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  1. Re:Desktop on 48-Core Chips Could Redefine Mobile Devices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fully agree:

    5 years ago, the top of the line Intel consumer desktop CPU's had 4 cores.
    today, the top of the line Intel consumer desktop CPU's have 4 cores.

    So, get to it please! :)

  2. That square thingie on One Screen, Multiple Views · · Score: 1

    What's up with that square object they need to put on top of it and move around to see some small personalized part? It doesn't seem practical if you need to place something on top of it just to view something...

  3. Re:WoW! on 17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable · · Score: 2

    I skimmed through it, and this book is quite amazing! Almost 400 years old and still you can learn from it. I didn't know books like this were around back then. It looks almost modern.

  4. People are still doing this today on From a NAND Gate To Tetris · · Score: 1

    in Minecraft.

  5. 65 years minus 1 day on Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Interesting, if that's so then exactly 65 years minus 1 day after the first human to cross the sound barrier in an airplane, we have the first human to cross the sound barrier without airplane (yesterday)!

  6. Re:Talk about crying wolf on The Great Meteor Grab · · Score: 1

    In the future, watch Asian, European, and so on, mining companies mine tons of minerals from outer space, and everyone in the world use it to build stuff, except he U.S. who isn't allowed to due to their law!

  7. Re:Other civilisation may not be mamals on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    They won't mammals, but also not reptiles, insects, birds, amphibia, fishes or anything else we know. Because, those are the things that happened to evolve on our particular planet, but what would evolve on another planet could be anything randomly different and probably would have a completely different path where different terminology than "mammal" and "reptile" would be needed.

  8. Re:All the other phones do it as we'll on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 1

    Interesting, we'll instead of well. That's a new one I hadn't seen yet in the series of "their, they're, there", "its, it's", and so on.

  9. Re:Paging Lawrence Fishburn on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 1

    I've never seen The Core, but saw its trailer just now. What I wonder is this:

    They say they can't make the core start spinning again because it's so big and requires so much force. That makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense to me, is that they did manage to stop it, which would cost the exact same energy. Why was stopping easy and starting not? Really stupid...

  10. Archlinux on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    Archlinux. In that order. I'm now on my third Arch box already.

    Ubuntu too at other locations though.

  11. I don't know on Has Plant Life Reached Its Limits? · · Score: 2

    What can 30 years of observation tell about billions of years of plant life?

    I, for one, think plant life will be there for a long time after humanity. Util it gets swallowed by the red giant sun.

  12. My desktop computer is way more powerful than that on Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously.

  13. Spheres on Detailed Images Show Intra-Molecular Bonds · · Score: 1

    Interesting... first I thought molecules indeed looked like a bunch of spheres, just like in the drawings.

    Then I realized that since an atoms location is more like a statistical function than an actual position, that molecules probably look nothing like those drawings in reality.

    But now here's a photo of a molecule and it looks like a bunch of spheres? Who would have thought!

  14. What's up Netherlands? on Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First all your websites have to put an annoying message at the top saying they are using cookies (duh, who doesn't).

    Now this.

  15. Woohoo! on Mesa Finally An OpenGL Implementation (On Intel Hardware) · · Score: 2

    But what about its speed?

    What on NVidia and AMD cards?

  16. Graphic Capabilities on Intel Unveils 10-Watt Haswell Chip · · Score: 2

    So wait, is this only about the graphics part inside the CPU or what?

    Who cares about that graphics part inside the CPU. Useful for a laptop maybe, but for the real stuff you need an actual graphics card.

  17. Music clip on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Found Calculators? · · Score: 1

    Create a clip of the song "I'm the operator with my pocket calculator".

  18. Re:Doesn't matter in the end on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 1

    Documenting code is useless, documenting code means something like this:

    int i = 5; //Declare an integer called "i" and set its value to 5

    I agree with the grandparent post that comments in the code with references to papers, the "why" or something, the design decisions, bug fix references, etc... is very useful.

  19. Re:Careful tiger, on MIT Works On Mars Space Suit · · Score: 1

    Is this ever going to be used, and is this going to speed up people going to Mars?

    I think that, if they NASA et al really wanted to go to Mars and actually do a mission, they'd have developed a proper space suit to match the mission pretty fast. They also managed to do everything for the Moon mission in the 60's, so ...

  20. Re:4k Monitor on 4K UHDTV Hardware On Display in Berlin, And On Sale In Korea · · Score: 2

    Seriously, that is insightful? My desk is fine, I just like to put a lot of stuff on it. It has two desktop computers, both with a monitor. Also, a 27" monitor would be so wide that at the close distance I'm sitting from it it'd make no sense. I do think that makers of consumer electronics should adapt to the furniture of the consumers, not vice-versa.

  21. Re:4k Monitor on 4K UHDTV Hardware On Display in Berlin, And On Sale In Korea · · Score: 1

    For me a 24" one at that resolution please!

    27" is a bit too big for my desk.

  22. Re:Can't trust a First Post on Google Talks About the Dangers of User Content · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good thing yours is the second!

  23. CPU on IBM Mainframe Running World's Fastest Commercial Processor · · Score: 0

    Why does the article not mention the name of the CPU? Is only its clock speed faster, or also its execution? Can we also use this CPU in consumer computers or is this for IBM Mainframes?

  24. Wet paper on Lexmark To Exit Inkjet Printer Market · · Score: 0

    I just really dislike this curly, wet paper you get right after printing a big thing with an inkjet printer.

  25. Re:Just the obvious on Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, but make sure you back up any photos and other irreplaceable bits of information first!

    Do not back up anything that's executable though.