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  1. Re:More Publicly Financed Toys for the Wealthy on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1

    Well, considering that they paid back the loans to get out from under conditions that were being imposed on the loans, I don't see much point to your quibbling.

  2. Re:Toyota Was Big Winner in Cash for Clunkers $ale on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    Never mind the 35,000 Dodge and Jeep vehicles sold.

    (Of course, we then have to throw in the 10,000 Lexus and Scion vehicles on the other side)

  3. Re:I design computer hardware and software... on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because I already told them not to trust humans.

  4. Re:More Publicly Financed Toys for the Wealthy on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1

    I didn't say anything about Tesla. I was just pointing out that you may benefit from investigation of the actual situation with the banks (where most of the big banks that borrowed billions have already paid the billions back; among the notable exceptions are AIG and GM, which don't sound an awful lot like bands).

  5. Re:Quixotic business plan on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1

    You can buy one of those from Lotus.

  6. Re:More Publicly Financed Toys for the Wealthy on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1

    A bunch of big banks in the U.S. raised money and paid back the government because they didn't like the conditions that came with the loans they had gotten.

  7. Re:Killing yourself with good intentions on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1

    What would be the difference if the Audi and Corolla made sweet love to each other?

  8. Re:More Publicly Financed Toys for the Wealthy on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1

    The good news is that the $450 million cost the average taxpayer about $0.30

    (I'm assuming ~ 150 million taxpayers, and using the middle quintile from this page as 'average':

    http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/88xx/doc8885/EffectiveTaxRates.shtml

    And I say that more in the spirit of not worrying about individual programs than I do in the spirit of thinking there is anything reasonable about current levels of government spending vs tax revenues (and when I say current, I mean the last 40 years more than I mean this particular, particularly egregious, year)

    )

  9. Re:So is it a fork or isn't it? on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    Makes sense.

  10. Re:Gotten on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    "Can you not?" would probably be better style, even though it would probably trip up more readers.

  11. Re:Is compiled PHP even possible? on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    Python has strong, dynamic typing. The dynamic part makes it difficult to compile.

    Projects like Cython and Shedskin each compile a less dynamic subset of Python.

  12. Re:Is compiled PHP even possible? on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    Python (and Java) compile source files into an intermediate byte code that a virtual machine executes. The byte code does not have to be run through a parser, so overall execution is faster.

  13. Re:Useless. on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    Are you intentionally misunderstanding my comment? The feature that they share is that they have graphical interfaces, I didn't say anything about them being limited to the graphical interface.

    And I thought to myself, I wonder which one of them he wrote to be so defensive, and I was right (but I do have to admit, yours certainly is not well described by 'clicky-button interface', but the rest are).

  14. Re:So is it a fork or isn't it? on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    They tend to work with the Apache Software Foundation:

    http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php

    I would imagine the licensing for this will be similar.

    And it is probably best described as an implementation; if they start adding language features not present in other PHP interpreters, then it becomes a fork (lots of languages have multiple implementations, for instance, C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.).

  15. Re:Yeah, orbit! on Give Space a Chance, Says Phil Plait · · Score: 1

    Those same cordless tools have benefited far more from the high energy density batteries that were developed to power various frivolous gadgets that people like to haul around.

  16. Re:Yeah, orbit! on Give Space a Chance, Says Phil Plait · · Score: 1

    Radiation is really mostly a cost problem, if you send up a lot of mass, you can deal with it fairly well, but that's expensive.

    At the moment, the biggest issue with space is the mismatch between the political will and the costs (and sure, there are lots of people who dream of and demand another basket, but they sure aren't a majority. Personally, I don't see a great deal of purpose in repeatedly practicing putting people up with 40 year old technology, which is a reasonable summary, in my mind, of the current manned space program. I'd be a lot more interested in seeing those dollars used to probe some more planets.).

  17. Re:This is eveidence for something else... on UK Gov't Says "No Evidence" IE Is Less Secure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That would be an actual good use for augmented reality.

    Extremists could even overlay content that made their opposites actually look like monsters.

    Good times a' comin'.

  18. Re:How about a construction calculator? on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    It has some notion of the units present on a tape measure, and functions helpful for a builder:

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0008GO6A6/ref=asc_df_B0008GO6A61018580?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

  19. Re:RPN Better than algebraic? on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    Cheap Casio scientific calculators that I used did have a stack.

    press 5 = and 5 would be in the stack.

    Press + 5 = and you would get 10.

    Press = again and you get 15. Press = again and you get 20.

    I'm not familiar enough with RPN to make any great comparison, but I imagine the Casio wasn't quite as powerful.

  20. Re:Calculators: useless; Languages: useful on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    The only issue with Python is that it is awkward to use decimals. Sure, floats are good enough most of the time, but not all of the time.

    I use frink when I don't want to think about representation problems:

    http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/

    The support for units isn't nearly as cheesy a feature as you would think.

  21. Re:Useless. on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    Desktop weed. The calculators in the article all have clicky-button interfaces.

  22. Re:Good place to ask for help on Boot Camp Finally Supports Windows 7 On Macs · · Score: 1

    Maybe the installer is broken. You could try downloading SP3:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en

    (or SP2, it is available in a similar package)

    If the installer is intact, you are of into fun fun haha land.

  23. Re:I want one... on Firefox Mobile Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Well, he wants a contract with no online access for $0 a month. For a 2 year deal, that's the obvious savings of $240.

  24. Re:Useless for me on 1Gbps Optical Wireless Network Might Replace Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Where exactly is the door on your mom?

  25. Re:paper was in PLoS Biology not PLoS One on Evolving Robots Learn To Prey On Each Other · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a great answer.

    (I'm not even sure it is a whoosh; they obviously ignored the humor, but that doesn't mean they missed it)