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  1. Re:Perhaps... on Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall · · Score: 1

    Cheap hot air is actually great if you have a gas turbine and a generator and can sell the resulting electricity.

    So can we fit one to the capitol building? Lots of cheap hot air is going to waste there at the moment.

    Hell, just strap a mask onto Al Gore and collect his hot air. Maybe that + Congress would solve all of our energy needs!

  2. Re:AMD could do a 24 core desktop chip right now on AMD Considered GDDR5 For Kaveri, Might Release Eight-Core Variant · · Score: 1

    It depends on what you're doing. In my case I'm often running 4-6 VMs all busy doing various tasks. Having multiple cores helps greatly, as does having a lot of RAM. Any use case that benefits from multiple threads can, if the software is written properly, take advantage of multiple cores.

  3. I wouldn't worry too much on Ask Slashdot: Configuring Development Environment On a Shared Workstation? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You didn't post your exact specs, but if you're worried about services and are resource constrained, just set them to start manually. When you want to code, start the ones you need (webserver, SQL, etc.). It's a little more work but it's not that bad. You could even script it so that all you'd need to do is run one command script to start or stop the needed services.

  4. Re:Nothing on Translating President Obama's NSA Reform Promises Into Plain English · · Score: 1

    No standing? It's illegal to lie to Congress. If you're appearing formally and put under oath (which sometimes is done, sometimes not) and you lie it's called perjury.

  5. Re:Plain enough. on Translating President Obama's NSA Reform Promises Into Plain English · · Score: 1

    He has a lot of control over what the NSA and other agencies do though. As President he have a great deal of influence and control because the Administration, you know, administers those agencies, appoints the people who lead them, etc.

  6. Re:while() and everything else runs Intel microcod on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    See my addendum.

  7. Re:while() and everything else runs Intel microcod on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    I meant to add on CISC processors at least. RISC and VLIW CPUs do not use microcode.

  8. Re:while() and everything else runs Intel microcod on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    Technically, all code of any kind winds up being executed as microcode.

  9. Re:Warranty Shouldn't Matter on GPUs Dropping Dead In 2011 MacBook Pro Models · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because it's not Kosher if dairy and meat are prepared together, mostly.

  10. Re:Quick! or 160 mpg trucks on Heat Waves In Australia Are Getting More Frequent, and Hotter · · Score: 1

    Most of the oil used in the US comes from the US. The second largest source? Canada.

    Why are you producing so much oil if it's so bad?

  11. Re:Can't directly compare PC and phone sales ... on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Most of my clients are Fortune 100. Yes there are more laptops than there used to be, but the worker bees still have desktops at most of them. I guess YMMV.

  12. Re:Can't directly compare PC and phone sales ... on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    What bubble do you live in where laptops outnumber desktops? Virtually every client of mine has mostly desktops for their worker bees.

  13. Re:Units sold or already out? on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most Android devices allow you to expand the storage via SD or USB. With iOS devices you get what you get. That's not a perfect analogy to recording time, but it's a serious drawback IMO.

  14. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1

    It doesn't separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. It extracts dissolved oxygen from water.

  15. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    You skipped NT 3.x - So So
    NT 4 - Ok
    Windows 2000 - great

  16. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'The guy at the store' rarely knows what he is talking about. As him to show you the warranty text and point out where it says installing your own software voids it.

  17. Re:Efficiency. on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    Then explain why rubberneckers slow down the traffic in the Eastbound lanes of a highway when the accident they are rubbernecking at is in the Westbound lanes?

  18. Meaningless on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is completely meaningless as long as any data has to traverse any network in the US. For that matter, I highly doubt that Canada or any other US ally won't actually cooperate with the NSA. This is nothing but a marketing move on Canada's part.

  19. Re: man I wish on Debug.js: A JavaScript VM and In-Browser Debugger In Pure JS Generators · · Score: 1

    If you can't take criticism then don't post. You can agree or disagree but simply labeling anyone who criticizes your work as a troll is fairly childish.

  20. Re:huh? on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 1

    I'll finish it for him...'anyone.'

  21. Re:Sure, why not on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's sad but true. My wife works in the CS department at a major University, and I'm appalled at what they are churning out with regards to graduates. I know I'll probably get modded down and see the inevitable jokes about 'get off my lawn' and such, but it's really true. The vast majority of new programmers are more or less clueless aside from pushing out cookie cutter bloated code.

  22. Re:Yay more cores that I won't be using much of! on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 1

    It depends on the use case. There are many applications where this would shine. Sure if you want to play Quake 3 Arena it's not going to give you much at all, but if you're doing parallel processing for scientific or engineering applications this would rock.

  23. Re:Imagine on Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops · · Score: 0

    But does it run Linux?

  24. Re:Don't imagine it stops there. on U.S. Waived Laws To Keep F-35 On Track With China-made Parts · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh really? There are still fabrication plants in the US. Not too many, but they exist and can manufacture semiconductor components.

  25. Re:No thanks on The First Prescription-Only App · · Score: 1

    As I said in a couple of other posts, it hasn't even been a year yet.