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  1. Re:expensive cupcakes on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you are paying such prices for the shitty brewed coffee you were getting at a lunch counter, then yes you are being an idiot and getting ripped off.

    But an esspresso machine costs significantly more both in initial cost and in maintenance costs than a brewing machine. It also requires more training to use (though Starbucks seems to skip that bit). It's also significantly slower (so you need more staff hours to make the same amount of coffee).

    Of course Starbucks coffee is crap, though orders of magnitude better than the swill that passes for brewed coffee (and of course Starbucks does brewed coffee too - but why would you go there for that???)

    And cupcakes have none of that. A "gourmet" cupcake is made in exactly the same oven with exactly the same ingredients as a regular cupcake...

  2. Re:Server performance on the desktop? on Bulldozer Server Benchmarks Not Promising · · Score: 1

    Clearly. If you think you can stop reading mid sentence in a pretty standard sentence structure while concluding the opposite of what was being stated. Then yes, your understanding of English is severely lacking.

  3. Re:I blame Norquist on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 1

    Because there are no state taxes. There are no payroll taxes.

    My marginal rate according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Year_2011_income_brackets_and_tax_rates is 28%. Yet the payslip I have in front of me has (if I do the simple division) has 29.4% of my pay being taken in taxes (state and federal). So clearly the top rate is not the maximum paid - which should be obvious because federal income tax is not the only tax.

  4. Re:ho snap htc bought the wrong warchest on ITC Rules Apple Does Not Infringe S3 Graphics Patents · · Score: 1

    I suspect you do need to hold such a sign.

    Can you express the statement without using sarcasm?

    All the things I come up with can still be met with the same rebuttal, so I'm clearly missing something.

  5. Re:Server performance on the desktop? on Bulldozer Server Benchmarks Not Promising · · Score: 1

    I can't see a way of phrasing it differently, so it seems a pointless exercise. Especially considering my writing tends to be verbose and hard to read at best and you had difficulty with what I hope is writing that went through an editor. Of course you stopped reading before the sentence gave the explanation so maybe if I just repeat that sentence and the few following it verbatim:

    One reason for the underwhelming performance on the desktop is that the Bulldozer architecture emphasizes multithreaded performance over single-threaded performance. For desktop applications, where single-threaded performance is still king, this is a problem. Server workloads, in contrast, typically have to handle multiple users, network connections, and virtual machines concurrently. This makes them a much better fit for processors that support lots of concurrent threads.

    If you really want my unskilled wording:

    Previous benchmarks on the desktop variants of the architecture were unimpressive. The architecture emphasizes server features over desktop features and hence the server variant should be much better. Now that server benchmarks are in, however, the results are terrible.

  6. Re:I blame Norquist on Debt Reduction Super Committee Fails To Agree · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WW2 crushed the US economy. Gasoline, coffee, sugar, meat, cheese, etc were all rationed because the domestic economy was being destroyed by the war effort.

    Shortly after the war is a different story of course. Then you have the US with it's industrial capacity diverted away from the war and to real economic production. Aided by the fact that almost every other industrial nation in the world had been bombed into oblivion and hence the US had a huge capital advantage and could pay high wages and produce better products cheaper than the rest of the world. But that was after the government got out of the way.

  7. Re:Windows Phone 7 is a good solution on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 1

    But why does that matter?

    Do the phone is associated with "adkfj29234@gmail.com" an email address that is not used by anything or anyone else.

    All the email sent and received on the phone is for a different non-gmail address. So what does it matter if some random email is associated with the phone, considering that email isn't associated with anything else The phone likely also has a MAC address on the wifi and a bunch of other random identifiers anyway.

  8. Re:Server performance on the desktop? on Bulldozer Server Benchmarks Not Promising · · Score: 0

    It's more a case of you lacking a basic understanding of English.

  9. Re:And why do these morons think this isn't on Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right · · Score: 1

    It's already explicit. And yes the Bill of Rights has caused problems by giving people the impression that the constitution limits the powers of the government rather than gives them. Which changes unspecified things to being allowed (since they aren't limited) instead of being not allowed (since they aren't granted).

  10. Re:And why do these morons think this isn't on Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right · · Score: 1

    Because Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal are not the Government and hence restrictions on what the government can do are essentially irrelevant to them. Both the existing freedom of speech and this redundant proposal.

  11. And why do these morons think this isn't on Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right · · Score: 3, Funny

    already covered by:

    """
    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
    """

    And if it's "they ignore that" then why do they think some new amendment wouldn't be ignored in exactly the same way?

  12. Re:Halting-complete on JavaScript JVM Runs Java · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Without threads, how is a JavaScript JVM supposed to implement JVM threads?

    The way it's always been done. We've had multiple processes and multiple threads on single core CPUs for decades. You just give each thread a time slice and then move on to the next one. Completely trivial.

    And without WebGL (which at least one major browser maker refuses to implement for security reasons), how is Java 3D implemented?

    Slowly. And surely it's not a required feature of java - I would hope the java that runs on my non-3D set top box doesn't bother with it for example.

  13. Why not let the idiots who walk on roads on Hybrids Safer In Crashes — Except For Pedestrians · · Score: 0

    without looking for traffic get squished by the heavier than normal hybrids?

    The problem solves itself, as such people spend less time walking in traffic and more time in hospital (or in a coffin).

    With a plus side for the cyclists that those idiots who step out in front of them because they aren't looking will actually get hit by something capable of doing far more damage to the pedestrian and hence providing more of an incentive to not be an idiot.

  14. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1

    That's different. All the religions claim that. Christians claim that their God created the Universe way before Jesus walked the Earth. And that all the Jews were really following their God before Jesus arrived.

    Obviously a religion would be pretty dumb to claim that its God only started to exist upon the foundation of the religion itself.

    It's a simple fact there were no Muslims before the religion was founded. If the religion is in fact true then sure Allah existed and was the one and only God the entire time, and probably (I'm guessing given I don't care enough to learn all about all the crazy religions in the world) that people were his followers before they were called Muslims.

  15. Re:My own backups on Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently? · · Score: 1

    Obviously. It's much better than a backup at handling a single disk failure, which you may notice it the trivial thing that caused days of downtime.

  16. Re:To Tape... on Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently? · · Score: 1

    Who cares about long term guarantees - that's what the once or twice a year tape backup is for.

  17. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1

    No I couldn't, and know they don't.

  18. Re:Farmer subsidies need to STOP on Net Neutrality and Carrier Incentives To Invest · · Score: 1

    The price will rise causing some people to farm more to stop that from happening. Especially if you have global trade to soften the swings.

  19. Re:Water on Net Neutrality and Carrier Incentives To Invest · · Score: 1

    Surely that's not paying them not to grow crops. It's paying them them for their water. Obviously if you can make a but less money selling your water and not have to do the work involved in farming you'll take that and make up the money doing something that is less hard work.

  20. Re:Farmer subsidies need to STOP on Net Neutrality and Carrier Incentives To Invest · · Score: 1

    Or it results in farmers not making ends meet and hence going out of business. Reducing the supply of food and enabling those who were a little more efficient than them to make a living at the then higher prices.

  21. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Muslims haven't existed for thousands of years, so clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.

  22. Re:How could he have been stopped? on Identifying Nuclear Scientists Willing To Sell Their Knowledge · · Score: 1

    You don't know he bet wrong. If he hadn't done all that then Iran might have attacked him sooner than the US did, for example.

  23. Re:In comes all the scumbags on Apple Names New Chairman · · Score: 1

    I made no such assumption. I was responding to the faulty "inflation" -> "pursue short term profit" logic, not corporate management practices.

  24. Re:Human civilization fail on Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release · · Score: 1

    If it's so simple, why had no one come up with it before?

    It has worse performance than the algorithm it is a tweak to. But handles a common enough case better.

    There's also Dietrich at Nvidia who came up with the same thing at about the same time, again independantly.

    Basically once the hardware was there and good shadowing was wanted the technique was independantly developed multiple times because it is a reasonably simple step to take.

  25. Re:Better Place on Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's this new fangled idea called the rental car.

    Such rare requirements aren't worth meeting when choosing your vehicle. Just rent the long range car or the moving van for those times you need such things.