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  1. Re:Deserved on Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics · · Score: 1, Informative

    If it details how FDR made a minor recession into the Great Depression, it should be dismissed outright.

    GNP fell 31% between 1929 and 1932. Roosevelt was inaugurated in 1933. In 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937 GNP rose by 7.7%, 8.1%, 14.1% and 5%. In 1938 there was a slight recession and then in 1939 GNP went up by 7.9%.

    Note that Calvin Coolidge was extremely Laissez-Faire and he was the man behind the wheel most of the time in the events leading up to the depression, followed by Hoover who was only slightly less Laissez-Faire... and GNP fell every year under his term.

    In short, you fail at history!

  2. Re:Nope on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 2

    But does the circuitry to do this live on the reader side or the card side?

  3. Re:This is a huge amount of work on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, before we can say "maintaining quality" we need to let the kernel live in the real world for a little bit. Let's make sure motherboards aren't catching fire and disks aren't walking before we get too carried away.

  4. Re:Get with the times... on Odd Planet Confuses Scientists · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comprised of PS3? It will be hotter than the sun if someone turns that thing on and starts folding!

  5. Re:Obligatory on Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced · · Score: 1

    There is, it's called System.Collections.Generic.Lust.

  6. It's funny... on Optical Character Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting · · Score: 1

    ... we do work for handwriting recognition at the company I work at currently, using 3rd party packages along with a lot of our own special sauce to improve accuracy.

    It ends up being pretty good with high quality scanned documents... the only time we end up with trouble is with low resolution faxes.

  7. Maybe people are missing this... on Report Says China Will Demand Source Code · · Score: 1

    But we aren't just talking about drivers here, I imagine we're talking about hardware description language code as well.

  8. Re:I'm trusting the summary this time on An Open Source Legal Breakthrough · · Score: -1, Troll

    So that's why your mother charges me for sex.

    HEYO!

  9. Re:Whiskey? on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    Laphroaig makes an excellent 10 year old single malt. They tend to be a lot more traditionalist (read super-hardcore) about their methods of production though.

  10. Re:Whiskey? on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, actually, very few Australian wines are made with charred oak chips for flavor, except maybe the cheap mass produced stuff. The vast majority of decent wooded Australian wines are aged with properly coopered American or French oak barrels just like good wine everywhere. The earlier industrial fermentation stages may often be more industrial, with fermentation vats and industrial machinery, but the aging is usually done the old fashioned way.

  11. Re:yes and no on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 1

    Proved by "real science" in the last 10 years:
    1) That a blanket keeps you cool at night
    2) To warm up, you should take off all your clothes and lay down in the snow at night.
    3) If you live in a really hot place, you should paint your entire house and all your pets black to keep them cool.

    Let's keep turning over simple laws of physics! Thermodynamics is a giant con!

    *cough* *cough*

  12. Re:Misleading summary on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    The server versions of Windows are perfectly fine for transaction processing, if set up correctly. I've worked as a coder on systems processing more transactions per second than this and they ran fine both on Solaris and Windows (Linux isn't an option in most of these environments). All you do on Windows is get a stable minimalistic hardware platform that only does what it needs, with stable enterprise level hardware. Then you stop or remove everything running on the box that doesn't need to be there, then you run a long integration and testing regime with lots of stress tests. There are Windows based transaction processing systems I know of that have not gone down once in 8+ years of operation.

  13. Re:Still don't know why... on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    No, the JVM is a buggy piece of crap that does weird things like incorrect handling of signals and randomly deadlock itself in the background. It's always nice to see what should be a single threaded Java application deadlock on-exit or a native application that uses the JNI to invoke randomly failing at something because the JVM got whacky with signal handlers. Having worked with both Java and .NET for many years now... they both have their problems, but give me .NET anytime over Java.

  14. Re:Oh, my. on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    In transaction servers like that it's not unusual to write to battery backed RAM and then check-point that periodically to disk.

  15. Re:Using Microsoft for a 5-nines SLA? Is that a jo on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I have to laugh at your ignorance of .NET. It's perfectly suitable for a 5-nine SLA; pick on Windows or pick on the hardware they chose, but .NET as a development platform for a heavy transaction server is perfectly fine and better than picking a dynamically typed scripting language, the buggy abomination which is Java or the error prone C++.

  16. A process per tab? on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    Well, I for one can't wait to be Rick-Roll-fork-bombed. But in all seriousness, giving each tab (each Javascript instance as well?) it's own process is a nice idea in theory, but has a bunch of problems in practice. Extra resources, longer start up time, slower synchronization primitives, having to use slow IPC and many other problems. Of course, they could be using the term "process" very liberally here (they mention having their own task manager), but they do talk about separate address spaces. A thread pool with some sort of separately maintained "heaps" for virtual processes that can be recycled seem like a better way to go.

  17. Re:Right... on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 1

    I think the point may have been more that you are much more likely to already have a computer to view porn and if you don't it's by choice... the poor person might be lucky to have a stuck together playboy they found in the trash. So instead of giving you two computers to watch porn when you can already watch porn on one, now you and your third world buddy can jack off together on webcam while watching porn! EVERYBODY WINS!

  18. Re:Right... on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 1

    Well, she could have patented it to protect the idea from other people stealing it, beating her to market and exploiting the worlds poor with cheap knock offs.

  19. Re:Think Antarctica on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    Hardcore gaming is a small percentage of PC users, casual gaming isn't. Even casual gamers are starting to expect more graphically these days, just like desktop users are expecting things to be pretty. Vista comes with a 3D chess game for example.

  20. Welcome to the third world... on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Which of the following classifies your state as third world: A) When the state government can not meet it's obligations to pay it's workers the full wage (hey, just what you need when your house value has dropped 40% and you're going to miss a mortgage payment!). B) You have a COBOL system in place to do your state payroll. C) You have a minimum wage of $6.55 (or $8) when many other 1st world countries have a minimum wage twice that. D) You elect someone who's brain (and likely testes) were damaged by steroid use to lead your state. E) All of the above.

  21. Now... on Drug Halts Decline In Alzheimer's Patients · · Score: 1

    ... let's hope sufferers can rember to take the medication regularly.

  22. Re:There's a Reason for That on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 1

    That and it takes that 10 years for the specifications to seep through the military bureaucracy when the plane already "works".

  23. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Actually, they only had physical evidence that her blood was in the car. Someone could have bled her to death and dumped the still fresh blood in Hans's car.

  24. A good high-end kodak scanner on Digitizing Old Magazines? · · Score: 1

    Will suit your needs fine. We have clients that do much older more fragile documents in the flatbeds of those. Now you just have to find someone who'll let you use their very expensive batch scanner with a flatbed attachment...

  25. Re:They are listening on OEMs Looking to Ubuntu for Netbook Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Totalitarian? Look, I'm sure locked inside your bunker it seems like you have an excess of "freedom", but to those of us outside most of your system is a laughable broken joke. From the Gerrymandering, to a broken and non-uniform polling system, to outrageous financial influence peddling, to political influence in the voting system itself, your democracy is more busted than a whore's hymen. Your patent and copyright laws are some of the most restrictive in the world, you are spied on by the powers at be at will and your government constantly favors the biggest corporate interests over those of the common public. So how are those guns doing for you at preventing the outbreak of totalitarian government?