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  1. Re: 11% fuel efficiency improvement on Will Your Next Car Be Covered In Morphing Dimples? · · Score: 1

    At least it looked correct in the input area.

  2. Re: 11% fuel efficiency improvement on Will Your Next Car Be Covered In Morphing Dimples? · · Score: 1

    It's Einstürzende Neubauten.

  3. Re: complex application example on Linux Needs Resource Management For Complex Workloads · · Score: 1

    You should look up mutex attributes, in particular priority inheritance. Also, I think you are experiencing the "thundering herd" effect. Maybe the leader/follower pattern could be effective here.

  4. Re:Easy! on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    How about "The Pub Formerly Known as The Hobbit"?

  5. Re:Free software wouldn't have helped on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    I hope you are aware that the whole concept of different human "races" has no scientific base whatsoever.

  6. Re:Not Analog, and Not Digital on Chips That Flow With Probabilities, Not Bits · · Score: 1

    well, give a link to a book describing this concept and how it works in practice. Or some other publication with meaningful benchmarks for real-world examples.

  7. Re:Probability in computers: it's called a float on Chips That Flow With Probabilities, Not Bits · · Score: 1

    Could you please quantify "better than good enough"? As far as I know, bayesian models need to work with the logarithm of probabilities to get meaningful results for anything other than toy examples. Apart from that, are there any peer-reviewed papers that show a performance win with this concept for a real-world example?

  8. Re:Very old news. on Google-Backed Wind-Powered Car Goes Faster Than the Wind · · Score: 1

    You are missing that this is a 2-dimensional problem. Both wind velocity and boat velocity are 2d-vectors. What is required is that the projection of the boat velocity in the direction of the wind is smaller than the wind. The magnitude of the boat velocity can always be greater as that of the wind as long as it does not travel in the same direction as the wind blows.

  9. Re:Is it possible on German High Court Declares All Software Patentable · · Score: 1

    It is unknown whether the Wiener Schnitzel was invented in Vienna or originates from a similar dish from northern Italy.

  10. Re:Keeping them Up on Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy · · Score: 1

    If they're anything like my kites, they'll just end up nose-first in the silt.

    Keeping your kites high above the ground may also have issues.

  11. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    Yes I know how GPS works. But NTP is the standard way to integrate a GPS receiver as a precision time source into a general purpose system. See e.g. here for a provider of GPS-based ntp solutions.

  12. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    It's really simple: the clocks at the two checkpoints must be synchronized. The system probably uses ntp, and a GPS receiver as reference clock. Here in austria, a system like this has been in use on motorways since 2003.

  13. Re:Article summary on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 1

    I never claimed sqlite is the only solution without adminstration, but I think this is the biggest advantage it brings to the table. Also it seems to be very robust, and there are no license problems whatsoever. Its workings are very well documented. It is a very useful tool if you use it for the right tasks.

  14. Re:PstrgreSQL and ACID? You are kidding right on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Article summary on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 2, Informative

    sqlite is extremely slow when writing data. The reason is its implementation of transactions with separate journal files for each transaction. Also, there is only a very basic query optimizer. The main advantage of sqlite is that it does not require administration, certainly not performance.

  16. Re:No mention of on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 4, Informative
  17. Re:Good on European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA · · Score: 1

    Had the Lisbon treaty been signed earlier, the European Parliament could have intervened at an earlier stage.

  18. Re:Metastable Flip flops still have bias on New Method for Random Number Generation Developed · · Score: 1

    A cryptographic device might perform online statistical checks to detect this kind of tampering.

  19. Re:Star Trek on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    Hopefully he will not use a girder.

  20. Re:Consistency or hypocrisy? on Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most probable scenario: cross license deal.

  21. Re:first first? on GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar · · Score: 1

    The key sequence you are looking for is:

    <C-M\>s\<\(\w+\) \1\>

    And they say Unix isn't user-friendly!

    well it is somewhat picky when choosing its friends.

  22. Re:From the article: on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    Franz Kafka was not from germany, and he was not an existentialist either.

  23. Re:No surrender on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    So YOU are responsible for this mess? Why not make up something beautiful, stupid?

  24. Re:Rich feature set on i4i Says OpenOffice Does Not Infringe Like MS Word · · Score: 1

    Any XML document is associated with the feature "poorest" application imaginable; the plain text editor.

    I am looking at you, EMACS!

  25. Re:49152 on New Company Seeks to Bring Semantic Context To Numbers · · Score: 1

    My point was that these tools did not support anything else than decimal. I started coding in assembler with a assembler/dissassemler tool written in BASIC. My sister's boyfriend had entered the listing from a book. It did not even use files, it was reading and writing directly from and to memory.