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  1. Re:Ohhhh shit on GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales · · Score: 1

    Yeah, with even less range, and plenty of maintenance.

  2. Re:Ohhhh shit on GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales · · Score: 1

    Uhhhh, I didn't see any objective drawbacks except that it didn't sound like a V8. Typical american consumers.

  3. Re:Ohhhh shit on GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales · · Score: 1

    Electric cars are the only ones with legitimate complaints about current battery tech. Consumer electronics suffers from metrosexual marketing departments trying to turn everything into a fashion accessory, and not putting a decent amount of battery, as in mass and volume.

  4. Re:Ohhhh shit on GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales · · Score: 1

    Except batteries, power electronics, electric motors... Minor stuff.

  5. Re:I am vomitting on IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools · · Score: 1

    Haskell is a more reasonable code generation target - it has a nice optimizing compiler and implements a decent runtime, plus C FFI, plus recognizable errors, plus portability between compilers, without sacrificing features.

  6. Re:Why? on IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools · · Score: 1

    Frankly I think you are right on all counts. The languages on the left are useless. The ones on the right sadly didn't make it despite technical superiority.

  7. Re:VS 2005? on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Is GCC Win32 code that suboptimal? Can it be fixed? Could someone please educate me?

  8. Re:Wow on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Running 7.0.1 with over 50 add-ons. Non-deterministic swap IO chocking, less often freezes, most often exit without saying a thing. 1.4GHz Celeron M, 2x256MB DDR1 RAM, 40GB 5.4krpm PATA drive, 6y.o. laptop, Arch linux, -pf branch kernel i686 microarch optimizations, Xfce4 vanilla.

  9. Re:I don't understand the issue on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Problem is the 64-bit version of the tool-chain generates XP SP2+ code.

  10. Re:The code gets larger, and yet things dissapear! on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Ctrl+/ is too much? Frankly I'm happy for the vertical space. What I want is a more aggressive GC.

  11. Re:Degree debt on Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    What the hell is Women's Studies? I'd say most women (a.k.a. neurotic psychological tanks of the cheap Russian kind of construction) need therapy to get in sync with their gender role, and not education. (Note:I'm not a sexist, I just think it's sickening that psychological gender roles are being blurred so much as these days.)

  12. Re:No interference on LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test · · Score: 1

    Spectrum is property of the people, not the military. Short range VHF terrestrial localization will be used in cities. The base stations will be far away other places.

  13. Re:Easy and Advanced on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    You forgot microsoft.

  14. Re:LOL on AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million · · Score: 1

    Do a switcharroo. The if they aren't using it, they won't notice it's smaller.

  15. Re:Easy on What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like · · Score: 1

    Stephen Bakster's trilogy referenced stone flowers that bloom once in a thousand years on the moon, or something of the sort.

  16. Re:I've definitely noticed it on my DSL on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 1

    You are simply implementing ECN by hand.

  17. Re:Is this a problem? on Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers In the Internet · · Score: 1

    ECN exists. It works. Just like S/MIME. And similarly, no one uses it.

  18. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    ZFS gives COW on the fs level, along with versioning and free snapshots. Cheap ATAoE SAN enclosures are available. There is no difference in the drive controller or the storage mechanism itself between SATA and SAS disks. It's only firmware, and provided that the consumer class firmware doesn't lie too much, you won't have to even buy RAID edition drives (that's SATA - SAS is pointless in it self). Now, rpms, data density, platter size - those are performance parameters. They have nothing to do with the external bus.

  19. Re:C is still relevant on Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years · · Score: 1

    FFS, please don't maintain the inertia. Ada would look good on your resume, right? May I remind you where the single source of all segfaults is: C[++].

  20. Re:Am I missing something here? on AMD Confirms Commitment To x86 · · Score: 1

    Dragon chip has x86 acceleration instructions, not a full implementation, and they take 5% of die space. Second, ever try to design a superscalar decoder for x86? The hardware implemented algorithms become large and complicated, but in the real estate budget it goes under the heading superscalar decoder, and not x86 support.

  21. Re:Translation on AMD Confirms Commitment To x86 · · Score: 1

    Except for heavy DSP work. Something tells me Alcatel-Lucent are gonna have some new friends.

  22. Re:Am I the onlyone... on AMD Confirms Commitment To x86 · · Score: 1

    Kudos for the troll. I barely watch the thing, and was about to correct you.

  23. Re:More So a Mental Exercise on Stephen Wolfram Joins The Life Boat Foundation and Bets On Singularity · · Score: 1

    When are they planning on migrating to IPv6?

  24. Re:And the name is the same? on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-Core GPU · · Score: 1

    My AK-47 begs to differ.

  25. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    Doh! s/DMV/DMZ/