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  1. Re:Sense? on Motorola Ordered To Recall Android Phones and Tablets In Germany · · Score: 2

    A company holding the patent for button pressed / unpressed animation could theoretically prevent all software in existance from being sold.

  2. Re:Accident waiting to happen on Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker · · Score: 1

    If you read the link I provided you would see that they *are* storeing large quantities of waste on board.
    Yes, and nuclear appologists also tend to use incorrect or misleading statements, designed to invoke emotional responses.

  3. Why OpenGL ES? on Mesa Finally An OpenGL Implementation (On Intel Hardware) · · Score: 1

    I thought Ivy Bridge integrated graphics are for desktop OpenGL

  4. Re:Correction... on Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 1

    some of the investors in the IPO weren't allowed to sell on first day

  5. Re:Graphic Capabilities on Intel Unveils 10-Watt Haswell Chip · · Score: 1

    Not true. Firstly, the memory channel to the iGPU is somewhat more sophisticated than just tacking on the main memory bus. Secondly, the iGPU has much less processing power than a top end dGPU, therefore it need much less memory bandwidth. Increasing bandwidth would be of no value.
    iGPUs are mainly for budget laptops, where there is going to be no dGPU installed. Ivy bridge and Trinty iGPUs are powerful enough to run Crysis (on low settings). Something not to be scoffed at, considing low budget buyers never had chance to run games like this previously.

  6. Re:Correction... on Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Except most of them weren't allowed to

  7. Accident waiting to happen on Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker · · Score: 2

    A nuclear icebreaker, travelling through rough seas with several tonnes of radioactive waste on-board, opperated by a country with possibly the worst environmental record in the world. What could possibly go wrong?
    http://bellona.org/articles/articles_2011/vaygach_norway
    http://www.bellona.org/filearchive/fil_The_Arctic_Nuclear_Challenge.pdf

  8. Moon Nazis on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 1

    So, what about the moon nazis? They aren't going to be happy about colonists setting up nuclear farms on their turf.

    Yes, the moon nazis. The ones that set up that secret base on the dark side just before end of WWII.

  9. Re:Resonant Clock Mesh? on AMD's Next-Gen Steamroller CPU Could Deliver Where Bulldozer Fell Short · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't it be? It's already in Trinity

  10. Bullshit on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    A quick look here:
      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/
    Reveals about one security patch for .NET each month on average. All critical remote executable.

  11. Re:A better idea... on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    In all fairness, Java is no less secure than .NET or any other middleware. Why not just deinstall everything? Then your really safe.

  12. Re:Wow... on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 1

    I can: Windows explorer

  13. Re:Microsoft Breaks Windows on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 1

    > Windows 8 is one of the first operating systems in history that uses less resources than it's predecessor

    that isn't too difficult considering all the crap Windows 7 loads as default (services that are never used etc.)

  14. Re:No graphics on Thin Mini-ITX Platform Enables DIY iMacs · · Score: 1

    It says in the article that there's no room:
    "Our only real regret is that the enclosure lacks room for a good discrete graphics card. We were stuck with the Core i5 processor's HD 3000 integrated graphics"

  15. No graphics on Thin Mini-ITX Platform Enables DIY iMacs · · Score: 1

    The idea looked good... until I saw that you can't install a graphics card. That's the one thing that these all-in-ones lack - decient graphics. Considering there are laptops with gtx 680, I don't see why we can have them in an all-in-one

  16. Why aren't people using SPDY, anyway? on Varnish Author Suggests SPDY Should Be Viewed As a Prototype · · Score: 1

    HTTP 2.0 is not going to happen for a long time. SPDY is here now and both Firefox and Chrome support it.
    But, the only companies using it are Google and Twitter. I'd like to see web hosting companies offer it as a service

  17. Re:Okay... on Firefox 13 Released, Debuts Brand New Tab Page and Homepage · · Score: 1
  18. Re:I'm going to go live under a bridge on Patent Troll Now Armed With Thousands of Nortel Patents · · Score: 1

    > Yes, but at least those trolls you can kill with a sword.

    Only during troll hunting season

  19. Re:Geo Weighted on Chrome Browser Usage Artificially Boosted, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The CIA data is for number of internet users, not internet traffic, where internet user is some one who uses the internet at least once a week. And that's the flaw. the China stats are weighed upwards, because they have much more internet users, but the average Chinese user may be only checking his e-mail the odd time in an internet cafe, whereas internet users in western countries are constantly online.

  20. tomorrow the shorts hit on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 1

    I heard that you can't short a new stock until 3 business days - unless I'm mis-informed, that means tomorrow we are going to see even more pressure on the stock

  21. Re:My humble theory on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those stats are cooked using "geo-weighting":
    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/faq.aspx#Country

    You might want to this blog, which explains it better:

    http://encosia.com/cooking-the-books-is-hard-and-doesnt-help-anyone/

  22. Re:What a moronic conclusion on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > the closing price ends up at the same price as the IPO price?

    but only because it was proped up by the underwriters: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-18/facebook-underwriters-said-to-support-stock-at-near-38-a-share.html

  23. Re:"outpaces Intel's Ivy Bridge for gaming"? on AMD Trinity A10-4600M Processor Launched, Tested · · Score: 2

    > So, AMD has the lead on average FPS, but it's now small enough that Intel wins in a few cases. AMD's integrated GPU is still a little better normally, but it's not a slam dunk any more.

    It's curious, that this is the case for mobile, but on the desktop the HD4000 is beaten by the Llano by a large margin:

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-bridge-core-i7-3770k-review/15

  24. Re:What's wrong with GCC? on FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC · · Score: 1

    > This is something that XCode and Visual Studio (which takes a similar approach) are both capable of doing.

    Actually xcode doesn't support STL half as well as Visual studio. You can examine the contents of all STL containers when debugging in Visual Studio, but in xcode only the vector container

  25. Re:Unfortunately you won't be able to get one on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    I do follow that site and most of the stuff is spot on. It's true a few stories are wild speculation, but this story rings true.