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  1. Re:yay on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Is the "-f" for fuck-yeah?

  2. Stalin on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    You mean Stalin right? Lenin was dead before the Cold War started.

  3. Re:Error in, error out on Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the whoosh is on me.

  4. Re:Error in, error out on Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared · · Score: 1

    Woosh!!

  5. no proble for me on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 2

    I can run PhysX fine on my machine and it has an both AMD proc and graphic card (HD 3800).

  6. Re:Welcome back to mainframes bitches on What Happens To Data When a Cloud Provider Dies? · · Score: 1

    Both are distributed.

  7. Migration on What Happens To Data When a Cloud Provider Dies? · · Score: 3, Informative

    On shared hosting you can migrate from one service provider to the other without major pain, because there are a lot of providers offering LAMP/J2EE/ASP.net etc.
    In the case of the cloud, you depend on the cloud APIs which aren't standardized and because cloud servers aren't a commodity. You can't migrate from Amazon cloud to Microsoft cloud without writing your own abstraction layer on top of proprietary cloud APIs.

  8. Re:Eheh, managers on Computer Opens Unmanned Store For Holiday · · Score: 1

    Isn't petrol subsidized in the US?

  9. Re:Measuring the wrong variables on Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice · · Score: 1

    An aristrocrat doesn't have to make a living. He has already has enough money.

  10. Re:Measuring the wrong variables on Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice · · Score: 1

    And that's why even back then science was the hobby of the aristrocrats.

  11. Tubgirl on Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012 · · Score: 1

    Then they would have called it Project tubgirl.

  12. Shaders on Nintendo Announces Wii Successor for 2012 · · Score: 1

    It's not just texture resolution, Wii-s lack programmable shaders too.And you have to reduce polycount as well. (Can't be automated for animated objects.)

  13. Re:Adoption... on German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs · · Score: 1

    No, he's saving costs for his employer by reducing vendor lock-in. (Don't get me started on quirksmode.)

  14. Not FPS but strategy on FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' · · Score: 1

    My brother always played Panzer General with the Germans. He said they had better weapons. Nice excuse. You better keep and eye on him...

  15. Re:Kill the Invaders on FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' · · Score: 1

    So instead we were singing in Russian.

  16. Just a Tsar Bomb on Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building · · Score: 1

    " It's not Chernobyl. When all this began I said a worst case would be one or more Tsar Bomba equivalents. "

    Well, that's very comforting, after all the Tsar Bomb is just the BIGGEST FRIKKIN HYDROGEN BOMB EVER BUILT.
    Yeah, I know residual fallout is smaller in atomic/hydrogene bombs than in dirty bombs, but I still wouldn't make the guy my PR/spokesperson.

  17. AmieStreet on Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want · · Score: 1

    Khm... AmieStreet. Bought up by Amazon, can't access my songs anymore.

  18. Donate for Feature on GIMP 2.7.2 Released — Another Step Toward 2.8 · · Score: 1

    Well, the opensource world doesn't really have "donate for feature" runs. I think that would really help.
    And it would help if some prominent OSS guys were doing a bit of PR for such runs.

  19. Virtuawin on GIMP 2.7.2 Released — Another Step Toward 2.8 · · Score: 1

    I use VirtuaWin. It's not a full blown Window Manager, but it allows to have multiple desktops, so you can allocate one purely for Gimp windows.

  20. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    Definitely obtuse. If you loan your backup copy, it's copyright infringement. Making a compilation and loaning it without the originals is legally the same.

  21. Re:is it just me? on America's Tech Decline: a Reading Guide · · Score: 1

    "Absolute, utter rubbish. Inter-EU migration is lower in most western EU countries than in the UK, but that is not because it is restricted in any way."

    Ever heard about the deportation of Romanian gypsies? Ever seen German immigration law?

    http://ec.europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/jobseeker/work-permits/index_en.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_enlargement_of_the_European_Union#Free_movement_issues

    "With their accession to the EU, free movement of people between all 25 states should apply. However, due to concerns of mass migration from the new eastern members to the old EU-15, some transitional restrictions were put in place. Mobility within the EU-15 (including Cyprus) and within the new states (minus Cyprus) functioned as normal (although the new states had the right to impose restrictions on travel between them). Between the old and new states, transitional restrictions up to 2011 could be put in place, ..."

    " In Austria, to be employed the worker needs to have been employed for more than a year in his home country prior to accession. Germany had bilateral quotas which remained in force."

  22. Re:is it just me? on America's Tech Decline: a Reading Guide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    " the banks were given all sorts of cash, but they didn't "buy" anything with it (no increase in loans offered)."
    Of course they didn't. It was better investment to buy up small banks that didn't get TARP money.

    " You can't force people to buy more than they want; even if you give them cash they may just sit on it ... Note that this is different from things like slavery which artificially hold prices low (or its complement, forcing prices to be high); this is just the natural willingness to be content with less."

    Boy, you're so full of shit! They're not content.
    1, They're living in a dictatorship, where they don't have the right to strike
    2, They can't legally immigrate to US or Western Europe. Hell, even an Eastern European EU citizen can't migrate to Western-Europe*. Even though goods and services can go through borders.

    *UK is an exception in this regard

  23. Aspect Oriented Programming on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 1

    What about Aspect Oriented Programming? It seems like an attempt to resurrect multiple inheritance.

  24. Re:For the applications on Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your PC? · · Score: 1

    I use Psycle (OSS) and FL Studio, both are Windows only. (But it's only a hobby for me.)
    Can you suggest some good OSS DAW?

  25. For the applications on Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your PC? · · Score: 2

    Why would I go out of my way to use an OS that takes extra work to secure?

    Because you want it to use for 3D design, music/film production etc.