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  1. Re:HTPC on The Tech Fixes the PS3 Still Needs, Eight Years On · · Score: 2

    It doesn't have a CBE.

  2. Re: Do the math on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 1, Informative

    Where do you think UK electricity comes from? They import it from France, and don't bother converting it.

  3. Re: The song says on How Game Developers Turn Kickstarter Failure Into Success · · Score: 1

    Kickstarter is a sham. You're supposed to get equity when funding. "Backing" is just giving free money to strangers.

  4. Re: Surprise? on Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to work with business-class Word documents using LibreOffice?
    It just doesn't work well enough.

  5. Engineers don't understand business on Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers · · Score: 1

    As evidently demonstrated by this summary.

    (it has also been my experience, as an engineer turned entrepreneur and now CEO)

  6. Re:Mozilla should consider doing the same for Fire on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 2

    Brendan Eich has a CEO could have fixed this.
    Remember what happened to him?

  7. Re: Rise of the middlemen on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 1

    I also told you about other costs than the pay.
    It usually costs two times the pay to the employer.

  8. Re: Rise of the middlemen on Switching Game Engines Halfway Through Development · · Score: 1

    52/235 = 221
    Just saying...
    And there are other costs associated to a salary than the pay, benefit costs and structuring costs.
    For salary of 52k, 500 is the cost of two days at most.

  9. Re:The utility/need/desire exists on Where are the Flying Cars? (Video; Part One of Two) · · Score: 1

    I think you're a minority.
    Most people live fairly close to cities.

  10. Not practical on Where are the Flying Cars? (Video; Part One of Two) · · Score: 3, Informative

    We don't have flying cars because they wouldn't be practical outside of long travels, and for long travels traditional airplanes are more economical and the ability to not be dependent on a third party service matters less.

  11. Re:FFS just put LLVM into the browser on Auralux Release For Browsers Shows Emscripten Is Reaching Indie Devs · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that pepper as a public API is being discontinued, NaCl (which relies on pepper in its implementation), will be the the next public API.

  12. Re:FFS just put LLVM into the browser on Auralux Release For Browsers Shows Emscripten Is Reaching Indie Devs · · Score: 1

    NaCl is the next version of Pepper.

  13. Re:Sounds smart, but is it? on NVIDIAs 64-bit Tegra K1: The Ghost of Transmeta Rides Again, Out of Order · · Score: 1

    You usually unroll step by step. All loads, all computations, all stores.

  14. Re:Sounds smart, but is it? on NVIDIAs 64-bit Tegra K1: The Ghost of Transmeta Rides Again, Out of Order · · Score: 1

    If you have a loop where each iteration has 30 cycles latency and 5 cycles throughput, the OoO engine will just keep executing instructions from six iterations in parallel. Producing code that does this without OoO execution is a nightmare.

    Loop unrolling is hardly a nightmare, it's one of the simplest optimizations and can easily be automatized.

  15. Re:Sounds smart, but is it? on NVIDIAs 64-bit Tegra K1: The Ghost of Transmeta Rides Again, Out of Order · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How is a JVM a closer analogy than exactly what they are doing?
    They are literally optimizing the assembly at runtime.

    A JVM does nothing like that.

  16. Re:Sounds smart, but is it? on NVIDIAs 64-bit Tegra K1: The Ghost of Transmeta Rides Again, Out of Order · · Score: 1

    Just look at the various optimizers that optimize assembly code at runtime and see how well they work.
    The idea is old, but it doesn't work that well in practice.

  17. Re:Is it better? on NVIDIAs 64-bit Tegra K1: The Ghost of Transmeta Rides Again, Out of Order · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In-order processors are a better choice as long as your program is well optimized.
    Optimizing for in-order processors is difficult, and not something that is going to be done for 99% of programs. It's also very difficult to do statically.

    NVIDIA has chosen to let the optimization be done by software at runtime. That's an interesting idea that will surely perform very well in benchmarks, if not in real life.

  18. Re: So.. what? on TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor · · Score: 1

    It's because of anti-nuclear people that it became so expensive.
    Ecoligists in general frequently slow down construction, increase costs and slow down innovation, one example being the Superphoenix project: a next-generation reactor which would have solved the problems of nuclear waste had to be dismantled before the initial investment was even paid off due to FUD from ecologists. Of course they couldn't use that as the reason to close it, so they pretended it was because of excessive costs.

  19. Get rid of the DMCA on Cell Phone Unlocking Is Legal -- For Now · · Score: 1

    The obvious fix is to get rid of the DMCA.
    I don't understand why exemptions are even allowed to be a thing.

  20. Re:Who has the market share? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't understand this focus on games.
    Who cares about video games on their computers apart from kids?

    People who use computers are looking for devices they can can use to do useful things.

  21. Re: Who has the market share? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I feel good knowing I'm part of the 1%.

  22. Who's responsible? on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    Who's responsible in case of accident? The car owner or the software developer?

  23. Looks mediocre on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one to think that it looks mediocre?
    It's clearly not nearly as good as The Lord of the Rings was.

    The story isn't the problem, it's the direction.

  24. Re: Bullshit.... on A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World · · Score: 1

    Decompression time is always real time. That's obvious.
    Compression is a whole different beast. Some applications need real-time encoding (such as video-conferencing), but most do not.
    Have you even ever written an encoder?

  25. Re: Bullshit.... on A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World · · Score: 1

    Compression and decompression are different things.