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  1. And for the SI-challenged among us... on VIA Nano CPU Benchmarked, Beats Intel Atom · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...a watt-second is also known as a joule.

  2. Re:Itching for war on 550 Metric Tons of Uranium Removed From Iraq · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Project for a New American Century (PNAC), a neocon thinktank. wrote a letter to Bill Clinton, in 1998, demanding that the USA commence military action against Iraq. One of the signatories of the letter was Dick Cheney. Egg on your face, sir.

  3. Re:translation on France's Citizens Expected to Help Build Internet Blacklist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maginot?

  4. Re:It Was Close on WarGames and the Great Hacking Scare of 1983 · · Score: 1

    Why was MILNET in DNS, then?

  5. Re:Care to explain? on Programming As a Part of a Science Education? · · Score: 1

    It depends in what order you access the array -- i.e., which index is changing most rapidly. Again, you're talking out of your ass.

  6. Re:FORTRAN? on Programming As a Part of a Science Education? · · Score: 1

    Fortran supports multiple-dimension arrays with far more ease than C. Offsets don't enter into it, because Fortran supports arrays natively -- rather than having them fudged in as syntactic sugar for pointer arithmetic.

  7. Re:Likely a feature on Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that all lenders are required to provide a Truth in Lending statement, and comply with it. If they misled the borrower, then they have broken the law; there's no two ways about it.

  8. Sod Atlantis analogies.. on Paypal Founder Puts a Half Million Dollars Into Seasteading · · Score: 1

    ...just look what happened to Rapture.

  9. Only PC is getting fat... on IT Workers Are Getting Fatter · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Mac is still skinny. He better watch out; PC may get peckish, and eat him.

  10. Re:You get... on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 1

    Yep, nobody sources better batteries than Apple, right?

  11. Re:Correction on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 1

    Does your RAID card work with OS X? If not, Linux is ahead...

  12. Re:masturbation in 3,2,1 on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Launch all Safaris! For Great Justice!

  13. Those with money to burn... on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...will always find someone to tend the fire. Still, I'm sure they sleep better knowing that they're 'Trendy Mac', rather than 'Fat, Sad PC'.

    * What they don't realize, of course, is that PC only got fat because Mac's mother gave him a cookie every time he fucked her.

  14. Re:ARM is RISC in name only on RISC Vs. CISC In Mobile Computing · · Score: 1

    About your last remark: when ARM was originally developed by Acorn, it stood for "Acorn RISC Machine". It was one of the first 32-bit RISC CPUs available in the personal computing arena. Having written assembly language for the ARM back then, it most certainly was a RISC architecture.

  15. Re:Well... on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    Nah, I just don't believe you. You're just pulling this out of your arse. Every good scientist has doubt. Those that don't have doubt are the dangerous ones -- there is nothing more terrifying to me than those who believe with absolute certitude that they have it right. It is those who are the eternal boot smashing down on the upturned face of humanity. Given your vehemence and venom, I think I know which camp you fall in.

  16. Re:Well... on Einstein Letter Goes on Sale · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything in his remarks that would suggest a conversion on his death bed. Rather, like any good scientist, he recognizes that it's impossible to disprove the existence of a deity or deities.

  17. Re:VMware on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 2, Informative
    No, Amstrad's ran AMSDOS as the default (load-from-ROM) operating system. They could also load CP/M from a floppy, since they were based on Z80 CPUs (backward compatible with the 8080).

    Floppy-wise, they used a non-standard 3" drive, which may have been made by Shugart. That's going to be the real hurdle.

    My own Amstrad lasted me through to my college years, when I used to use it to solve physics problems. My favorite was getting it to calculate anomalous Zeeman effect splitting profiles.

  18. Re:OT: Corollary to Tiller's Rule on From "Happy Hacking" to "Screw You" · · Score: 1

    It's not a disagreement - it's just plain facts. 'Cue' and 'queue' are totally different words, fucktard.

  19. Re:Y'know... on ISO Miscounted Cuban OOXML Vote · · Score: 1

    Proof or Wanker?

  20. Re:suspicious? on Programmer Buys Original Ada Lovelace Painting On eBay · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who here is being libeled, fucktard?

  21. Re:OT: Corollary to Tiller's Rule on From "Happy Hacking" to "Screw You" · · Score: 1

    What utter crap - come back when you've learned to speak English.

  22. Re:OT: Corollary to Tiller's Rule on From "Happy Hacking" to "Screw You" · · Score: 1

    And 'tow the line', 'queue xxxx'...

  23. Re:Wrong Question on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    Well spoken by someone who obviously knows nothing about high-performance computing!

  24. City and the Stars... on Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90 · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...ranks as perhaps the best Sci-Fi book I've ever read. It still takes my breath away.

  25. Re:Leave it to the bloody Chinese! on Olympic Web Site Features Pirated Content · · Score: 1

    Yep, fuck them Chinese and their ripped-off gunpowder, umbrellas, kites, compasses, etc...