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  1. Re:...but if you want free software to improve... on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    Which is bunk because Apple used GCC before. In fact they contributed the Objective C compilation support.

  2. Re:...but if you want free software to improve... on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    GPLv3 made it unviable for them to be patent trolls you mean.

  3. Re:Eskimos manage on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    That's what Eskimos used to do as well. Nomads. You can live that way. Still it is no good way to have the stable foundation to develop a prosperous society.

  4. Re:global cooling on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    Coal is dead plant matter that sat on the soil for millions of years or whatever. Like I said it is a matter of timescales. Wait long enough and more coal will form. Dig it all up and its all gone is hence a misnomer. If you don't want to wait you can synthesize coal. Read about charcoal on Wikipedia. It is just not as energy efficient from a human perspective to use since you are actively using energy resources to produce the coal.

    Renewable is a misnomer since all these energy supplies rely on nuclear fusion in the Sun. Be it solar, wind, biomass, or whatever. Nuclear fusion converts lighter elements into heavier elements. At one point, when most of the hydrogen has been converted, the Sun will increase its radius and the Earth will be scorched. That's how infinitely renewable your precious resource is.

  5. Re:Not the sun on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    I hate statistics. There is only one thing that has ever come out of that field in physics which I find useful and that is the Boltzmann equation. Statistics are just misunderstood or misapplied too often IRL. Especially when you see it being used to promote what is essentially a political agenda, that's when you should get concerned. Lots of people, who know the field better than I do, point glaring errors all the time just to get dismissed summarily as unbelievers or whatever they label people who disagree with their theory with today. So I could care less about AGW theory.

  6. Re:Not the sun on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    The good ones who believe in the experimental method yes. The theorists who have nothing better to do no.

  7. Re:First! on CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen · · Score: 1

    In that case just make it a bomb and store the anti-matter inside it.

  8. Re:Tragedy Of The Commons on Fighting the Flu May Hurt Those Around You · · Score: 1

    Because its better to die of the symptoms. Yes. Those stupid XIXth century people who invented these drugs knew nothing about it.

  9. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    I've spent a lot more than that playing Kairosoft games on my Android tablet. Try playing Pocket League Story, Grand Prix Story, or Game Dev Story.

  10. Re:First! on CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen · · Score: 2

    Precisely. Something in front to cleanup the matter along the way, then the anti-hydrogen. But its probably easier to fire positrons.

  11. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    Not if the game was explicitly designed for a smartphone. Or any other multi-touch display.

  12. Re:Sega's mistake on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the Saturn.

  13. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    The Wii-U is too gimmicky and complex. They should have gone with a cleaner design that would be cheaper to produce.

  14. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 2

    Better gfx? You couldn't put any decent textures on it.

  15. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    Going further back the Nintendo Game Boy sucked compared even to an Atari Lynx nevermind the Sega Game Gear. But it was cheap and kids don't have a lot of pocket money. That's how Nintendo gets their market.

  16. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Any smartphone has a WiFi connection these days. If you have a WiFi network you can do LAN multiplayer easily.

  17. Re:Science is not popularism every time on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 1

    Right. I'm sure Galileo didn't have the popular vote back then either.

  18. Re:An ode to wankery on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 1

    Australia is in the south pole. They're currently in the middle of the summer. And 40 degrees Celsius isn't that uncommon. It has a desert even.

  19. Re:Affects me on Examining the User-Reported Issues With Upgrading From GCC 4.7 To 4.8 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Run your program under valgrind and fix the damned bugs.

  20. Re:Keep in mind the occasional bug in the system? on Examining the User-Reported Issues With Upgrading From GCC 4.7 To 4.8 · · Score: 2

    I've seen two and in both cases it was VC 6.0.

  21. Re:Yup on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    Yes. An Internet company allowing people to work outside their cubicle over the net? Incomprehensible! But not more than their corporate acquisition strategy.

  22. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    Most are bigger than the state of Rhode Island though.

  23. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    In a city? You bet they are that close. Or more.

  24. Re:Murica Fuck yea! on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    You buy less stuff. Instead of going there once a week you go there every other day.

  25. Re:Before this turns into a derpfest... on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    Jesus I have better things to do than publish in that rats nest that is climatology. I have enough issues publishing in my current field. I see enough group think as it is. If you try to go one inch outside the group think you will constantly get challenged that your results are crap or invalid even if you provide a way to reproduce the experimental results. Meanwhile I see glaring errors in their own publications all the time like superlinear speedups and the ilk. Not physics related as you probably realized by now. I had physics in college but I have other things to do with my life. What I do find ridiculous is his assertion that regardless of how bad it gets it will never be worse than some previously established solar minimum activity recorded by some guy living in the XIXth century. THAT is ridiculous. No the worse that could happen is the Sun just stopping to emit any light at all or something totally blocking its output. THAT is the worst case scenario.