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  1. asynchronous design ? on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 1

    the claim is that this is the most power efficient design route.

    the problem is that there just aren't the sophisticated tool sets you need for design and analysis.

    of course I've never been clear on why you couldn't just use the asynchronous design ideas and substitute
    very low clock speeds in place of disables or some such thing.

    not a digital designer so can't get too far into the details.

  2. Re:Curious... on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 2

    suspiciously the "we eat too much crap" crowd has failed to point out exactly how much HFCS is added
    to f*cking _everything_ which is one of the important points of the video.

    It's amazing. I bought pitas the other day and they had HFCS in them ! WTF !?

  3. Re:Nope on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    all the latin and greek is indeed a problem.

    the language of mathematics is, however, universal.

    that being said the geometric proofs would give me some trouble.

    on the other hand, where's the calculus ?

  4. Re:Not really on What Happens If You Get Sucked Out of a Plane? · · Score: 1

    exactly, you are allowed to come up directly from 15 ft, which is an extra 1/2 atmo of pressure.

  5. Re:The threat is way overblown... on Feds Prep For E-Gov Shutdown · · Score: 1

    wow, you're a callous SOB like all right wingers.

    800,000 people are going to lose their paychecks, potentially for a while, and you think it's just dandy.

    See you at the tea part rally on the 16th.

  6. I want a tax break for riding my bicycle on Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax · · Score: 1

    oh wait, I'm probably more likely to get hit by a car which would require medical care.

    another stupid Republican idea.

  7. less choice is less better on Texas Instruments Buys National Semiconductor For $6.5B · · Score: 0

    the point of these acquisitions is to give customers less choice and make them pay more for the same.

    this is not a good trend.

    and it's getting worse because the feckless govt never met a deal it didn't like no matter who it would be hurt by it.

    oh, and TI LOVES to outsource engineering. but hey, engineers just need to work smarter !

  8. Re:How about fixing memory leaks first? on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    flash has ALWAYS caused me problems, including seg-faults.

  9. Re:Seal it and shut it down... on Nuclear Risk Expert: Fukushima Fuel May Be Leaking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you know, when 200 square miles of Japan is contaminated for the next 200 years along with substantial groundwater
    contamination, I hope that you'll still be here telling the rest of us how it isn't that bad.

  10. Re:Not just Republicans on Using the Open Records Law To Intimidate Critics · · Score: 1

    and strangely, when the subject of intimidation comes up, no one seems to mention
    the intimidation of women going to planned parenthood clinics or any other clinic
    that can provide an abortion.

    intimidation like murdering doctors.

  11. Re:It's quite simple on UK ISPs Hatch Plan To Block the Pirate Bay and Other File Sharing Sites · · Score: 1

    The politicians need to rework the copyright laws

    They are reworking them. They are granting perpetual copyright and making it a felony to violate that
    perpetual copyright.

    Probably not the rework you had in mind...

  12. Re:this is the weirdest story ever on How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    the deal might not be approved ?

    do you live in America ?

  13. Re:The elephant in the room on A Look At the World's Dwindling Food Supply · · Score: 1

    the other elephant in the room is that fact that those with a LOT of money are going to corner the food
    market in an effort to establish a monopoly because they know the rate of return on selling food is very good.

    we will have a very small percentage of the population who own the majority of food production in this world and they
    will be charging accordingly.

    another triumph of the "free market".

  14. Re:Population Control FUD on A Look At the World's Dwindling Food Supply · · Score: 1

    ridiculous naysaying.

    sad, even for slashdot, that with 7 billion people in the world, you can call this population control FUD and
    get modded insightful.

  15. Re:Pseudo-economist on Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    yeah well, productivity has been increasing for years but people who actually work for a living are seeing their _real_ wages fall. After all one way you get better productivity is to pay people less for the same work.

  16. Re:Madman Muntz famous(and rich)for this last cent on 'Pruned' Microchips Twice As Fast and Efficient · · Score: 1

    this is the result of engineers who don't know how to design.

    if you are _designing_ something, why in the world are you going to put in something you don't need ?

    I spend my days trying to come up with clever ideas to NOT use things. Simple as possible and no simpler.

  17. read before bedtime on Study Shows Technology May Inhibit Good Sleep · · Score: 1

    I've started doing this again, and I find that it helps a great deal, even if it's techie stuff.

    Really, _especially_ if it's techie stuff.

  18. Re:*good* vs. *not good* on How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies · · Score: 1

    don't start on game of thrones. you'll never see the end because of grrm's lack of attention to the series.
        you've been warned...

  19. Re:Harmonics and Modulation on 4G Broadband May Jam GPS · · Score: 1

    The FCC regulates the emissions into GPS bands, like any other allocated frequency band.

    Just because the 4G allowable band extends right up to it, doesn't mean you will be able to use those frequencies.

    Having a transmitter that's "spilling" over due to PA distortion or some other problem would preclude you from using those frequencies if you can't stay under the emission limits.

    So technically they shouldn't be any more of a problem than any other transmitter, WHICH HAS BEEN PROPERLY TESTED.

    The fact is that stuff is going to get an FCC sticker which doesn't meet requirements.

  20. gadgets suppress the preparation instinct on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    of course not that many people seem to have it in the first place, but now they
    think they can really avoid spending time understanding what they are doing thanks to gadgets.

    people wouldn't get into trouble if they spent just some small amount of time planning where they were
    going and alternate routes to get there.

  21. great, more advertising by press release on Molybdenite As an Alternative To Silicon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    let me know when you have I-V curves for a moly disulpide FET. Both p and n types please.

    I learned many moons ago, that one of the most important things about Si is the fact that it's so easy to grow an oxide. It's EXTREMELY useful when processing integrated circuits. Otherwise everything electronic would use III-V's.

    Any new material which aims to replace Si is going to need an equivalent process capability.

    Personally I'm hoping for a breakthrough in organic semiconductors. I want to be able to screen print transistors at home.

  22. statistical testing on Low Quality Alloy Cause of Shuttle Main Tank Issue · · Score: 1

    the production folks at lockheed martin, one of the largest us govt contractors, might want to look into it.

    simply amazing that they weren't performing acceptance tests on each batch of material.

    and shame on NASA for not making them.

    they should both know better.

  23. Re:umm on Nobel Prize Winner Says DNA Performs Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    "If any of their reagents, tools, or lab members got even a single molecule of DNA on them"

    how exactly do you prevent a single molecule of contamination ??

    It seems to me that you are saying it's impossible NOT to have a sample be contaminated.

  24. fabulous! more money for wars to keep us safe on Tevatron To Shut Down At End of 2011 · · Score: 0

    Cause what's Science going to do for you anyway ?

  25. Re:we lose sight of algorithmic importance on Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    how about n^2 log n ?

    Actually I think that multigrid methods, which are solving systems of equations really can be n log n. Admittedly it's been a while since I looked at it. However, the key is that the matrix should be sparse, and well conditioned. So the n log n bound is only going to be true for very specific problem domains.

    I could be wrong :-)