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  1. Re:let me answer that with a question on DARPA Targets Computing's Achilles Heel: Power · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The implicit assumption that utility of an embedded device is linear with the utility of the device.

    But of course, a new media format need to be introduced sooner or later, since the prices of Blue Ray are already starting to lose their "premium" justification and become just plain ordinary.

  2. synchronized contact and calendar on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    An externally synchronized contact and calendar would be enough. The rest is fluff.

  3. Re:GNOME has always been fucked up. on Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    Exactly that. Not limit GTK to one of those two choices.

  4. Re:My hypothesis on GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast · · Score: 1

    I would agree with you if most GPL projects actually made provisions like GNU does, to aggregate copyrights into a legal entity (foundation).

    The reality however is that most GPL tools can't actually issue commercial licenses, because it is nearly impossible to get all copyright holders to consent.

    The only ones that actually seem to have such schemes are mostly commercial software that releases their trial and non-commercial editions under GPL (like mysql, and in the past Borland (Kylix OE)).

  5. Re:Pyramids on Facebook Prepping For Massive Hiring Spree · · Score: 1

    The pyramid scheme would be propping up user numbers to indicate marketshare, to inflate the stock and IPO

    But facebook afaik is profitable (though not wildy), so in this it doesn't apply.

  6. Re:From HyperCard to PhotoCard on Why Was Hypercard Killed? · · Score: 1

    I would like to widen that from "not exactly" to "not at all".

  7. Gold? on Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found · · Score: 1

    Gold standard? I thought Platinum was the pretty standard cat in such cases?

  8. Re:They must save the Euro first on BerliOS Software Repository Will Close At Year's End · · Score: 1

    I thought Fraunhofer was mostly sponsored by the MP3 playing crowds?

  9. Re:Which illustrates what we already knew on Linux 3D Games Run Faster On PC-BSD · · Score: 1

    It's another area where FreeBSD leads the Linux pack :-)

    DeGNUification.

    FreeBSD 9.0 will have Clang as system compiler

  10. Re:NASDAQ uses Gentoo? on How Linux Mastered Wall Street · · Score: 2

    FreeBSD is known for its throughput and stability under load. I never saw figures for latency.

    Linux did have a lot of realtime stuff done over time (starting with 2.4.x)

    Still, it is indeed a bold claim, and I'd like to see the data. Unfortunately it is not that kind of article.

  11. Re:"As a digital download" on Apple Ships OS X 10.7 Lion 'Gold Master' For July Push · · Score: 1

    I asked Dilbert's Topper, and he said he had to download my 4.3BSD distribution by training a parrot to whistle at 75baud.

  12. Re:I'm still waiting for the collection on StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Details Released · · Score: 1

    And the NOCD patch,I assume in this case it is NONETWORK too :)

  13. Re:Lower chance too on Senior Citizens Lining Up to Tackle Fukushima · · Score: 3, Informative

    That is true, but has nothing to do with my remark.

    The genome is simply more vulnerable while copying.

  14. Lower chance too on Senior Citizens Lining Up to Tackle Fukushima · · Score: 4, Informative

    Older people have lower rates of celldivision, and thus probably have a lower chance on cancer (for the same dose).

  15. Re:Status Bar??? on Firefox 4 Beta 9 Out, Now With IndexedDB and Tabs On Titlebar · · Score: 1

    Not the same, that space is much shorter.

    I don't care that they disabled it by default, but there should be a setting to bring it back.

  16. Re:seems simple on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it works in the US, but here you can immediately appeal a breathalizer test, and require a bloodtest. So in the rare case your breathalizer test is positive and you don't agree, you can always appeal that.

  17. Routing on Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle · · Score: 1

    IPV6 is not just more addresses, but also simplification of routing.

    Attempts to reuse will possibly break compatibility (which breaks the use of not switching in the first place), and further increase routing by fragmenting the IPV4 space (and thus routing tables) even more

  18. Re:Red Sea tag suggestion: on Birth of a New African Ocean · · Score: 1

    It's not in the bible btw, iirc some Pope or Cardinal calculated this in Medieval times from bible studies.

    So even if you forget the Evolutionary angle, that number should be still very doubtful. Simply because human record goes back longer. (e.g. to Mesopotamia, and even the holy city of Jericho is older).

    But: the East African Rift is also not news. Aside from the fact it has been forming for a few million years, I read the "splitting apart" story as news already in eighties Reader's Digest.

  19. Re:Rewrite in java? on How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding · · Score: 1

    Read again, the original says "Squeak". That makes Java look like a Ferrari

  20. No MS RTS? on Microsoft To Close Halo Wars Studio · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me more that they are shutting down typical PC gaming like some forms of RTS, and aiming for a more consoleable kind of games.

  21. Special vector unit? on Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Call me stupid, but from what I saw from Larrabee it centers around a new specialized very wide vector unit to do most of the work. So far for a any plain old C compiler

  22. Re:Heat + Air = Hot Air? on Alaska Looks To Volcanos For Geothermal Energy · · Score: 1

    Note that while I still think nuclear power (either highly efficient Thorium fission reactors or fusion) will end up being the core energy, that doesn't mean we should neglect alternate sources.

    The alternate source can function as addition, back up/buffering (in case the central energy source can't be regulated enough to cope with varying demand), supplying to remote areas. etc.

  23. ConTeX? on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 1

    ConTeX is another set of TeX macro packages. It's is slightly newer than LaTeX, and might hide more of the internals of TeX.

    OTOH, LateX probably has more momentum going, and you seem to need the deep features. So finding any

    I usually use plain wordprocessors (grudgingly used Word in the past, and OO now), but for the larger documents I always return to LateX. I don't need all those skills that often, and it is nice then that everything is still the same. I nowadays use LyX a lot too, for a lot of non-throwaway documentation

  24. Re:sphere on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 1

    Hmm, it seems they polish it manually. Probably because it doesn't have edges then, which makes polishing it easier.

  25. Re:sphere on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 2, Informative


    Crystal growth is often spherical. And very controlled crystal growth is a method to get a very uniform object without (many) defects.