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  1. Re:I love Model Ms. I still have two of them. on The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made · · Score: 1

    I purposely buy motherboards with ps/2 port for my black 122 key model M. Hope that's still possible as next year my four year upgrade cycle (I buy a "barebones") comes around

  2. My 122 key model M on The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made · · Score: 1

    My 122 key variant of the model M (has 24 function keys!) has heavy backplate and weighs six pounds!

  3. Re:Why do people care so much? on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    SystemD fires off more processes, and moreover parallel starts services (which can be good thing, but that can be done with init style sytem too, long solved problem)

  4. Re:Why do people care so much? on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    You talk out of your ass, admining init on those is solved problem. You are the one with no knowledge and no experience.

    The bloat of systemd impedes troubleshooting, and its bad design relying on far too many moving parts and binary logging database not readable by common tools makes it a project perhaps suitable for non-tech user's desktop (not embedded, not server) only

    A few kernel developers are quite vocal in their hatred for it, by the way. The young kids with no large server experience might like it for their laptop

  5. Re:Why do people care so much? on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    On the server side when admining hundreds or thousands of machines, troubleshooting a bloated needlessly complex system wastes precious time. Serious admins I know don't like systemd for the server side.

    On the other hand, might be appropriate for desktop

  6. Re:easy enough on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year · · Score: 1

    that sort of thing done in the age of swords, spears and bows

  7. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 1

    So you admit about half of particles have an application. dang, we're doing good in that regard.

    There are NO commercial applications whatsoever of quasi-particle MF, your "whole category of things" has zero members. You lose.

  8. Re:Don't bother RTFA on Sharp Developing LCD Screens In Almost Any Shape · · Score: 1

    wall of text is exactly what I want for most news

    here's a picture of a Sharp dashboard concept
    http://www.digitaltrends.com/h...

  9. on last legs? on Vax, PDP/11, HP3000 and Others Live On In the Cloud · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Alpha is still supported by HP, and OpenVMS on Alpha supported until 2018.

    The emulation by Charon of Sparc is 32 bit, not the current 64 bit one. However, you can run 32 bit Sparc code on 64 bit sparc.

  10. Re:10,000 MPH to get into orbit on Send Your Own Radiosonde 90,000 Feet Into the Sky (Video) · · Score: 1

    bullshit, object with insufficient orbital velocity will fall. For circular orbit that is 7.7 km/sec, about 17,200 MPH. Elliptical orbits can be more interesting, with closest approach of about 93 miles (unpowered, less than 80 miles possible with powered), but those go even faster at perigee

  11. Re:avoiding doing a postdoc isn't possible on Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis In Science · · Score: 1

    So avoiding a postdoc is very easy, don't be one. Get a job, the market and schools obviously don't want and don't value postdocs.

  12. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 1

    We haven't been discovering new particles for any significant length of time for you to make a statement about how long a practical application of a discovery takes. I could well say we only used four particles in applications for hundreds of thousands of years, and all of a sudden in a span of a decades are using many.

  13. Re:Vegetarian on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 0

    you're a vegan , no one cares what you think

  14. Re:unsubstantiated hope and guessing on Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050 · · Score: -1

    yes absurd, industrial capacity won't keep doubling at that rate.

  15. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 1

    In 1950s anti-neutrinos discovered and now there are practical applications for it. Muons, positrons, anti-protons have practical applications. So in 60 years we went from only having application for proton, neutron, electron and photon to using four more particles. And if neutrino turns out to be a MF that would be huge.

  16. Re:burning living room furniture on Lenovo Set To Close $2.1 Billion Server Deal With IBM · · Score: 0

    for the same reason your local dollar store has crappy chinese tools for $1 each

  17. unsubstantiated hope and guessing on Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050 · · Score: 1

    This prediction was made on nonsensical assumptions and optimism, including doubling of efficiency on mass produced panels and absurd lowering of costs.

  18. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 1

    Wrong, I never post AC. You have no valid argument, nor point; and so now are reduced to mocking an AC who is not me. You are the one who is sad and pathetic, in addition to being ignorant of physics.

  19. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 1

    No, what matters more is discovering more fundamental particles of matter and energy. That will push civilization and technology further than any quasi-particle studied just because it *might* be useful for computation. Note no quantum computer using MF exists or likely will exist.

  20. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 1

    So what, quantum computers can built out of things that aren't Majorana particles too, and in fact all the existing ones aren't.

    hole/electron semiconductors not even relevant, "hole" just a convenient model for electron that has some issues by the way, holes are NOT a quasi-particle as they have different properties than any particle. Holes in semiconductors don't behave as exact opposite of electron.

  21. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 1

    No, mod them down for talking out of their ass, understanding nothing. Quasi-particles are not fundamental particles that make up the universe. A fundamental majorana fermion would be newsworthy

  22. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 1

    Of course, quasi-particles are not elementary particles. They are not part of the Standard Model nor anything beyond it, they are not products of collisions in particle accelerators.

  23. Re:Ford on Boeing Told To Replace Cockpit Screens Affected By Wi-Fi · · Score: 0

    For the LCD themselves, look up the models used and their specs, they are so very ordinary and behind the curve in what they'll take as input, RGB and older composite video. There is nothing special about them.

  24. Re:Fermion that is its own antiparticle on Physicists Observe the Majorana Fermion, Which Is Its Own Antiparticle · · Score: 0

    not even interesting to me, not a particle but rather a region that has some properties like a particle, a "quasi-particle". *yawn*

  25. Re:Why governments hate this so much on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    sure, raise a race smokescreen when someone mentions subculture. You set off the bullshit detector.

    Argue the contention instead.