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  1. Re:Makes me wonder about cabling on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 1

    eh? there are many high voltage undersea cables more than a hundred miles long all over the world. done deal, mature technology. and also, you do realize all those nifty fiber optic lines we're using here on the global internet have HVDC cables in them too?

  2. Re:What IBM get's for 7B - MVS still around on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    MVS is still inside the descendant operating systems, you can run MVS apps on z/OS, for example, it's in there!

  3. Re:The GPL prevents Linux from "winning" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 4, Informative

    you're spouting red herrings. I migrate enterprises from Unix(tm) to Linux, we use compatibility matrices, for everything from hardware to kernel and OS patch versions to application software versions. If we upgrade the software the process is planned the same way. Backwards compatibility is never an issue. And GNU/Linux on the proper hardware and correct systems architecture can do more than five 9's same as any Unix(tm). And sorry to break your bubble, but backwards compatibility has been broken by the major Unix vendors many with their patch sets, I've over two decades of experience with all the major commercial Unix(tm) if you want to argue. And I've seen the major Unix ass-plode and dump core because of bugs on mission critical apps, which if you ever took time to read the descriptions of patch sets you'd quickly realize some poor S.O.B. had their "rock-solid" big iron Unix box take a shit on their face....

  4. Re:Do Not Want on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    you gotta be kidding. OpenSolaris is not Solaris, there are differences, and both run on exactly two architectures while Linux runs on over a dozen. Linux supports many times the number of devices OpenSolaris does (and the list for Solaris (unopened) is even smaller. Too little too late, Sun and its two OS are going into the ashcan of history

  5. Re:Mod parent up on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    the fuel is out there already, Bussard ramjet ftw, bitches!

  6. Re:Mod parent up on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    with an invisible pink unicorn, you don't even need magic to ride anywhere

  7. Re:Surprised? on Rackable Buying SGI Assets For $25M? · · Score: 2, Informative

    oh no, HP is not alive because of their crappy Unixes, imaging and printing and networkig is practically carrying the company. In fact, the turd that is HP's Itanic er Itanium2 processor helped bring down sgi and

  8. Re:Bloody hell! on Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ah yes passover, it's the greenhouse gas methane produced from the Borsht and horseradish beets that's dooming us all! Oy Vey!

  9. Re:The real MySQL is... on Locating the Real MySQL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    turds work for the big iron companies too. Like IBM's enterprise solution for anything: sell the client a bunch of overcomplicated rube goldberg contraptions that require a ton of customization and services, big turds for the money sewer.

  10. Re:Repent now, the end is near on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    nah, that's the message the climatologist were preaching in the recent drought, before that they were saying more rain. At the moment we have flooding, and they'll go back and cook their books and say "see, we predicted this with 4 out of our 12 best models"

  11. Re:13 billion!!!! on Charter Files For "Prearranged Bankruptcy" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    how can the federal reserve system be allowed to run a 10 trillion dollar + pyramid scheme?

  12. Re:Try Express PCB on Circuit Board Design For a Small Startup? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    how about we stop encouraging/helping wild-eyed "entrepreneurs"

    bullshit, I've seen inspired people with ideas hook up with the people with know-how and build amazing businesses. teamwork multiplies brain power. and your mocking of the article poster isn't even accurate, embedded software is a core component of his product vision

  13. Re:Doomsday situation on The Underappreciated Risks of Severe Space Weather · · Score: 1

    no, better to ignore the article,it's a bunch of sensationalist crap that gets stress-puppy personalities all wound up. Reality is that repeated stresses over period of many days or weeks would lead to occasional and sporadic failures.

  14. Re:This shall do on Want a PC With 192 GB of RAM? · · Score: 1

    I figured your boss could do that for you

  15. Re:This shall do on Want a PC With 192 GB of RAM? · · Score: 0, Troll

    that's ridiculous.

    we only get a third of that kind of release watching ms. sirtis. http://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/movie.php/2303

    also, I find a Windows desktop requires about twice the ram as a Linux box, those jokes about Windows being a bloated pig have a basis.

  16. most U.S. business understands Red Hat == Linux on Oracle's Take On Red Hat Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've not seen Oracle Linux in any client of my company's data centers, and they include some with huge budgets (I.T. budgets over a billion). For running Oracle most are Red Hat, some are OpenSuSE, and a little bit of some others. No Oracle Linux anywhere.

  17. Re:Were nerds here... use the f'ing metric system on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 1

    but that's still using a degree based on that Centigrade crap. Real men use Rankine absolute temperature scale, with Fahrenheit degree spaced units. Rankine for the win, Kelvin bitches!

  18. Re:Bike Frames? on New Form of "Mobius" Carbon Predicted · · Score: 2, Funny

    no, but if you put a sheet of them in a clothespin with the end in the spokes, they make a neat engine sound

  19. Re:In other news on Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case · · Score: 5, Interesting

    no, the Waco Siege pretty much proved that lies and unsubstantiated rumors about non-existent full-automatic weapons and underage brides can summon a mass-murderer like Janet Reno with homicidal goons to use incendiaries to start fires and gun down those that try to flee.

  20. Re:Paternity Leave on Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families · · Score: 1

    and you believe something is true, because the article and summary say so?

    The truth, obvious to anyone with experience in couple parenting (single parenting not covered in my reply here, different issue), is that the relationship of a mother to baby is very different than that of the father, and of course it is biologically based. Since mothering is of course much more important that a mere career, the only proper response to the title at the top of this page is "GOOD!", it should be that way. Extreme feminists are of course trying to change the natural order and are perfectly willing to screw up society and children to further their unnatural agendas.

  21. Re:House has nothing better to do? on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    anything that distracts them from their ongoing wealth transfer to fat cats is welcome

  22. Re:Fast download on PCLinuxOS 2009 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    not lack of shine, lack of any compelling reason to try a Mandrake/Mandriva forked distro...what's this going to do that Mandriva won't? Hardware compatibility list, pfft, there's piles of those out there.

  23. Re:fast enough for a on New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but for a man-portable railgun, the batteries are used to charge the capacitors, all in the back pack.

  24. Re:And on Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark · · Score: 4, Funny

    And... uh... my bottom hurts.....a stretch I know

    sounds like your charm and beauty led to a strange coupling

  25. Re:People who already bought a converter on Digital TV Coupon Program Under Way Again · · Score: 1

    pfft, most who die during a tornado will have died anyway, with or without a converter box, with or without a helpful pamphlet on tornado safety, and with or without the care and concern of a bleeding heart hand-wringer. That converter box isn't going to hold your walls and roof up.