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  1. Re:Cloud on Microsoft Joins Open Compute Project, Will Share Server Designs · · Score: 1

    Except you own and manage the hardware, so it's not "the cloud". Their entire premise is a misnomer.

  2. Re:It's inexpensive, yet it uses Silver on MIT Develops Inexpensive Transparent Display Using Nanoparticles · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stop hording all our good engineering materials because you foolishly think they have some worth just sitting there.

  3. Re:Include Adverts on my windshield on MIT Develops Inexpensive Transparent Display Using Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    There is no potential for this to be used as a better HUD. One of the fundamental principles of HUDs is that they use reflex optics. The image is not projected onto the glass but rather is reflected off of the glass and focused such that it appears to be at approximately the same distance from you as whatever physical object it is being displayed in front of. This is done so that you do not have to continually refocus your eyes to flip between the display and your forward view.

    The only real value for such a thing as this in a car is a selective filter to block only the incident light from the sun.

  4. Re:Interesting but needs more work on MIT Develops Inexpensive Transparent Display Using Nanoparticles · · Score: 1

    The nanoparticles are sized to only interact with a certain wavelength and smaller, in this case, purple. Any larger wavelength light will pass right through.

  5. Re:Paper? on New Object Recognition Algorithm Learns On the Fly · · Score: 3, Informative

    Data compression is often considered to be a key component of artificial intelligence. There is a competition that gives out prizes for compression of a sample of the Wikipedia database.

  6. Re:I wish FreeBSD had a decent VM server/hyperviso on FreeBSD 10.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Is there any real difference between a Type 1 hypervisor and a Type 2 where you never run anything? If you took FreeBSD and ripped out everything but the minimum binaries and scripts needed to boot and run bhyve instances, how would that be different from a Type 1 hypervisor?

  7. Re:AMD could do a 24 core desktop chip right now on AMD Considered GDDR5 For Kaveri, Might Release Eight-Core Variant · · Score: 1

    I'll give you the RAM, considering the isolation of a VM necessitates all those shared libraries be wastefully loaded and cached multiple times, but why would running 4-6 VMs result in high CPU load compared to not running VMs and just having a monolithic server?

  8. Re:Latency vs bandwidth on AMD Considered GDDR5 For Kaveri, Might Release Eight-Core Variant · · Score: 1

    Remember, these are CPUs with integrated GPUs, and there are several benchmarks that show nearly linear improvement in graphics performance on AMD APUs as you increase the memory bus speed. They are severely bottle-necked by a mere dual-channel DDR3 controller.

  9. Re:Biology workbook on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Do you get to vote?

    On most things, nope.

  10. Re:Biology workbook on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    those representatives then rule because the majority is too fucking stupid to be trusted with direct vote.

    Which works fine because the representatives are so much smarter. And of course totally honest.

    I never claimed it worked.

  11. Re:Biology workbook on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    You go with the majority rule because you live in a democracy.

    No we don't. We live in a republic. In a republic, the majority vote in representatives, and then those representatives then rule because the majority is too fucking stupid to be trusted with direct vote.

  12. Re:Allow it... on Americans To FCC Chair: No Cell Calls On Planes, Please · · Score: 1

    Bath salts only make people from Florida behave like flesh eating zombies. They don't actually become the living dead.

  13. Re:Google Glass 2.0 on Google Announces Smart Contact Lens Project For Diabetics · · Score: 1

    Because brightness increases asymptotically with distance to your cornea, as opposed to based off a power function like every other phenomenon in optics?

  14. Re:turn to the state as a surrogate husband on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Yes. Exactly. The "militant feminist" makes for good TV, so while there are not many in reality, they are a recurring theme on television. Thus, that is the view anyone not actually involved with the feminism movement sees it as.

  15. Re:Google Glass 2.0 on Google Announces Smart Contact Lens Project For Diabetics · · Score: 1

    LEDs don't need to be blindingly bright.

  16. Re:turn to the state as a surrogate husband on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They don't really hate feminism. They hate what feminism has been distorted into by feminists who would just as soon eradicate the males of the species the moment someone figures out how to make two ova undergo meiosis.

  17. Re:Pure Oxygen? on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1

    You use helium, not to further cut the oxygen, but because nitrogen itself becomes psychoactive at very high partial pressures. It's no good to be 400ft down and drunk. Helium has the additional benefit of thinning out the mix, and making it easier to breathe at 15+ atmospheres.

  18. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1

    Impossible to breath under 5-10 feet of water

    Fixed that for you. You open your throat and your lungs rapidly deflate. I don't know about you but I'm very heavy in water without a lung full of air. Your first natural instinct when your air is sucked out is to release the snorkel and try to breathe in. Heavy, out of breath, and at the bottom of the pool, it's best not to try unless you've got someone on hand to rescue you.

  19. Re:What problem does capsicum fix? on Google Ports Capsicum To Linux, and Other End-of-Year Capsicum News · · Score: 1

    No software programmer is perfect. There will always be exploits, and those exploits often show up in use in the wild before they are patched out by the responsible party. The difference with Capsicum is that it shifts the load from the system administrator to the programmer. The administrator trusts that the programmer knows the limited set of privileges that their application needs, and drops all else. It's mitigating the harm that can be caused by an unpatched exploit, and doing it in a fashion that requires no effort on the part of the administrator, thus making it far more likely to happen in the case where the administrator is a common user.

  20. Re:That's too bad on Nintendo Defeats and Assumes Control of 'Patent Troll's' Portfolio After Victory · · Score: 1

    The patents were owned by a company that was bringing products to market. The patents were then spun off into IA Labs, who promptly sued Nintendo using them, almost as if this were done by the parent company to isolate them from any backlash should the suit go badly.

  21. Are you saying that Sony has sold as many PS4s in less than two months as Nintendo has sold WiiUs in over a year?

  22. Re:Why use the word "Claim" on Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It has nothing to do with nationality. It has to do with finding a solution to a prominent problem, widely used in industry, that has gone unsolved for well over a hundred years. If you do something evolutionary, or something no one else has done before, then there's no history on which to base doubt. If you do something where so many others have already tried and failed, then inductive logic dictates skepticism until you have independent verification otherwise.

  23. Re:Conspiracy on Kazakh Professor Claims Solution of Another Millennium Prize Problem · · Score: 1

    All this code approximates, or partially solves, Navier-Stokes for different special cases, because we don't have the computational power to do otherwise.

  24. Re:Grid condition is desired and planned. on Metal-Free 'Rhubarb' Battery Could Store Renewable Grid Energy · · Score: 1

    It's still not that insidious. Peak hours for power consumption and peak hours for solar output simply do not align, meaning you still need a whole lot of installed peak capacity to service the difference, or a whole lot of energy storage capacity. The fact that it is being used at a lower duty cycle means the capacity is now at a higher capital investment per MWh of usage.

    The residential energy grid is simply not intended to handle upstream flow. The commercial grid is, absolutely. Power companies love having local distributors on their grid. However, those local distributors are connected to proper three-phase, high voltage circuits, meaning the legs remain balanced, and they get paid wholesale power rates like everyone else. If you want the power companies on board with residential solar, require users wanting to feed into the grid to have proper circuits, and have them get paid proper rates.

  25. Re:If it can be scaled up? on Metal-Free 'Rhubarb' Battery Could Store Renewable Grid Energy · · Score: 2

    Power companies are trying to op out of solar power subsidies.

    Because the grid is not designed to handle significant amounts of unpredictable single phase power coming from residential customers, at inconvenient times of the day, and it is definitely not designed to pay retail rates for power from any source. Residential solar uptake in those areas is reaching the saturation point at which the grid simply cannot handle any more without a very serious overhaul, which includes pervasive bulk energy storage. They're fighting back against legislation that requires them to pay for power they cannot use, and increase the rates on the rest of their customers to compensate.