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  1. Re:What the fuck on Steve Ballmer: We're a Devices and Services Company · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Gates is testing that his management system is fool proof, and he has found a study case fit for his legacy?

  2. first! on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 2

    First alien relic!

  3. Ubisoft sells a game for thieves on Ubisoft Claims PC Piracy Rate of 93-95% · · Score: 1

    And they then complain about the thieving?

  4. Fire Sale on Staples Executive Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets · · Score: 1

    It has taken me until now to figure out this isn't about a fire sale.

  5. My company has outsourced my metrics on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance? · · Score: 1

    I'm not really sure who I work for. All I know is that if I show up on time and mail enough emails back to myself my bosses won't shout at me. At least I think they're my bosses...

  6. Re:but handling uncertainty isn't easy on Strong AI and the Imminent Revolution In Robotics · · Score: 2

    So in short "AI good enough for robots".

  7. Re:CGI wishes on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 1

    The U.S. should outlaw the use of photoshop by corporations in advertising and reporting.

    In the name of what? Certainly not freedom.

    If your leanings are as I suspect they are towards the lack of need for a totalitarian regime due to high moral standards and solidarity, you should rather than oppose one thing support its competition. On the government level in this case it can be for example be subsidies for advertisement that inform rather than build image.

  8. Re:They dropped it from their website? on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    You could buy the machine from a different country and do a tag transfership. - Or call Dell sales and tell them you want an n-series machine.

    IAADCSE. If you get a hold of me during business hours I will google your Ubuntu problems for you.

  9. Re:Can't wait to see the rebranded offerings on Dell To Acquire Wyse · · Score: 2

    The FX100 is generally used for keeping the admins out of the dino-pen. If they're in the same building they can't complain about lag or latency since there's dedicated hardware on the other end to squeeze bits over ethernet.

    A hardware solution to a people-problem.

  10. Re:tmpfs on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 4, Informative

    In some countries, it is illegal for you not to divulge the key to properly warranted authorities - even if you don't know what it is.

    So what? In my country blasphemy is illegal. I'm not from the Middle East either, I'm a Finn. - Sometimes you just have to, grow a backbone, fuck Jesus in the ass and break the law.

  11. Re:How can anyone invest themselves in MS? on Microsoft Killing Off Zune, Windows Live Brands? · · Score: 1

    Windows+ R Delta Echo Victor Mike Golf Mike Tango dot Mike Sierra Charlie has worked for as long as I can remember while Ctrl+Alt+F2 no longer brings me a TTY in Ubuntu. KDE could not die quicker.

  12. Technology? on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 2

    What kind of technology goes into printing bills? Just curious, for the sake of philosophy.

  13. camera, putty, mp3 player on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    I need a camera and an MP3 player and I need putty so that I can idle on IRC anywhere, any time. My phone happens to do all of those things, meaning I only need my keys and my wallet in addition when I go anywhere. Anywhere, except space and deep underground since it also has GPS. I can for example listen to internet radio in the wilderness of Lapland if I just climb a mountain with a view.

    I think the issue here is whether or not you know how to utilize your smart-phone effectively. Obviously if you're in the Lapland wilderness you should should be listening to the profound silence and not the latest Minecraft webcast.
    You can use your smart-phone for reading bar codes and all those fancy web things. When HTML5 and geo-awareness finds its killer app, it'll be like you have a new telepathic sense of your surroundings.

  14. Re:Don't bitch. on PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives · · Score: 2

    As tech support for a certain four-letter PC manufacturer, because of this I remind peope with good income every day that there has been a natural disaster in another part of the world. I like to think that this has caused some of them to donate to the releif effort.
    Meanwhile starvation in Africa goes unoticed.

  15. Re:rats have empathy? on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    Considering the results on the current research, it brings into question what component of experiments like yours would cause humans to behave the same way when taken into an extereme; beyomd the natural conditions.

  16. Re:Recycling on Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? · · Score: 1

    I won't be around in 500 years to suffer for it...

    And the rest of us who will be using science to be forever young wish you an expedient end.

    I just finished watching this documentary about recycling and architecture. Low-impact living, and saving precious watts or more useful things, like Folding@home:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dD69BzCCg&feature=related
    Hippies doing hard physical labour, happy end. Good cinematography, and otherwise laudable.

  17. Re:I have my doubts on MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses · · Score: 2

    Creating an artificial human brain is too ethically loaded to even be considered in university research. They are more likely to try to get it to play a flight simulator since that's what someone did with a rat brain and they could compare their results, making for interesting data.

    Slashdot did however already welcome the flying rat overlords.

  18. Transistors are not digital on MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The way I remember it is that a transistor stops a much larger current from passing through until a signal is put on the gate in the middle. Then the current that passes through is in proportion to the signal strength.

    The circuit becomes digital when we decide that only very small and very large voltages counts as 0s and 1s.

  19. Re:Hook it up to Facebook on Startup Testing Mobile Farmbots · · Score: 2

    Speaking of pattern recognition, did anyone else read "fembots"?

  20. Re:All I can say is on Spanish Firm Wins Tablet Case Against Apple · · Score: 2

    Basicly Apple has (from a legal point of view) bought all the potential shipping of the competing product for the time being.

    But these companies are also competing for market share and getting their foot through the door first. Apple might well buy up all the competitors' products, burn them in a pile and sell their own for several times the price to recover the cost. They're certainly immoral enough to do this and then this arrangement would make it seem like a mistake.

  21. Re:Superlinear speedup on River Trail — Intel's Parallel JavaScript · · Score: 1

    I think I miscommunicated something. The idea was to show an exception which disproves the original postulate (can't speed up more than 8x on 8 cores). I wasn't referring to what is possible in the SIMD setting only. If the computation of the desired result on a single core only gets half its time for some very likely reason, say you're playing MP3s too, then adding 7 more cores will appear as if there were 14 more of the usual time slots for your parallel task.

  22. Re:Oblig on River Trail — Intel's Parallel JavaScript · · Score: 0

    I think you mean node.js.
    (Features non-blocking hot action, just like C.)

  23. Re:Superlinear speedup on River Trail — Intel's Parallel JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Is it now? If the CPU spends half its time unparallellizable preparing its computation and that preparation can just be copied to the other cores, the max theoretical speedup is just under 16x.

  24. More than one kind of tracking on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 2

    Remember to track how much this tracking is costing you so that you have numbers to point to when you complain about it. You also need to sanitize the URLs for personal information since a lot of personal information gets passed through them. You could get sued, possibly face criminal charges, for gathering too much data.

  25. Bikesheds, web interfaces, virtual clusters on Ask Slashdot: What Will IT Look Like In 10 Years? · · Score: 1

    The dino pen will become know as the bikeshed, since a heterogeneous virtualized cluster together with the web being the most common UI everyone will know how to build IT solutions and IT depts will fight tooth and nail for their idea to win.

    IT depts will be more gender-neutral since the hardcore geeks will migrate towards vendors and labs, and people-skills will be even more important.

    Cheap high-speed interconnects, better electrical efficiency, and ongoing miniaturization means you can build a supercomputer in your closet and become a local service provider.