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  1. Great summary on Drilling Begins At Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctic · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dodn't even need to red it twice to see that a team of scientists is using is sterilised water at near boiling point.

    Indeed; using sterilised water at near boiling point.

  2. surprise on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: -1, Redundant

    money corrupts politics, news @ 11

  3. Kickstarter on GameSpy's New Owners Begin Disabling Multiplayer Without Warning · · Score: 1

    Well, probably using kickstarter is the way to get funding to redevolop your hosting software.

    Tens of thousands of pounds is well inside the range that you can get from kickstarter. Some game developers got a million or two. So give it a try.

  4. Old Wii games : resolution? on Cheap Indie Games Make Wii U a Better Value · · Score: 1

    Did anybody check if old Wii games (eg.Zelda twilight princess), have better resolution on Wii U?

    It's just vector graphics so theoretically it should be able to display the same stuff on 1080p instead of 576i resolution.

  5. Mars colonization on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 2

    Are you interested in colonizing Mars?

  6. conditionbrownpants ?? on New Linux Rootkit Emerges · · Score: 1

    Ok, why this story is tagged with conditionbrownpants? Anybody cares to explain?

    (and no, it's not because of my post, because I'm asking after this tag appeared)

  7. Re:arXiv link on Particle Physicists Confirm Arrow of Time Using B Meson Measurements · · Score: 1

    Thanks

  8. Old Wii games resolution? on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 1

    since we are talking about WiiU (and I have Wii, and like it), I am wondering: will the Zelda Twilight Princess run in full HDMI resolution on new Wii U? Or it will have the "original" pretty low resolution?

    What about other Wii games?

  9. Thumbs up! on Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a great idea, and I think that it is going to work. I experienced myself how badly some companies are trying to recruit skilled people. Many people I know received a job offer from google, me included. Also once I received a weird phone call from another country, because a recruiter at citrix googled my cv, and he was thinking that I will abadon my job and move with family to another country. This recrutiting market is just crazy.

    This is why I think that DeveloperAuction will do a lot of good.

  10. dupe on Reading and Calculating With Your Unconscious · · Score: 1, Redundant
  11. procedural content generation on Star Citizen Takes the Crowdfunding Crown, Raising More Than $4M · · Score: 1

    Star citizen has no procedural content generation. How are they going to fill a whole galaxy without that? I don't see how could possibly a hand-crafted galaxy even remotely compare with procedurally generated one like in Elite.

    Also in Elite gas giant planets (like jupiter) will really have atmosphere where you could fly and harvest fuel (and possibly get crushed due to pressure).

    For these reasons I put my funding on Elite :)

  12. Flynn effect? on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 5, Informative

    What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

    "The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day."

    Sure IQ is not Intelligence. But, this publication should relate somehow to this effect.

  13. Re:putty replacement? on Gate One 1.1 Released: Run Vim In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    Does that mean, that in the browser window upper half of the screen will be a terminal, and bottom half will be a full keyboard - both embedded into the window? By this way you will not use the inferior tablet's keyboard, so this might work....

  14. Re:putty replacement? on Gate One 1.1 Released: Run Vim In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    Why would Gate One be Windows-only? It runs in a browser.

    Don't think, "PuTTY replacement" or, "terminal replacement." Think, "I can use this from anywhere without having to install anything" or, "this could be embedded into an administration interface to provide a command line where previously there was none."

    Though to be honest my end-goal with Gate One is to make it the best terminal emulator (and SSH client) ever. We've only begun to explore what's possible when you combine a terminal with capabilities of the browser (HTML5, specifically).

    ok. So how do you solve keyboard support on tablets? Think: arrows, pg-up/pg-down, special characters

    major hindrance is that tablets don't have arrows on their "keyboards"

  15. putty replacement? on Gate One 1.1 Released: Run Vim In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    I guess that Gate One is windows-only, since on other OSes you have terminals by default. And on windows everyone that I know is using putty. So I wonder - is that going to be putty replacement, or too much hassle to get it to work?

  16. linux on David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot · · Score: 1

    I'm donating, and I want linux support.

  17. only 38 comments after one day on Twitter Starts Withholding Rather Than Deleting Copyright-Infringing Tweets · · Score: 1

    It's interesting, that where there's good news we don't want to comment on that.

  18. shared FPU on AMD Launches Piledriver-Based 12 and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Family · · Score: 4, Interesting

    6200 series have shared FPU (floating point unit). Which means that there are less FPUs that there are processing cores. To multiply two floating point numbers cores are waiting in a queue until FPU is free to use, this happens when all cores are calculating at the same time. If you are doing intensive calculations this is going to be slower than if you used 6100 series. 6100 series have dedicated FPU for each core.

    I know this because we were recently buying a new cluster for calculations using YADE software.

    How, here's the question: how about 6300 series, is there a dedicated FPU?

  19. Re:Where is the arm? on Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait · · Score: 1

    Awesome! Thanks :)

  20. Re:Where is the arm? on Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait · · Score: 3, Informative

    Top-left here.

    Thanks! Now I see that the arm has indeed been removed by using other photos. And also in this place on the stiched photo there is a small inconsitency.

  21. Where is the arm? on Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where is the arm that holds the camera?

  22. AutoCAD & other exclusive apps on ARM, Microsoft Collaborating On 64-bit Windows Version · · Score: 1

    Of course it's a trap. But once Autodesk will get their ass moving and make AutoCAD for ARM, it will be much easier for them to make AutoCAD for linux. This software is the only reason why my wife has a single non-linux workstation in whole family.

    Same goes for tons of other windows-exclusive software. Let's only hope that ARM will go mainstream, and then linux will possibly get a lot of commercial software ported. Along with steam effort, I see a bright future for linux - naturally only because I'm a linux enthusiast 1% of market share ;)

  23. local storage FTW on US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time · · Score: 3, Insightful

    cloud storage is an easy target: it hosts data of many individuals, and is a single entity. Of course govt will want easy access to that, since that's a lot simpler than requesting access from each person separately.

    And that is why I never wanted to use cloud storage. I didn't need it also, to be honest. I always prefer my personal servers that I manage myself, and can encrypt & backup at my own desire.

  24. few comments on this design on NASA Engineers Building Mockup of Deep Space Station · · Score: 1

    They are using quite popular shielding from cosmic rays: water. Good. Food also works nicely as shielding. It's amazing for me, but still there is no better protection from cosmic rays than lots hydrogen. A 2 meter thick layer of water protects enough.

    I'm disappointed that they do not use inflatables. Of course it's more challenging to design and built, but there is a lot more space to win. This design here looks a lot like skylab.

    Where does the crew sleep (I really do not see a place for that on this picture)? How many people are supposed to spend time here together? This is not mentioned in this article, yet those are quite critical questions. At least it's said that they will be there for 500 days, albeit I suspect that's just a journalist's bet, based on mars500 experiment.

  25. Re:Freezer "fix" on Can a Regular Person Repair a Damaged Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    freezer worked for me too. Drive was failing after 5 minutes. After 3 hours in the freezer it failed after 30 minutes. Just enough to copy data.