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  1. Re:This could get interesting on Apple Developing Custom ARM-Based Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple always included emulators for the older binaries and new software usually was delivered as a "fat binary" that included the code for all supported CPUs. In other words, there is no "next gen chip with zero support of existing apps"

    I would not wonder if future CPUs have cores with different instruction sets anyway or we go back to multiple CPUs and then one CPU is an ARM or whatever exotic CPU might be interesting.

  2. Re:No Limits Roaming = Lowest Common Denominator on EU Announces Deal To End All Wireless Roaming Charges (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A local SIM card is good enough for internet access, especially in a dual SIM phone.

    For the rest it is pointless, I want to be reachable on my ordinary phone number.

    Your idea about Romania etc. is bollocks. We are talking about ROAMING fees. Not about the local fees of the network. Obviously a minute in Denmark has a different price than in Romania.

    If there were mass popular demand for it, carriers would already offer at least limited versions of it (potentially most popular in small countries or regions where travel to nearby countries is routine).
    There is that demand. And that is exactly the reason why the carriers don't have such offers, so they can rip of their "customers".

    This just smells of ideological neoliberalism.
    And you smell like an idiot. You have ever been in Europe? Depending where I am, I can visit in 3 hours 5 or even 6 countries by just traveling in a straight line. Do you have any idea how absurd high roaming fees actually are? Do you even know that you pay the fee when you make a call and also when you receive a call? When I'm not in germany, every single call I receive costs me minimum one Euro, regardless of duration (plus minute based fees). Receiving 10 calls a day on a one month trip and telling everyone: "Sorry, please call my new local phone number, which is ....." is $300 or more bill!!!

  3. Re:Just one more thing on EU Announces Deal To End All Wireless Roaming Charges (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The BREXIT will not lead to a stronger pound. Why should it?

    And as the situation looks right now, there will be no BREXIT anyway.

    The downside is that the rest of Europe will want a slice of your pie
    Erm ... in what delusional world do you live?
    UK has absolutely nothing the rest of the EU wants or needs. We like the Wiskey, yes. And what exactly is the BREXIT changing in that regard? Whiskey will become cheaper! Good for me. And we like Cheddar. And frankly: that was it.

    The US has not much to offer to the EU either, except for iPhones/Macs and Intel processors only bikers are interested in your "hardware". And the iPhones/Macs are not even "made in the US"!!!

  4. Re:At this point... on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    For that again we have no evidence.

    Hint: with a mortality rate of 50% you would need 4 kids to even sustain the population.

    A mortality rate like that is extremely unlikely. There is no animal in the world that has a comparable mortality rate.

    The idea that either early humans eat their dead babies, threw them away or did not bury them, or have a significant higher mortality rate than any other modern man is absurd at best and in my eyes: idiotic.

  5. Re:The article claims crystals are motionless on Scientist Investigate A Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    "zero point" energy is something completely different.

    Interesting that he postulates that atmos at absolute zero still have "kinetic energy" ... or vibrations.

  6. Well, if I vote for a party like Pirates that has no chance to get into the parliament (and actually supports the current policy regarding GEZ) my vote is lost and has no effect.

    If I vote for AfD I don't know, perhaps I find a better suited party ... and yes: seriously. I don't agree with anything the AfD is doing, but I'm simply tired to get ripped of by the powers that be.

    OTOH, I'm in the process to emigrate from Germany, so perhaps I don't vote at all, don't even know when the next elections are ... I'm to pissed about this country (its pseudo/fake democracy) meanwhile.

  7. US companies generally don't want to set up shop in some foreign country. They want the comfort, safety, infrastructure, and lifestyle that comes from living in the US. They just want to import cheap code-monkeys to work locally, rather than pay full price for local code-monkeys.
    Strange, most countries have all the things you think about. And most countries are full with US companies.

  8. I probably vote AFD next time, as the GEZ bullshit pisses me off so big time.
    However you are right :-/

  9. Re:Happened to humans also on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    Maize also grows in the UK, or could. No idea if it is farmed there, though.

  10. Re:At this point... on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    The ones that had a child mortality rate around 50%
    I would not dispute this.

    But I would. It would mean that every second grave would be of a new born. For that we have no evidence at all.

  11. Re:The article claims crystals are motionless on Scientist Investigate A Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 2

    Then cite the quote ....

  12. You have the Risk that you don't get your phone numbers back, lose the photos you mentioned and never will know your heart beat at that time again ...

    That was pretty obvious, why did you ask?

  13. Re:Jobs can't hide the resources waste of solar on Solar Energy Now Employs More Americans Than Oil, Coal and Gas Combined (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    He means your post is bollocks.

    What has the amount of people needed to generate 1GWh from gas to do with
    the amount of people needed to install 1GW(h) solar power generation options?

  14. Re:Employment is not the goal on Solar Energy Now Employs More Americans Than Oil, Coal and Gas Combined (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    In other words, solar requires far more workers per MWH for some reason.
    No it does not. Why should it?

    The work force growth is about workers installing new power plants.

  15. Re:Police aren't interested in small-time theft on Canadian Police Identify Suspect From Remotely-Accessed Stolen Laptop (cochraneeagle.com) · · Score: 1

    In what retarded country do you live that *theft* is not an action the police is reacting to immediately???

  16. Re:Start the clock on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Neither El Nino nor La Nina have anything to do with global warming. They are "localized" weather/climate phenomena in the Pacific Ocean and only shift warms (energy) around in different patterns. They have nothing to do with CO2 or sun insolation. Aka: the amount of energy hitting the earth and getting radiated away (or not radiated away) is exactly the same under El Nino, La Nina and "in between" or "normal" circulation of the ocean currents and winds in the Pacific.

  17. Re:Timmy's Final Solution Rolls On on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    All german speakings should visit the parents linked site, the "german translation" is so hilarious!

  18. Re:Linux desktops moment to shine? on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I use Macs since 1987, bought my first own one 1992, ... and your math is quite flawed, if Macs are around since 1984, how should it be bullshit that the parent is using them since 30+ years?

  19. Re:30 bps on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    bps is a "wrong used" bandwidth unit, it means baud per second (which is wrong as baud/bd already includes the "per second part")
    Perhaps you should improve your google fu :D. You figured "bandwidth" but then concluded it is not a "bandwidth" unit ... instead of figuring it should be just bd/baud.

  20. Re:Well, no shit! on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know one of those users?
    Never meet one ... would be an interesting talk I think.

  21. Re:What complete nonsense on NASA Is Planning Mission To An Asteroid Worth $10 Quintillion (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You smelt using mirrors and the sun.

  22. DVD drives? on Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    My latest laptops all have no DVD drive, I think this is what is killing DVD sales.
    And: every DVD I ever put into one of my laptops needed 5 minutes or more to start the movy or main menu due to "anti piracy *advertisements*'

    In other words: I rather watch a pirated DVD than a real one. Not to mention that one of the DVDs I bougth was for no apparent reason a blue ray, I missed that fact and had to gift it away as my laptop at that time could read DVDs but not blue rays ... so bottom line I guess I bought 3 "DVDs" ... one 1978 martial arts movie, one 2012 martial arts movie which I had seen on youtube before and I realized later, oops it is a blue ray, and another movie where I forgot what it was :D

  23. I covered this with part b) in my previous post.

    Obviously higher voltages require bigger infra structure ... no idea at what you want to aim with that question however ;D

    Regarding 34kV lines: those are mostly underground or only in industrial complexes above the surface.

    The same distance to residential structures? yes ... as the distance already is absurdly big. However I take it you live in the USA and perhaps regulations are less strict there.

    Does a MV transmission line require towers to be higher than 700 feet, do you think?
    700 feet is 230m ... so no, it does not require a higher tower.

    Unfortunately important stuff like power heights are missing ;D : http://solareis.anl.gov/docume...

  24. Re:100 years? on Vast New Tomb Now Covers The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Take your own advice asshole

    Either way, Lethal dose is much, much higher than cancer causing dose it is not, as we are talking about bone marrow cancer which is incurring in _all bones_ hence it is untreatable. To "treat" it you would need to break up the bone and remove all marrow and the plutonium.

    the toxic chemical effects are more immediately lethal than the toxic radiological effects, so it is not the radiation that kills.
    Of course they are. No one doubted that, idiot.

    It should also be noted that Leukemia has a less than 50% fatality rate
    If it can be treated, perhaps. If it can not be treated: then no.

    Cancer is quickly approaching a state where it can be considered a non-lethal disease.
    This is true for about 10% of all known variations of cancer. The other 90% are as untreatable as they where ever, except for better diagnostics and earlier discovery (which makes treatment sometimes possible) we have no way for most cancers to treat them in anyway except suppressing secondary illnesses and treating pain.

    I suggest to read a book about it (same for your idiotic ideas about harmful chemicals and radiation).

  25. Re:except of course on Faraday Future Unveils Super Fast Electric Car (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    but it is a practical certainty that better return on investment could have been achieved elsewhere
    Which requires that you have expertise elsewhere.