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  1. Re:NO sense at all! on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Up to a limit yes.

    Visit a nice tropical nation and look around vs North America or Northern Europe.

    In one climate you can survive without any effort, in the other you will work or die outside in the winter.

    Obviously once it gets cold enough that also impacts how much work can get done since now all energy must go into just not freezing to death.

  2. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Tomahawk are not guided by a person but can use these alternate methods of finding a target. Sure you lose accuracy, but it can be made to work.

  3. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    No need too.
    You tell it to kill anything that cannot respond to IFF properly.

  4. Re:This is why people hate MS on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can still build software for 2.2 if I want. I could backport any fix I like.

    I am not actually expecting them to backport something to XP, just pointing out that until recently they held IE10 from Windows 7 for no good reason.

  5. This is why people hate MS on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Artificially limiting what versions of the OS can run their other software is a huge annoyance of windows. There is no reason why this and newer DirectX could not be back ported to XP.

  6. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Avoiding detection is key. This is no different than having a manned fighter. There is not a single problem having a human in the loop solves that is not solvable via another method. The problem space that humans can solve and machines cannot is getting smaller by the day. For now work arounds like launching more drones are possible solutions, eventually that will not be needed.

  7. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    You combine these methods.

    Dead reckoning can be used to get into a general area, then perform a grid search for landmarks and switch to terrain following radar. So that you are not switching on radar before it is needed.

  8. Re:Isn't waste the whole point of grants and stimu on West Virgnia Auditor Finds Cisco Router Purchase Not Performed Legally · · Score: 1

    Romney is also center right, just slightly right of the center right president.

    I mentioned nothing about being conservative or not, but conservativeness does not traditionally rule out give-aways of tax dollars. Spending is not the primary difference between conservative and progressive beliefs. Nor do those map directly to right and left.

    From the beginning Romney was a candidate that could not win. The republicans pretty much knew they had no real shot at it so they let the Mormon run. If they had selected a more right wing candidate their loss would have only been worse. In the same way that Palin basically cost McCain any shot at the election. Once you go that far right the candidate is considered a joke outside some very fringe groups and areas.

  9. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    There are alternatives to GPS, inertial navigation, dead reckoning, terrain following radar, etc.

    Traveling was done before GPS and can be done without it. Assuming it maybe jammed durning a conflict is already an assumption many weapons systems make.

  10. Re:There will always be a physological need on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Why would it always be that way?

    What is a tomahawk other than a single use drone?
    The weapons release decision can be made by a human before the flight occurs if you are attacking something unlikely to move like a building.

    A computer being programmed ahead of time to fly some given path and do some action is not substantially different than what a pilot without a method of communication faces.

  11. Re:Isn't waste the whole point of grants and stimu on West Virgnia Auditor Finds Cisco Router Purchase Not Performed Legally · · Score: 1

    1. The president is a center right politician, he is no leftist.
    2. The job creators things was basically what Romney ran on. The same supply side argument they always make about jobs.

  12. Re:Isn't waste the whole point of grants and stimu on West Virgnia Auditor Finds Cisco Router Purchase Not Performed Legally · · Score: 1

    But the righties are always telling us about this making jobs. I thought giving all the money to the "job creators" is exactly what they wanted to do? Thus they will hire people, not because they have work for them but because they have too much money or something.

  13. Re:Mythbusting time! on Intel Announces Clover Trail+ Atom Platform For Smartphones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    AAA mobile games is what I meant and you know it. The best of class, not the best ever.

  14. Re:It is just too expensive on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    My fault, you can do 100MBps too I have seen it. I screwed that up.

    Point stands it will be slower loading games that local storage and it pushes a cost back on the consumer for something that should be included.

  15. Re:Nintendo needs to rethink its place in the worl on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here is a simple method, don't have any.

  16. Re:It is just too expensive on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    That will look great in the living room.

    And I get to buy a usb to sata device for even more money! They could have at least used normal sata.

  17. Re:And this is different from Tivoisation how? on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    I think you mean open garden.
    You can get software outside the repos all you like. Just don't expect people to want to adopt substandard packages just to help you.

  18. Re:Mythbusting time! on Intel Announces Clover Trail+ Atom Platform For Smartphones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Go count how many AAA games are compiled for x86 in the market.

  19. Re:It is just too expensive on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    The spec says 480Mbps, and no one has ever gotten close to that. If you get 100Mbps you would be doing very well over USB2. I highly doubt Nintendo gets 480Mbps over their USB2 ports.

    The PS3 has a hard drive and all the games require installation because BD so slow.

  20. Re:Mythbusting time! on Intel Announces Clover Trail+ Atom Platform For Smartphones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    None of the games you want to play are compiled for x86, nor will anything that that uses the NDK. They will not be until that is a popular architecture in this market. That will not happen until the games are there, classic catch 22.

    I am no ARM fanboy, I am just pointing out reality.

  21. Re:And this is different from Tivoisation how? on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    Because it is not needed. You get software from the repos for your version and architecture. There is no need to add bloat in this case.

  22. Re:Mythbusting time! on Intel Announces Clover Trail+ Atom Platform For Smartphones and Tablets · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Fact 1: If it is not ARM your games will be slow. Anything using the NDK is not likely to even work on non-ARM cpus or be very slow if they can emulate ARM.

    For now x86 has a huge disadvantage in the market.

  23. Re:It is just too expensive on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    So like I said pathetically slow. Would it have killed them to do an internal bay like the PS3? That way you can even connect at SATA speeds. Hell they could have at least used esata.

  24. Re:Can they do that? on LG Acquires WebOS Source Code and Patents From HP · · Score: 2

    No need to do that at all.
    They can reissue any version with any license they like.

  25. Re:It is just too expensive on Is the Wii U Already Dead? · · Score: 1

    That will look just great in the living room!
    Plus it will likely be over USB or something else slow as molasses.