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  1. Re:becasue Apple never on Among Servers, Apple's Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground · · Score: 1

    The question is though, if they stopped making Intel machines, would they replace all of the lost Intel profits with more ARM profits?

    An ARM based MacBook Air might do quite well, especially if Microsoft ports Office over to it, and of course it wouldn't be the first time Apple has switched CPUs on their machines. But for serious graphics work, where Apple is the market leader even if the market isn't that big, I don't think ARM will really cope, but of course things have changed in the past and will almost certainly change again in the future.

  2. Re:Should be .gb not .uk on Shorter '.uk' Domain Name Put On Ice · · Score: 1, Informative

    And .uk should be the TLD for Ukraine, not .ua

  3. Re:They don't appear to be used much anyway. on Shorter '.uk' Domain Name Put On Ice · · Score: 2

    I often find that companies use for example megacorp.com for their corporate / investor relations website, and megacorp.co.uk for their consumer website.

  4. Re:False Takedown Notice? on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 1

    It won't increase your penis size, but provided it has been farmed to EU standards or the equivalent elsewhere, then there is nothing to worry about.

  5. Re:False Takedown Notice? on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 2

    It's covered in horsemeat, in Europe anyway, and that contains blood.

  6. Re:False Takedown Notice? on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 4, Informative

    And if the video was from a spectator's phone, then they don't own the copyright.

  7. It fell everywhere by about 90% a few days after that, then recovered over the next 6 months or so.

  8. Re:France is a large country? on France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Well if Monaco was part of France, it would at least get its own city council, whereas if The Vatican was part of Italy, it would probably be part of Municipo I or Municipo XVII in Rome.

  9. Well it did fall dramatically following the problems with the MTGox exchange.

  10. Possibly. Greek Euros have a serial number beginning with a Y. German Euros have a serial number beginning with an X.
    What I'm more concerned about is money in Euro bank accounts. If it is in a Greek bank account, even hsbc.gr which is actually registered with the Financial Services Authority in England under the same registration as my hsbc.co.uk account, it could get converted to Drachma.

  11. I would be quite happy to be paid in German Euros, but not Greek Euros which might end up being converted into Drachma.

  12. Re:I'd quit on The Internet Archive To Pay Salaries Partly In Bitcoin, Requests Donations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If its value in Dollars can double in a month, it can half in a month.

    Or put it another way, if you think it is going to continue to rise in value, would you sign a rental agreement payable in Bitcoin?

  13. Re:Scaling is the Key! on New Process Takes Energy From Coal Without Burning It · · Score: 1

    Which probably isn't as bad as the significantly reduced lifespans they previously had due to starvation. Britain sorted out its air pollution problems after the great smog of 1952. That I guess is where China is at in the development process now.

  14. Re:Quelle surprise! on Groups Accuse EU Parliament of "Caving In" To Pressure From Business and US · · Score: 2

    Bear in mind that anyone in Europe who wanted to abolish state healthcare provision would be considered so extreme right wing that they would get less votes than the Monster Raving Looney Party. Actually they probably wouldn't get any votes at all, because they wouldn't be able to find the 10 or so people needed to nominate them on the ballot paper.

  15. Re:I don't get it. on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1

    Well the EU Working Time Directive isn't negotiable. At EU level that is a maximum of 48 hours per week, but in France they have set the maximum work week at 35 hours.

  16. Re:Wonder how Win 9 may surprise us? on Windows 7 Still Being Sold On Up To 93% of British PCs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Windows 2000 was also a win.

    The ideas behind Windows Vista were sound, they were just badly implemented until about SP2. Windows 7 was Vista done properly.

    The difference with Windows 8 is that the whole idea of having a single interface for both tablets and desktops was wrong. It's not that there are some annoying bugs that need to be fixed, the whole specification of it is flawed. For Windows 9, Microsoft will need to either go back to the drawing board, or alternatively release a Windows 7.1 that brings any new under-the-hood stuff to the Windows 7 UI.

  17. Re:charge trains?? on Wirelessly Charged Buses Being Tested Next Year · · Score: 1

    Yes, or at least the people behind the Intercity Express project on the Great Western Line from England to South Wales think so.

  18. Re:Why not popular? on Wirelessly Charged Buses Being Tested Next Year · · Score: 1

    In London, a bus ticket costs £1.40 ($2.17). Lots of people there do travel by bus, but the difference is that they are so frequent that you don't care whether or not they are on time.

  19. Re:Christ... on Judge Invalidates 13 Motorola Patent Claims Against Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Having read the judgement, I'd say it is good news regardless of the parties involved. Basically it is a patent on encoding and decoding video "on a computer", which doesn't describe how you might actually go about doing the encoding or decoding.

  20. Re:Hmmmmm..... on San Diego Drops Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    No, it is

    Red (stop, mandatory)
    Red + Amber (stop, mandatory, get ready to go) or Flashing Amber (go if it is safe, higher chance that it won't be)
    Green (go if it is safe)
    Amber (get ready to stop, only go if it isn't safe to stop)

  21. Re:I agree that those thought experiments are rubb on Flying a Cessna On Other Worlds: xkcd Gets Noticed By a Physics Professor · · Score: 2

    The speed of light is constant and cannot be exceeded, therefore
    By implication, we must have time dialation depending on frame of reference
    We can work out how much we would expect that time dialation to be
    We have a testable hypothesis that could potentially be disproven by experiment on board Concorde or another fast aircraft.

  22. Re:What's wrong with money? on San Diego Drops Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Law enforcement should not be a profit centre. If you give people a financial incentive to find people guilty, then they will focus on trying to find people guilty rather than to stop the harm that the law was supposed to prevent.

  23. Re:Hmmmmm..... on San Diego Drops Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    In the UK all lights do either Red + Amber or Flashing Amber after Red. Red + Amber means get ready to move. Flashing Amber means go if it is safe (same as green, except there is a higher chance that it won't be safe to go).

  24. Re:Hmmmmm..... on San Diego Drops Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    Yes, red light cameras do discourage people from running reds. The problem is that people do an emergency stop if they see an amber light, and that can cause people to go into the back of them.

  25. Re:Almost nothing... on Cooking Up the Connected Kitchen · · Score: 1

    Your smartphone can do that with the appropriate app.