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  1. No on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    No. FTFY.

  2. Re:Mmm .... Pi on Google Gives 15,000 Raspberry Pis To UK Schools · · Score: 1

    I was thinking along the same lines. Kudos and attaboys to Google for doing this, but what this gift unintentionally did was cause the schools to need to buy I/O devices for those machines. Why not 15000 OLPCs, which are 'complete'?

  3. Re:Mmm .... Pi on Google Gives 15,000 Raspberry Pis To UK Schools · · Score: 1

    Mod up

  4. Re:what about warp4? Warp has some VM issues. on Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 · · Score: 1

    HPFS has a partition size limit of 8GB; HPFS386 (from Warp Server AKA 4.5) is 64GB. Both were kind of superseded by JFS, but you can't boot from a JFS partition. Using plain vanilla Warp 4 what I'd do is set up an 8GB partition in the VM to boot from; you could add other drives later if needed. Or, go to that well-known bay site frequented by pirates and search with the keywords "virtualbox warp" and see what you come up with.

  5. Re:what about warp4? Warp has some VM issues. on Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 · · Score: 1

    To my knowledge none of them booted from CD; you needed two install floppies, which I think could be made using the CD, not sure. It's been a long time.

  6. Re:what about warp4? Warp has some VM issues. on Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 · · Score: 1

    OS/2's memory management was different enough from its 'siblings' at the time, NT 3.51/4 that it wouldn't run under VMware (VMware had 'experimental' support for it a few versions ago that's since been dropped). I'm an old Warp user myself but I'm not sure it'd run under DOSbox or qemu; I never tried to. I did get it running under Virtualbox. For the OP's purposes 3.1 is probably the best way to go.

  7. Re:Games? on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    1K Chess on the Sinclair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess

  8. Re:Article summary: "I am a Mac fanboi" on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should honor Xerox Star

  9. Re:having just watched the Trek marathon on SyFy on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    I will say that in terms of sheer, punch-you-in-gut pathos, Deep Sleep Nine's "The Visitor" just blew me away. Yes, it's a quasi time travel story-- Jake Sisko watches his father disappear in a chrono-synclastic infundibulum accident and devotes his life to restoring him, succeeding finally as an old man by giving his own life. Powerful, powerful stuff, and for my money one of the best Trek eps ever.

  10. No sympathy here on UK Anonymous Hacktivists Get Jail Time · · Score: 1

    Cue the slashdotters who'll defend them. They're *fucking thieves*. They deserve jail time.

  11. It makes sense on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It makes sense, as he already did a Star Wars movie in 2009. The descent of both franchises to the dark side will be complete.

  12. Re:Steve Ballmer will do anything to save Windows. on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1

    V. 8, Ballmer's baby, is exactly the thing killing Windows!

  13. Mars had water once on Mars' Reull Vallis: a River Ran Through It · · Score: 2

    Can we please stop with the "Mars once had water!" stuff? Mars had water once three billion or so years ago. It probably still has traces of it left, and there's possibly primitive life there. We're dicking around in LE-orbit, hitching rides from the Russians. Boots on Mars. Read it. Learn it. Understand it. Make it happen.

  14. Re:The "Cloud" on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And better data mining techniques too. Anyone who believes that Dell or any other company doing something like this (Apple) won't leverage this level of control into dictating what the user sees is engaging in wishful thinking. Consheepmers might see the device as a convenience, but Dell will see it as a marketing tool & will be in total control of whatever information it provides. This whole movement away from PCs to handheld devices (tablets/smartphones) represents a paradigm shift away from local control & content creation, to remote control & content consumption. The Idiocracy has begun.

  15. Re:So what are we using for input? on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    I wondered the same thing. Lugging around a keyboard would defeat the purpose of portability, so I assume (I of course did not RTFA) it'll be touch-- meaning it'll require touch-enabled screens. I can't see this thing taking off.

  16. The "Cloud" on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't be the only one who's creeped out about this. All my data in "the cloud"... I know, I know, it's been going on for years, but me, I like my data on my own machine away from anyone else. The is just more devolution of the power of the individual & transferring it to others, who may not necessarily have the individual's best interests in mind. Keep your little machine Dell.

  17. Ultimate ransomware on Course Asks University Students To Tackle Medical Device Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Somewhere in Russia right now, a cybercrook is salivating at the prospect of being able to break into pacemakers and hold their owners' lives for ransom. The solution? DON'T CONNECT THE DAMN THINGS TO THE INTERNET.

  18. Re:I don't understand on The Tiny Console Killers Taking On the PS4 and Xbox 720 · · Score: 1

    My first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81. I go back a ways... :-)

  19. I don't understand on The Tiny Console Killers Taking On the PS4 and Xbox 720 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The console-killer always has been the good old PC. A reasonably specced-out PC with a mid-range graphics card is far, far better than any console. But nobody listens to me. Nobody loves me.

  20. Buzzwords and overthinking on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 2

    The article is just a bunch of buzzwords trying to appear profound on that basis. There are only three things that matter in the world of online dating sites: (1) Have an attractive picture, (2) Have an attractive picture, and (3) Make sure your picture is attractive. That's 99.44% of online dating right there. You can write out the most heartfelt and sincere profile in the whole world and it will go unreplied to. Likewise when responding to womens' profiles; I don't think it matters at all what you write beyond a certain minimum of decorum. It's a meat (meet) market, pure and simple, and it's pure Darwinism.

  21. Helium on What 'Negative Temperature' Really Means · · Score: 0

    How can you go below the absence of atomic/molecular motion? 'Solid' helium is as cold as matter can get. Anything less is a physical impossibility, unless there's no matter involved.

  22. Re:Nice friends on Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You! Out of the gene pool! The little shit could've killed someone, and you're worried that someone told on him?

  23. Re:Summary was pleasant, TFA was garbage. on NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Obama *shut down* the manned space program. If opposing that is called bias, then I guess I'm racist too?

  24. Mars on NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013 · · Score: 0

    Boots on Mars. This isn't rocket science, people.

  25. Tougher tablets are needed on A Wish List For Tablets In 2013 · · Score: 1

    "Mine broke right after I started using it!" --Moses