01-Patriot_Report_Summary.pdf

  25. Re:Also on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Programmers have been using 64bit programming for a long time. Use an __int64 in Visual Studio 6 and it ends up using the EAX and EDX registers to get the number of bits.

    People also forget that IA-64 is not the same as the IA-32e 64bit extensions to x86 most people use today. Microsoft did make Windows for the IA-64. Unfortunately the Itanium has been a flop except for HPC.

    The IA-128 is most likely another instruction set being research and developed by Intel.