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  1. Re:Seriously? on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not to mention why are they using a text file in the first place? If it's going to grow more than a megabyte it should be stored as binary. I suppose they thought it was cool that they could load in MS Excel

  2. Re:Wishful Thinking on The Marshall Islands, Nuclear Testing, and the NPT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You realise we came close to a full scale nuclear war at least three times during the cold war? (Twice during the Cuban crisis and one false alarm by a Soviet early warning system)
    They may appeared to make things safer, but it was just blind luck that we avoided nuclear Armageddon.

  3. Murderer assistant on Microsoft Bringing Cortana To iOS, Android · · Score: 1

    All I want to know is does Cortana give better advice than Siri for hiding dead bodies?
    http://mashable.com/2014/08/13...

  4. Re: Wait, before you start cheering on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    The abortion laws are still ridiculous though. In the case of a woman being raped, she cannot get an abortion.
    Also, it takes 5 years to get a divorce in Ireland

  5. No real-time shadows? on Epic's VR Demo Scene For the GTX 980 Now Runs On Morpheus PS4 Headset At 60 FPS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the looks of the video clip the optimisation is done by removing real-time shadows. That would be the same as setting the quality to the lowest level.

  6. Re:Here's why it's better than an S6 or iPhone 6 on Asus ZenFone 2 Performance Sneak Peek With Intel Z3580 Inside · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can thank Intel's contra revenue for that. Basically, Asus get the SoC and chipset for free.

  7. I take two things from this. on AMD Details High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM, Pushes Over 100GB/s Per Stack · · Score: 2

    The good: next year AMD start making APUs with HBM. The only thing that was holding back the iGPU was memory bandwidth. So, now they can put a 1024 shader GPU on the die and not have it starved by bandwidth. That will have interesting applications: powerful gaming laptops much cheaper than those with a discreet GPU and HPC (especially considering HSA applications)
    The bad: this year AMD is only releasing one new GPU, Fiji. The rest are rebadges. And there is no new architecture. Even Fiji is making do with GCN 1.2

  8. Re:Fail on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 1

    Not the only downside. You are paying $200 more for Iris Pro

  9. Fail on Intel NUC5i7RYH Broadwell Mini PC With Iris Pro Graphics Tested · · Score: 2

    The selling point of the Iris Pro is that it should be able to play AAA games at medium presets, but it's crippled by the low TDP and other iGPUs thrash it in benchmarks.
    But then you would expect it to be virtually silent, because of the low TDP, but it's actually quite noisy.
    Then, there's the price. Iris Pro has always come with a high price, because eDRAM is expensive to manufacture. That's one of the reasons why the previous generation Iris Pro had so few design wins.

  10. Re:There's more than 2 types of art style on The Decline of Pixel Art · · Score: 1

    I should have said I was talking about the 2008 version: http://www.gamersperspective.c...

  11. There's more than 2 types of art style on The Decline of Pixel Art · · Score: 1

    The author thinks that pixel art style is the only alternartive to realistic, which is false. Look at Prince of Persia, or Borderlands (both of which have very good looking stylised art)

  12. Re:Extrapolate? on AMD Outlines Plans For Zen-Based Processors, First Due In 2016 · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you were moded up.
    Zen is 40% IPC greater than EXCAVATOR. The FX-8350 is bulldozer core. Since Bulldozer there has been 3 cores: Piledriver, Steamroller and Excavator (to be released this year).
    Intel has in fact dropped the ball. They have not released a new desktop CPU in 2 years.

  13. Really? on AMD Outlines Plans For Zen-Based Processors, First Due In 2016 · · Score: 1

    TSMC has already produced test wafers on 10nm and plan to enter volume production in 2016
    http://www.fudzilla.com/news/p...

  14. 3D printers! on NASA Will Award You $5,000 For Your Finest Mars City Idea · · Score: 1

    The answer is 3D printers. They solve all known problems. Just 3D print a massive spaceship, then fly said spaceship to Mars and 3D print yourself a city, then 3D print a breathable atmosphere and magnetic field.

  15. CSI to the rescue on As Hubble Breaks a Distance Record, We Learn Its True Limits · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should ask CSI for some help. Those guys have tech that can magnify any image to infinity.

  16. let me get this straight.. on Twitter Stops Users From Playing DOS Games Inside Tweets · · Score: 1

    tweets are still restricted to 140 characters, yet they allow you to embed dos games into the message?

  17. Re:Don't know about the technology... on Humans Dominating Poker Super Computer · · Score: 1

    If I had diabeties I don't think I would want a poker playing AI controlling the insulin. What if it decides to go "all in"?

  18. OpenGL ES support? on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they will make the same mistake they did with Windows Phone and not provide any OpenGL ES support

  19. You forget memory usage... on JavaScript Devs: Is It Still Worth Learning jQuery? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you load a javascript library the browser has to allocate memory to every function in the library even if they are never used and most web sites are using dozens of javascript libraries. While this is ok on a desktop, on a tablet - which has much less memory - it means you only have enough memory to have one web page open at a time. Some web pages are so infested with javascript libraries they cause the tablet browser to crash. And they are just displaying static text and images, something that doesn't require javascript.

  20. Re:Stock price impact. on For High-End CPUs, Qualcomm Ditches TSMC For Samsung · · Score: 1

    That's not the way it works.
    Qualcomm is successful because their modems support *all* telecom protocols, not just LTE. That's know as a "world modem". No other company has that support. So, if they want to sell their phone in a certain market they have to use a Qualcomm modem. If they try to use a Qualcomm modem solution, with a third party SoC the manufacture gets charged a penalty - the same modem is a lot cheaper if you pair it with a Snapdragon SoC. And *that's* how Qualcomm make their money.

  21. Re:Stock price impact. on For High-End CPUs, Qualcomm Ditches TSMC For Samsung · · Score: 2

    Sorry, but you are wrong and so is the article. The main advantage of an integrated modem is power. The modem is basically a processor and if it's on the SoC it can share the memory bus, which reduces power consumption. It also, means less components and cheaper BoM.

  22. Re:Hype pain on Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    Still, I'm disappointed that they could fit "cloud computing" and Node.js into the design. That would be a truely awsome rocket

  23. Re:Landed OK but tipped over on SpaceX Dragon Launches Successfully, But No Rocket Recovery · · Score: 2

    I wonder, supposing it didn't tip over, how much would it cost to refurbish it for another launch. How many parts would you have to replace?

  24. > next they should do a study about how humans are also still subject to the law of gravity
    It's worth pointing out that ninjas aren't subject to the law of gravity

  25. Re:Too many pixels = slooooooow on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 1

    > 4K is the limit of human visual perception
    So, what would happen if you looked directly at a 8K monitor? Would your eyes explode?