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  1. Re:damn subpixel antialiasing on Glyphy: High Quality Glyph Rendering Using OpenGL ES2 Shaders · · Score: 1

    Or his monitor has very sharp pixels. I had to disable subpixel rendering recently because my new monitor had too sharp pixels. It turned out I could adjust the "sharpness" of the screen and if I turned it down subpixel rendering worked again, but at average sharpness subpixel rendering just caused colored fringes on letters, which is exactly how it is rendered.

  2. Re:I'm somewhat shocked on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    I was responding to the post above me. Who was claiming a single person making $75k/year or a family of 4 earning less than $200k/year would need food stamp to afford good food.

  3. No on Notorious Patent Troll Sues Federal Trade Commission · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are right. It is not commerce it is blackmail.

  4. Re:Math, do it. on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    My point was that without the stamps the money for food would be more strained forcing the individual that was previously on food stamps to shop cheaper.

  5. Re:I'm somewhat shocked on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 2

    No, I think you need to shop better. You could have a problem in certain areas, but if you are a low income worker you are unlikely to like in the rich areas where food cost 10x more than they should. You should be able eat very high quality home cooked food for less than $1000/month/person, but it depends on the availability of good markets with appropitiate selections. If you live in a small town in a rural area, it is not a problem at all.

  6. Re:Math, do it. on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    When the unhealthy foods are subsidized and the minimum wages so low they can only afford the subsidized unhealthy food, It is a food stamp/welfare problem. Of course they could also remove the subsidizes, or target them better, but that would be HARD, and could cost the politicians campaign contributions.

  7. Re: Decreased Costs on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    So you want to give them free health care with contraceptive coverage? That is an idea, but I don't think the Republicans are going to accept that.

  8. Re:Actually... negative prices! on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    Not customers, they will pay other energy companies to carry the load, or charge suppliers that are not scaling down their energy production.

  9. Re: Apple won't let it happen. on Samsung, Apple Agree To Try Mediation In Patent Disputes · · Score: 1

    I doubt they get significantly more help from the US government than any other Fortune 500 company.

    So you think all american fortune 500 companies are allowed to ignore the rules and be protected by the administration: Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban. Maybe you are right, but that is a rather weak statement and unrelated to the post you were replying to. Apple do have the government in their pocket and no reason to discontinue their behaviour since they are protected from repercussions.

  10. Re:Nothing to do with TPB or copyright infringemen on Pirate Bay Founder's Custody Extended to February 5th · · Score: 1

    The justice systems are very fair especially in Denmark (Sweden has a few quirks). The prisons conditions are also generally very good. The problem is the lack of enough prisons, which means that if you need to be locked up on the spot, you get the cells that are availble, which often are the otherwise unused solitary cells.

  11. Re:That's unfortunate on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 2

    You're assuming that the math behind those is the same for all those types. It it is, a template may work. If it isn't, a template will not work.

    No, templates will still work in the later case. How do you think hash-tables are implemented? It is possible to do specialization in templates, for instance specialize all integer and floating point versions.

  12. Re:My password is printed on the side of my router on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you brought theory to a practical fight.

    No, he brought an anecdote. The theory is sound. Wifi can not penetrate concrete.

  13. Re:My password is printed on the side of my router on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Depends on what your floors are made of. If it is made of concrete the signal is blocked. If you live in a concrete house you often can't even use a cell phone without going to a window and you may need repeaters for wifi in each room unless you can place it in a hall where the signal can reach the rooms through the doors. Concrete is common in modern urban appartments but less so in suburban single home houses.

  14. Re: KNetworkManager on Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    If the system can decrypt the information automatically and the way it does so is common knowledge (being a standard or the software open source). It will take any attacker just as long to access the information as it takes your system. So you could make it so that it would take months to decrypt, but that would mean rebooting your machine would take months because it needs to do the same thing.

  15. Re:There are a lot of people eating their hats on Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? · · Score: 1

    Chromebooks are not netbooks.

    A Chromebook is a dumbed down more net-oriented netbook. An ultranetbook if you remove the spyware.

  16. Re:Art? on The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon · · Score: 0

    Milling is like 3D printing in metal.

  17. Re:losers: everybody on Winners and Losers In the World of Interfaces: 2013 In Review · · Score: 1

    The scary part is that they are still not as dumb as most users. We've a ways to go yet. We're doomed.

    Users are as stupid as you treat them.

  18. Re: Good! on X.Org Server 1.15 Brings DRI3, Lacks XWayland Support · · Score: 1

    A sound daemon provides network transparancy, that is all you ever actually need a sound daemon for. Technically pulseaudio also handle bluetooth these days, though there is no logical reason bluetooth needs a sound mixing daemon. Primarily I guess pulseaudio is alive where ALSA development is dead, so you need pulse for new audio features in Linux.

  19. Re:Don't buy from US companies on Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    i wonder if many companies were listed from around the world, but spiegel focused on US companies because the anti-american angle works well for them.

    It is not the Spiegel that wrote the slashdot summary, it is the Spiegel that wrote the article that includes the non-American companies, and the American Slashdot that only included American companies. So how about rethinking your comment?

  20. Re:Right On on Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished · · Score: 1

    Which exactly why it has such a strong effect on the party that is ideologically closer, the politicians there NEED to win your vote to not lose. If you are willing to vote for them whatever they do, they have absolutely not insentive to try to win you, they only court swing-voters either those that swing to the other major party, to a third party or to the couch party.

  21. Re:You got it. on Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind · · Score: 1

    The extra registers "only" make x32 10-15% faster than x86-32. The main speed-up comes from requiring AMD64 which ensure it has SSE2 and can use SSE math instead of x87 math. Of course you could get the same but getting rid of i686 as you base and jumping to requiring SSE2. Going from x87 to SSE is 50-100% faster even without any vectorizaton.

  22. Re:no on Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind · · Score: 1

    Who cares about most? If you need a fast embedded processor you need x86, and if you want fast you probably buy a modern embedded x86 that supports 64bit, but you don't need 64bit, but running x32 would give you improved performance at no extra cost. Of course it makes sense, you just won't see it in phones because x86 are still too powerful and power-hungry for that market.

  23. Re: "So who needs native code now?" on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 1

    True, I use them often as well. They are great for public APIs that need to be kept ABI compatible. For internal structures I prefer without though. After a second look at my code though, I can see it could easily be done with getters too, providing the class has non-const getters with reference returns that can be altered.

  24. Re:"So who needs native code now?" on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Some of the most elegant code that I've seen has been with web scripting languages. $('img').bind('mouseenter mouseleave', function() { $(this).attr({ src: $(this).attr('data-other-src') , 'data-other-src': $(this).attr('src') }) }); Shameless plug

    Try doing that in C

    In modern C++:

    img.mouseenter = img.mouseleave = [] () { std::swap(img.attributes["src"], img.attributes["data-other-src"]); };

    Ofcourse it requires the C++ programmer hasn't been too damaged by exposure to Java and tries to pointlessly ruin the language by using getters and setters instead of real property access.

  25. Re: IQ on Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? · · Score: 1

    An attractive candidate for a job is not referring to their appearance.