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  1. Re:What's good for others apparently is no good fo on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1

    Except the PS4 OS is heavily borrowed from FreeBSD and only includes OpenGL...

    How did you equare x86 + AMD APU = Omg D3D?

  2. Re:Flamewars on How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World · · Score: 0

    I've got three Terminal windows open at the moment (across two monitors, each with perhaps 5-7 tabs).

    I came from being a reasonably long-time desktop linux user and still use it for a desktop every now and then (via FreeNX), but use it all day every day on servers.

  3. Re:Like ActiveX? on Google x86 Native Browser Client Maybe Not So Crazy After All · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Java sandbox was at the interpreter level and did not provide protection at the OS level. The google native client stuff sandboxes it at the OS level and only allows for communication via RPC calls to the parent app (e.g. drawing on a canvas), much like the seccomp approach for Linux which is a true sandbox

  4. Re:Likely more prevalent an issue than we realize. on Feds Pay Millions For Bogus Spy Software · · Score: 1

    It's more like sending them to the shop with the grocery money and a shopping list. There may be some unnecessary items on the list, but the rest are needed to keep the family going for the week; they know what some absolute essentials are, with the rest goes on a mix of personal interest and things which they like but can't make themselves.

    When they return you get toilet paper, a $40 beef roast and an assortment of candies, with some more oversight they could've returned with something which more closely resembles your shopping list.

  5. Re:Putting the pressure on on Geekiest Marriage Proposals Ever · · Score: 1

    You think valentines day is all about heart shaped cards? How many children are conceived every valentines day...

  6. Re:Putting the pressure on on Geekiest Marriage Proposals Ever · · Score: 2

    This is valentines day, I'm more thinking about "Let's !"

  7. Re:Fix the summary on WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets · · Score: 4, Funny

    However we all know no laws apply on the internet unless they were introduced via bills with "E-" or "cyber" in the name.

  8. Re:WTF? I am DBA (okay once upon a time) on CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool · · Score: 1

    You've never heard of Ingres? They owned it for a while until selling it on.

    You'd be surprised at the software which is acquired by large multi-national corps, Oracle being a prime example of "oh what the fuck, they own that?" syndrome.

  9. Re:Four-band GSM phones: Use them worldwide. on Why Unlocked Phones Don't Work In the US · · Score: 1

    Or come to the UK where simcards for most major networks can be bought for £2 - which includes £1 or £2 calling credit and no cost for incoming calls.

  10. Re:Just because... on Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam · · Score: 1

    *ahem*

  11. Re:What is the point? on New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lets just ignore that she's 89 years old and would've died soon, probably in the same way too as falling over is quite a common occurrence; only this time they have a finger to point for hospital fees, if it weren't the child it'd be the owner of a mall or the maker of her shoes etc.

    So as far as my argument of socialized health care? Shit happens and people need medical treatment, it's a basic and universal need for *everybody* in the world.

  12. Re:Professor Farnsworth begs to differ . . . on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1

    Professor Farnsworth... hrm...

  13. Re:What is this stupidity??? on New Adobe PDF Zero-Day Under Attack · · Score: 1

    xpdf is *old*. You should be using Poppler, which is actively maintained and very fast.

  14. Re:Doesnt sound very profitable. on 178 Arrested In US/EU Credit Card Cloning Ops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm on less than £20k per year and it's plenty enough to live on.

  15. Re:Chome 6 on Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux · · Score: 1

    I only noticed a while ago that the dev channel was silently updating, I had a week of weird crashes, but otherwise it's been quite good.

  16. Re:Choosing between Intel and AMD? on Intel Turbo Boost vs. AMD Turbo Core Explained · · Score: 1

    The difference in heat dissipation requirements is negligible when it's a choice between 1cm or 2cm thick asbestos padding to avoid 3rd degree burns from your MacBook Pro.

  17. Re:Just another symptom of declining customer serv on Oracle Restricts Access To Sun Firmware Downloads · · Score: 1

    Oracle want your money, when it's profitable.

  18. Re:TFA made plenty of sense on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or the SCUMM engine which was originally developed for Monkey Island and now ScummVM boasts a repertoire of [according to the Wikipedia page] 28 from Lucas Arts & Sierra On-Line games and nearly 40 games from other developers. A huge proportion of them are still extremely playable and enjoyable today because the SCUMM engine let people focus much more on story, art and interaction than software.

    Sure there were some changes over the years (better graphics, CD audio, speech, higher resolutions), but they're progressive improvements.

  19. Re:It depends on your audiance on IE 8 Is Top Browser, Google Chrome Is Rising Fast · · Score: 1

    Based on hits rather than unique visitors to one of my "adult" sites show a slightly different story.

    Firefox: 44.6%
    IE: 39.2%
    Safari: 11.5%

    The browser breakdown across unique visitors is similar to yours, which leads me to this stunning conclusion:

            Safari users consume significantly more porn.

  20. Re:Probably just a bug. on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 1

    Well, the last I heard Bing spider was looking for `Robots.txt` rather than `robots.txt` which would explain the file being "ignored" in this case.

  21. Re:mail on Using Outlook From Orbit · · Score: 1

    EBCDIC or 7bit ASCII?

  22. Re:A simple cost vs benefit analysis on IT Workers To Get Fewer Perks, No Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    Buying Folgers coffee would be a slap in the face. For $1 per person per day it's pretty easy to afford some good quality coffee, instead of brown vaguely coffee-esque tasting caffeinated hot water.

  23. Re:Encrypt on Virgin Media To Trial Filesharing Monitoring In UK · · Score: 1

    Why has bittorrent still not been decentralized from trackers?

    It has... The Pirate Bay shows magnet links along with the regular .torrent file and they've shut down their tracker. Torrent Freak as usual have a nice writeup on the action.

  24. Re:When does a CPU become the CPU? on Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor · · Score: 1

    All the other Tilera products run Linux with standard GCC toolchain for MIPS, as far as I can see this new one is the same but comes with 36 more cores than the previous largest processor they sell... so from that perspective there shouldn't be significantly more problems compared to working with any ARM or MIPS development board.

    And BLAS? This is targeted for an entirely different industry, the same one that Sun's TI series competes in with 'up to 256' hardware threads per box... highly concurrent but fairly trivial stuff; BLAS on the other hand offloads an extremely specific workload, so while it may have the best floating-point performance it's also hard to utilize (talk to any PS3 game developers and they'll explain just how much work it is to take advantage of the CELL cores).

  25. Re:When does a CPU become the CPU? on Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Register goes into more detail than this article, as usal.

    The Tile-Gx chips will run the Linux 2.6.26 kernel and add-on components that make it an operating system. Apache, PHP, and MySQL are being ported to the chips, and the programming tools will include the latest GCC compiler set. (Three years ago, Tilera had licensed SGI's MIPS-based C/C++ compilers for the Tile chips, which is why I think Tilera has also licensed some MIPS intellectual property to create its chip design, but the company has not discussed this.)

    So it seems pretty standard and they're using existing open & closed source MIPS toolchains, however there's still "will" and "are being" in that sentence which brings a little unease...