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  1. Re:Big Data Fail on Google Flu Trends Gets It Wrong Three Years Running · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The same as abuse of big data. My point.

  2. Re:Big Data Fail on Google Flu Trends Gets It Wrong Three Years Running · · Score: 2

    An excellent example is Li's copula, widely credited for triggering the 08 financial crisis.

  3. Re:I I understand this correctly on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 2

    Dumbass, the distinguishment of the patent is in the claims, not the abstract.

    The abstract is usually a pretty good guide. If not, then somebody is likely being even more unethical that usual, a behavior worth special attention in itself.

  4. Re:They are obligated to behave this way? on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I understand that Steve Jobs also felt obligated to park in the handicapped spot

  5. Re:Ignorance... on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 1

    if you think thats good business, well....

    At least it makes me feel good about doing my part to put the south side of the "peak" into "peak apple".

  6. Re:for the record on Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple is not the problem.

    Let me see, who was it that used the "thermonuclear" word?

  7. Re:It's an Openoffice-like thing on KDE Releases Calligra Suite 2.8 · · Score: 1

    I hope it doesn't get broken like kmail/akonadi.

  8. Kill Bill 2 on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    Get your popcorn.

  9. Re:iOS is still better on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    I really don't understand the fandom here.

    Easy: closed garden = please die now.

  10. Re:iOS is still better on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    As everybody knows, Linux is superior to FreeBSD :)

  11. Re:The year of the Linux Tablet on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    desperate for sales, and they're hoping to penetrate the Tablet market bigtime.

    TFTFY.

  12. Re:iOS is still better on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    iOS has the most web traffic and was rated number 1 at mobile world congress this year.

    It's fun to watch those lines of defense fall one by one, isn't it?

  13. Re:And yet apple sells more tablets than anybody on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    Apple sells more than Samsung, Asus, Amazon, and Lenovo combined.

    A rational person would regard the latter as a "healthy, diverse market".

  14. Re:The year of the Linux Tablet on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    What kind of moron would do music production or video on a tablet?

    A moron who does not want to lug a laptop around, and knows that a tablet is actualy a computer as opposed to a mere media consumption device?

  15. Re:Horrible coffee on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1, Informative

    The regular Keurig machine makes filtered coffee; it is not an espresso machine.

    Yes, and it tastes horrible, compared to decently made filtered coffee. I'm quite familiar with it, unfortunately.

  16. Horrible coffee on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Coffee from pods is an affront dignity anyway. Get a proper espresso machine, or use a press.

  17. Re:Why not just give up? on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 1

    It was 1944, the Nazis were already in retreat. Crimea was no longer strategic, except for Stalin's Russification program.

  18. Re:Why not just give up? on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 1

    Because the Tatars openly supported Hitler hoping to get their own country from the Nazis.

    You're willing to take Stalin's word for that?

  19. Re:Why not just give up? on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't Ukraine just give up Crimea for the sake of national unity?

    Putin has already stated "if the violence spreads further in the eastern regions of Ukraine and Crimea, Russia reserves the right to defend its interests and those of the Russian-speaking population that lives there." IOW, no intention of stopping at Crimea. It does not require much imagination to understand the implication for other former USSR vassel states.

  20. Re:Why not just give up? on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 2

    Russia has at least a superficially "legitimate" claim for Crimea, since some 60% of the population are ethnic Russians.

    Only because Stalin deported 100% of the Tatars in 1944 (killing half of them)

  21. Re:Is Win 8.1 that bad? on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And what if even the free version is a failure? Can't give it away...

  22. Re:Having used both on Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles · · Score: 1

    RTLinux as a solution is not (hard) realtime as they falsely claim it to be. Only the Hypervisor is realtime, but the Linux kernel running as a process is not, since it can't guarantee that it will respond in a deterministic manner. That's the problem with the PREEMPT_RT patch too.

    With the Linux kernel, you get an average timeframe for an interrupt. With QNX or other proper realtime OS's, you get a Max timeframe.

    Factual inaccuacies galore. RTLinux does not use a hypervisor, it uses a microkernel. Nobody claims that the Linux API in RTLinux is realtime, only the microkernel API, which incidentally is hard realtime with latency guarantees measured in microseconds. The PREEMPT_RT patch does in fact attempt to provide hard realtime, for example, interrupts become preemptible with real time priority. The question of whether PREEMPT is actually hard realtime or not gets into a debate over what hard realtime actually is. If measuring latency and finding that it never goes outside of strict bounds counts, then yes, PREEMPT_RT is hard realtime. If a mathematical proof is required, then no, however... nontrivial hard realtime systems that are fully proved are vanishingly rare.

  23. Re:no wrong dates on The Ever So Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came To Rule the World · · Score: 1

    You trifle. ARM Ltd is the original ARM engineering team spun off from Acorn.

  24. Re:no wrong dates on The Ever So Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came To Rule the World · · Score: 2

    None of the dates are wrong. You're right that ARM was around in the 80s, but they weren't designing chips at the time.

    Nonsense. ARM started designing chips in 1983

  25. Re:The future could be all in the fabs on The Ever So Unlikely Tale of How ARM Came To Rule the World · · Score: 2

    And Intel have the advantage there.

    Physics has the advantage. Clock scaling already ended, now feature size shrinking is grinding to a halt. The action has now shifted to ballooning core counts and power management strategy, where Intel has no compelling advantage. Intel's feature size advantage has not got long to live.