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  1. Re:The problem with LTE on Keeping a Cellphone System Going In a War · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, LTE is supposed to be some sort of convergent standard, which may have confused the GPP. BTW, are you Bulgarian by chance?

  2. Re:Human after all! on Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, we are wired to obey the need, very firmly. Oh, and as someone coming from the other way - yes I think that being sexually indiscriminant is a good thing - you wouldn't believe the torture I'm going through trying to find a meaningful relationship. I'd much rather be like Charlie Sheen - knows what he wants, knows how to get it, and won't take any shit about it. But it's not up to me. I'm a sensitive, caring romantic, in touch with his emotions, seeking acceptance - and I fucking hate my self for it. Why? I'm 17 - I have many years of such torture awaiting me.

  3. Re:What about ADD and other ABC soup? on Doctors Are Creating Too Many Patients · · Score: 1

    It's not pent up energy, it's inability to concentrate. Let me put it another way - the kid has so much energy that if you were to let him run around, he wouldn't do anything else. That's why you need Ritalin and co. Not that ADHD is not overdiagnosed, but it is a real disease, or, more precisely, multiple ones with similar symptoms and treatments.

  4. Re:That might be in the US.... on Doctors Are Creating Too Many Patients · · Score: 1

    I see your point - I'm going through something similar. It's been four years since I actively started seeking help (I'm 17), though the issues came up since my first day in school. I was called everything, a brat, an annoyance, a hypochondriac, just because I wanted to find out why I can't concentrate well, and hate my life in general. I have a good idea what's wrong with my head - but frankly the only thing that makes me not hate being born is weed. I've been through over a dozen medications, with nothing useful to show. I don't have much left to lose, I might as well have a good time.

  5. Re:Perfect example of popularity over quality on JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future · · Score: 1

    And that is why C is more fucked up then JS will ever be - who the hell forgot to add a decent build control system in the language - preferably using the same tokenization. And is it just me, or do C compilers have more quirks than the average browser?

  6. Re:Javascript is a disaster on JavaScript Creator Talks About the Future · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, when JS had so much power vested in it, no one taught it responsibility, just like C/C++. Frankly, I think JS is an all round great language, though it needs DbC primitives like Eiffel, optional bit-twiddling and optional ALGOL syntax like Ada, and the most basic synchronization primitives - singleton type class, atomic vars, anything - it more than powerful enough to implement a nice parallelism framework in a lib.

  7. Re:a waste of CPU cycles on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 1

    My friend here, Yuri, with the metal pipe can be quite persuasive.

  8. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    Oh, OK - from now on, I plan to use the term Oxidane to screw with people. Thanks.

  9. Re:So long, on RIM Collapse Beginning? · · Score: 1

    Name one thing that OS X or Win7 UI does that KDE doesn't.

  10. Re:This will ruin my day... on Patent 5,893,120 Reduced To Pure Math · · Score: 1

    While I agree that the GPP overstated, your way of bringing him down to earth is no more incorrect or rude than what I did. Truce?

  11. Re:But what do you put in a specialized core? on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 1

    PA-RISC had capabilities, AFAIK.

  12. Re:Not required.. on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 1

    Lack of spectrum is the issue. In better deigned cellular standards, it's a smaller issue, but with Wi-Fi it's painfully obvious - hell, the sucky multiple access/modulation method is designed around it. And it requires linear amps...

  13. Re:That's not the solution, this is on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 1

    Immutable objects don't allow cycles to form without notice - in Haskell, and Tcl interestingly, it's a non-issue.

  14. Re:That's not the solution, this is on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I was thinking the other way around. A pattern matching Lisp macro library would really hit the spot, though OCaml style grammars would be the nail in the coffin for other functional langs.

  15. Re:That's not the solution, this is on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 1

    GHC is written in Haskell. And modern Fortan (2005) is much more advanced than the 66/77 versions.

  16. Re:Using 1000 watts of power for DRAM? on OpenBSD 4.9 Released · · Score: 1

    What sort of workloads do those machines see, is it amicable to distributing, say Web seed backed torrents? Have you investigated incremental compilation, and compiler caching?

  17. Re:This will ruin my day... on Patent 5,893,120 Reduced To Pure Math · · Score: 1

    The technical parts are obvious. First, I'd like to see a legal framework surrounding the hypothetical vehicles. Maintenance, traffic laws, safety and fuel requirements. Everything. And a business analysis on how sellable are these, long-term.

  18. Re:Theoretical limit to solar concentration on Solar Breakthrough Could Provide Power Without Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Maxwell's demon.

  19. Re:Satellites not shipping products ... on Solar Breakthrough Could Provide Power Without Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Off-topic: Have you considered releasing a Android version?

  20. Re:I've been reading about solar breakthroughs on Solar Breakthrough Could Provide Power Without Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Stirling cycle, among others. Thermochemical hydrogen + industrial sized fuel cells would give energy storage flexibility, and the possibility of creating a viable fossil fuel replacement (note: I think hydrogen in vehicles sucks donkey balls) via ammonia generation (easy to store, technology similar to LPG conversions for consumer vehicles would suffice, though I admit I haven't done the math), or hydrogenating and cracking biomass derivatives for higher energy value.

  21. Re:It's all about DRM on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Meth-heads you say? So the War Against Some Drugs is going to end soon? I agree with your general notion, but I also think you are barking up the wrong tree - the more isolated and hated a minority is, the more reasonable things they have to say. Because, frankly, I think the enemy is the coddled general population with two-and-a-half kids, and an SUV in their suburban driveway. They don't know and don't care about anything, their biggest problem is what brand of TV to get in order to replace the "obsolete" one. So they make up one. Or, gobble up whatever Fox serves them up, and use that.

  22. Re:Antecedents please on Intel Confirms That Android 3.0 Is Coming To x86 Tablets · · Score: 1

    VM Toolkit (LLVM subproject) allows compiling JVM bytecode to LLVM. Skip the conversion to Dalvik, and you're done.

  23. Re:Antecedents please on Intel Confirms That Android 3.0 Is Coming To x86 Tablets · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Patently obvious on Google Loses Bedrock Suit, All Linux May Infringe · · Score: 1

    Why does that patent sound like something a compiler would generate?

  25. Re:Antecedents please on Intel Confirms That Android 3.0 Is Coming To x86 Tablets · · Score: 1

    Gahhhh, you really need it spell out, don't you? You don't need (an interpreter (JIT compilation) built-in to Android), because you can install one as a package dependency. And the interpreter will be where you put it. And it will be the LLVM JIT. Got it?