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  1. Re:Relative on Swift Tops List of Most-Loved Languages and Tech · · Score: 1

    Interesting!, and you wrote the same information on the relevant Wikipedia page too!

  2. Re:America on Pull-Top Can Tabs, At 50, Reach Historic Archaeological Status · · Score: 1

    The difference between Europe and America: European people generally have the ability to differentiate between "country" (a political thing, e.g. United States of America, or USA for convenience) and "continent" (a geographical thing, e.g. America). It gets a little trickier for us Europeans once we take "state" and "nation" into consideration too, but that is a different story.

  3. Not the European way either on FBI Overstated Forensic Hair Matches In Nearly All Trials Before 2000 · · Score: 1

    It is as fucked up over here as truth and justice go. Death penalty aside, of course, which obviously makes a difference in cases like this.

  4. Re:Internal workings vs. flight characteristics on Calling Out a GAO Report That Says In-Flight Wi-Fi Lets Hackers Access Avionics · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, thanks for replying :-)

  5. Internal workings vs. flight characteristics on Calling Out a GAO Report That Says In-Flight Wi-Fi Lets Hackers Access Avionics · · Score: 1

    > Flight simulators do not model the internal workings of an airplane, but rather the flight characteristics.

    Do you know that for a fact? I am not familiar at all with flight simulators, but I am familiar with car and motorcycle simulation software such as computer games. The reason I am asking you this is because some of these do emulate the internal workings of the cars, to the point that, after a race, you can generate the exact telemetry log file that the real thing would generate, in the very same format used by major race ECU manufacturers such as Motec. I know for a fact that this feature is being used by professional race teams at present day. The guy in charge for the telemetry system in a bike team told me this became a common feature in specific software some time in the '90s.

    Like I said, I do not know about flight simulators, but I would presume they do a bit of both (flight characteristics / internal workings), and I would be surprised if they are significantly behind car and motorcycle simulators in terms of technology.

  6. Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers on Wikileaks Publishes Hacked Sony Emails, Documents · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lofty ideal: "for teh lulz" :-D

  7. Re: UK solution on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    :rolleyes:

  8. Re:Surprising news from Spain on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    In Oregon you can go to jail for storing water that is falling on land that you own:
    http://sevilla.abc.es/sociedad... (article in Spanish).
    Freedom in Spain is a joke, but so it seems to me in the USA and many other places.

  9. Re:Any police killed in the crossfire? on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    I replied to another post by this gentleman to say it was heavily biased to say the least. This one is much worse. Things here are simply not like that. I don't know where this guy lives, but I live in Madrid where most of these demonstrations take place and his description is totally wrong. What is really sad about so much population being extremists (either like this man or the exact opposite end) is that we end up trapped in an endless bi-partisanship situation that hurts the country more than any other problems that we face.

  10. Re:The truth is, as always, more complicated... on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    Bingo.

  11. Re:The truth is, as always, more complicated... on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    This view is heavily biased to say the least.

  12. Re:May as well be honest on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    > The Spanish government may as well be honest about the purpose of this law [...]

    That'd be nice. And plenty other laws too, please. And not only in Spain. Now that'd be some real, significant change.

  13. Re: UK solution on Spain's Hologram Protest: Thousands Join Virtual March In Madrid · · Score: 1

    We are experiencing noticeable recovery. That said, I agree on your statement that "too many people can't afford the basic needs" because to me, any amount of people is too many people when it comes to that.

  14. Re:FPGAs on Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    I was about to post this. In fact, I bet the resulting HDL code for this particular computer can be implemented in a technology that's cheaper than FPGA, like perhaps commercial flash PLD. Also things seem to be moving towards OpenCL which is behavioural and C-like, which may help people who are used to that paradigm, like people who do MCUs including the Raspberry Pi.

  15. Re:Why??? on Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    > Hell, why have cars anything other than black, which should suffice for anybody?

    You don't live in a hot, sunny place, do you? :-D

  16. I'm not impressed on Mickey Delp Makes 'Walk Up and Play' Electronic Instruments (Video) · · Score: 1

    I'm a musician. An instrumentalist, to be precise. Today, I've played my instrument for 8 hours including rehearsals, studying routines and repertoire, and a gig. This article is terrible, really really low quality. It's so crap.

  17. Re:Syntax and typo errors compile on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Plain operator precedence is mind boggling? I mean, you may find the chosen preference intuitive or counterintuitive, but that's about it.

  18. Re:Write-only code. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    > It is not complex by any reasonable definition, unless you're comparing it to BASIC or something.

    Java is significantly more complex than C, if only due to its OO nature.

  19. Re:Tools for modifying open hardware designs on Why We Need Free Digital Hardware Designs · · Score: 1

    Well, Zuken Cadstar is pretty expensive commercial software and I wish I could describe like "you would never want to work with it day to day in professional work, it's just not good enough" because it's actually just plain awful to work with.

  20. Re:E = P * t on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    That makes more sense. I guess the guy who wrote these news didn't care to watch, then.

  21. E = P * t on Come and Take It, Texas Gun Enthusiasts (Video) · · Score: 1

    > (They ran the mill at a slower speed, though, to conserve juice.) That doesn't conserve juice.

  22. 40 min? How about 4 hours extra per day? on Adjusting To a Martian Day More Difficult Than Expected · · Score: 2

    Yet some people actually choose to have 28 hour long days, i.e. 6 day long weeks: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wik...

  23. Re:Doesn't Work For Me on Microsoft Finally Allows Customers To Legally Download Windows 7 ISOs · · Score: 1

    That's bad news for me. I was hopeful that, at last, I could have a clean Windows PC by installing an + hardware drivers + OS updates, instead of a factory restore + updates, which installs that plus all sorts of useless crap manufacturers and vendors deliver in a hopeless effort to "give you more" than their competitors.

  24. Re:Not to mention Audio Editing on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 2

    You are dead right. I tend to associate DAW to multitracker-like software because that's what suits my own way of making music best (I play in bands so I work the traditional "recording studio" way), but DAW is a generic term to describe a music tool that handle various tasks (sequencing, multitrack recording, editing, score writing, synth, mixing, mastering and so on), regardless of it resembling a multitracker, a sequencer (Logic) or whatever else (Ableton Live). Recording studios use multitrack software and that's what I do all the time, but other tools can be regarded as DAW just as well. I guess the reason why different people have their own preference for DAW is that music is not about doing recording studio work only, and different artists have their own way of approaching their creative processes.

  25. Re: Not to mention Audio Editing on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 1

    Oh, of course it is, sorry, I was thinking PC since that's what I use, silly me.