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  1. Re:Resolution! on ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Galaxy Nexus' built-in display is 720p. (That it's Pentile is irrelevant to this issue.) If it follows a similar arc to the original Nexus those screens will be showing up in low-end phoens within a couple of years.

  2. Re:Incredibly slanted article on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Nobody said those things were okay. At least, I didn't. It doesn't mean that the administrator's response was effective.

  3. Re:Incredibly slanted article on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Administrators exist to ensure the efficient operation of the laboratory; a staff revolt is contrary to that goal.

  4. Well, no on ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU · · Score: 1

    When we have handhelds as powerful as the PS3 (the Vita is getting there), we'll have much more powerful PCs and a new generation of consoles.

  5. ACRONYM on Programming Cells, With CellOS · · Score: 4, Funny

    That acronym is ATRoCiOuS.

  6. Re:Incredibly slanted article on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being "a pleasure to work with" isn't a requisite for being a good administrator, it's true, but taking such an adversarial attitude to personnel that a mass staff revolt is launched is a sign that one is clearly not appropriate for the job.

  7. Re:Challenge for tablet makers on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 1

    HP has been making things like that for ages. You should be able to get one of the older models on sale for under $1000, and it'll probably run Windows 8 when it comes out.

  8. Re:what the on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 1

    He's saying that nobody knows what the fuck a Transformer Prime is except that Michael Bay invented it in Japan in the '80s.

  9. Re:what the on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 2

    Yeah, the cachet of the Kindle amongst ordinary people is really amazing. I've had all kinds of older relatives expressing an interest. That the Fire will be a success seems like a sure thing.

  10. Re:what the on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Mind share" is "even your grandmother knows about the iPad".

  11. Re:Doubt it will cut into Apple on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 1

    It's got twice the capacity at any given price point. From my perspective one of the first tablets that's both price and feature superior to the iPad. And I say that as an inveterate iPhone user that's never previously considered a non-Apple tablet.

  12. Re:It's not a photo on NASA Snaps New Photo of Incoming Asteroid · · Score: 1

    It's full of anonymous assholes, too. Apparently.

  13. Re:Oddly low res on NASA Snaps New Photo of Incoming Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Of course, if we discovered the asteroid that was going to hit us was shaped like a giant phallus or something equally embarrasing we'd be more motivated to deflect it than if it was simply a dot on a RADAR screen.

  14. Re:Goddamn Discovery Network on NASA Snaps New Photo of Incoming Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Hang on, did you just confuse Sean Bean and Steve Buscemi?

  15. Re:here's one argument: on Oxford Professor Taken To Task For Linking Internet Use To Autism · · Score: 2

    You've incorrectly assumed that research was performed. It wasn't.

  16. Re:If kids have your iTunes account password ... on 'Free' Games Dominate Top-Grossing Game List On App Store · · Score: 1

    You need the password to make an in-app purchase. You have always needed the password. There is a 15-minute grace period, so if you entered the password 14 minutes ago, you don't have to enter it again. They have recently shortened that grace period for in-app purchases to almost zero.

  17. Re:Arguably... on Is RIM's Centralized Network Model Broken? · · Score: 2

    Keep it simple: have an IMAP/whatever client that's automatically configured to recreate the behavior of the "central" Blackberry experience, and fall back to it whenever the Blackberry server has been unreachable for more than N minutes. When the server wakes back up, resynchronise everything and switch back to the mothership. From the customer's perspective, their Blackberry Just Works.

  18. Re:Different thing on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't care what temperature the Earth is "supposed" to be, I care about keeping it at a temperature which allows human civilisation to maintain itself.

  19. Re:His second author is livid on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 1

    Is "they hid the decline" the new "teach the controversy"? I'm seeing that phrase a lot lately.

  20. Re:Not news on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 0

    That's fantastic. You just don't get to see that kind of cognative dissonance in action these days. Bravo.

  21. Re:Muller is the biggest skeptic the world. on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 2

    if you actually plot his data, you will find that there has been no warming for the last ten years, contrary to the statements he has made to the press

    So, when climate scientists analyse their data carefully, but they omit even the slightest potential source of error, their results are worthless. If a climate skeptic throws the raw data into a big lump in a spreadsheet and makes a wiggly-ass, clearly nonphysical chart, that's a convincing analysis.

    And you wonder why these people don't get past peer review.

  22. Re:Science is based on skepticism on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 2

    What is "enough evidence" in this instance? Why were the previous two nigh-identical studies on the same data set not sufficient? Why should we imagine that Muller's study will somehow convince the doubters? He's already getting hung out to dry by armchair scientists and former supporters like Anthony Watts.

  23. Re:Not news on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 1

    "Muller recants scepticism" is not news, though.

  24. Re:Muller is the biggest skeptic the world. on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 2

    I see that Watts has changed his opinion on Muller's credibility rather abruptly.

  25. Re:where is the actual disagreement? on Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the sceptics have been claiming that temperatures have not been rising. Muller's study exists entirely because of their refusal to accept that idea.