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  1. Re:BS on Technology and Moral Panic · · Score: 1

    DC is terrible choice if you don't have solid state switching power electronics, in which case you simplify grid maintenance by an order of magnitude, make it more flexible and much easier to decentralize, along with slightly (or not) lower loses. Yes, it's expensive, but OTOH, the modularity and scalability of such a solution means that the cost can be spread per customer, proportionally to load, with zero network provider intervention. Not to mention reducing many power quality issues with ease - DC doesn't have as many parameters.

  2. Re:Simple on How America Can Get Its Tech Mojo Back · · Score: 1

    What pray tell do you work? I'm curious as to what my fellow countrymen are up to (BG FTW!).

  3. Re:Obama's too conservative on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 1

    Fun fact - your chances of getting schizophrenia are zero with good parenting - the is a psychological fact. Yes, genetics and MJ increase predisposition - but still. I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to quote that information.

  4. Re:Teach programming early along with reading on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I don't agree completely. I'm not saying to cut out all the fun, but temporal efficiency is important. Because, in case you forgot, you don't have time for anything during high school, because you're too busy wrestling with hormones and normal human psychology, i.e. garnering respect (not gold stars, just some old fashioned respect for being a human being and not a pot plant, of the sort all the "adults" demand), and seeking an intimate partner. At that age, you still haven't digested all the idiocy that surrounds you, so you have to take it in stride. That doesn't leave much time or energy for studying - and then they wonder why so many teenagers turn into homicidal drug addicts and outcasts. They're the normal, thinking ones, the rest are sheep. So please, balance the curriculum along the whole age range.

  5. Re:Johnny (Ivan) can't code because of C(++) on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    Where do you live? Elbonia?

  6. Re:base-12 base-10 on The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second · · Score: 1

    Check out hexadecimal time in wikipedia.

  7. Re:I see the golden lining on High Tech Elder Care May Be Mixed Blessing · · Score: 1

    Funny, my high point of the day is when I get a not-so-motherly hug and/or kiss from one of the better looking teachers at my high school. And usually the total interaction is 15 seconds or less (keep it down with the jokes, please?). It's not that I don't have friends, or that they are not diverse. It's just that lack of a life partner at my point of mental development is screwing me up more ways than I can count. I'm 17, mental age - about mid 30ies - I believe I speak for both age groups when I say - cut it out with the age discrimination, it sucks both ways.

  8. Re:What a worthless review on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 1

    Measurements have shown that on a modern keyboard, with a good touch typist, layout is pretty irrelevant. Oh, and ever since I first used a touchpad, I decided never to go back. Though I'd try a trackpoint.

  9. Re:Hierarchical File System? on Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default · · Score: 1

    I thin the issue here is that ZFS has great admin tools OOTB, and the usual admin stack has next to none (good ones). And wtf is up with the docs\? It's a little personal - I need to resize some LVM volumes by merging the LVM phy partition with the one next to it, and I have no tool, or clue, as to how to do it. I agree on you point of using a mixed modularity strategy, though I'm pretty sure it can all be done with some nice clean block devices (I'm anal on keeping the kernel interface clean more than linus, even though I'm not a programmer). Check out the cool tricks IBM pulled with VSAM.

  10. Re:use the right tool on What Makes Parallel Programming Difficult? · · Score: 1

    Context switch overhead.

  11. Re:Hierarchical File System? on Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default · · Score: 1

    Quit fucking up the layering, a tiered block device driver would do the trick just as well.

  12. Re:Article Explained on Google Tags Content Creators · · Score: 1

    Why not GPG sign it?

  13. Re:Expectation on What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire · · Score: 1

    Such sexual experimentation has been floating around my head since 13. And not because I saw a porn flick (though I stared at age 9), I just felt that some type of role playing would give better bonding. Yes I'm psychologically prematurely developed (17, as I'm typing this post, and working trough a crisis of the 30ies during my bi-weekly sessions with my therapist). The sad thing is that I'm pretty scary (not as a physical threat) to most women, that or they run into social stigmas - leaving me high and dry. Not to mention that the prolonged lack of partner and emotional hunger burn trough my will like a hummer does low grade gas. Making me potentially the smartest high-school drop-out in the history of my school, if I don't find a decent way to vent sexual energy, which is so damn distracting, that I was diagnosed ADD at first.

  14. Re:Fake "Science" on What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire · · Score: 1

    If impregnation is successful , the male won't have to provide for the female and the bastard child, that weight falls on the "competitor". Think what cuckoo birds do.

  15. Re:Fake "Science" on What Internet Searches Reveal About Human Desire · · Score: 1

    Laziness and stupid.

  16. Re:Given how specialized the use case scenarios ar on AMD Betting Future On the GPGPU · · Score: 1

    WiMAX and cell phone tower digital signal processing.

  17. Re:Gnu Privacy Guard Pickup Unit? on AMD Betting Future On the GPGPU · · Score: 1

    The issue you are having is probably bus latency, and not bandwidth issues. The CPU to GPU latency on the Fusion is 2 ns. Happy?

  18. Re:Let me see... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    Waste isotopes have the nasty habit of leaching through the graphite - adding extra insulation makes it more expensive, and the yet unsolved problem of maintaining a homogenous reaction throughout the reactor, and reprocessing is a pain.

  19. Re:Serious question; on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    Breeder reactors and reprocessing decrease the amount of waste by orders of magnitude, and leaves the short lived isotopes, which are much more manageable, not to mention that you can suck some power out of them. Regulatory limitations inhibit the upgrading of plants, and the two that you quote could have avoided the meltdowns with a couple of waste heat turbogenerators.

  20. Re:Couple other things too on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    I don't know about everybody else - but I despise bright light - especially from a screen.

  21. Re:Well then, who does create jobs? on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    Something a little more fine grained would be a good idea. Screw states, let them be a part of a multi-tier constitution system (enforced) and let municipalities decide the laws by direct democracy.

  22. Re:Interphone anybody? on GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School · · Score: 1

    1800 GHz = 1.8 THz, nowhere near the GSM range. It has been demonstrated to affect cells. GSM frequencies operate three orders of magnitude lower. Most 3|4G techs operate at 2.3-2.6 GHz or around 5, IIRC.

  23. Re:How about: Don't need cellphones/wifi in school on GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  24. Re:Maximize on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 1

    Reinventing the tiled windows manager. *sigh* Can't the just make a kwin tweak? It already has almost everything needed, except tiling, which even Win 3.11 implemented. Add per tile tabs while they're at it.

  25. Re:A really interesting quote from Linus on Linus on Linux, 20 Years In · · Score: 1

    What does debian package management have that rpm doesn't? No anecdotes, just features, please. Every decent distro include source repos. And AFAIK, Ubuntu has the habit to get in the way more than say, fedora. Not that I have anything against Ubuntu, I'm just puzzled by your choice.