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  1. Re:3k - 64cores + 54+GB of ram. on Ask Slashdot: Parallel Cluster In a Box? · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see the full spec of those machines.

  2. Re:Fuck the king on 15 Years In Jail For Clicking 'Like' · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Flawed Computer Models on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    You do realize there are more ways to get to London from Frankfurt? The ICE to Paris and then the tunnel would have probably worked. How long would you have been prepared to wait because you want to fly rather than use some other mechanism?

  4. Re:What about Flash games and other stuff? on Adobe Not Worried About the Future of Flash · · Score: 1

    I very much agree with you that flash should have died a long time ago, but how do you propose to transition ?

    Video is not the only thing that flash does well, chat clients and such are also exclusively written in
    flash if they have anywhere near decent performance.

     

  5. surprise on Of Encrypted Hard Drives and "Evil Maids" · · Score: 5, Informative

    physical access > digital security

  6. Re:9V != 18W on Teenager Invents Cheap Solar Panel From Human Hair · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried lighting up a commercial grade solar panel with a 10W lightbulb ?

    How much power did it produce ?

  7. Re:9V != 18W on Teenager Invents Cheap Solar Panel From Human Hair · · Score: 1

    please hand in your low uid.

  8. Re:Dark Tan? on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    it's fairly obvious from your remark that you've never been to Hungary.

  9. Re:OOh on Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe · · Score: 1

    so, how do you manage to upgrade a hard disk without a re-install ?

     

  10. Re:What MORON keeps tagging articles as HARDHACK? on Suggestions For Learning FPGA Development At Home? · · Score: 1

    and all those 'software simulators' are executed by hardware...

    In the end, it doens't matter how many virtualization layers you've got you are programming to tell the *hardware* what to do

  11. Re:Horray! on SpaceX Boosts Malaysian Satellite Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Elon Musk is flying payloads while John Carmack is still playing games. Come on John, make us proud...

  12. Re:Germans still outperform Africans. on German Health Insurance Card CA Loses Secret Key · · Score: 1

    They can have my copy, I hacked their servers last week ;)

  13. Re:Always wondered about this on Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Passing this data back to the scientist on Sequencing a Human Genome In a Week · · Score: 1

    yes, let's give those aliens something to experiment on, so they can figure out what bugs to send our way to exterminate us :)

  15. Re:switching is going to be a real bitch on Plastic Circuits Designed To Enable Tough, Green Computers · · Score: 1

    Those figures were vapourware, they never actually produced any of that, they also chose circuits that have an advantage when made in plastic because they do not need to be sealed afterwards.

    in my experience, producing fairly large quantities of pcbs is so cheap that it is going to take a very well thought out assembly process to compete with that.

    And then there is the fact that a circuit made using this tech is essentially unreparable.

  16. Re:switching is going to be a real bitch on Plastic Circuits Designed To Enable Tough, Green Computers · · Score: 1

    yes, because regular electronics can't be sealed...

  17. Re:Richard Dawkins on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    So, you just equated religion with using morphine and the scientific method in comparision with heroin ?

    I'd like to suggest religion as morphine and science as a breath of fresh air, an open window through
    which you allow doubt to enter your life, and the switching on of a bright light that helps you see
    more clearly.

  18. Re:I assure you God is real, Jesus is Lord! I know on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    Was there ever a more appropriate nickname ?

    Let me give you a hint: One of the first things people do when they start speaking is to try to agree on what words have what meanings. Those
    who fail to do that will be able to claim just about anything, black will be white, up will be down and days can be any length of time because a
    day is no longer a concept with any fixed meaning. If your words don't have a fixed meaning then you have to ask yourself why you are
    stretching them so much. Is it so hard to admit that something is simply wrong that you have to stretch the meaning of words to make it right ?

  19. Re:Sorry, No. on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    I think the way to interpret that is that 'science works', you can't help but advance science even when you're a priest if you hold to the scientific method.

    So, scientists can be religious, it's the method that will eventually cause them to dismantle their own belief system.

  20. Re:Sorry, No. on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    To the point where Einstein would try to ridicule Bohr.

    It's sad when two titans of the scientific world clash on such a personal basis, but at the same time I'm sure they
    both had much more where they agreed than where they disagreed.

    Oh, and in the long run Einstein was dead wrong about this. The man was absolutely brilliant and has done
    more for us and our lives than many other individuals, but he was human and in this particular case he
    was wrong.

    There is no shame in that, that's what science is all about. Whether this one reference to 'God' means that
    Einstein was influenced by religion in making this error of judgement is a stretch.

  21. Re:Sorry, No. on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 0, Troll

    statistics is not your strong suit is it ?

  22. switching is going to be a real bitch on Plastic Circuits Designed To Enable Tough, Green Computers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If this process is going to be mainstream they'll have to get some kind of cost benefit attached, otherwise the only way there is going to be a switch is through legislation.

  23. Re:Good on Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development · · Score: 4, Funny

    This must be a meaning of the word 'only' that I wasn't previously aware of.

  24. Re:Windows TCO on PC Invader Costs a Kentucky County $415,000 · · Score: 1

    network snooping is.

  25. Re:Too much detail on Prof. Nesson Ordered To Show Cause · · Score: 1

    so what you're saying is that you have been wasting the better part of an hour in order to complain about the topic of conversation on a site that you shouldn't even be reading on your bosses time ?

    Amazing.