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  1. Re:So? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 1

    We cannot use renewable resources exclusively. It's just not possible, unless you're willing to make the population starve by using arable land to produce energy instead of food. Do the math.

  2. Re:Wow! Computational Electromagnetics rock! on New Camera Sensor Filter Allows Twice As Much Light · · Score: 2

    Sparse reads and writes are not vectorizable and are not cache-friendly. A GPU has fast memory without cache and is not limited by traditional vectorization

  3. Re:Wow! Computational Electromagnetics rock! on New Camera Sensor Filter Allows Twice As Much Light · · Score: 2

    A GPU is actually pretty good at sparse matrix computations, unlike CPUs.

  4. Re:Good on Microsoft Makes Millions Renting Campus Space to Vendors · · Score: 1

    Working in the office is much better to exchange with your co-workers.
    It also makes it much easier to separate working time and family time.

    I've telecommuted, and I can tell I am much more productive in the office.

  5. Re:SELL!!! on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    Gambling is based on luck, speculative markets are based on trends.

  6. Re:Young most vulnerable and underskilled drivers on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    1) as I already said, the demographic boundaries are precisely chosen so as to maximize the accident "score". Also I didn't mean usian statistics in particular. In most other countries, driving is not permitted before 18.
    2) I cannot help you if pointing it out is not enough for you to reflect on what you said.

  7. Re:Young most vulnerable and underskilled drivers on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    Both 18 and 35 are young. Also you're stereotyping based on minorities.

  8. Re:Young most vulnerable and underskilled drivers on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    You can make statistics say what you want by choosing the right definition of "young" and "old".
    More expensive cars are quite safer than cheaper cars. Both cars meeting the same basic criteria doesn't mean that one isn't safer than the other.

  9. Re:Welcome the diversionary tactics! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Because it makes no sense to restrict ownership of anything at all. It is liberticide.

  10. Re:Welcome the diversionary tactics! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Who do you think you are to claim people are too stupid to own certain things? You're being judgemental.
    Let people have their freedom.

  11. Re:Welcome the diversionary tactics! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 2

    You're saying this as if it would be a good thing to prevent people from building or owning certain things.

  12. Re:work of a video gamer on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    It's the work of a gamer, but not necessarily that of a video gamer.
    I can agree that hunting people is a game to deranged people, that doesn't mean video games are any more reprehensible than any other scoring or competitive game, including sports.

  13. Re:Young most vulnerable and underskilled drivers on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    Older people don't drive as much as young ones do and have safer cars.
    Of course they'd run into lethal accidents less often.

  14. Re:Young most vulnerable and underskilled drivers on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    The young are rash but they will realize when something bad is going on.
    The old are just completely clueless and just don't notice things.

  15. Re:I'd believe it if you added the word "solid" on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 0

    What is this "vaccume" gas you speak of?
    Did you mean vacuum? In which case, you realize "nothingness" is not a gas, right?

  16. Re:There is cruft to be sure on Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS · · Score: 1

    Kids can't even speak English correctly, and you want them to half-learn a bunch of useless languages instead of doing something that is fundamentally useful like learning to write with a pen?

  17. Young most vulnerable and underskilled drivers on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 0

    Young people in good health, with good motor skills and high response time are the worst drivers, right?

  18. Re:Reinstall Ubuntu. on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 1

    You realize you can run Excel/Office on Linux, right?

  19. Re:There is cruft to be sure on Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS · · Score: 1

    What else would you like a 6-year-old to be taught? Numerical analysis?

  20. Re:One data point... on Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS · · Score: 1

    That's software engineering.
    Computer science is another thing entirely.

  21. Re:The Benefit of KOffice/Calligra on KDE's Calligra Office Suite For Android Released · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of other diagram drawing software, many of which not Qt-based.

  22. Re:OpenOffice on KDE's Calligra Office Suite For Android Released · · Score: 1

    What matters is not file formats, but the rendering engine.

  23. Re:Not surprising on Meet the Gamers Keeping Retro Consoles Alive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What you just described is known as arcade gameplay.

  24. Re:Tell it to Mozillla on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 1

    Thunderbird still has major problems with performance, disk usage and connectivity...

  25. Thinking in C++ on CS Faculty and Students To Write a Creative Commons C++ Textbook · · Score: 2

    "Thinking in C++" is the most famous free C++ book, freely available online.
    It's not that great, but can a couple of random programming students really make something better?