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  1. Re:Power Savings on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 1

    That's what NVidia's reaching for with the Tegra3 design, with an eye on peak performance at a slight expense of power over the current A9 devices- a peak that makes the phone look more like a low-to-mid end laptop in overall performance if you're doing properly multithreaded stuff.

  2. Re:A dual-core is all a smartphone user will ever on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 1

    Heh...hope you get modded up "funny"...unless you're serious...

  3. Re:GHz is better on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 1

    Heh... There's limitations on how much you can ramp up with a given design before power consumption/TDP eats up being able to be mobile. 1-1.5GHz seems to be the range right now for A9 designs. Sure, you can have 2-3 GHz A9's...they'd burn as much as the current Atoms do- and while they'd be wicked fast, you're more using it for a laptop type device at that point.

  4. Re:Multiple cores are just for multitasking? on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 1

    This presumes that the task is UI specific.

  5. Arrrgh... on Columbia University Ending the Kermit Project · · Score: 1

    Stinky puns...wonderful...but, still stinky all the same.

  6. Re:Curious on MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor · · Score: 1

    Nahh... Bunches of plates of glass...

  7. Re:To all "They're not REAL scientists!" posters on MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor · · Score: 2

    At most, I'd call them Engineers. But, yeah, NO, they're not posing as Scientists. And you'd be right (Must not go for the nasty pun...must not go for the nasty pun...) as you mentioned with the Wrights and Edison.

  8. Re:This is a about broadcast rights on iPad Just Another TV Set? · · Score: 1

    Are they "computers" or are they TV's?

    They're both. Have been for a while now. The big problem has been that the TV vendors hadn't figured out that little fact until recently.

  9. Re:I don't even have a "real" TV on iPad Just Another TV Set? · · Score: 1

    Actually, more and more are twigging onto things like TiVo, Hulu, Netflix, and Vuze. Cheaper. On their terms, NOT the networks'. The broadcasters should be worried about losing their precious watchers and figuring out a productive means to keep them than what in the heck they're doing right now.

    It really IS nothing but data- and there's quite a lot more that're realizing this.

  10. Re:Hackers=christians?? on The Vatican Lauds Hackers · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse the faith with the religion (which're differing things...). Every "church" has that sort of long history (and in some cases a worse history...) of trying to hide the truth.

  11. Re:already a casualty on Epsilon Breach Affects JPMorgan Chase, Capital One · · Score: 1

    No... Some clients gave out more info than they ought to and it sat on Epsilon's databases.

  12. Re:US Bank on Epsilon Breach Affects JPMorgan Chase, Capital One · · Score: 1

    Now that's how a Bank should be handling this fiasco on the customer facing side. One wonders if they'll audit their suppliers a little better and more often.

  13. Re:Not a lot... on Epsilon Breach Affects JPMorgan Chase, Capital One · · Score: 1

    Ahhh... But the banks will putz and futz around before disclosing that they pooched this. (And they did...they outsourced this to a third party which doesn't have the same IT security requirements THEY have...) It's bad for business for to own up to this sort of thing- and they'll put it off until the last possible moment.

  14. Re:What's different on Android 3.0 Is Trickling In, But Are the Apps? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the games I've ported from Windows to Linux will move over nicely enough. (Main reason I've a Nook and about to get a Xoom... I've got a few other Android devices, but the tablets are going to be important to make it not matter either way over... :-D)

  15. Re:Ah, the Republican Party ... on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    "The border is safer than ever before" - Janet Napolitano.

    There's other big lies being propagated just like this one. If you think the Dems are doing any better than the bulk of the Republicans, you're in denial, or selling something.

  16. Re:What's different on Android 3.0 Is Trickling In, But Are the Apps? · · Score: 2

    And the opposite reality is the Browser or something like Angry Birds. Works FINE without any optimization needed. If written without some assumptions it works well in both environments (If you don't "optimize" it for phones, you'll have much, much less issues.). Yes, your example's a good one- but most of the apps are actually fully functional and non-problematic on the Nook Color with Honeycomb- I know, I'm running in that configuration right now.

  17. Re:What's different on Android 3.0 Is Trickling In, But Are the Apps? · · Score: 1

    Heh... Angry Birds works on Honeycomb, most other apps seem to do "okay" as well. The phone stuff moves well to tablets, but you can do things slightly different if you know you've got the real estate on the screen- which when combined with the lack of UI scalability on iOS is where the presumption you "need" 'tablet-optimized' stuff in the first place.

  18. Re:republicans on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's just drop that old saw right now. Taxing them more heavily isn't going to FIX anything and it'll actually make things worse.

    WHERE do you think all the jobs are coming from, hm? It's not UNIONS. It's not the Government (even though they employ people...)

    IT'S THAT "TOP 10%".

    Why don't we ditch the class and race warfare that the Liberal (Marxist?) crowd loves to push out and about? It's not valid. It accomplishes nothing.

  19. Re:Another reason to love on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    It was designed by American tax dollars, but it was commercially grown.

  20. Re:some day on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Some day the Liberals will figure out that it's not declaring war on the poor (Heh... You've been "helping" them for decades and we've got more poor each year...) and that the stuff you're peddling is actually hurting the country worse that your claims of the other direction. Simply put, the old saying about Socialism is true- it only works so long as you can keep taking wealth from other people and it quits working when you run out of people to rob.

  21. Re:Ah, the Republican Party ... on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Don't forget that the Democrats have the same championship, really.

    Neither side gets an out on this one. And I'd be pissed about someone being so damned wasteful that they're "struggling" on more money than I'm making. If you can't friggin' make do with $174k/yr (and maybe even, God forbid, SAVE money....) then perhaps you should re-evaluate your lifestyle within that budget.

    And, I've heard the same damn whining and trying to cover up for that lapse of good judgement by the party in question with the Democrats. In truth, they're naught but flip sides of the same problematic coin. A bad penny that keeps turning up on you.

  22. Re:it's different on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    In your example, if you use the "licensing" thoughts that RIAA seems so fond to point out on things like downloads and CD's, then we can arrive at the following conclusions:

    - You bought a license to an instance of that music in the format Amazon provided to you.
    - They HAVE a license from the media companies to do this act.
    - As long as they provide it to your account for download and only to it, they're free and clear if you're giving more people access (That's YOUR infringement, not theirs and they're not really "enabling" it either...)
    - As long as they don't provide copies that were not submitted to their cloud by subscribers or from purchasers of the media from their sales end, they're in the clear as long as they can prove that fact.
    - Those copies you "loaned" to someone else are YOUR infringements or Fair Use copies depending on how they were obtained (American Home Recording Act...)- NOT Amazon's problem at all.

    De-duplication doesn't change any of the statuses there. Amazon's got a license to provide the MP3's to begin with and can show YOU bought it, then they're pretty much in the clear on their part. This doesn't mean that RIAA or it's members won't try to run your argument up the flagpole, but...it's still not quite what you're thinking it is.

  23. Re:IANAL, but on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, one should stand up for the legality of something regardless of whether you'll get sued for the action or not. It's because of being adverse to being sued in court that many, many wrong things have come to pass in this country.

  24. Re:I think ... on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    ROFLMAO! Thankfully I wasn't drinking anything just now- you'd owe me a monitor and keyboard if I were. Thanks for brightening the day here.

  25. Re:Future on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    Heh... You didn't buy anything according to the media companies.

    When the original owner "bought" the CD in question, according to the media industry, they bought a license to the content contained on the CD. When you "bought" it from the reseller, you simply bought the rights that license conferred- you still didn't buy anything, according to them. There's a reason I've not bought much of anything from these *ssholes- part of it is that most of it is pure rubbish, part of it is that they're playing word games to try to keep control of things for their cartel (That's all RIAA and MPAA are...). If it weren't for the First Sale Doctrine, they'd say the license in question's not even transferable.