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  1. Re:Ditching strong partners -- smart move! on TSMC Preparing To Manufacturer A6X Chip As Apple Looks to Ditch Samsung · · Score: 1

    AMD does outsource its CPU/GPGPU production to GlobalFoundries and TSMC. They just renewed their contracts.

  2. Paper Trails cut both ways on Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Digital trails are easy to destroy. Paper trails are much harder to destroy. They can be your enemy or your ally. Having paper reports is always the ally of an ethical business.

  3. Disappointment for a 1 year GCN issue? Hardly on AMD Tweaking Radeon Drivers To Reduce Frame Latency Spikes · · Score: 1

    The overwhelming bulk of GPGPU users are still on two and three year old cards. When they move up they'll either buy the discounted 7000 series once the 8000 series arrives or not. Either way, the GCN issues will be worked out and they won't have ever experienced this issue.

  4. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    The reduced cooling should help in lowering the costs of the LED versus the CFL and the reduced energy consumption will be a help as well.

    Yesterday I went to Walmart to get new light bulbs, old CFLs I had burned out. There Walmart had LED bulbs in stock, at around $20 a bulb. I ended up going to Sam's to get CFLs, an 8 pack cost less than $6.

    Falcon

    And 3 years ago CFL's were going for as high as $10+ per bulb.

  5. Re:Oldspace got fat and lazy on Lockheed, SpaceX Trade Barbs · · Score: 1

    Your brother needs to brush off on his study cases, Little Caesar's and Pizza Hut were founded almost concurrently.

    Why spoil the fact 99% of the comments praising SpaceX are based solely upon fallacies and not even knowing their heads from their rear end on the total processes and limitations of either manufacturer. They're praising a start up who in Lockheed's position will gladly extort the government and any potential client if it becomes the predominant player. These libertarian twinkies will never admit their free market is a pipe dream and will roar with delight the next private space transport start up hoping they will become the SpaceX killer the day SpaceX reveals its spots. Of course, these praising SpaceX now will be dead before that happens.

  6. Stunning size of US private gun sales since 2002 on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1
  7. Re:So... Question, on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Columbine and Newtown school shootings were both with legally acquired guns in the wrong hands. Robberies and drug deal shootings frequently use illegal (hence less traceable) guns.

    So your premise assumes guns were legally in the wrong hands due to the devastating end results, correct? It's an erroneous statement as the determination is always post criminal activity.

  8. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Your premise is false. Ask South America about their results.

  9. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    If someone used voter registration rolls to publish a map of all registered black voters, would that be a 1st Amendment vs 14th Amendment issue, or would that be a 1st Amendment vs privacy issue?

    No, but are they publishing gun ownership by race? Political contributions are publically broadcasts on maps every election.

  10. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    It becomes everyone's business when your property is a hazard or risk to others.

    So that infectious disease you have should be public information?

    Are we talking air born virii or non-air-born herpes, syphillis, and such?

  11. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    I guess the inverse of this map would be map of safe places to rob.

    And would allow the local law enforcement to focus on those unarmed homes, thus making their jobs that much easier. Thanks for being hyperbolic.

  12. Re:Distaste of C++ on GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, it's the only mainstream language I know that supports both very low-level and very high-level programming style. This can be a real plus for compute intense signal processing, were a small minority of the code really requires low-level implementations. Being able to mix that with high-level abstractions (e.g. linear algebra factorizations) can give both efficient and maintanable code.

    Objective-C.

  13. Clarifications on LLVM by the Sed Maintainer on GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project · · Score: 1

    Apple is the primary funder of LLVM and the creator of Clang, LLDB, and following them is Google and dozens of other major corporations contributing to the LLVM Projects.

  14. Not the real question on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    The real question is, ``When will the US reinstate Pebble Bed Nuclear that Professor Fermi patented and the first act of the Atomic Energy Commission shut down due to its lack in aiding for Weaponry" would be the more appropriate question. Westinghouse busts a nut with South Africa and we're going to get what they now call 4th Generation [Actually it was 1st generation that got cock blocked] and then pulled out a couple years back when they started pushing older Nuclear Reactor tech that is already craptastic for efficiency and safety, but would allow them to charge asinine prices to build replacement/new reactors. Pebble Bed is the cheapest, safest and cleanest Nuclear Energy solution ever devised and who is all in? CHINA. The Not Implemented Here syndrome continues in America.

  15. Truly rich coming from the man who conned AT&T on The Mark Cuban Chair To Eliminate Stupid Patents · · Score: 1

    Mark Cuban is wealthy because he conned a sell out of a business that was all smoke and mirrors. He now has billions to throw around into already well-established industries and people are calling him prescient? Please.

  16. Re:Industrialization is quickly coming on The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust · · Score: 1

    ..to 2 billion people when you consider India + China. That means automobile transportation is quickly becoming NORMAL in those areas. That means HORRENDOUS smog problems for the next 4-6 decades in those areas.

    In short, this isn't news, it was expected when you consider how much of the world is still developing quickly.

    Unlike the ineptitude of the US, the build out of high speed rails is a full on reality.

  17. Re:A half dozen years late courtesy of Firefox... on W3C Finalizes the Definition of HTML5 · · Score: 2

    You'll hate *much* more the day the H.264 licensing moster raises its ugly head.

    Next round for starting asking for licensing fees is 2015 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing

    Which won't happen. The patent holders have too much invested in hardware to cut off their noses to spite their face.

  18. Re:W3C Testimonials Members list on HTML 5 funny on W3C Finalizes the Definition of HTML5 · · Score: 1

    XHTML 2.0 was actually much better than this crap, but it's not an iterative improvement, it's a whole new language altogether.

    Not hardly. XHTML 2.0 is a pain in the ass. The entire XML child spawn of crap was nothing but overhead.

  19. W3C Testimonials Members list on HTML 5 funny on W3C Finalizes the Definition of HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Seeing as the actual architects of HTML 5 come from Apple and Google and neither of those corporations are mentioned reminds me how if it weren't for Apple and Google we'd be screwed in a never ending cycle of XML/XHTML/ crap.

  20. Re:NVIDIA is worth $7.87 billion on Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips · · Score: 1

    So of course the Federal government needs to blow $20 million of taxpayer money, irregardless of its fiscal condition.

    Joint research. Grow up.

  21. Sell Google stock if you own any on Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering · · Score: 2

    Kurzweill is the last guy I'd hire as a Director of Engineering. Give him an office for special projects, on a tight leash, sure. But not Director of Engineering which requires accountablity and products to market.

  22. If anyone thinks what consumers use for GPS ... on Researchers Find Crippling Flaws In Global GPS · · Score: 1

    is what the Navy and the rest of the Military/Covert Ops use they are sorely misled. In fact, general researchers would be required to have top secret classified clearance and most certainly would not be publishing their findings. NASA has several levels of GPS solutions. We lowly consumers use very old tech for GPS/GIS.

  23. Re:Automation and unemployment on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 1

    About time this discussion has some summon sense. Automation doesn't take away jobs in the long term, rather it allows civilization to focus on higher pursuits like art, science, and engineering.

    Every single time there is a new technology that triggers frictional unemployment, some labor union or other "feel good" lobby tries to nip it in the bud. The buggy whip industry tried to ban cars from the city. Where would we be now if they got their way? Invariably we would have a much slower economy and much more horse shit to deal with.

    Taxing away the assets of the wealthy as has been suggested is only counterproductive. The wealthy are few, yet the top 10% of them already pay more than 70% of taxes, and they are the ones with the capital to drive the economy. We already see all the time what happens when you give middle class or poor people lots of money: they spend it idly until its gone. Don't believe me? Then how come hardly any lottery winners ever stay rich? They blow their money away almost as fast as they won it.

    But no, the solution to all of the world's problems is a complacent robin hood society, technological development be damned! And socialists wonder why there has never been a successful "currency free" commune.

    That same top 10% paying 70% of Income Taxes also garners https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/19237_TaxFoundation_v2.gif

    In short, Consumers who are in the bottom 90% pay the lion's share of total tax revenues in the US. Sell snake oil some place else.

  24. Re:Cue Apple's lawyers on Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux · · Score: 1

    When GNUStep finally gets full compliance with OPENSTEP API there will be 90%+ of the way there. Chisnall knows this but he doesn't have enough talent to pull ilt off. Apple doesn't care if GNUStep and Cocoa binaries are interchangeable. That is the point of the spec.

  25. Wake me with all of CoreFoundation and AppKit, etc on Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux · · Score: 1

    including CoreData and CoreGraphics equivalents are in place. Until then, it's like watching a drunk athlete play against all-stars, when comparing GNUstep(off a cliff) versus OS X.