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  1. Re:$600,000 and counting... on Jolla Crowdfunds Its First Tablet · · Score: 2

    On the other hand by now Nokia stock + dividends is up to about the same (or higher?) level than they was at the memo of the burning platform.

  2. Re:Any reason? on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 1

    IE is a complete disaster. I use Windows 8.1 and that's the case there.

    So yeah, vs that it's fucking obivous. IE is slow, unstable, nasty.

    VS Firefox - Firefox is single threaded and mine bugs out completely with the Graphics sometimes or it run some loop where it switches around between the tabs forever. I don't know why and maybe that's due to some add-on but regardless of why it does that and it completely suck.

    Chrome is more reliable.

    The question is why one should use 64 bit Chrome though. They claim it's faster and maybe it is when it have enough Resources but too me it seemed to use up my Resources quicker and as it did so it's definitely not faster.

    Oh, and this is a problem with IE too. For whatever retarded reason it make some Words have a large letter in the beginning.. I've fixed some in this text block but haven't fixed some others.

    I have no fucking clue why and it's hard to find out but it's completely retarded of course.

  3. Re:As long as it fully supports Flash on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 1

    Do I?

    For ads?

    I don't know about the game sites I'm watching (what about Steam and PC gamer?) but by now I assume most of the YouTube content plays through HTML 5 if one want to?

    Firefox even have H.264 support now.

  4. Re:Should have been 64-bit from the start... on Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features · · Score: 1

    More recently.. 6-7 years ago.

    Whatever.

  5. Re:We may hear from Philae later on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 1

    Yeah s*.

    But the point was how near to the sun do they have to be? And are they really having "monster steam blasts" - whatever that is, explosions? - or is it just melting away on the surface?

    Thank you for the pressure part though. So it's vaporized at a lower temperature too (?)
    Guess that explain why one see the trails at what I thought might had been a pretty far distance from the sun.

    That make it harder for me to have any idea for how violently it may "boil off" relative a surface temperature too.

    I have no idea how the surface will be behaving at different times really =P

  6. Re:kph? on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 1

    I actually googled furlong and saw that one acre was the area of 1 furlong * 1 chain where 1 furlong supposedly was how long you plow ..

    Good measurement I'd say!

    "Oh it's how long my field is!"

    (Now I kinda wanted to say acre because in Swedish the name of a field you saw crops on is "ker", maybe it's from the English acre?)

    1 mile = 8 furlongs
    1 furlong = 10 chains
    1 chain = 22 yards / 100 links
    1 yard = 3 feet
    1 feet = 12 inches or 50/33 links.

    "Kalpa is a Sanskrit word (Hindi: ààà¥à kalpa) meaning an aeon, or a relatively long period of time (by human calculation) in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. The concept is first mentioned in the Mahabharata. The definition of a kalpa equaling 4.32 billion years is found in the Puranas (specifically Vishnu Purana and Bhagavata Purana)."

    Seem like the Hindus got more of a clue than the Christians.

    "Relative long."

    Dare I say it will be a hell of a lot of chains in an hindu kalpa?

    Maybe it's easier to round it off as 0 googleplex chains per kalpa?

  7. Re:240km/hr? on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 2

    magic of airplanes, you don't need to lay tracks and screw up people's property values. something the train nuts can't understand

    Yeah. Because everyone wants to live near the airport :)

  8. Re:kph? on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 1

    500 km/h?

    That's only 0.00000370624 furlongs / light-mile!!

    (1 light mile = 1 609.333 / 299 792 458 = 0.00000536815 seconds
    500 km / h in m / s = 500000/3600 = 138.888888889 m / s
    (500000/3600)*(1609.333/299792458) = 0.00074557736 meters / light mile.
    1 meter = 0.00497096954 furlongs
    (500000/3600)*(1609.333/299792458)*0.00497096954 = 0.00000370624 furlongs / light-mile.
    Now you know how the rest of the world feels!)

  9. Re:510kph is airliner speed? on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 1

    It's definitely moving "towards" that speed if it was a lower speed before though? =P

  10. Re:We may hear from Philae later on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 1

    Is it really "monster steam blasts"?

    At what point from the sun do we normally see them?

    What I mean is that melting ice on the earth isn't really a "monster steam blast", but sure it generate steam ..

    Then again I guess it can lose grip if enough is melted away too.

  11. It's a service with lots of games.

    But mostly it render games over at the Nvidia Grid so you get games which look better than what the Nvidia Shield could render itself.

    So if you have no PC to run the games with and stream from yourself this is the solution.

    As long as lag is acceptable or if there was none I think it's just perfect to use processing in the cloud rather than have the capacity at home but most often not use it.

  12. Re:Short review on Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID · · Score: 1

    I haven't had one.

    1) Best in class hardware (computing) performance, really only Apple Air2 come close/beat it in reality it seem - that one cost ~67% more though.
    New Nexus9 seem have about equal graphics performance but be weaker in the CPU department.
    AFAIK the screen is supposed to have a narrow range of colors it can produce though which is bad. Also I wish it was 10" rather than 8".

    2) The controller at first impression feel like it have less quality than the Xbox One especially but in actual usage it's nice.

    Buttons - Xbox One to Nvidia Shield to Dual Shock 4 doesn't matter all that much, most mechanic respons and longest range on the Xbox One and least of both on the DS 4. Xbox One wins?`

    Analog sticks - Xbox one have little resistance and easily bottom out. I think I have least control there, not very noticeable zero spot which may be good for FPS and such but wasn't my preference for shoot 'em ups. DS 4 isn't super comfortable but is best if you position fingers on the triggers and bumpers too. Better control than Xbox One, easily felt zero spot. Shield sticks have long(er?) movement, high resistance, clear zero, more comfortable than DS 4 and I like the positioning better.

    Triggers - Dislike DS 4 the most. Shield one feel like somewhat less quality than the Xbox One I guess.

    Bumpers - Most mechanical response and resistance on Xbox One. Like on everything except the sticks for some reason. However I think they are hard to push in and assume you'll lose in response time of them vs the DS4 one.

    I kinda think the same could possibly be said about the Xbox Ones buttons which on the other hand feels very nice (DS4 a little crowded?)

    Directional pad/cross - Xbox One very mechanical and your finger always rest on the cross. Second best and close to DS 4 in correctness? DS 4 standard Playstation layout, more or less always give the input you intended for it seems , least comfortable though? Shield uses a "pad"/"disc" with very little mechanical feedback. It's very comfortable to hold your thumb in but it doesn't track the intended direction good and for a fighting game I can nothing but assume it would often mess up your moves.

    Shield one make some more noise, sticks happen to be pushed down sometimes, underneath the design may not fit my hands perfectly.

    BUT - I kinda feel it would be the best forming one and the one I would had wanted to use if it only was that the directional pad isn't good enough.

    Xbox One comes with AA - batteries. Good imho since they are super easy to replace and you don't have to worry about wear, you can also use it with PC with no batteries inside. Should have like 35 hours battery life too. Uses Wifi Direct (No PC-driver.)
    Has rumble in triggers for Xbox.

    Shield uses a built in battery, also good for like 35 hours of battery life, also uses Wifi Direct (no PC-driver.)
    I don't know whatever battery can be replaced.
    Rumble is weakest and don't seem to be able to scale in intensity. Has a touch pad with bad feel and performance. Also volume control when hooked up to the Shield.

    Dual shock 4 have a built in battery, ~9 hours battery life and uses Bluetooth (work with PC.)
    Easy to open up and exchange battery which is available among other places online, that may break your warranty though. Have had quality issues with stick rubber wearing of and axles on triggers breaking.
    Have a very good touch pad, RGB LED-lights in front which likely will only be used by the Playstation (if for whatever reason you aren't bothered with screen glare you can have it on in some color though) and it have sixaxis (gyros and accelerators) which you can read when connected to PC (at least by cable) but I haven't tried to remap them with say the analog stick to see whatever it work as a driving wheel.

    Anyway, in short: I think the Shield Wireless Controller actually is excellent. Quality impression is lower and it has a built in battery and the touch pad is shit and the rumble the least interesting (weak and w

  13. Shouldn't it sort itself out anyway? Somewhat? on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Electricity _NOW_ is expensive in the day because of higher demand and not as much higher production.

    But if these provide more electricity on the day and less in the night won't that just make nuclear and fossile plants more necessary and hence be able to charge higher in the night instead? Since there no solar energy then.

    Or if needed if they could run in the winter and not in the summer.

    As for car I think the solution of simply using the car as your battery was an interesting one too. Not perfect but if they are all hooked up to the grid too? :). Likely wears the battery though.

  14. Re:Great in the winter .. on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 1

    What I mean was basically if you both mentioned it included taxes I could understand if energy taxes are higher in Germany than in the US and hence maybe the PRODUCED electricity is "only" twice as expensive in Germany as in the US but with taxes maybe it's three times more expensive.

    (Why do Internet Explorer make Words such as Words, Three, Graphics and such with a large letter even though it's not the first Word in a sentence? Compeltely retarded? (Just as the users, but Firefox bugged out and the reason I didn't used Chrome in the first Place (WTF!?) was that I had forced killed it and it holds track of some older tabs.)

  15. Yay! Firesuck! on Multi-Process Comes To Firefox Nightly, 64-bit Firefox For Windows 'Soon' · · Score: 1

    It's like the best browser ever:
    http://i61.tinypic.com/2yvs96o...
    http://i61.tinypic.com/33c5g07... .. said no-one ... well, at some time after 1.0.7 and the present I guess.. considering that's 30+ versions I don't really know where.

    Untrustworthy piece of shit browser.

    Of course Chrome have crashed a few times too (ran out of filedescriptors in Linux?)

    Firefox just became slower and slower, I closed tabs and have open other ones and it have behaved badly and changed around windows very now and then (happened at lots of sessions too) but currently it seem stone dead.

  16. Re:Great in the winter .. on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Maybe one of you considered without taxes? :)

  17. Re:Hollywood overlords on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 1

    Maybe they thought it was legal?

    Linking other content has been shown to be legal before.

    And if they thought it was legal can you say they had an intent to break the law?

    They was sentenced for assistance of copyright breach.

    Name alone I don't think should matter much.

    First-most it was the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker. And BitTorrents work nice for piracy. Or other (large) popular content.

    Also Google was is in US and The Pirate Bay was in Sweden. I don't know how the laws looked in both countries and I didn't knew what had been said on the subject at Google before.

    It was started back in 2003. I think the juridical correspondence may have been in the shape of:
    "Yeah? Like we give a shit. What we do isn't illegal and no we won't care or censor any files. It's your problem."

    Also it become a thing that they haven't removed anything so hence it was a message to others to not bother because they didn't cared / acted / was afraid of them.

    I've read the claims that they would supposedly had been running it to become oh so rich on the porn banners which was also running on it with the help of the pirated content.

    I don't know how much that brought in but I know I don't answer then I get a message from HornyAloneMom which tell me: "Hi!", "Why aren't you answering?", "Don't you want to talk to me?"

  18. Re:Hollywood overlords on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 1

    Doubt anyone would want to know that it was with the intention of shooting someone then (I somehow doubt that's the case though since I guess in the US you may be able to have one for self-defense and shoot if necessary.)

    I somehow suspect your reasoning was more about that the Pirate bay was made for piracy. Which it of course is no more than guns are made for killing (seriously ..), TPB of course accept your legal content too.

    So your problem is the name and not the actions?
    Piracy can happen without the TPB too.

    TPB likely had no intent to do something criminal (with TPB at least ..), many of their users may, nothing even remotely closely to killing someone.

    But I also imagine most weapons sold are for the possible final purpose of killing someone and not just for hobby / practice shooting with no further purpose in mind.

    Of course killing animals the way it's mostly done isn't considered a crime but making a copy of a movie is (I know you guys have two types or courts or something.)

    As I'd see it even if the name is the pirate bay running a tracker isn't at all about piracy but enabling crowd data sharing.
    It just happen to be the case that a lot of the data people want to share isn't data they have the right to share.

    I don't want to ban free speech because it can lead to lengthy and annoying arguments.

    I want it anyway.

  19. Re:Hollywood overlords on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 1

    Burn those shitty whining bands. ;D

    Meanwhile people buy lots of game bundles because the price is right.

    The music industry make more money than ever. Don't it? The artists too right?

    Isn't part of the "problem" that a bigger share goes to the artists now?

    OH NO TEH HORRORS!!

  20. Re:Hollywood overlords on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 1

    No. It wouldn't.

    You can give people the Quran and you're still not responsible .. OH NO I DIDN'T?! ;D

    Heck. Even the voters of Bush and Obama .. ;D

    Seller of guns in the US.

    And so on..

    If you can sell the gun someone is shot with and that's not a crime why would making a torrent tracker be one? :D

    Of course killing someone isn't nearly as bad as making your own copy of a movie but .. ;D

  21. Re:Hollywood overlords on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 1

    It was awesome.

    Retarded that they got sentenced for offenses committed by others though.

    Good reason to never buy a movie or music piece.

  22. Re:Who would've thought on Berlin's Digital Exiles: Where Tech Activists Go To Escape the NSA · · Score: 1

    He may have been joking about live in East Germany.

    I'm not sure.

  23. Re:Gnome3, systemd etc. on Joey Hess Resigns From Debian · · Score: 1

    Reply didn't work in beta in Firefox.. Awesome.

    GNOME3 and SystemD are a natural choice because the developer community behind them is so large.

    Hopefully that leads to software which has less glitches, less vulnerabilities, new features are implemented faster, documentation is up to date, and quality assurance works.

    You were saved by "hopefully"..

    Because you know what more is large and

    so complex that you really need the pure manpower

    ?

    Microsoft and Windows among other things. .. or maybe that large complex software is part of the problem. It doesn't necessarily have to be that way.

    Anyway I don't even know what it's all about. I assume one can still run KDE or Enlightenment or whatever in Debian (or maybe system tools / operating specific stuff need gnome stuff? Not the whole desktop I hope? =P. Though for more graphical & file management stuff maybe that's way more convenient.)

    And if Gnome have some sort of special role in Debian I guess one could still view KDE and Qt as pretty relevant / large too.

    Meanwhile I've actually been booting Windows 8.1 the last few months. Damn virtual memory (& possibly Chrome?) seem to be superior in Windows (could be because it reside on a 160 GB 7200 RPM drive with some amount of cache rather than my 3 TB 5400 rpm drive with more cache but I doubt that have all that much to do with it.)

    Try running Chrome with 8 GB of RAM and 20 GB on swap on both systems and you'll see what I mean :) (Maybe the 20 GB is made up of different stuff?)

  24. Re:"Approacheable FPS" on Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter · · Score: 1

    New version of Rise of the triad is likely very forgiving too.

    No strafe jumps.

  25. Re:Fascinating on Why the Time Is Always Set To 9:41 In Apple Ads · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So in the future now we know we can skip the first 40+ minutes of the talk if all we want is to know about the new product. ... as if I'd ever buy one anyway.