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  1. Re:What exactly does it do? on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Run the 99% of commercial apps that are coded agaist the win32 api in a supported manner? Have vm management tools that don't suck horribly? I could go on but I'd just be further feeding the troll.

  2. Re:WHAT!? on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually that would be 4 licenses (each one covers two sockets, the old license scheme was hard to figure out for the most common use case of a 2 socket box).

  3. Re:just what human beings need.... on Wood Pulp Extract Stronger Than Carbon Fiber Or Kevlar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually they generally don't do that, because one blight or beetle means they lose an entire plot for many years, plus their plants will have varying needs and having the cutting crews constantly moving equipment to meet demand is inefficient. Christmas tree farms are a different animal, there the trees are planted and harvested in a handful of years and the harvest season is very short so making things as monoculture as possible is seen as an advantage (plus if you lose a crop your downtime is significantly less).

  4. Re:just what human beings need.... on Wood Pulp Extract Stronger Than Carbon Fiber Or Kevlar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Uh, at least in the US and Canada the trees used for making pulp come from forests owned by the paper companies and they sure as hell replant them when they harvest. Mead Westvaco (as an example) has a fairly long term view of things, they own 3M acres and process them in a fashion that minimizes the amount of land they have to purchase to meet demand. The only bad thing about timber harvesting is that there's no old growth forests, but those were cut down generations ago and have little to nothing to do with modern forestry practices.

  5. Re:udid on Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs · · Score: 1

    Yes, they're likely just to be only used internally as the seed to the encryption algorithm. That's the most plausible reason for the FBI to have the list, so that they can plug the UDID into a key generator that will decrypt the phone. How else do you think those LEO phone crackers work in minutes.

  6. Re:No TDM in .au? on Business Tier For Australia's NBN Brings Big Possibilities For VoIP · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and how exactly is 5Mbps for telephony supposed to be an improvement? We've got 9 PRI's coming into our HQ, that's 13.5Mbps of telephony and we're only a midsized business (~400 employees at the HQ location, ~650 overall). The CoS for the telephony should be configurable to however many channels/Mbps you want to pay for.

  7. Re:Beginner recipie on Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe · · Score: 1

    Fresh extract makes fine beer, there's a brew on premise place near me that goes through 50 gallon barrels of extract on a weekly basis and the beer I've made there compares favorably to most commercial microbrews. In fact if it wasn't for the difficulty in handling the liquid extract I'd probably go that route for base grains most of the time. I've also known award winning brewers who use DME to adjust OG if they missed their mark for some reason, you could never tell from the finished product.

  8. Re:Any alternative? on Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API · · Score: 1

    Does the NOAA feed support worldwide forecasts or only US ones? I know my weather gadget broke last week and the developer said he'd fix it when he returned from holiday so I expect he's europen and hence would want a worldwide feed source.

  9. Re:To save anyone else the trouble... on Torchlight 2 Release Date: 20 September · · Score: 1

    It's an aRPG.

  10. Re:Woah... on Torchlight 2 Release Date: 20 September · · Score: 3, Funny

    One of the best comments on the 1.04 preview posts was "It's good to hear the beta feedback is going so well, when's D3 going to launch?"

  11. Re:duh on Gelsinger Shoots Down EMC On ARM · · Score: 1

    Depends on the size, EMC showed off the px6 using six SSD's at last years EMC World and they booted 100 VDI clients in about a minute and a half off it.

  12. Re:Its kind of really sad on What The Apollo 11 Crew Did For Life Insurance · · Score: 1

    Actually their survivors would have received both social security survivor benefits (the same ones that paid for Paul Ryan's college education) and military survivor benefits. I'm not sure what percentage of their normal officers salary that would have worked out to be but they would have received some basic security.

  13. Re:duh on Gelsinger Shoots Down EMC On ARM · · Score: 1

    No, EMC bought Iomega, they do have a prosumer/SMB brand now (kind of like Cisco buying Linksys to give them a product in the same market).

  14. Re:Can they? on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Ireland's doing a damn site better than it was before the tech boom.

  15. Re:duh on Gelsinger Shoots Down EMC On ARM · · Score: 2

    No, the low end NetApp uses an Intel processor and until recently it was the reason that nobody with any sanity would use their entry level array (the 2020/2050). There were all sorts of OS features you couldn't use because the mobile celeron in those boxes would bog down to the point of the storage becoming unavailable if they were turned on.

    If there's one box in my infrastructure I don't want to be underpowered it's the storage controller because a performance problem there affects every other system attached to it.

  16. duh on Gelsinger Shoots Down EMC On ARM · · Score: 5, Informative

    EMC arrays are already pushing more than what four westmere cores can do and they don't even have some of the cool features that the new breed of all flash arrays are doing (global dedupe and inline block compression). It will be a LONG time before ARM can handle todays storage workloads, let alone all the cool stuff they should be adding.

  17. Re:well, it better do on AMD's Next-Gen Steamroller CPU Could Deliver Where Bulldozer Fell Short · · Score: 1

    AMD doesn't own any fabs, that was spun off to Global Foundry, and AMD has made some noise about moving to TSMC for their next CPU despite TSMC having their own problems at the current process node and the fact that AMD will take a hit on the stock they own in GF.

  18. Re:They need to innovate on AMD's Next-Gen Steamroller CPU Could Deliver Where Bulldozer Fell Short · · Score: 3, Interesting

    or Windows will treat it as hyperthreading and tie a nice boat anchor to your new chip.

    Actually it's the opposite, the system SHOULD be treating the co-cores like HT units and not scheduling demanding jobs on adjacent cores (at least not ones that both need the FP unit or lots of decode operations). The problem is that AMD basically lied to the OS and told it that every core is the same and that it can go ahead and schedule anything wherever it wants. If they had just marked the second portion of each co-core as an HT unit the normal scheduler optimizations would have basically handled 99% of cases correctly. In reality BD's problem wasn't so much the gaff with the co-cores (though that certainly didn't help things), but that Global Foundry is more than a process node behind Intel (one node plus 3D transistors).

  19. Re:And now... on VMware Back-Pedals On vRAM Scheme, Back To Per-Socket Pricing · · Score: 1

    The prices are the same as before and now with Enterprise+ you get the basic cloud suite gratis.

  20. L4 cache on IBM Mainframe Running World's Fastest Commercial Processor · · Score: 2

    How does the L4 cache in these processors work? Generally going to anything off die is going to induce a major latency penalty due to the need to go through a driver stage which can handle outside interference. How can they make the L4 cache fast enough that its small size doesn't make it basically pointless versus just going to main memory?

  21. Re:A return to refractive telescopes? on New Flat Lens Focuses Without Distortion · · Score: 1

    Then you'd have to take the IOR of the glass/substrate boundary into account which at multiple angles is annoying. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that it makes things more complicated and if your substrate is 60nm thick your glass has to be REALLY pure and flat to avoid distortion.

  22. Re:still to expensive for me on Amazon Wants To Replace Tape With Slow But Cheap Off-Site "Glacier" Storage · · Score: 1

    The cost of bandwidth to be able to restore TB's of data in a reasonable amount of time is out of the reach of pretty much everyone but megacorps whereas an FC tape library comes in at under $15k.

  23. Re:Err on CPUs Do Affect Gaming Performance, After All · · Score: 2

    Flash 11.1 supports GPU acceleration on XP, the current version of the Chrome embedded flash object however does not. I found this out during the Olympics, the 720p feeds were jumpy as heck in Chrome but fairly smooth in Firefox.

  24. Re:Touchpad/keyboard for media center computer on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    For Android I use Unified Remote, works well for controlling my HTPC. It's Windows only but much more full functioned than most of the competitors (there's even an API for writing custom remotes). There's another one out there that uses a Java server for the PC portion that I tried but it only did basic keyboard and mouse emulation and Google doesn't show it in my list of previously installed apps now.

  25. Re:useless aspect ratio on Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard · · Score: 1

    HP ZR2740w, 27" 2560*1440 with integrated 90 degree swivel, ~$700, it's an LED backlit IPS panel.

    That's way less than the 2,304 x 1,440 Sony GDM-FW900 we bought back in 2002 for one of our graphics people and I can guarantee you it's lighter! (that beast was 108 lbs)