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  1. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    Maybe Telefonica will ressurect Lycos again. Sorry I mean Terra.es.

  2. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    Doubtful. Plus if they do Google can just block all news from the EU. Heck they left China and they have a lot more people there than the EU does.

  3. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 2

    You're still thinking like this is the 90s and you are MS buying MSNBC and trying to get people to use MSN. Google is not interested in human resource intensive operations like that. It is all about datamining and storing existing content not to create new content.

  4. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    Corruption is rampant nearly everywhere. Plus last time I heard Spain was a democratic regime with a parliamentary monarchy.

    In the USA the MPAA and RIAA pass stupid laws all the time why do you think in Spain things would be different?

  5. Re:Imagine that! on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Android in the USA has about 25% share among the top 50% incomewise. In Europe the numbers are often as high as 80%. Both countries are similar for the bottom 50% economically. So I don't think it is accurate to say the people of Europe object.

    It is always cute listening to Apple propaganda. When they lose they simply change metric to something they can win at. Pathetic.

  6. Re: Wait, what? on Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors · · Score: 2

    The perfect address for a company that survives on using circular logic.

  7. Re:More anecdotes on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Seagate went in to the junkpile ever since they bought Maxtor.

  8. Re: Fun times on Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    The thing is the newest high density hard disk technologies have lower reliability regardless of which particular supplier you choose even if some are worse than others. I particularly hate Seagate.

  9. Re:liar on Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    If you use stats like Elon Musks does you'll compare with the track record of Ariane 5 ECA alone. That only had one launch failure in like 47 flights. Plus it was a launch failure on the first flight which was fixed since that happened.

    F9 had partial failures you gloss over. Yet you seem to account for Ariane 5 partial failures just fine.

    Ask an insurance company how much they want to insure an Ariane 5 vs Falcon 9 flight.

  10. Re:Let me guess... on Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    Don't get your panties in a knot. He's not telling what people in the EU can buy or not. e.g. Eutelsat has bought flights from US companies with no problems. This particular flight is completely different as it is for a satellite partly funded by the French government. So yes they do have a say on what they pay for.

  11. Re:This is not news on Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    It is really doubtful Ariane 6 will be any cheaper per kg launched considering the design specs. As for Skylon it would take a long time and lots of money to develop assuming it could be made to work at all.

  12. Re:French politicians.... on Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    Monaco sure. Luxembourg not really. Monaco has no income tax so a lot of rich people move there. Luxembourg is just a money hole where corporations and banks hide money in shell accounts.

  13. Re:who cares? on Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    The parent company of Airbus also manufactures the Ariane 5 rockets through Airbus Defence & Space.

  14. Re: Things happen outside US!!! on Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th · · Score: 1

    As for the 'Diamond Paradox' if water was being sold by the DeBeers monopoly I bet it would be expensive too.

  15. Re: Things happen outside US!!! on Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th · · Score: 1

    The stock market is not like a regular market. It is just too volatile. Plus the product itself is so opaque no one actually groks what they are buying. See you people keep talking about P/E ratios because you probably heard it from some BS soundbite out of Warren Buffet's mouth. But there is more to it than that. Like debts and assets. When you blindly focus on things like P/E ratios you get BS like hiding corporate debts into shell companies and the like. Which seems to be happening a lot.

  16. Re:Censorship on Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th · · Score: 1

    Ah but it will be. It will be.

  17. Re:Google needs to share on Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th · · Score: 1

    A lot of the "news" are actually newsvertisements or taken out verbatim from another news agency like Reuters anyway.

  18. Re:Things happen outside US!!! on Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th · · Score: 1

    That is because you cannot get wildly rich in the stock market unless there is lots of volatility in it. The only way to make lots of money is when a company either gains or loses value faster than what is expected. Notice this is the perceived market value not the actual value a company has.

  19. Re:Translation... on Court Bans Sale of Xiaomi Smartphones In India · · Score: 1

    In other words that's billions in phoney baloney market expectation of what Ericsson is worth. The same market which said WhatsApp and Facebook were worth what?

  20. Re:Great... on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 1

    PNG is lossless and supports images with more bits per channel. Plus it has extensions to support animation.

  21. Re:Is BPG as versatile as GIF ? on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 1

    To reduce the used bandwidth. Which is still important and paid for by organizations like Wikipedia.

    As for handling animations you can use HEVC for that.

  22. Re:This might alienate anti-ISI* Muslims. on US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat · · Score: 1

    Oh really? They seemed to be fine using flamethrowers in the Crusades. They used siphons with naphtha in combat.

  23. Re:The sheer stupidity bothers me... on CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations · · Score: 1

    So you want a better lie detector. As if that won't have its own issues either. Even if, for whatever reason, your lie detector actually worked sometimes people think they know some 'facts' when they have been only fed with false information.

  24. Re: C is primordial on How Relevant is C in 2014? · · Score: 1

    Actually OpenCL is a C like language that is compiled into the assembly language of the target architecture. At least that is what happens with AMD, Intel and NVIDIAs implementations of it.

  25. Re:Have they picked a fuel yet? on China Plans Superheavy Rocket, Ups Reliability · · Score: 2

    The Chinese have had last stage engines powered by LOX/LH2 for quite a long time now. Long March 5 is supposed to have staged combustion LOX/RP-1 propulsion in the first stage. They are building the launch facilities in Dainan island as we speak. They have had some manufacturing issues with it but it was supposed to have the first launch this year. The Long March 5 family, much like Angara in Russia, is supposed to replace all their current launch vehicles with state of the art rockets.

    Last I heard they had not decided on the final SLS configuration either.