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  1. Re:IBM? Why? on Novell/SUSE Prime for Aquisition? · · Score: 2, Funny

    you mean a P/390.... S/390 would pretty much destroy not only the desk you placed it, but most likely it will collapse the floor your desk was sitting on.

  2. Re:Speed of Sound in Space on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    There is no air in Space... hence no sound. You can not hear shit in outter space :).

  3. Re:Well Jack, as Mohemmad once said on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    No 30 years ago they would have put into subhuman abusive homes, and please stop making the assumption that most homeles are indeed mentally ill. Look at the percentage of homelessness in this countryy with relation to economic data, and you'll see how according to your numbskull theory it seems that mental illnesses somehow soar during bad economic times. Whoooaaahh.... There is indeed a darth need for better social care network for the mentally ill, but sadly it is not because those "touchy feely" people that it is not there today. But rather because of assholes like you and the rest of the conservative idiots that make sure that every social program in this country gets slashed just to make sure your taxes are low and cozy.

  4. Re:IANAM on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    LOL, the EM signals do move at the speed of light, is that close enough for you? :)

  5. Re:communicating? on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    There is gravity... which can slowdown or some times speedup the prove. Also the vacuum is not 100% perfect, as there can be traces of hydrogen or helium in a lot of the univers, and maybe the so called dark matter (although its interaction with the prove would be mostly gravitational) that could slow down/modify the prove's path due to actual friction!

  6. Re:Put the weight on the data, project from there on Climate Data Re-examined (updated) · · Score: 0

    Did you know that for large scale generators, no photovoltaic cells are used? Mirrors is what they use for large scale solar generator! Oh... my, those nasty mirrors! LOL!

    I have no idea of how nasty "photovaliac" cells are, since I have never heard of "photovaliac" cells, is that a new technology? I know about "photovoltaic" though, these are used for small scale generation, some are silicon based... and are much much easier to manufacture than, lets say silicon chips... which indeed those can be rather nasty to manufacture.

    Anyhow, keep on the good job with the FUD about stuff you obviously have no idea about.

  7. Re:Nothing really matters. on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    Actually Normands reffer to the French ancestors from that group which hailed back from Normandy, same from the Saxons wich originated in Saxony in Germany. Nothing to do with Northman, which would be the native Scots, nor Southman which would be related to the original Englishmen which had more ties to the Romans after the interbreeding during the Roman domination, the Anglos. The Normands and the Saxons were members of the "barbarian" that pushed the Romans away when the Western Roman Empire crumbled. The Anglo-Saxon race did not find nor found that little colony named America, that was done by the Iberians... since they were the first European settlers in the continent.

  8. Re:Nothing really matters. on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    I guess you meant: Astronomy. Astrology is reading the cards and take other people's money while saying bullshit about some planet alignment crap. Astronomy is the actual study of space....

  9. Re:A question on More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win · · Score: 1

    ... and MIPS!!! Actually MIPS was the native platform of NT up to 3.5, the earlies NT kernels were actually targeted for the 80860, which was being designed by Intel in the mid/late 80s, and whose code name inside intel was N-10. Hence the name NT for the kernel microsoft was designing, those earlier NT systems were 100% research oriented and had nothing to do with the modern Win2K kernel (were more related to VMS).

  10. Re:Normal American reaction.... on Taipei 101 Now World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1

    OK, first off the tallest usable piece of real state is found at the SEARs Tower in Chicago. This is the tallest office building without an spear both the Taipei and the Petronas towers have their tallest floor way under the tallest floor of the Sears building in Chicago.

    And if your ignorant self knew anything about the rest of the world, you would know that the tallest man made structure is found in Canada.

    But by all means, don't let you ignorance get in the way of showing us Americans how little you really know.

    Just a hint, we are not all that stupid over here. After all we managed to put a couple of dudes on the moon, how many times has your country gone over there.... eh? So before you "show us" make sure you apply your advice to yourself first. It makes you look... how should I say it? Stupid....

  11. Re:Misleading anyone on Dell $38m Supercomputer [not] More Costly than VT's G5s · · Score: 1

    Nope... it would cost you the same -assuming you are a student- as it did to VT

    Even w/o the student discount, each dualie G5 sells for $3K roughly, 1100 machines in the cluster: Voila! $3.3 Million....

    See math ain't that hard. They may have got a break in the memory since their machines come with 4GB per, and I believe the base dual G5 comes with 512MB.

  12. Re:FUD on Is Prescott 64-bit? · · Score: 1

    So basically you are telling me to eat feeces since 10 billion flies can not be wrong? Oh jeez speaking of simplistic views.

    I was just reporting on Intel's FUDs practices which are well documented, in fact IBM's FUD in the 60/70s was enhaced to perfection by Intel in the 80/90s. Those are well documented, if you have proof of the contrary please let us know, rather than use the oh so complex personal atack and diminish facts as conspiracy theories. LOL!

    And please do not try to use the car analogy, it just plain doesn't work. There are at least 10 car manufacturers which offer commodity cars.

    And those "playthings" are what push the envelope and give us change and advances in computing, if it was up to intel we would still be using 8088's running at 10Mhz and priced at $500.00 each. Afterall why would the change if there was no other competitor (or how you put it: plaything) around? Hadn't been for NeXT that web browser you are using to spew would have not been even invented. Had not been for MIPS probably RISC techniques would have been an academic curiosity, and had not been for Alpha and the core engineering which Intel has routed towards the Itanium team, the Itanic would be still in the drawing board.

    But by all means, god forbid anyone say anything bad about your beloved intel.

  13. Re:Let me see if i can understand this on Is Prescott 64-bit? · · Score: 1

    Intel names products after geographic places in their production/design states. Hence most of the products so far have been named after North Western rivers and landmarks, I guess they are moving over their Arizona production/design plants in the naming scheme now.

  14. Re:FUD on Is Prescott 64-bit? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is no flame bait, it is Intel's business practice. They have done it over and over and over, if any of you were alive during the 80's you'd know about intel's 32bit move with the 386 which took forever to come out, meanwhile... other people released 32bit solutions, mostly NS and Motorola. Intel's FUD machine went into high gear and told customers to hold on since the 386 was going to be out any day then and was going to be the best processor ever. So better processors that were years ahead of the 386 got killed that way.

    In the 90s Intel did the same with the Pentium and the R4000s that were going to be the basis for the ARC platform. Intel said that the Pentium was going to be out any day then and it was going to run circles around the RISC machines. The pentium was at least 4 years late and was well behind RISC offerings in performance. But Intel managed to kill the ARC consortium.

    This is the latest in Intels FUD campaign, maybe it is time to break the circle... buy intel and have 64bits TODAY... screw them, with their "ooooh we may have a surprise for you" and all that nonsense.

  15. Re:Duh... on No Americans Need Apply · · Score: 1

    Please spare me the speech, those laws were passed with the blessing of American business. It makes sense for them, lower wages -> bigger profits. They give a shit about the American public in general. The enemy is sometimes sleeping with you, deal with it. Oh, I know it is easier to blame it on the towelheads, go on then...

  16. Re:He was the Osama Bin Laden of Science on Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 · · Score: 1

    Typical American geographical ignorance, so you would make 30% of the known oil reserves unusable. Jeez, great way of shooting yourself in the foot...

  17. Re:scientist or advocate? on Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 · · Score: 1

    He was an average physicist at best, he was a great lobbier, hence his rememberance as such.

    Each gets his own at the end, Teller is getting his.

  18. Re:Thank you Teller. on Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So please let us know what contributions to the field of physics did your hero Teller brought? Have you even read any paper from Teller? And how can you hop from Oppenheimer to Teller? Do you even know what fields of physics were they involved. Jeezus, do you even know what physics is for that matter. Oh, and let us know what new information you have about Oppenheimer that the rest of the world seems to be unaware of. Did you know that Oppenheimer did 100x more to defend this country by being one of the most succesful administrators of the national labs than Teller did with his political manipulations and 0 scientific contributions. But I guess Oppenheimer had to be a dirty commie for opposing a device that had no use, and that would bring us all one step closer to total destruction.

  19. Re:Surprised that he lived so long... on Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 · · Score: 1

    He was a mediocre physicist, his only contributions were his lobbying and strongarming of his more rational (and talented) detractors.

    Doubt he spend more than a couple of hours in his whole life near anything radioactive.

  20. Re:A great? on Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He was also a cretin who tried to destroy the carreers of more talented people who stood in his way (Oppenheimer cough) he used other physicist under fear of alienation, rather than by sheer briliance and respect.

    His contributions to the field of physics are nil, unlike Oppenheimer et al.

    He also brought the most destructive power in the universe and allowed humans to not only destruct themselves but the whole planet. That is just too rotten... thank you Mr. Teller!

  21. Re:Glad he was on our side on Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 · · Score: 1

    They could also have developed fart bombs and kill us all while we pilled up on a mountain of vomit. The ruskies had the A-bomb, jeez those bombs did sure rain on our cities didn't them.

  22. Re:Wow he was old on Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 · · Score: 1

    And a population of over 100+ million people. Yeah 20K people are just soooooooo many out of all those millions of people. Go ahead work the percentage, jeez!

  23. Re:Thank you Teller. on Edward Teller Passes Away At 95 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, thanks alot... now we not only have to fear nuclear holocaust brought by normal A-bombs... but we can get the nuclear winter 100 times thanks to the H-bomb.

    Teller was a mediocre scientist that had the gall to call Openheimer a commie because he wouldn't submit to Teller's politico moves. Mr. T was a grade A a-hole ill regarded in most physics rings, I guess all his fanboys were in the military after all.

  24. Re:This shows how geeky Im am... on Goodbye, Galileo · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Interesting.... which helps to prove my theory that jocks are closeted homosexuals. Drooling at watching the efigy of another naked man must hint some sort of homo-erotic disorded. IMHO

  25. Re:Why? on Wiring A Vintage Teletype To The Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nope this sort of thing is called a TERMINAL, your vtxx0 session is actually trying to emulate the behavior of a paper terminal. Betcha you did not know that :).

    A printer is output only, this device is input and output...