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  1. Re:Protip on Ask Slashdot: When Is It Better To Modify the ERP vs. Interfacing It? · · Score: 1

    Clearly you work for Trane since your freelancer.com profile says Fort Smith. There, that's out of the way now.

  2. Re:What exactly is the point? on seL4 Verified Microkernel Now Open Source · · Score: 2

    It allows others to borrow the code into their GPLv2 projects. It also allows others to make modifications which are not proven, but potentially those could be audited and proven, too.

  3. Re:So glad I still have my Nokia N900 on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 1

    "Is" or "Will be if it ever gets off the ground"? According to the neo900 web site the estimated ship date isn't for months yet.

  4. Re:They don't really want them. on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 1

    On top of it all, the candy bar phone has Bluetooth and Bluetooth keyboards can be had separately or built into a phone case in the $20 to $70 range. This allows people willing to pay extra for a keyboard to pick the one they want and replace it separately from the phone if they need to replace it.

  5. Re:Is it just me ? on Oracle Offers Custom Intel Chips and Unanticipated Costs · · Score: 1

    The link appears to be made in TFA (the first one):

    Intel's new Xeon E7-8895 v2 processor is pretty much identical to the top-of-the-line E7-8890 v2, except it has the ability to put its cores into ultra-low power states and then bring them back up as needed, according to Intel.

    Intel introduced the 8890 v2 model this past February. It is the absolute top of the Xeon line, the only one with RAS capabilities and other high-end functions found in the Itanium and other RISC processors. The 8890 has 15 cores running at 2.8 GHz and more importantly, a massive 37.5 MB of cache per core for high performance analytics or in-memory databases.

    So the chip is great for things like in-memory databases and it's from Oracle. So the warning about that combination might be a bit over-the-top but not totally out of the blue.

  6. not Gatling-like, only somewhat Gatling-inspired on Build Your Own Gatling Rubber Band Machine Gun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's no autoloading from a gravity-fed hopper. This is an interesting thing with the multiple barrels that rotate and it's a cool homage to Gatling. There's no quick reload with this thing, though. One of the neatest things about a Gatling gun is the feed.

  7. changing your routes changes the interconnects on Enraged Verizon FiOS Customer Seemingly Demonstrates Netflix Throttling · · Score: 1

    changing your routes changes the interconnects
    changing your routes changes the interconnects
    changing your routes changes the interconnects
    changing your routes changes the interconnects
    changing your routes changes the interconnects

    Seriously, folks, changing your routes changes the interconnects.

    His VPN provider probably has a much better route back to Verizon. Yes, Verizon is being somewhat dickish to not acknowledge that Netflix is a big driver for their higher speed plans and giving Netflix's bandwidth carriers a bit of a price break for that reason. No, this is no proof at all of throttling.

    Is it evidence suggesting throttling? Well, yeah. Proof? Not even close. It's entirely consistent with what Verizon already said about an imbalanced interconnect that needs more hardware.

  8. Re:Racked by delays...? on Social Security Administration Joins Other Agencies With $300M "IT Boondoggle" · · Score: 1

    "it appears that the word wrack ... have been replaced by the word rack"

  9. Re:Legacy Systems. on Social Security Administration Joins Other Agencies With $300M "IT Boondoggle" · · Score: 2

    Just think of it as a jobs program/economic stimulus/enrichment of a random company on the public dole. It makes perfect sense if you buy into the economic value of the government scaling big bureaucracies that depend on a competent contractor to help them scale so big being beneficial to the economy. Just think about how much more beneficial it is, then, to have it done three or four times to get it right.

    On the other hand, consumers could have spent that money rather than paying the government to pay those extra contractor costs. But then again, consumers tend to over-spend anyway and corrode the economy. Sometimes that's to the point that the government has to choose between bailing out the banks and bailing out the consumers. Then again, the government encourages that, too. And of course rather than bailing out the consumers they bail out the banks so they can create more consumer debt and start all over.

    The main difference between big government folks and small government folks, you see, isn't that one thinks the government is well intentioned and the other thinks it is evil and needs to be kept in check. That's certainly a factor, but it's not the main one. The main difference is that big government people have an idealized concept of the government as a doer of good. Small government people are skeptical that anything too big and too detached from the lives of real people can reasonably accomplish good things for the majority of people on a regular basis.

  10. Re:Not if you use the Virtuix Omni on CCP Games Explains Why Virtual Reality First Person Shooters Still Don't Work · · Score: 1

    Two words: hamster ball

  11. Re:The crackpot cosmology "theory" Du Jour on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    In a way it does. They are offering that since the simplest answer was incomplete there's at least one slightly more complicated way things might work. You see, the simplest explanation isn't the thing. The simplest explanation that actually explains things is.

  12. Re:They'd still be on Power if not for two things. on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The PC was IBM's way to fill a top-to-bottom order without letting other vendors in at the desktop/workstation levels. That was about it.

  13. Re:They'd still be on Power if not for two things. on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    A Cell is a PPC core with extra coprocessors, and was the secret processor that caused delays for Apple that IBM couldn't explain. IIRC it was no secret what chip was going into the PS3 before launch. Again, IIRC, Microsoft forced IBM into a minimum delivery rate and wouldn't allow them to disclose to other chip customers where the capacity had gone.

  14. They'd still be on Power if not for two things. on Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh · · Score: 1

    G5s ran too hot for notebooks. IBM's manufacturing capacity for Power/PPC cores outside its own servers and workstations was eaten up by Microsoft for its XBox line. Apple was waiting too much on inventory. They switched to Intel not because their chips were more powerful, but because their chips were more available and could be used more flexibly.

  15. Re: Well. on Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours · · Score: 1

    I am a US citizen. I don't consider criticism of the US government to be anti-American. In fact, I consider criticizing the US government to be one of the most pro-American and American-like things one can do. The US government isn't America. The people are the country. The government when it hurts the people is the anti-American one. Loving the government over the people is anti-American. Loving the people of America and pointing out or correcting the failings of the government is the legacy of the country.

    And yes, I have been pointing out that the government here has been favoring businesses over people and favoring one business over another for some time. Basically whichever business is best for the legislators gets the best laws, and whichever is best for the executive gets the most preferential enforcement of those laws. I think it's hard to say that's far from fascism if we're to be honest. It's a kinder, gentler fascism than those we associate with the term, but for how long?

  16. Re:Maybe, maybe not. on Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours · · Score: 1

    It is illegal to put oneself in a position which must by necessity lead to breaking one law or another. If they can't follow the jurisdiction of both governments then they have no right to operate across those jurisdictions as one business venture.

  17. Re: Maybe, maybe not. on Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours · · Score: 1

    You can subpoena the party to produce the evidence. The people in the US are answerable to US law by definition. The people in Ireland are by definition under the control regarding the employer's data of their employers in the US. What would seem to be the problem?

    I guarantee you that if you smuggled evidence from the US to Ireland that the US government would punish you for not producing it.

  18. Re:Not quite on AMD FirePro W9100 16GB Workstation GPU Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    Intel has 107,600.

    How many people do you think work in the graphics division of AMD? How many at NVidia?

  19. Re:what? on AMD FirePro W9100 16GB Workstation GPU Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    Crazy and very specific applications like CAD, video editing, video transcoding, and stuff like that you mean? Yeah, that's what they benchmarked.

  20. Louisiana and Mississippi on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    All along the Mississippi River towns filter and purify water from the river for drinking, then treat their sewage and put it back into the river. If you drink the water near the delta then part of what you're drinking has been through dozens or hundreds of people.

    Connecting the output to the input eliminates some of the waste of wastewater. It's good enough for NASA, so it's good enough for you.

    • regardless of ease (theoretical expressivity)
    • concisely and readily (practical expressivity)
    • The first sense dominates in areas of mathematics and logic that deal with the formal description of languages and their meaning, such as formal language theory, mathematical logic and process algebra.[2]

      In informal discussions, the term often refers to the second sense, or to both. This is often the case when discussing programming languages.[3] Efforts have been made to formalize these informal uses of the term.[4]

    Yes, both can be useful definitions. When discussing comparative expressiveness of two Turing-complete languages the second holds more meaning. Being Turing-complete means they are equivalent in the first meaning.

  21. microscale impressionism on Reproducing a Monet Painting With Aluminum Nanostructures · · Score: 1

    At some point shrinking impressionist art pretty much just makes it.. art, right?

  22. Re: Perl still works, and PHP is fine on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 1

    PDO is based on the Perl5 DBI which was done the right way the first time. "Deprecated" doesn't mean it's not being used. Once it's actually removed and people are actually using 5.6 in production then PHP will be more consistent.

    That's just a small example, though, of the failure to support loadable modules and separate namespaces for so long. PHP historically has been very inconsistent. Future PHP may not be so, but it's not the future yet.

  23. Turing complete != expressive

  24. Re: Perl still works, and PHP is fine on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit. Nowhere in those other languages is there "mysql_ escape_ string" juxtaposed with "mysql_ real_ escape_ string" in the main language namespace.