User: EnsilZah

Re:Nuuuuuu!

On: New Bacterium Lives On Caffeine

I'm told for this kind of situation nuking it from orbit has been proved quite effective.

Re:Proof

On: Forty Years of P=NP?

The lower right corner allows you to extend it, dude.

Luckily there's Slashdot to fill that role for me.

On: Forging a Head: The Upside of Scientific Hoaxes

After a bunch of stories that start out as "Microsoft spies on your children while they sleep" and then after reading some comments it turns out to be something along the lines of the the Xbox sending occasional queries to the Kinect to see if it's still working while in standby I'm somewhat skeptical of anything I read here.

Please assume the party escort submission position

On: Playstation To Restore Services This Week

Please assume the party escort submission position

Re:10,000

On: New Heat Pump Will Last 10,000 Years

Probably was just not meant to be a factual statement, there's a lot of that going around.

Re:Not surprising

On: Revolution of the Science Fiction Authors

Well, to be fair Stephenson never struck me as the strongly-worded-petition kind of guy.

I almost thought of him as being mostly in a trancelike state of contemplation and goatee stroking with occasional bouts of assassination.

No, Mr. OpenOffice.org

On: Don't Expect an OpenOffice/LibreOffice Merger

I expect you to die!

Re:The old standbye

On: Medicines Lose Effectiveness In Space

Or just tell them to space-walk it off.

Re:DRM benefits one party, and it's not the buyer

On: DRM Drives Gamers To Piracy, Says Good Old Games

There isn't one, that's the point, they still get payed.

Re:DRM benefits one party, and it's not the buyer

On: DRM Drives Gamers To Piracy, Says Good Old Games

That's not true, it also gives the executives the semblance of doing something about piracy so they don't have to spend all that time trying to fix an outdated business model.

Re:yum

On: Flying Robot Bird Unveiled

You mean, tastes like Robot Chicken.

Hi, my name is Werner Brandes.

On: New FBI System IDs People By Voice, Iris, More

My voice is my passport. Verify Me.

Looking at the cake.

On: From Redmond With Love

If there's one thing the IE people have proven is that there is in fact an I in Ieam.

Rad-Away

On: NASA Wants Revolutionary Radiation Shielding Tech

Just supply the crew with enough Rad-X and Rad-Away.
And don't forget some extra water chips, just in case.

Re:Or

On: US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors

Does this mean Jewish privates will not be issued one?

Luckily

On: Facebook Kills Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure

You can still order one Here.

Re:Doing 3D has made me too cynical

On: The Saturn Fly-By

From Wikipedia entry for Adagio for Strings:

A choral version â" Agnus Dei â" can be heard in the soundtrack to the PC video game Homeworld

Doing 3D has made me too cynical

On: The Saturn Fly-By

I keep thinking "What is that, a sphere with a lambert shader? Some kind of procedural ring texture on a plane? Might want to add some rocks while passing through the ring so it doesn't just pop. Those shadows are way too sharp, might want to turn on raytracing for those."

It sucks that I can't appreciate this properly and my brain just keeps interpreting it all as fake because my only other reference for something like this are 3D renders.

Also, I've loved Agnus Dei ever since hearing it in Homeworld.

Re:ample?

On: IPad 2 Teardown Shows Tablet's Guts

Sure, my desktop computer has 24 times the amount of RAM but... Wait, my desktop has 24 times the amount of RAM? Holy crap!

Making SSDs inhouse.

On: Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future

While SSDs and HDDs serve the same function the technologies are pretty different, so it's much easier for Intel and various RAM manufacturers to start making SSDs than it is for WD to transition to them.
Last I checked WD's SSDs were just a rebranded product made by some other company.

I guess Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have all they need to manufacture SSDs in house and I'm assuming the other HDD companies will have to make some acquisitions of their own to stay competitive.

Re:No harddrives in the future

On: Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future

I for one will not be entrusting my sensitive data to ducks, airborne or otherwise.

Re:Have you noticed...

On: William Shatner Wakes Up Crew for Final Discovery Mission

And only he could get away with it.
Well, to be fair there's also Hasselhoff.

Oh wait, parody is not the same as mockery.

After watching the video

On: Android Copy of Danish Man Unveiled

I wonder, if they made one of Christopher Walken, could you tell the difference?

Re:all your base...

On: Libyan Internet Flatlined

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Re:The decline of language skills?

On: The Decline and Fall of System Administration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_decline_and_fall_of_the_roman_empire