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  1. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    shure e2c have no bass, and after listening through them that may turn people off expensive earphones.

  2. Re:Forbidden on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Is Officially Here · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yes there are times, where you use your foot, to move the foot shaped ball.

  3. Re:From one consumer's perspective... on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally the typical movie buyer speaks up.

  4. Re:All the vendors wave your hands in the air and on CodeWeavers Package Google Chrome For Linux and Mac · · Score: 1

    wow, chrome is cool, but NONETHELESS all in caps aligns really funny on this ported version. It almost looks like when you type LaTeX

  5. Re:The stupidity of the argument... on Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories · · Score: 1

    I mean, President Bush has an MBA... look how well he's done.

    I agreed with you up until this. Saying Bush had an MBA and sucks as a leader means that other people with MBA suck as leaders makes about as much sense as saying that since Bush is from Texas and sucks as a leader, everyone from Texas sucks as a leader.

    well in that case, it does make sense.

  6. Re:(!funding == blocking) on Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    much in the same way that holding back highway funding has raised the drinking age.

  7. Re:Multi-license ! on Google Reverses "Absurd" Mozilla Code Ban · · Score: 1

    Freedom 1 isn't guaranteed.

    Don't talk to people like machines. Numbering starts at 1.

  8. Re:Losing out on performance on SSD Won't Make Sense In Laptops For Two Years · · Score: 1

    right now file systems are made in such a way as to maximize reads that are sequential. It is possible that without these, now unneeded, optimizations ssd could run faster.

  9. Re:Not user-centric on Mozilla Labs' "Ubiquity" Helps Automate Web Interactions · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Not user-centric on Mozilla Labs' "Ubiquity" Helps Automate Web Interactions · · Score: 1

    welcome to open source where the number of contributors and not the number of users is a measure of success.

  11. Re:Liberal economics genuinely to blame. on Newegg Defies New York Sales Tax Law · · Score: 1

    >> >> $2 million paycheck, you're still left with a hell of a lot of dough

    >> So basically, what you are saying is, that someone who works through college, grad school, works extra hours and gets ahead, or starts a business,
    >> now, has to carry the people that just smoked pot in high school and graduated through social promotion. Boy, that's not right. Why not cut some of the slackers on the bottom end loose?

    Damn loosers. anyone who isn't a millionaire is a lazy bastard anyway. Fuck them.

  12. Re:Does not work if comprimised on site side on Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    First time I get to say "WOOOOOSHHHHH!!!"

    Do I get a prize?
    I don't blame you though. That may have been to subtle for some.

  13. Re:The party is screwed up on Linux Not Supported For Democratic Convention Video · · Score: 0

    >> broadband for rural areas,

    why is this a big deal, if you want to live in the middle of nowhere you should realize it comes with downsides and not expect handouts from the government. Are you going to complain next about emergency ambulance response in rural areas.

  14. Re:Does not work if comprimised on site side on Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    It'll also fail if mitm is hijacking the server.

  15. Re:Easy DoS Attack on Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    This has been beaten to death so many fucking times it's unreal. $15 per wireless router is too much. $15 per every computer that could serve out a web page is too much. Encryption should be default and obstacles to using it should be lowered so that no one has to ever use http. If ssh required some authority to sign every computer out there, we would still be using telnet.

  16. Re:Known to cause cancer... on California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen · · Score: 1

    yeah because everyone knows detroit is in Ohio.

  17. Re:Fast as C but uses lots more memory on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 4, Informative

    So far JIT's just aren't as fast as C. They are very far along. People are using them for programs which may run for days at a time. This has more to do with having an easier time developing in a higher level language. In my experience java rivals and often surpasses C++ programs heavily reliant on the stl. Where I work, speed or features win marketshare and programs written in C are performance kings. Python and java are becoming more popular.

  18. Re:Fast as C but uses lots more memory on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 0

    > The extra memory is essentially data from a caching perspective.

    That doesn't mean shit. It still has to be cached. It will still create stalls when you need to wait for your data. Yeah sun java jit is fast, compared to older implementations of java, but never compared to C.

  19. Re:Fast as C but uses lots more memory on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    So, really the memory access will be a bottle neck, you can never hope to have your program in cache and it will be much slower than C.

  20. Re:In my opinion, it's not the warning message... on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 1

    > Why do I have to click FOUR times to simply say "this site is OK for me", while I only have to click once for popups, for auto-fillin for login data, and so on?

    And 0 times for javascript.

  21. Re:This is far from my biggest complaint about fir on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 1

    You are using extra ram loading all the 32bit shared libraries that no other programs use. Since memory bottlenecks are the most frequent source of slowdowns on a modern computer, your computer gets runs slower.

  22. Re:Why not just call it C++#? on Interview Update With Bjarne Stroustrup On C++0x · · Score: 1

    That's inane. It's battling for marketshare, instead of focusing on the strengths of C++ and making it the best language for certain tasks, they are making it a shitty language for everything. I doubt it can ever catch up to languages that have a better head start and compilers and debuggers that have never sucked as much as C++ ones still do.

  23. Re:Objective C and C++ on Interview Update With Bjarne Stroustrup On C++0x · · Score: 0

    Yeah, that's that why I said "technically".

  24. Re:Speak for yourself on Timing Technology Behind Olympic Record Results · · Score: 1

    about as much right as Mexicans have to leave Mexico.

  25. Re:Objective C and C++ on Interview Update With Bjarne Stroustrup On C++0x · · Score: 1

    Technically there isn't any, c is a subset of c++ so anything you can do in c you can do in c++.

    In my experience with number crunching applications. C++ coded very in the style of straustrop(sp?) with good maintainability with iterators templates and stuff like that runs slower than C code. Since both do the same number of floating point ops, my gut feeling is that this has to do with memory usage. The C++ number crunching programs I work with are limited by how fast they can access the data in RAM and not how many flops the processor can push. With good C++ coding practices you have fast very maintainable code. With good C practices you have very fast maintainable code.