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  1. Re:About the software patent-- IBTT on Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, he 'independently' invented it, just a couple of months after it was presented at a conference that he no doubt would have heard about it from.

    Sure.

    Sounds exactly like the kind of abuse the patent system was designed to prevent to me.

  2. Re:Look at the IBM vs MSFT stock chart on Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting · · Score: 2

    So just go ahead and slide that slider into the future and see how things turn out, and make your investment decisions that way.

  3. Re:Just now they're "disgruntled"? on Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting · · Score: 1

    He got 20% from the gp you replied to. Have you lost track of the conversation, or just trolling? ;-)

  4. Re:Just now they're "disgruntled"? on Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting · · Score: 1

    So just go enjoy your enormous investing wealth and stop bothering the peons. Really, it's cruel, is that the reputation you want? Because you know those occupy people are starting to make lists of who to kill. Don't be in the disreputable 1%.

  5. Re:Compared to Intel? on First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD · · Score: 1

    Why not provide some evidence that it can't. Every benchmark says you're wrong and I'm right.

  6. Re:Compared to Intel? on First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD · · Score: 1

    I think that Intel's hyperthreads and AMD's Bulldozer 'cores' both use a resource sharing arrangement, and in neither case are full cores. The benchmarks bear this out: intel's hyperthreading is nearly as good as AMD's.

  7. Re:Probably. on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you're just trolling, but you're way off about what fracking involves, and your claim does not logically follow.

  8. Re:Ethics? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see your pov now: I wasn't looking at it in terms of immorality. I was suggesting that there were practical issues aside from the moral ones.

  9. Re:Compared to Intel? on First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD · · Score: 2

    Slight correction, on threaded workloads, we'd be talking about a 6-core chip, intel runs 2 threads per core.

  10. Re:Compared to Intel? on First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD · · Score: 1

    This assumes that performance is not significantly different from the desktop line, which is usually the case.

  11. Re:Compared to Intel? on First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This would compete with the Xeon-E chips that aren't out yet. But in terms of performance about 75%, so this is the equivalent of a 12-core intel chip.

  12. Re:Ethics? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    If you believe that allowing people the freedom to make themselves sick is immoral, sure. Personally, I don't. Of course, I also favor drug legalization which isn't a popular opinion either.

  13. Re:Monsanto on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Food from the existing process has proven safe over many years. There's a limited amount of exciting new exposure that could happen, at least without first poisoning the plants and animals in the area to such a degree that it would be obvious. With a new lab process you run the risk of something like BPA-laden plastics being used as a growth substrate. The problems could be subtle enough not to show up for twenty years until the cancers start killing people.

  14. Re:Moral philosophy sees problems on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Nope. The truth of the subject matter is independent of whether or not he loses the argument.

  15. Re:Ethics? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    The point of my response was that it was fine, except not, because there are all sorts of other problems involved.

  16. Re:Monsanto on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    You're highly motivated to protect yourself and your family. There are an awful lot of people who just don't eat at the restaurants where they work because they know what goes on.

  17. Re:It'd be nice if ... on The IOCCC Competition Is Back · · Score: 1

    But no one wants that, and hence, Microsoft.

  18. Re:Monsanto on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    It's disingenuous to suggest that those processes would be similar. The industrial production of synthetic meat would involve a very different set of chemicals and equipment. To suggest they are guaranteed to be equally safe because they both take place in a thing we name a 'factory' is very intellectually dishonest.

  19. Re:Monsanto on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Not if the toxin turns out to be the substrate or some such. You can only control for what you know to be a danger, and even then there's a matter of will.

  20. Re:Subject on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Could be a protein digestion deficiency. Very, very rare, but it does happen. Highly fatal and noticeable when its one of the more common/vital proteins, might go unnoticed for life for something like fungus.

  21. Re:The Space Merchants is one hell of a book on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    1984 got it exactly right, you're just among the proles I'm afraid.

  22. Re:Moral philosophy sees problems on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    (I know there are other approaches to animal's status, but there is no notable modern moral philosopher who disputes that the suffering of animals is a serious concern)

    That's a problem of circularity. It's the same problem with AGW for example. All the argument pro can be categorized as having formed in the same environment, and that environment attempts to exclude credit for arguments from the other side, thus rendering the other side 'not notable'.

    So don't use appeal to authority as support for your point, or you lose the argument.

  23. Re:Ethics? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Yes, that would be vegetarian, as opposed to vegan. Vegetarians can eat animal byproducts (honey, eggs, bavarian peasant poop, etc). That's the very definition of the difference with the vegans.

  24. Re:Ethics? on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Well, there'd be the hefty risk of spreading disease that way, so that wouldn't be a good idea.

  25. Re:Food myths on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Naive, idiot, or brilliant troll, I'm afraid.