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  1. precompiled on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually MS hosts a huge repository of precompiled javascript snippets gathered by bing crawler and precompiled by M$, then IE just looks up correct snippets as bytecode in local snippet database and executes them fast.

    So what they stumbled upon was a published javascript snippet that had a bytecode, so here the fast result.

    However modified snippets will be downloaded as soon as bing crawls that discussion, and precompiled again, and pushed into next updates.

    However the initial test was written poorly by using dead code. What if Mozilla decides to do deadcode optimization? Good test should actually check if calculated values do match (of course this doesn't exclude option of M$ precompiling actual function results)

  2. Re:Failed on the first question on 2010 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    However, every geek does want to try it while reading title in favorite RSS reader

  3. Re:Poverty! on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 1

    Check your model specifications, there should be round soft pads if working from downside.

    Btw, you don't use both hands, so only one of pad is in use.

  4. Re:Poverty! on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 1

    Well, i do both the same way.

    You probably don't know how to use Thinkpad TrackPoint(TM) correctly :p

    The general idea is to not press it hard, but swivel slightly to the desired direction :p

  5. Re:Poverty! on Google Preparing To Launch G-Town · · Score: 1

    Nop, I call that red spot "Clitoris", because of the way you touch it

  6. Recursion on A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can it print itself? There's a model picture of itself at the end.

  7. Re:Confidential on Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons · · Score: 1

    Actually that's wiki-leaki-leaks

  8. Umm on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Will they set Obama on fire? Or what's the point of him appearing?

  9. Re:Information asymmetry on How to Heartlessly Arbitrage Used Books With a PDA · · Score: 1

    If only bookstores would scan them first and find out for what price people are ready to buy..

  10. What does business have to do with government? on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 1

    They are called Business Software Alliance, not Government Software Alliance.. so they should go back to Business and leave governments alone.

  11. Re:No control group? on Background Noise Affects Taste of Foods · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that group refused to eat when they saw the food.

  12. Re:Tunnels vs. Highways? on Switzerland's Mega Tunnel Sets Record · · Score: 1

    If only those tunnels were cheap. Lamanche tunnel starts from 90EUR, but ferry costs under 20EUR

  13. Re:Kinetic Energy? on Switzerland's Mega Tunnel Sets Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    2,808 bunches per beam, 1.15×10^11 protons per bunch

    and

    protons at an energy of 7 teraelectronvolts (1.12 microjoules) per particle

    115000000000*2808 = 322920000000000 * 1/1000000 J = 322920000 Joules = 322 Megajoules, and 1 Megajoule is approximately the kinetic energy of a one-ton vehicle moving at 160 km/h. So it just takes 200 cars on highway to achieve kinetic energy of LHC

  14. Re:How does this differ between humans and animals on Study Shows Babies Think Friendly Robots Are Sentient · · Score: 1

    That's it. I'm gonna build an interaction robot for my cat. So that cat thinks it's sentient and asks it for attention, not me :D

  15. Re:Why would I want this? on Facebook, Microsoft Team Up Against Google · · Score: 1

    Haha, that was my first idea too. If you really would want to know what your friends like you ASK them. That's socializing. Good that I don't use neither bing nor facebook

  16. Re:Finally on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Notation might be, but such infinitesmall numbers do exist. See Wikipedia

  17. Re:This is just faulty math on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up

    This is actually much better proof than any formulas. Just go back to math definitions and it's there.

    It took me some time to recall math class and formulas we used to prove it.

  18. Re:Finally on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    whoops. was.. trying.. joke..

  19. Re:whoops, type comparison on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    <?
      $a=1;
      $b=0.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999;
      echo $a==$b ? "Yes\n" : "No\n";
      echo $a===$b ? "Yes\n" : "No\n";
    ?>

  20. whoops, type comparison on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Basic mistake that novices do - forget the type comparison

  21. Re:Finally on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    That's easy.

    if 0.999 = 1 then 0.000...1 (infinitely small number that tends to zero) = 0

    So now just multiply 0.00...1 infinite times until you get 1 and 0=1

  22. Re:I went one further on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    All you have to do now is to prove that / = 1, then you could just type http:1 in your browser to visit /.

  23. Re:Bad puns aside... on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    What's an electricity bill? You mean you have to pay for electricity?

    In Soviet Russia electricity meters you!

  24. what could possibly go wrong on Pioneer Preps Laser Heads-Up Display For Cars · · Score: 1

    Blue screen in size of whole windshield?

  25. Re:Study? on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    Well, that's statistics. They pretend to be called scientists