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  1. I test all WebKit Browsers, Opera and Mozilla on Google To Push WebM With IE9, Safari Plugins · · Score: 1

    But I use Safari on OS X and Epiphany Trunk on Linux to surf and Chrome, but with this latest stunt I'll be moving away from Google. I occasionally use Firefox for certain extensions, but less and less all the time, especially with the iPad consumption.

  2. Re:robust enough!?!?! on Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear · · Score: 1

    Given that fibre will fail even if say the cable is a kinked too much I have to say is it going to be robust enough?!?!?! Ditto with the transceivers, how many GBICs fail compare to good old ethernet ports (gigabit or 10BASET its all good).

    Further what about repairs. You don't need complex equipment or training to splice copper together, but different story with fibre. Theres a reason why telco techs who work on fibre have to do special courses and use protective equipment.

    What make you think the material medium will be standard in today's fiber?

  3. The Meat comes from LLVM, not Alchemy on VP8 Decoder Implemented In Flash Using Alchemy · · Score: 1
    http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Alchemy:FAQ

    What does Alchemy include?

    The Alchemy tool chain includes a set of tools for building, testing and debugging C/C++ projects, example projects and documentation. It is based largely on the LLVM compiler project.

    What is LLVM?

    LLVM is a set of tools for creating and manipulating "low level virtual machine" bytecode. LLVM includes gcc/g++ based front-ends for converting arbitrary C and C++ code to LLVM bytecode. (http://llvm.org)

  4. Re:I'll be filing a bug report soon on Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty · · Score: 2

    Woosh!

  5. Re:Google won this round... on Google Pushes New Chrome Release, Pays $14k Bounty · · Score: 1

    Less than 2 months intermediate? I'd be surprised if beginning testers cost Google less than $84k/year when you include bonus, stock, benefits, office space, etc..

    Then again, I'd also expect an intermediate tester to get more done than just 13 random bugs being found (1 every 3 work days). But maybe the quality of these 13 bugs is higher than you'd expect out of two months with a tester.

    Then again...again, I expect even without a bounty some of these bugs would have been reported. I wonder to what extent people's behaviour is actually changed by this.

    If you think an entry tester is getting stock options, at their price, you're nuts. They also aren't getting $84k.

  6. Re:Time for a reality check on NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    The Earth will survive long after we've died off. The climate will adapt. It's not about whether the Earth will survive. It's our survival and the current biological life on the planet that is in question.

  7. Of course it's going to be the wettest on NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    The Polar Ice packs are breaking apart and that formerly collected and frozen moisture bound in Salt and more is being recycled into the Atmosphere and Global Heat Redistribution is running amuck in it's extremes [beyond acceptable tolerance ranges of historic data] and thus one day you have floods and massive snow storms followed by massive drought in areas that normally have none of these behaviors.

  8. Re:Putting the snideness of the summary aside... on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    Chrome was created to boost brand loyalty. Google does not charge for it, nor are ads directly incorporated. There is no revenue stream associated with Chrome.

    It's a browser. There is always a revenue stream when using a browser. You just aren't the one paying Google to have your content strewn all over sites.

  9. Re:Putting the snideness of the summary aside... on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    $100,000 is more than some small companies make in a year.

    I don't have freedom if I have to like the pockets of some cartel Shylock.

    Line the pockets.

  10. Re:Hotspot -- Verizon exclusive -- for a while? on Apple Releases IOS 4.3 Beta To Developers · · Score: 1

    Tethering is a one-to-one relationship, not an interface for NATing and thus a one-to-many term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering

    It's not that difficult to see this is not tethering, but a software NATing for up to 5 devices slaving off the single point of access--your 3G/4G device.

  11. Re:Hotspot -- Verizon exclusive -- for a while? on Apple Releases IOS 4.3 Beta To Developers · · Score: 1

    replying to my own post here...

    When AT&T or Verizon charges for 2GB data, and then they charge again for tethering or hotspoting that data, what they are effectivelydoing is this. And, if I remember my John Grisham, each time they mail a bill out double charging for the data, they are committing mail fraud, and each offense is punishable up to 5 years, not to be served concurrently.

    I know there's some sharp lawyers here... let's go get AT&T!!

    AT&T has several partnerships with Qwest and other regional bells to use their Hotspots. I'm not being charged by the use of it. It's a feature in my Qwest DSL contract.

  12. Re:anyone else here... on Apple Releases IOS 4.3 Beta To Developers · · Score: 1

    ...miss the days when ios meant Cisco?

    Really? I miss the days when Cisco didn't make POS routers and switches.

  13. Re:AMD CPUs all over the place on AMD CEO Dirk Meyer Resigns · · Score: 1

    With AMD CPUs left and right, how is AMD posting a loss?

    They aren't. AMD's quarterly report is on the 20th of January for it's 4th Quarter. The 3rd Quarter reference is 3 months old.

  14. Re:Dude. on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    I looked up the First State of the Union Address (from whence the Washington quote was supposed to have come), and indeed, the Wikiquote version is correct:

    "A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies."

    Regardless of his exact meaning, that statement cannot be considered to support my point. Conceded. Wikiquote states that my first Jefferson quote is "falsely attributed". However, the author of that claim did not sign it, and it has no other citations or references, other than a casual mention of someone unnamed doing a search of Google Print, so I have no reason to take that seriously. On the other hand, monticello.org does say that it is likely a spurious quote, but that Jefferson DID say:

    "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements]." (Second draft of the Virginia Constitution, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1:353.)

    Which of course is not the same thing. However, my second Jefferson quote appears in a letter he wrote on Nov. 13 1787, to New York senator William Stephens Smith. His meaning there is very clear and exactly as I stated above. The other quotes are also accurate as I have presented them. Thank you for pointing out the errors. I have corrected my collection of quotes.

    http://www.loa.org/

    I suggest you stop reading sites quoting the Founders, or any other critical person of history, until you actually buy their published writings from the Library of America and absorb their observations and philosophical debates, in their proper context. You'll soon discover 95% of the statements are either out of context, dead wrong or both. They are 95% of the time flat out BULLS***!

  15. Re:Put your money where your mouth is on AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver · · Score: 1

    Debian now has dkms, so you can just install nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx and let the system handle rebuilding the module for you.

    And it's not slow. My 8600GTS has steadily run KDE 4.5.x smoothly on Debian Sid. Having 3.3 OpenGL and testing OpenCL 1.1 while building Bullet and Blender Trunk shows very smooth and responsive results.

  16. Re:Without dividends... on Apple Passes $300B Market Cap, 2nd In the World · · Score: 1

    Buying stock in a company that doesn't pay dividends is just gambling - you're buying in the hope that you can find a chump who'll pay more to buy it off you at some point in the future. You can only make money by selling the stock. Apple isn't unique in this regard: most major tech companies and oil drilling companies don't pay dividends. But to me it just looks like a house of cards. You're just gambling on investor confidence in a company.

    A stock that depends on a Dividend is Dead in Growth.

  17. Re:Cloud on Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Mystery · · Score: 1

    You, poor, naive, fool.

    It just means they made $99 per year, per user, plus whatever they can make from selling your personal data. Now to be fair, Apple is nowhere near as good at making money off your data as Google is, but they are trying to close that gap.

    Try thinking about it from a Hardware angle. Apple uses your data to help design products people would want to use.

  18. Re:And so on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure quite what you are referring to.

    Oil gets subsidized to a certain degree. But if you really want to see massive subsidies and protectionist, fucked-up tariffs and other governmental screwups at work, you need to look at the corn lobby. For the past five years, corn subsidies have been $37b; oil subsidies only $14b.

    The end result is our diet is fucked up (way, way too much chemically incorrect HFCS), and regular sugar being way more expensive than it should be.

    Plus, because corn is subsidized, all the farmers grow corn (which actually is a shit-poor source of energy once you calculate the net gain post-processing) instead of something better.

    That's still small compared to the Oil Industry subsidies over the past decade, let alone since the '70s oil crisis. What Pickens bet the bulk of his plan on was not on the Wind Turbines, but the Natural Gas right of ways he thought he'd secure, in the same zones he was going to put up his Wind Turbines. The State of Texas didn't like his proposals and he was left dangling in the wind. Instead, in WA State, we are expanding Wind Power in the Columbia Gorge and Snake River valley.[Garfield County, WA] with Puget Sound Energy. PSE's projects produce > 430MW of Electricity and growing. It's available at http://www.pse.com/

  19. Re:Enough already! on Audio and Video Patents Haunt Apple and Android · · Score: 1

    apple and MS patent their own inventions

    these patents date to 1989 when computer video was just beginning and look legit

    Those patents have a 17 year life span. They have run out.

  20. Vint Cerf, Google is redundant on Vint Cerf, US Congresswoman Oppose Net Regulation · · Score: 1

    when in the same sentence. The man represents Google and I could care less about his hands off attitude. Google wanted to multi-tier the Internet so his opinion is garbage.

  21. Re:May go back to AMD... on Intel's Sandy Bridge Processor Has a Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    I was looking forward to this CPU. Now, I am really going to research this. This may flip me back to AMD. I didn't like when Intel did the tracking on the PIII and the sound of this makes me just as uncomfortable.

    This wasn't going to flip me to AMD. Bulldozer already did that for me.

  22. Ship the bastard already on Debian 6.0 To Feature a Completely Free Kernel · · Score: 0

    All the work for this release is f'n up everyone else's SID Branch--you know the one where most users with half a brain use and stable they never touch because that code is targeted for businesses and other low risk drones who don't have half a brain if something gets hosed.

  23. Re:From the article.... on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 2

    Or either MySQL or PostgreSQL could implement support for SQL:2008 MERGE syntax which is the appropriate method for handling this scenario, as well as countless others.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(SQL)

    It's target for PostgreSQL is 9.1

    http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2010_Developer_Meeting#Development_Priorities_for_9.1

  24. Re:IBM did well with Java (and other F/OSS softwar on Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source · · Score: 1

    IBM's success with Java pretty much proves that it was Sun's management of java rather than Java itself that was the problem. On the same note, IBM's success with Linux pretty much proves that McNealey's whole rant makes little sense.

    No. IBM proves when you make > $25 Billion in Mainframe clients you can afford to invest in FOSS within other areas of your businesses. In IBM's case, they have dozens of businesses.

  25. Re:At least this will prove zombies don't exist on George Lucas to Resurrect Dead Movie Stars? · · Score: 1

    The worst thing isn't one man's ideas.

    The worst thing would be if the movie industry starts to move into an extreme recycling of actors and historic figures instead of adding new actors. But the movie industry is already biting it's own tail by recycling scripts that once were good at the time instead of finding new stories that haven't been filmed yet.

    So I would say that if they are going to just work on recycling they will soon die.

    Then it behooves today's actors to be convincing and in demand.