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  1. Re:Hardware incompatibility beyond Google's contro on John Carmack Not Enthused About Android Marketplace · · Score: 1

    You can set what android version you are targeting in the market, I also belive that the latest version of android comes with a minimum hardware spec,

  2. Re:Price on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    He was arguably already one of the most known lawyers in sweden even before this case..

  3. Re:Physicist speaking on New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory · · Score: 1

    depends, is this pascal strings we're talking about?

  4. Re:MOD PARENT UP PLEASE on The Case For Oracle · · Score: 1

    slower? at least V8 is JITed already, Dalvik AFAIK is just about to get JIT compilation

  5. Re:What Oracle v. Google tells us on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 1

    and that's a full J2SE implementation, and nothing added to it, you cannot have a subset, or a superset of the J2SE as that removes the promise not to sue for patent infringement by oracle.

  6. Re:never gonna work on Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash · · Score: 1

    well, there was actually a 3rd format cvalled Video 2000 which could record longer than that *and* you could flip the cassette and record on the other side, just like audio cassettes.
    For some reason it never caught on....

  7. Re:Let me see. on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    well, it's a fad that comes and goes, I got mine in the early 90's, when people said 'oh you'll regrett that, it's only a fad', still love it to this day.

    people have been tattooing themselves for centuries so I doubt it's going anywhere soon. Of course, one should think it through befoer going and getting tattooed.

  8. Re:codec? on VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg · · Score: 1
  9. Re:There is a reason... on Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images · · Score: 1

    considering the sales of classic coke went sky-high after the new coke experiment, I can fully understand why google did it.

  10. Re:1st step in something useful for deep explorati on Japan Successfully Deploys First Solar Sail In Space · · Score: 1

    Somebody will probably point out that if you could focus all the sunlight that falls on a small town, you could make a hostile spacecraft very uncomfortable, though you couldn't get them any hotter than the surface of the Sun.

    Hmmm , reminds me of the book "The Mote in GOd's eye", where there is a ship with a solar sail using the sail to focus beams of light as a defence mechanism on another ship trying to investigate it.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye

  11. Re:But the UK is not within US jurisdiction on America Versus the UFO Hacker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they're not *required* to extradite him, but if UK don't send him over, then the risk is that US will flick UK the bird next time UK wants someone extradited.

    Countries also have deals where they promise to send over anyone the other country believes to have committed a crime (within reason I suppose).

    That's why all british gangsters went to Spain back in the day, spain refused to extradite anyone from Spain to UK due to tensions over Gibraltar

  12. OT: Re:Cult of Math on Six More Tech Cults · · Score: 1

    rather off-topic, but anyway....
    regarding the moon head towards earth, not sure i understand what you mean. the moon is currently moving away because of the tides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon#Tidal_evolution

  13. Re:The OP forgot VAT. on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and so they should! We like our public servies

  14. Re:Value for money vs FanboiGasms on AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs · · Score: 1

    Well, I have 2 AMD systems back home, one is from 2003 and the other is early 2006, both works fine, the older being my file server. About to upgrade and I cannot see any reason why not to go with AMD again.

    Off course, this does not prove anything

  15. Re:Trolls. Everywhere. on Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I agree that the planet itself in not in trouble. However the current ecosystem is in a bit of peril, some say that we're currently living through the 6 great extinction of earth, but iirc the jury is still out on that one.
    Anyway, nothing like a global spring cleaning once in a while! ;-)

  16. Re:Anywhere on earth in 2 hours on USAF's Robotic X-37B Orbiter Launched For Test Flight · · Score: 1

    well, reactors are a bit different than actual nukes, however I do agree it's bloody silly to keep them in LEO. For missions going elsewhere I can live with them.
    Even US used nuclear power sources; voyager used RTGs iirc, although that bit more benign than actual reactors

  17. Re:Anywhere on earth in 2 hours on USAF's Robotic X-37B Orbiter Launched For Test Flight · · Score: 1

    well, it's far less cold than it used to be, despite the letest rattlings from russia. US and russia now sogned another agreement to get rid of some of their stockpile. I think russia and US are quite-ish happy with the current status quo.
    Why shake the bees nest by creating am orbiting nuke? By doing that US basically tells the world it's not giving a damn about the treaties they agrees to and all hell will be breaking lose (russian, china, etc all putting nukes in LEO, seeling nukes to countries that should not have it, etc, etc)
    Especially as mentined elsewhere, they already pretty much have this cabability with subs.

    They might use it with things like a MOAB is similar but bigger in there, packs quite a punch as well

  18. Re:Anywhere on earth in 2 hours on USAF's Robotic X-37B Orbiter Launched For Test Flight · · Score: 1

    doubt that, nukes not allowed in space, don't think russia, et. al. would be too impressed if this turned out to be a nuclear payload delivery mechanism. Anyway, all that just sounds a bit cold war-ish and soooo last century. :-)

  19. Re:Perhaps nobody else cares? on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    IMHO huge screens are great when coding as you can have your references around your editor/IDE, and you should really have at least 2 of them!

  20. Freudian slip... on Ultrathin Silk-Based Brain Implants · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read that as 'Ultrathin Silk-Based Breast Implants'...

    oops.. oh well, shows what goes on in my head...

  21. Re:Who is JWZ? on Cross With the Platform · · Score: 1

    known about him since his ranting about why he left netscape when they decided to chuck out the old code and start fresh.
    Nope, not a manager nor exec, which is regrettable from a monetary point of view I suppose, otherwise quite happy
    Doubt I'd make a good boss anyway.. far to grumpy...

  22. Re:So fast, so dangerous on Shuttle Reentry Over the Continental US · · Score: 1

    would be a great contender for fastest thing on land, just need to extend the landing strip a little bit!

  23. Re:Who is JWZ? on Cross With the Platform · · Score: 1

    geek card, hand it over, now

  24. Re:Grumpy on Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome · · Score: 1

    No does seems to be very fun at all, saw this TV programme (ccalled My street) in the UK that included a guy who had tourettes, he struggled to complete even a single sentence because of his ticks and you could see he how hard he tried to hold them back and failiing, ultimate frustration. At the end of the program there was a text that explained that he commited suicide while program was in after production. All very tragic.

  25. Re:IDEs on Something For (Almost) Every Developer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    hear, hear, well, think Eclipse is alright, decent solid IDE once you get to know it. Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA though rocks everything, best IDE ever.
    Coming back to VS, the best part with it is that you can install the Jetbrains Resharper, which makes VS behave (almost) like IntelliJ!!