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  1. Re:Consoles aren't profitable? on Console Manufacturers Want the Impossible? · · Score: 1

    Gamers' expectations of visual quality keep going up

    Taking as a hint that the Wii was the most popular console of the last gen by a huge margin... I'd guess that the facts don't support your assertion.

    But the studios clearly think they do, and that's what's needed for incresing the cost of games. You are probably right about that.

  2. Re:Let's see.... on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    Besides the cell phones and walkman, that msrk-t already pointed, yes, video games.

    Thus, from a list of 4 gadgets that you choosed because you assumed were safe, you got 3 that were mocked when they were new.

  3. Re:'Simple really... on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    In a democracy, we can decide we don't want it.

    Well, in a society of people, no you can't. It dosen't matter if it's a democracy or the most tyranical government on Earth, no society can ban some product people want.

    But who knows what can be done in a society of cyborgs...

  4. Re:Ask any McDonald about mcdonalds.com domain on Microsoft Files Dispute Against Current Owner of XboxOne.com · · Score: 1

    Precise unambiguous names are good only for marketers that want you to understand what they are selling.

  5. Re:Ask any McDonald about mcdonalds.com domain on Microsoft Files Dispute Against Current Owner of XboxOne.com · · Score: 1

    A screen with a camera for you to put on the living room and keep always on, connected with the central.

  6. Re:Will it ever end? on US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits · · Score: 1

    Funny thing that, except for Apple and Google, no huge company does well on the cloud. And of those two, Google isn't completely cooperative, and Apple (is going down, not up and) has it's own objectives, that are completely orthogonal to the *AA and Microsoft ones.

    It's as if companies that care too much about IP can't be sucessfull on the cloud... But I'm sure that problem can be legislated away.

  7. Yep, that's the right response. If you can articulate it well enough, of course.

    We have enough evidence that copyrights and patents do more harm than good. Most people try to make they stop doing harm, keeping the good parts... But you are right, politics don't work that way, you must hold an extreme position if you ever want to reach a middle ground.

  8. Re:Time to start thinking on US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits · · Score: 1

    You people... Still expecting politics to work in a coherent way?

    When the shit hits the fan, it'll be ether instantly forgoten, or you'll personaly get lots of troubles before it's forgoten.

  9. Re:Surprise is that this doesn't happen already on US Entertainment Industry To Congress: Make It Legal For Us To Deploy Rootkits · · Score: 1

    Steam doen't install between the kernel and the other user space applications, it also doesn't hide from detection tools. It may be in a nother class of malware, but it's not a rootkit.

  10. Re:they don’t necessarily have to be updated on Xbox One: Cloud Will Quadruple the Power, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I remember reading them saying that if connectivity died, then new resources wouldn't be calculated from it.

    So, the game must run localy, if you use a network resource, you can't depend on it, and the game must adapt to losing it any time. Like programming a supercomputer! With the 10x workload that comes with it, and 100x the cost, because 99% of the developers simply can't write code like that.

  11. Re:Server downtime on Xbox One: Cloud Will Quadruple the Power, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It will be funnier than the EA episode, because all the titles will stop working every time one of them is a hit.

    Good thing I won't buy one of those...

  12. Re:That's what is so funny to me on ARM In Supercomputers — 'Get Ready For the Change' · · Score: 1

    In an era when moving data is extremely inefficient due to power constraints, you need superior cores.

    That's not what the data you posted say. It says that you need better processors, not cores.

    There is no reason why you can't create a better processor with worse cores. Well, or maybe there is, but it's not obvious in any way, and I doubt it's known at all... And it's quite likely that you can improve our current processors with heterogeous designs.

  13. Re:so am i a reader or a writer? on Entrepreneur On Yahoo/Tumblr: It's the Content Readers, Stupid · · Score: 1

    you're definitely not a reader, so less money and more time?

    I'm still wondering... What is the label for we that have neither?

  14. Re:Wait, what? on How To Talk Like a CIO · · Score: 1

    Why exactly should you never be the first to mention compensation in an interview process?

    Because they may have an offer that is much highter than what you'll ask for. Or, in other words, reasons that don't actualy happen in real life unless you are a complete noob at the workforce.

  15. Re:Easy on How To Talk Like a CIO · · Score: 1

    That's essentially what this article is tacitly saying is A-OK

    To be fair, it sayng that reality works this way, not that it's ok.

  16. Re:Easy on How To Talk Like a CIO · · Score: 1

    It's interesting to see how we IT people think that others should really understand the technical details of what we do.

    We are talking about the CIO here. Do you expect a CFO not to be able to read an accounting statement?

  17. Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    And what time was this when the rich didn't control the military and the police?

    The poor aren't rising now against the rich because if they did that, they'd become poorer, not richer. Things are that simple.

  18. Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Both things have no relation at all. Of course you can have a free market in health care, the same way you can have a free market in food or transportation.

    And, yeah, the demand is very inelastic. That means that in a free market, companies will compete to get market share, and not cooperate to increase the market. That makes it a brutal market for companies, but doesn't change things very much for consumers.

  19. Re:huh on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1

    How did you stablish that the A/C is an adult?

  20. Re:The best part of the article is at the bottom on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    When you buy directly the cost savings of middle man usually goes to the producing company.

    If there are any savings (not a given, like you said), their distribution is a bit more complex than that. Changing the structure of a market changes the supply and demand curves, changing the price point.

    Normaly, if there is just one suplier (or a few, with well differentiated products) selling directly, he gets nearly all of the savings. But as more suppliers start doing that, competition forces the price down.

  21. Re:Heat on Intel's Haswell Moves Voltage Regulator On-Die · · Score: 1

    Thanks, that gets the overall picture.

    So, the idea is that they'll get some very nice inductors on die, capable of replacing some much more expensive external ones. Also, they can distribute the load to a lot of paralel circuits, creating the right tension for each part of the chip, and reducing the loss of each circuit.

    But really, at 90W, a embebing a 76% efficient (not really an exceptional result) conversor means that you'll need to dissipabe other 28W at peak power. Well, I can't say if this is worth it. Certainly, Intel engineers can say, but won't, and the marketeers will lie anyway.

  22. Re:Is this guy a conservative? on Interviews: Freeman Dyson Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Do you have any facts that prove him wrong? Post them.

  23. Re:Nice comparison on Liquid Hydrogen Powers a UAV For a Cool 48 Hours · · Score: 1

    As a general rule, turbines are more efficient than pistons, and fuelcells/electrics are more efficient than turbines.

    Fuel cells can be anywhere from 1% to 90% efficient. In this case it's probably nearer the 90% limit, but that's not the general case.

  24. Maybe B&N will come with some nice e-reader on Microsoft May Acquire Nook Tablet Business From Barnes and Noble · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know the Nook was ok... Maybe the time has come for B&N to create an actualy good e-reader, like nothing already in the market.

    Or maybe they could stop locking themselves behind plataforms, and create something for all tablet-like devices out there. With unobstrusive or no DRM.

  25. Re:Apparently you completely missed the point on Honeywords — Honeypot Passwords · · Score: 1

    But if an atacker gets your PayPal password by breaching PayPal's database, he'll use it to long into PayPal's site, not yours, and it is PayPal that must impement the fix, not you. Of course, the person that wants the fix isn't the same that wrote the flaw, the problem is that the person with the capacity of actualy creating the fix is the same person that created the flaw (and sometimes doesn't want it exposed).

    Your second scenario is useful. If your code stop being updated, you get an alarm. The problem now is how does that compare with false positives? Maybe you want strong dummy passwords, and not weak ones like I was assuming.