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  1. Re:How long... on Pentagon Selects Companies To Build Flying Humvees · · Score: 1

    all the human has to do most of the time in commercial air craft is take off and land. why would think that people in personal flying craft would get to do different?

  2. Re:Could be good... on Nanoresonators Create Ultra-High-Res Displays · · Score: 3, Insightful

    how about just 17" 4k2k monitors... or even a 17" 1080p...

  3. Re:Bendable displays on Nanoresonators Create Ultra-High-Res Displays · · Score: 1

    are any of these fordable, like fold up and stick in my back pocket and sit on sort of foldable?

  4. Re:hard disk speed on Everything You Need To Know About USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    You could always get a port multiplier for your esata port. Of course it limits total multiplied drive speed to sata3.0 speeds. but hey, you can stick 15 drives on that one port.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Comparisons_with_other_interfaces

  5. Re:use it as a skottelbraai on Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    ooo oo you could make a mean stirfry in there too!

  6. Re:Why care? on Legal Threat Demands Techdirt Shut Down · · Score: 1

    and libel is now excluded, see the first link.

  7. Re:Thinking out of the box on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    which sort of color blindness do you have? probably red/green Deuteranomaly.

    Hrmm, i just though of every machine i've worked on has had red buttons for stop and green buttons for go, and if they looked the same that might be a problem.

    Of course most people assume that colorblindess == Monochromacy even though that is the rarest type of color blindness.

    Also, how do you define colorblindness for disability purposes? full Monochromacy? see it would require large amounts of education to people that do not understand science at all, and would there for have no idea how to spot test for any of the colorblindness types, also some jobs may or may not actually require full color sight by some regulation (OSHA perhaps).

  8. Re:Why has no one taken this thread seriously... on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    Hmm how long has nursing been a profession? ohh right about as long as we have been around.

    Simply that you don't have a regulatory body interested in making sure that things are different, and you have company A trying to lock company B out of their devices.

  9. Re:Times voltage times session time on Low Energy Supercomputing · · Score: 1

    ones trying to use a lot of power with few amps, and that have a massive transformer in them....

  10. Re:AMD's stagnant? on AMD Details Upcoming Bulldozer Architecture · · Score: 1

    who cares if it's last years Porsche, as long as it's fast, and competes on track days with this years, or on some tracks does better? Also what if you could get that 90% of the lap time of a Porsche GT for civic money? which would you buy?

    From what I have read(I'm looking to buy a mini-itx system) on the issue of power is that both(1090T and 980x) will pull down around 130-180 watts at the PSU at full load, sure at idle the 980x wins, but if my computer is idle I probably should turn it off. I have a lower power consumption server for my "always on" tasks. If you want to compare power consumption, then ARM wins, for work per watt. My 8600GT will beat a i7-980x for some loads (highly parallel). Nvidia's Tegra2 stuff is pretty impressive performance/Watt.

    On the HPC side, AMD has 3/10 spots, including #1 and #3. Intel as 4/10, #2, and #6. Granted the #2 Intel system is using ~1/2 of the CPU cores, and tesla GPUs, but Jaguar is still using DDR2-800 ram, and some PPC cores. Crays XT6m servers(#16) are using a 2.1ghz mangy-cours part and not the 2.2ghz part, gets 274.7 with 43660 cores, scaling up(no interconnect loss) to the same number of cores as the #2 machnine, i get 59.72% of the peek performance. I wonder how much that has to do with the tesla being better at linpack than the PPC compute unit on the XT6. Yes I'm aware that the interconnects and compute units matter a lot these days, but still #1 and #3 must count for something...

    Cost is always a factor, even if you have near unlimited budget. As an mechanical engineer the question almost always is, "How can i get the same performance for less cost" or, "How can i get more performance for the same cost" Leaving cost out is like saying the Bugatti SS is a better car than a Subaru Forester. Now go camping with the family in Bugatti SS.

  11. Re:Lexmark still sells printers? on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    a cannon or an epson, or an HP.

  12. Re:The important things on Samsung Galaxy Tablet Coming In September · · Score: 1

    24-48 hours on a laptop, and 7-14 days on a tablet. 24 hours is with the hardrive, optical drive, CPU, GPU, wifi, screen brightness, and bluetooth all maxed out. 48 can be with the cpu load low, and the wifi + bluetooth on, as if I was surfing the web, screen at 1/2 brightness. Otherwise it's like having an ipod clasic with 83.33 days of music (40k songs * 3 min/song) but can only play for 36 hours...

  13. Re:720x480 on Samsung Galaxy Tablet Coming In September · · Score: 2, Informative

    it sounds like PAL well, more like 576p. so yes, everywhere but where you listed.

  14. Re:AMD's stagnant? on AMD Details Upcoming Bulldozer Architecture · · Score: 1

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/3674/amds-sixcore-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-1055t-reviewed/3
    some loads the 1090T is better than the 980x....

    Intel's hexacore is also ~$900, i can buy a whole computer with a X6 and a 58xx or gtx4xx with 8GB ram for that... and according to your benchmark get ~60% of the performance, but they don't list the test rigs, instruction sets used, etc etc...

    Also 2x performance for 4-5x the cost? seems worth it huh?

  15. Re:AMD's stagnant? on AMD Details Upcoming Bulldozer Architecture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but not per $, which is the whole point. Sure i can build a screaming rig using a $1500 intel CPU, and a $400motherboard, and then toss in the ECC ram that board needs... and all of a sudden i could have bought a honda civic....

    Or i could get 80-90% of that same rig, in certain loads 120-150%, for $500 from AMD.

  16. Re:Oracle sholuld simply fix their software... on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 1

    and yet it uses a time scale that has leap seconds can't handle when they happen? seems like testing failed, "ohh we use UTC, it coud have a leap second, better simulate that, *adds a leap second*, *watches ATC software crash* better fix that". . . It's called engineering rigor, and field tests.

  17. Re:Almost there.... on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 1, Redundant

    you mean by having it injected into their sub conscious while they are in a forced dream state, strapped down to a chair, and being programmed to killers, and being awoken from the dream by having a pen slammed into their head?

  18. Re:Hey big spender! on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or there aren't enough teaching jobs, tbh once the ratio's get down to 1:5 teachers to students, then we can start worrying about if the number of jobs is right. You forget this isn't a normal job market, or revenue system and you must not have kids.

  19. Re:$5 - that Microsoft, Apple and Oracle beaten on Google Starts Charging a Signup Fee For Chrome Extension Developers · · Score: 1

    and they dev chome extensions? or are busy working in sweat shops? right... now i'd rather they didn't work there, but i'd like them to get a bit of food...

  20. Re:like any other job? on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    not if i'm getting paid with TAX money, I work for everyone paying taxes then, and as they pay me, yes, they can see my review, just like HR and my bosses bosses boss can if they want in the private sector. Don't like it? get out of public service.

  21. Re:Educational Problems on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    90% of the kids should not have a B if it's on a curve. Of course if most are getting every point, it would seem the material is too easy.

  22. Re:Educational Problems on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    The other problem with teacher pay is that most of them that are good in a field (say physics) could make 2-4 times the amount they are making teaching in the private sector. In fact I had a prof that I learned a lot from quit and go back to public sector over some political drama(for like the 10th time so i hear) mid way though the year. From what I understand he is now making 2 times as much, has better benefits, and works less/better hours.

    How about we pay teachers what they are worth, not as babysitters, but as teachers. Masters degrees and summer courses will only help you be a better teacher so much, you can have all of that and still not be able to teach anyone anything. Test scores, and interviews with students will rate teachers far better that "has masters degree, and went to summer class X, Y and Z".

  23. Re:Is Android really a Linux Distro? on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    Can I drop in a vanilla kernel? if not it's not quite linux, but linux based.

  24. Re:Is Android really a Linux Distro? on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    can I use a vanilla kernel with the android stack? can I drop in any sysvinit compatible /sbin/init? Last i knew the android drivers had been dropped from staging in the vanilla kernels, due to lack of cleanups and fixes, and such.

  25. Re:Not very accurate measurement IMHO on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    I find lots of info at planet.gentoo.org as well, but i need to use google to search that.