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  1. Re:Simplicity of design is an important factor on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 1

    I highly doubt it's too little too late for Sony, there's a lot of PS3's out there.

    About as many sold as 360s, and about as many copies of Assassin's creed 3 sold on each system.

    All 3 companies appear to have done alright this generation.

    Maybe I'm just hoping though, because I just bought a PS3 (God of War and Assassin's creed being pretty much every game I've missed playing that I wanted to in the last decade), and God of War being an exclusive. It'd be a shame if the development of God of War degraded (though I'm not too excited for the new one).

  2. Re:I can't think of anything either on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    I read gp to this post as sarcasm. I think it hits that point where on the internet sarcasm is undistinguished from insane thought at least...

  3. Re:I can't think of anything either on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    Non-religious ideology followed as dogma?

  4. Re:Adam & Eve? on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    I pretty much assumed it was targeted for Goa.

    I'm curious if they're Christianity typically abstains from meat, or another religion is trying to bring them in line (the second sounds likely if 'meat' is being used to mean beef (as is the case with older French for example)).

  5. Re:Not untrue.... on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    I'd say any group of people larger than a couple dozen, with pretty much any qualifiers.

  6. Re:All well and good... on Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists · · Score: 2

    It's the third largest exporter in the world (behind only China and Germany).

  7. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is 20-30% A realistic estimation of TCP headers?

    If the numbers are correct I would say that a significant portion below the tcp/ip layer is being counted.

    How much retransmit/error correction is there in DSL? I personally wouldn't think that's valid to charge, but the argument could be made.

    As for for the original poster's question on law, I doubt there is any requirement, though if you challenge them in court, it would have to be revealed, or they have no evidence.

  8. Re:i don't get it on AMD Hires Bank To Explore Sale Options · · Score: 1

    Aren't the new AMD parts more like .75 fpus/core (they added an extra decoder in the last revision I think, so It's two schedulers, two decoders, and one execution unit per a pair of cores).

    I think the execution unit can even do 2 of some operations in a cycle.

  9. Re:If there was a Bad at Math Map... on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 1

    Also worth noting, the security budget for Texas could be much reduced, as cmon, they Will be protected if attacked (the us won't want an aggressor in Texas).

    hey could save massive on military, and not support other poor states, and they have oil. They would win hard independant, which is why they won't be allowed to, they benefited for centuries as part of the us, they can't take their ball and go hone now.

  10. Re:Inevitable on Samsung Hits Apple With 20% Price Increase · · Score: 1

    I have android maps, so if anything they're happy I can't find then.

    I actually think it's that in our area at least the turn by turn directions are better than any of the other apps they were using, and they are happy to have the turn by turn (but your theory on my odiousness could prove to be correct).

  11. Re:Inevitable on Samsung Hits Apple With 20% Price Increase · · Score: 0

    Agreed, my friends all love the new maps.

  12. Re:Not built for speed?!? on Moore's Law Is Becoming Irrelevant, Says ARM's Boss · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, I don't know that I'd call managed memory pasted on security though (which somehow autocunted to snag on my first post).

  13. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    What state lets you do that?

    in DE and PA both you pay no taxes or registration on your purchase, then pay when you register (in the state you prove residence in).

    These are the only two states where I've purchased a car, but the thought that I'd be able to register my car without a proof of address surprises me.

  14. Re:Not built for speed?!? on Moore's Law Is Becoming Irrelevant, Says ARM's Boss · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, an OS like DOS, hat offered no security, was way faster than something like Linux (or even win95) that had snag memory.

  15. Re:Math on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    National: 2%
    VA:3%
    OH:2%
    FL: irrelevant for the election

    2% is a decent spread really I would think, not many contested elections go by more than that.

  16. Re:Not how statistics works on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 3, Informative

    What I gathered from actually reading his blog though, these were treated as related events.

    Obama losing Ohio was to mean he lost VA, and FL, and the Presidency and maybe CO.

    He posted on (Sunday I believe) that the only way Obama was going to lose the election was if all polls had made underlying assumptions that skewed them to Obama, he added that historically this wasn't the case.

    Essentially his 10% loss for Obama was a prediction that the polls were skewed by enough for him to lose (not margin of error, but actual skew in underlying assumptions that every pollster made).

    The fact that this was not the case leads all of his predictions to be accurate (even the ones approaching 50/50).

    The numbers come from runs of the model he uses with various tweaks, but they assume things such as a failure to predict one midwest state flows into others, or even into the nation. His models DO NOT assume independence of the results when coming up with numbers.

    The fact that his essentially 50/50 (FL 50.3% Obama) turned out to be right is promising, though we don't have a tight call on the other-side to measure if there was skew (next closest state is NC with 75% chance going Romney).

    his popular vote was quite close too.

    This is why he calls the "tipping point states", his model pretty much assumed if Obama lost OH, he would also lost other safer states such as NV and CO, he would therefor of lost the election if losing OH (though technically he could of won VA (which he did) and NV to fill back up, and that was somewhat accounted for in the model (see the chances of NV and VA as tipping point states), as different geographic regions were given some independence in the models.

  17. Re:Evolution on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Fixing bad mod, should be insightful

  18. Re:Stupid. on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 1

    Yes, the continued reading of tfs agrees...

    I do like the machines in my area though, a large sheet of paper over a grid of buttons, with holes for LEDs. I push buttons, things light up by the button, I feel the button, It's easy, intuitive, then I push a vote button that I assume from sound drills a paper ballot.

    it'd be real hard to fuck up, and keeps the actual ballots more secure than writing by hand.

  19. Re:Cryptographic lockout on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 2

    I used to keep picks in my mailbox, the higher barrier for entry incentivized not being lazy and caught by a neighborhood kid using the hidden key rather than trying to remember my key.

    I stopped when the one time I actually had to use it I was terrified of getting arrested the whole time I used it.

  20. Re:is the election over yet? [*] on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    FL is unlikely to matter this year.

    I say this because, if Obama wins (which is likely) it will probably be without FL, or at the very lease FL will be irrelevant (over 270 either way).

    If Romney wins, they FL will probably be a key state (as in close, and enough to shift who has 270), but that is fairly unlikely to happen.

    Of course, I suspect there will be a lot of wrangling in Representative races for a while, but not in the presidential.

  21. Re:MPG testing - just to add on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    The post 2008 ones tend to be perhaps, but I think the old way of measuring was consistently a mile or two high.

  22. irrelevant to what they believe (that he believed in god).

    much like whether or not god was made up is irrelevant to their beliefs.

  23. Yes, Christians post his picture and a quote about knowing God on facebook all the time.

  24. Re:Of course it was! on Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest · · Score: 1

    Doma is the only thing making it cut and dry if states get to pick which legal marriages are acceptable.

    Currently states are required to recognize (non gay) marriages if they conform to state law or not. Cousin marriage is not legal in my state, but if married cousins move here (or return from marrying somewhere it is legal), the marriage sticks. Doma relieves states of that responsibility in a specific case.

  25. Re:Explanation on Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? · · Score: 1

    MY bank's atms have more than 7 buttons, on one screen they even use.them all (withdraw has default amounts to fill all but one button, with the last saying other).