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  1. Re:Are we looking through the center... on Astronomers Find an Old-Looking Galaxy In the Early Universe · · Score: 1

    His/her post was likely about the "relative distance" and "closer."

    If it would be X light-years to the center in time and space and the galaxy would be 700 million along in development towards our side (X-n or whatever) "it should had looked 700 million years old" by that time.

    Whereas if we looked passed the center it would still be .. oh wait, no, I possibly get it, to be able to see it that far it would had to be even older? .. anyway, the point I wanted to make is that if it was 700 million years along the development but "had moved in the other direction" it would rather had been X+n away and the idea was likely that that would had explained the red shift. .. but I guess the light would have had to travel longer then to reach us and that would possibly had sorted it out. (Is it about variations in red-shift too? Because isn't the red-shift how decide on the distance? Both distance and composition? I assume that would be more than one wavelength?

  2. Re:The first? on World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled In UK · · Score: 1

    1) Flood the Netherlands.
    2) Have it come up again.
    3) ???
    4) Profit!

  3. Re:53 comments as I post this... on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    ...and not one has said that killing the founder of Twitter is a good idea!? </s>

    So they sent a death threat.

    But what did they REALLY want to say?

  4. Re:Isn't that on What Happens When Betelgeuse Explodes? · · Score: 1

    ^ This isn't funny. It's informative.

    Or well, without being a question it would be.

    (Was never posted back when I wrote it due to cool-down period. Old tab.)

  5. Re:Easy of porting over is the key on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 1

    Linux doesn't have to be either.

    Assume there's a proprietary Nvidia driver.

    Anyway using someone else got themselves to blame.

    It's ok to demand specific hardware and software requirements.

  6. Re:The state is easy to see. on The State of Linux Gaming In the SteamOS Era · · Score: 1

    OS X has more of a chance at becoming a capable gaming OS than Linux does

    I'm not convinced.

    Snobs who always have argued they for whatever reason don't need games because supposedly that ruin their creativity / other software somehow blended together with a company which argued about the same and didn't bothered about games.

    Most don't run OS X (of course they don't run Linux either but in the case of the desktop the OS X likely is kinda "meh" too.)

  7. Humanist on Machine Intelligence and Religion · · Score: 1

    Rather humanist.

    No need for it to be ignorant and in denial.

  8. Re:I hope they are also on AMD Unveils Carrizo APU With Excavator Core Architecture · · Score: 1

    The support is light-years ahead, unless it's one of the licensed PowerVRs.

    Oh trying to decide whatever light-years ahead actually make sense or not when it comes how far one technology is ahead of another one ...

    "This must be what quantum physics is all about!"

  9. Re:Isn't that on What Happens When Betelgeuse Explodes? · · Score: 2

    It was a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. So it could have been a neighboring system. Because when talking on astronomical scales, the vicinity of a star can cover a tremendous amount of space. After all, space is big, extremely big. You wouldn't believe just how big it is...

    Is that when the universe is viewed in the perspective of say petunias or when it's viewed by mice?

  10. Re:Burn the Heretic! on Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course · · Score: 1

    Encryption is for terrorists! By imperial order all communication must be done using unencrypted VNC shared screens!!

    Them to.

    Anyway, it explains why your government needs it.

  11. Re:The Keystone Pipeline already exists on Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Bill · · Score: 1

    Can we take down the environmentalism straw man yet?

    Tar sand is still worse, better infrastructure and higher availability would likely make things worse because more of it would be consumed, more oil available = lower prices = higher usage.

  12. Re:Do armed Americans factor into terror planning? on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 2

    a terrorist event could be considered a "success" just from emptying an AK magazine into a crowd at a mall, even if the attacker(s) were killed immediately after opening fire.

    Denmark:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

    Such fucking stupidity it's allowed into Europe.

    In the case of France as I've understood it there was no escape plan. Of course there will be others with similar ideas who will still think it was a success and good.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

    Don't understand why we have to destroy our countries. Guess the good part which can come from it is that more of them actually like the freedom and rather than the agenda they want to pull that "west is struggling to uphold its values" or whatever it will be the Islamic majority countries which will lose their fundamentalistic ways and go secular and humane or whatever.

    Who knows.

    Crap.

  13. Re:visibility doesnt matter. on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    Beat them at their own game:

    If you don't kill people for Allah you get SEVENTYTHREE VIRGINS at Paradise 2.0!!

  14. Re:Can this be fixed with technology? on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 2

    As a vegan myself I just accept that bought food sources will kill so maybe that argument doesn't hold and moral and ideas are subjective.

    So I don't accept the notation that "this is good and that is bad" as a scientific / complete truth.

    However I don't feel responsible for whatever stupid others participate in and I won't take responsibility for whatever someone else do regardless of what they claim was the reason for it and I'm claimed to be it.

  15. Re:bad joke, burger eater = colon cancer on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: -1

    Only an ahole would say something like that anyways.

    To make it more accurate it would be something along the lines of:
    Every time someone burns a Quran ___ ____ ..
    Censored not to get registered as something which I'm not. But you get the point.

  16. What they want is a cryptocurrency whole Europe / world use and one which is "printed" / made in Greece so they can let inflation for everyone else cover their never ending spending beyond their means =P

  17. Re:Good luck with that... on Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    Just to make sure on the later part.

    Does any graphics card enable you to access memory from various parts at the same time?

    If not how is that part relevant?

    Maybe one can read from multiple of the other segments / chips at the same time what do I know.

  18. Re:Oomph. on Intel Core M Enables Lower Cost Ultrabooks; Asus UX305 Tested · · Score: 1

    The difference is that the netbooks was "cheap and crappy"-laptops whereas ultrabooks is premium ones.

    You can get a laptop for $250 now too.

  19. Re:It's worse than just 0.5 GB of slow memory on Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    I'm not a GPU designer.

    But in the case of the ROP ..
    (should I Google it? ROP = Raster Operator and here comes the URL: http://techreport.com/review/2...) .. supposedly doesn't matter (at all? Or for the number of pixels only?) because as the URL above says it:
    "In an even crazier reality, that limit isn't even the primary fill rate constraint in this product, since the GTX 970's shader arrays can only send 52 pixels per clock onto the crossbar."

    If it's the case that 56 is more than what is needed due to limits in other places on the card then whatever. I guess it's even fair to round of 1.75 MB to 2 MB. Heck, even 3.5 to 4 GB =P

    As for how the slow access of the last 0.5 GB affect the other 3.5 GB I don't know and I won't look it up for this post. But sure, that's a real problem. And they should post the correct information and I guess being excessive on details is a good thing.

    In the end it's still the card I would had bought.

  20. Re: iPad too fucking expensive on L.A. School Superintendent Folds on Laptops-For-Kids Program · · Score: 2

    But US schools isn't all that bad are they?

    I think the Swedish ones are ranking worse now.

    Though I assume the huge difference there is the immigrant overload and somewhat natural consequences of that.

    But I also wanted to suggest that possibly political correctness was what was taught in our schools rather than boring facts, logic and science.
    (In reality hopefully that isn't much.)

  21. Re:Isn't the difference on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    .. I was too quick now.

    Google also have all my YouTube activity.

    Google kinda knows everything about my "surf" but I'm not bothered.

    If they was the government I would be but they aren't.

    Sadly I can't trust governments to not demand information from them.

  22. Re:Isn't the difference on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    Personally i think the standard search engine in Tor (It's something else than DuckDuckGo I believe, it may have been that or if it was Firefox which used it as default before) suck.

    Like someone else I too have made a Yandex account but I didn't knew it was competitive. I just made it as a crap account for when my normal e-mail didn't do / I wanted to go under the radar.

  23. Re:Isn't the difference on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 1

    Heck, to be fair it's easier to copy "cheap clothes" as a business than "most used operating-system environment and most used software in the work space" I guess.

  24. Re:Greed kills. on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    Another thing is that not all poor cause trouble.

    Maybe it's even the case that that trouble causing traits is the reason some are poor?

  25. Re: Sony should return to its roots on Why Sony Should Ditch Everything But the PlayStation · · Score: 1

    What Sony really need is of course more non-standard shit which only they use and which cost a fortune!!