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  1. Re:is Chrome OS any good? on Chrome OS Arrives On the iPad — No, Seriously! · · Score: 1

    It is at least eleventy-dozen times better than anything created in the next ten years, starting tomorrow.

  2. Re:The end is near... on Chrome OS Arrives On the iPad — No, Seriously! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you implying Chrome OS eats shit? :p

  3. Re:competition on Visual Depiction of Who Is Suing Who in Mobile · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not anti-competitive... the competition just moved into the courts.

  4. Re:Similarly... on Visual Depiction of Who Is Suing Who in Mobile · · Score: 1

    In this case, a leafless tree would not survive the winter.

  5. Re:morons on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Maybe everyone is just trying to get away from YOU? :p

  6. Re:Our world on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    For the oil, of course! :p

  7. Re:ET phone home... on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Communicate first? on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, they are vegan aliens. Besides, most of us are too fat for use in a balanced diet.

  9. Re:Radio on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Can stdout be redirected in such a way? :p

  10. Re:I'd like a second opinion... on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Nuclear weasels! Wait, that isn't right...

  11. Re:Takes my breath away! on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    God? Is that you?

  12. Re:You are correct, but on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Are you assuming fair seas and flat land? Also, "proper water and feed" is a built-in gotcha. Having done some backpacking recently, I can that a 20 mile day while carrying your essential gear and supplies is a very long day. Sustaining that pace while maintaining your supplies of "proper water and feed" would be problematic at best.

  13. Re:Overly pedantic on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man invented the horse?

  14. Re:but its open.... on Many More Android Apps Leaking User Data · · Score: 1

    NEVER CROSS THE STREAMS! :p

  15. Re:Catering? on Russian Firm Plans Commercial Space Station · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why yes, yes it was.

  16. Re:Catering? on Russian Firm Plans Commercial Space Station · · Score: 2, Informative

    Taco Bell, of course. :p

  17. Re:At least someone is moving forward on Russian Firm Plans Commercial Space Station · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's hilarious because not that long ago deep sea exploration was impractical and before that even flights through the air were impractical. Just because something is "utterly delusional, impractical, unrealistic, ignorant" now doesn't mean it will always be that way, unless your mind chooses to make it so.

  18. Re:Will Virgin Galactic see this as a challenge? on Russian Firm Plans Commercial Space Station · · Score: 1

    I'd bring a pig with me, but Jim Henson was way ahead of me.

  19. Re:but its open.... on Many More Android Apps Leaking User Data · · Score: 1

    It's a pissing match, where each party is trying to piss in opposite corners of a round room.

  20. Re:Original Source and Actual Paper on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 3, Informative

    To elaborate slightly further... If you had two CPUs on your motherboard with 8 cores each and four threads of execution per core, you'd have a total of: 2 CPUs, 16 cores, and 64 threads of execution.

  21. Re:Original Source and Actual Paper on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can also think of it as the difference between rooms and buildings. Multiple cores may exist in a single CPU just like multiple rooms may exist in a building. Getting around between rooms in the same building isn't such a big deal. But getting from Room A in Building 1 to Room B in Building 2 requires you to leave Building 1 and then enter Building 2, which takes more time. Some motherboards support multiple CPUs (buildings) but most do not. Those that do are usually more expensive than the ones that support only a single CPU.

  22. Re:Maybe... on Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book · · Score: 1

    It's the only way to be sure...

  23. Re:Hey, krulgar- on Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats · · Score: 1

    This is why you hand out cash to random people... in the hopes that you will help a future beggar.

  24. Re:Fetus in a bag on Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think your information is reliable.

  25. Re:It's all in the name on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 3, Informative

    OpenOffice.org is trademarked, which is now owned by Oracle. Making the name OpenOffice could easily be crushed by Oracle if they chose to. Giving it a new name, however, would make it a lot harder for Oracle to get in the way of this move.