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  1. Doesn't matter what was originally written on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 0

    Matters what's required now. Times change. That said, careful thought should be put into any change.

    Not even my country, but mass killings in the states are far too frequent. Control firearms a little.

    My 2c.

  2. Re:Hoverboard flips? SOLVED. on Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation · · Score: 0

    that's what I thought too. are we missing something ? this is the obvious solution.

    when can we get one ?

  3. Hoverboard flips ... end on end, or sideways ? on Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation · · Score: 0

    If sideways, put an axle over it with an upper platform somehow & ride on the stable top half. Bottom can flip over all it likes.

      Not enough coffee yet this morning so that's likely nonsense. Still, a contributution,

    Would have given an ascii art diagram but slashderp whines about junk characters in the message.

  4. Re:Learn your math on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 0

    Accepted.

    How is it that there is anything at all ?

  5. Re:If you make this a proof of God... on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 0

    God or not - finding an answer to "why is there anything at all ?" is an interesting mental exercise.

    That you may be sick of hearing this question and the possible explanations is your problem mate.

    Some of us like thinking about this stuff.

  6. Re:multiverse != multiple observable regions in sp on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 0

    Big bang is an explosion of space so however the matter is distributed it's one big bang with one emergent 4 space with all the stuff in it.

    There may or may not be other 4 spaces or indeed n-spaces emergent from other big bangs - they would be other universes - present in a hypothesised multiverse.

    TFA describes multiple regions. That inflation may not be constant across our entire universe does not make these regions seperate universes. They're present within the same 4 space.

    I don't think the term multiverse should be used in the context of the scenario described in the article. Find another term.

    My 2c.

  7. multiverse != multiple observable regions in space on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 0

    Think I followed TFA correctly though my physics is weak.

    It suggests there are seperated observable regions in one 4 space universe.

    That's not my understanding of the multiverse proposal.

    My understanding is that a multiverse consists of seperate universes not simply seperate regions within the same one.

    Though I know next to nothing about such things.

    Mixing terminology confuses and the subject is confusing enough without doing that :)

    My 2c.

  8. c++ is a programming language, not an o/s on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 0

    competent c++ programmers are quite capable of selecting and/or building the graphics APIs we wish to use.

    higher level languages/environments provide built in graphics support where deemed appropriate.

    c++ is metal. we're not pop. please don't bloat.

    - steve.

  9. Awesome on First 3D Printed Liver Expected In 2014 · · Score: 0

    Just gotta figure out how to print bacon then that's dinner sorted.

  10. Re:"next generation" my ass! on Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland · · Score: 0

    because it can be used as a client side machine independent "scripting" language - like javascript.

    and it's properly typed which means you can likely compile to more optimal code.

    js uses doubles for everything which isn't optimal. recall some talk of this changing.

    c# supports multiple threads, etc. etc.

    java would do as an alternative also. not quite sure why it's gone out of fashion.

    just because js is the html5 default scripting language doesn't mean it's the best choice. we can evolve.

    unity (3d html page plugin) uses c# for example. as does a ton of other stuff.

    mono implementation for non m$. what's blocking html5 supporting this out of the box, aside from inertia ?

  11. Re:"next generation" my ass! on Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland · · Score: 0

    c#

    why not ?

    merry christmas all.

  12. Re:AMD's 'window' of opportunity on AMD To Launch a Windows 8.1 Gaming Tablet · · Score: 0

    Surface Pro doesn't ship with an integrated gaming controller so it's not very interesting (to me anyhow). Whatever AMD do in this space will have to compete with tegra 5 android alternatives in the near future so will be interesting to see what they come up with.

  13. Re:Gaming tablet? on AMD To Launch a Windows 8.1 Gaming Tablet · · Score: 0

    Its not such a daft idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFoCGm2xkJ8 Sure a desktop workstation that you can upgrade every so often is the ideal configuration, but that doesn't fit on the plane too easily. Hope AMD can come up with something as sexy as the wikipad but with a little more under the hood.

  14. http 2 feature request on HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only · · Score: 0

    Haven't read the spec. Please can we have a method to check whether a file exists. Apologies if it's there & I've missed it. 404 file not found isn't optimal as you get sent back a ton of unnecessary fluff. just want a bool.

  15. Someone's having a laugh ... on Scientists Invent Urine-Powered Robots · · Score: -1

    Are they taking the p1ss ?

  16. Journalists are dull weirdos on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 0

    He likes his computer games though : https://www.facebook.com/willard.foxton Wonder who makes those ? The t0sspot has no respect. He's great, everyone else is cr@p. Arrogant knobhead.

  17. Branding on The FSF Adopts the Kickstarter Approach To Fund-raising · · Score: 0

    Financing comes from those who sufficiently give a shit to contribute. Therefore image is important. You're trying to gain people's confidence. Hire a pro-graphic designer to give your funding portal a makeover. Sorry, programmer art does not cut it if you want this to work. Pro-designers/artists don't work for free so you'll need a budget. A bunch of them over here: http://maxforums.org/ Other sites are available. Please do this right.

  18. Re:Honest Question on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 0

    Can't they just wrap the functionality they need to access into a shared library (which would be GPL) then access interface points to that externally from their closed source module ? They already accesss GPL kernel interface points from their closed source code anyway so more of the same unless I'm missing something. There was a fairly recent ruling that you can't copyright APIs so that would be my workaround unless someone can poke a legal hole in that.

  19. Re:What did I tell you? on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 0

    I don't pretend to understand but from the little I've read gravity can be considered negative energy. http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php/105781-Gravity-and-Negative-Energy etc. no idea if this helps.

  20. Re:Microsoft CAN do this. on Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off · · Score: 0

    > two of the world’s leading universities, Cambridge & Manchester.

  21. Why ? on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 0

    Why does a browser need to be able to access more than 4GB ? Has anyone hit that limit yet ? Or even close ?

  22. Re:Why does my browser need webCL now? on First WebCL Demos Arrive From Nokia and AMD · · Score: 0

    >"freeze" button to stop all computation on a web page. vpurecover. next ?

  23. Re:Why does my browser need webCL now? on First WebCL Demos Arrive From Nokia and AMD · · Score: 0

    real-time physics. you guys are so backwards it's like stepping into a museum. yeah mod me troll. webgl is totally fine btw. the worst it can do is lock up a shader. amd hardware has vpurecover so that's covered. not sure about cl - does it support arbitrary pointers if so could be a problem. need to be able to lock it down to only be able to access a configurable chunk of memory then should be fine too. go ahead and whine about invisible scary monsters.

  24. You're going the wrong way ! on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 0

    Now just drive on the correct side of the road & you'll be sorted :)

  25. Re:WebGL on Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide · · Score: 0

    ... almost except it's only a shader so we don't care if it locks up. all we care is that we can detect this situation and force it to quit. I'd be happy with a " GLSL shader failed to respond - quit ? " message after some user configurable timeout (say a second as default). Don't know if this is possible with current generation hardware.