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  1. Re:Politicians will be stupid but scientists/techn on New Solar Capacity Beats Coal and Wind, Again · · Score: 1

    No it isn't a catastrophe and in fact there is plenty of evidence that if there was more CO2 in the atmosphere the desert belts would recede.

  2. Re:Is he dangerous? on Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Is Now a Fugitive · · Score: 1

    The same way you get things on any small circle. You go to the meetings and talk to people. We call this "networking". Other people call it cronyism but what do they know.

    If it is being Jewish, Mormon, or a member of Skull and Crossbones is irrelevant.

  3. Re:*PS4 is not dying on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    Shame you can't run them on your own FreeBSD PC system though.

  4. Re:If Xorg would fix... on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    If you want to move forward try getting nouveau to work. It might require code changes to nouveau for all I know. Mobile graphics (heck any mobile hardware) driver support is usually horribly broken in my experience.

    Other than that you need to insert probes in the Xorg code and check how the pixmap is created and accessed. Not exactly easy.

    If the NVIDIA guy "knows" where the bug is in Xorg why didn't he just post a bug report to Xorg with a small code sample reproducing the bug? Because he's a lazy bum? Because he's bullshitting you? Because he doesn't know how to communicate with open source developers?

  5. Re:If Xorg would fix... on Steam On Linux Now Has Over a Thousand Games Available · · Score: 1

    They can't review the NVIDIA driver code so how can they can they know where the bug is just from a code review? From the analysis they did of the code they don't see a way in which it could happen. Other can compiling X.org yourself and adding debug printfs, logging or whatever to the called functions and their parameters I don't see how they can hash this out.

    You got a stack trace but that isn't enough to debug every problem.

  6. Re:Impressive on Exploiting the DRAM Rowhammer Bug To Gain Kernel Privileges · · Score: 1

    ECC != parity check. It can detect two errors and correct one.

  7. Re:4000 satellites? Quit now. on SpaceX Worried Fake Competitors Could Disrupt Its Space Internet Plan · · Score: 1

    SpaceX is launching 6x ORBCOMM-2 LEO satellites with a Falcon 9. The ORBCOMM-2 LEO sats are like 3x as large as their first gen sats. So yeah it depends on how big the satellites are and how many they can launch at once.

  8. Re:Not a problem on SpaceX Worried Fake Competitors Could Disrupt Its Space Internet Plan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did you read the summary? It said 4000 satellites. To need that many satellites to ensure global coverage it must be a LEO satellite constellation. So the latency won't be worse than a transatlantic trip via fiber optic. The article says a 750 mile orbit so the round trip is 1500 miles. According to Google 1500 miles/speed of light is 8.05 ms. If they include caches on the satellites for web traffic the latency can be even less.

  9. Re:Support AMD!! on Intel Announces Xeon D SoC Line Based On Broadwell Core Architecture · · Score: 1

    No it wasn't to maximize short term profits. It was to prevent them going bankrupt. They basically wasted all their cash reserves, which were saved in order to build their next generation fab at NY, on buying ATI above the stock market price, at the height of the stock market bubble, just before the Great Recession.

    As a result they ran out of cash and had to sell their fabs to ATIC from Abu Dhabi. AMD also sold their mobile GPU division to Qualcomm and now they work on Adreno.

    I blame Hector Ruiz for that.

  10. Re:Queen of the 9s on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 1

    The original Apple 1 computer. Sold for $666.66.

  11. Re:It's not THAT much.... on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 1

    Mechanical watches can't get rootkit infestations.

  12. Re:Apple pay at Coke machines and apps for diabete on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 2

    Fancy watches don't have li-ion batteries that lose their charge after 5 years either.

  13. Re:Apple pay at Coke machines and apps for diabete on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 1

    You don't need to charge the Rolex, Tag Heuer or Timex every single fucking day either.

  14. Re:All it means is on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nah the HB-1 doesn't lower the requirements because he's "certified" to know whatever you want him to know. Of course when he actually gets on the job it turns out that he doesn't know jack shit.

  15. Re:I feel like a drought denialer. on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Are you guys still going to drain the Pacific Ocean because some guy pissed on it?

  16. Re:Evidence indicates otherwise on California's Hot, Dry Winters Tied To Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Over the short term something like that can happen. In the case of oil a lot of the buying was stockpiling with the expectation that prices would rise again.

  17. All it means is on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The post was done by a mindless HR drone. Once you actually get to talk with people actually heading that section you realize the requirements are more reasonable.

  18. Re:And console owners feel pc on Another Upscaled Console Game: Battlefield Hardline · · Score: 1

    PS: My next phone is probably going to be some Chinese Android phone anyway. If I had to buy a phone now it would probably be the OnePlus One.

    Compaq is dead long live ASUS.

  19. Re:And console owners feel pc on Another Upscaled Console Game: Battlefield Hardline · · Score: 1

    Samsung has more models. Apple has less models. Of course if you account for phone models on an individual basis it is hardly surprising Apple sells more of a given model. So what? What matters is the market segment share. Both companies have different market strategies that is all.

    Samsung has like seven Galaxy S5 models alone and that is if you ignore the Galaxy Note and the other smartphone lines they have. They have two Galaxy S6 models so far. The difference is one has a bent edge and the other doesn't have a bent edge.

    If people have a choice they will use their choice. So if there are 20 loyal Samsung users and 10 loyal Apple users and Samsung has 3x the models Apple has is it that surprising that more Apple users end up with the same model? Does it matter? Apple's still selling less. I don't give a fuck.

  20. Re:And console owners feel pc on Another Upscaled Console Game: Battlefield Hardline · · Score: 1

    Typical Apple fanboy. When Apple loses in some metric you redefine the metric to be something that Apple can win at. Pathetic.

  21. Re:I know it is a bit late in life... on Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    It is kind of like the difference between playing a Total War game vs X-COM but only worse.

  22. Carmack sold his share of ID Software as well. It just took him longer.

  23. Re:never heard of this jMonkeyEngine on In the Age of Free AAA Game Engines, Where Does Our Open Source Engine Stand? · · Score: 1

    Well duh. You are comparing numerical libraries for Python to what's basically an IDE with its own language. Try R instead.

  24. Re:Everyone? Don't think so. on In the Age of Free AAA Game Engines, Where Does Our Open Source Engine Stand? · · Score: 1

    In my experience users can be quite generous if you explain why you need the money and what the money will get them.

  25. Re:I know it is a bit late in life... on Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Having played both nothing transfers. The strategy level is different. Go is about unit formations and patterns. Chess is about unit tactics. There is a Japanese equivalent to Chess i.e. Shogi.