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  1. Re:Google Wave, anyone? on Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality · · Score: 1

    Decentralization and independence is huge.

  2. Re:The summary is misleading.... on Sun Kills Rock CPU, Says NYT Report · · Score: 1

    The Niagara line of CPUs might look like a reasonable chip, sadly the servers they are sold in have terrible I/O profiles. A rebrand will be needed to shake that legacy.

    Really though, everyone I know in database optimization is on x86 with just more boxes. Sure this doesn't work for all problems, but for all the real world business problems I hear about, they seem to be making it work.

  3. Re:Where are you located? on VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs? · · Score: 1

    um, no.

    When you author things in programming languages, you get... a program.

    What you are designing in HDL is hardware.

    There's some overlap. Stuff like algorithms may be used in both arenas, but the goal of HDL is to make hardware, not programs.

  4. Re:Wrong question on Is ext4 Stable For Production Systems? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There was no single loser here.

    Ext4 should handle the case gracefully, but the apps will fail on other filesystems, and they *will* be run on those filesystems, so they should fix the bugs.

  5. Counterfactual on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    I got about as far as point 3. The guy or lady has about a fifty fity accuracy rate with the gripes. Most slashdot posts by anonymous cowards are more accurate.

  6. Re:Think about it on Microsoft To Banish Memcpy() · · Score: 1

    It's less safe, because it's more complicated.

    Not by a lot, of course, but the two numbers makes it just that much harder to easily determine the behavior.

  7. Re:Open Transport, Part II on Have Sockets Run Their Course? · · Score: 1

    Um, STREAMS lost because of its poor performance compared to sockets. This article is about improving performance. STREAMS is not the answer.

  8. Re:Cue next extension in 3... on Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites · · Score: 1

    The ones who serve the ads from their own domains usually haven't gone so far as to obfuscate the URLs, so I usually just block the URLs by pattern.

    And yes, they're usually among the most obnoxious. Somehow internal marketeers often have the worst taste.

  9. Re:That label applies to you, I am afraid... on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    He's just spouting a lot of claptrap that people like to claim is true but no one ever presents strong evidence for.

    Linux is neither easy nor hard to absorb currently. Windows is neither easy nor hard to absorb currently. Inertia is the big battle.

  10. Re:Ubuntu is not up to scratch on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    Setting up network connections was much easier then.

    We've had a lot of time to make it more complicated in the interim. No I am not joking. The user interfaces are a lot more baroque now, trying to handle many more cases. Win95 internet was super easy to set up. Win 2008 server is much much more annoying.

  11. Re:Bibtex on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    And typeset equations are highly important for you know, historians, for example.

  12. Re:Stability, reliability on Btrfs Is Not Yet the Performance King · · Score: 1

    Pull the other one. For any application with high transfer rates, the overhead of hashing the data with ZFS is likely to make it quite noticably worse performance-wise than a simpler filesystem like UFS or EXT3. Do some real-world benchmarks.

    I've seen cpu-limited apps reach beteen 130% and 200% of their ZFS performance when migrated to UFS.

  13. Re:Applets are still used for games on Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects? · · Score: 1

    Runescape is certainly NOT the largest MMO. It is the largest free-to-play MMO, and may be the largest web-based MMO.

  14. Re:Where did you learn this crap? on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    There is a strain of libertarians that believes in the philosophy you've espoused. However most libertarians I encounter in life tend to be the sort that ask "why shouldn't contractual slavery be legal?"

    In short, "liberarianism" has been co-opted by churls. I wish I knew how to fix that because the ideals of early libertarianism are worth agitating for, in terms of balance, even though I don't agree with them.

  15. Re:Temperature on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    You're arguing for false simplicity.

    The responders are simply talking about how it could make sense that global warming could cause colder temperatures in antarctica. They're guessing, granted, so I wouldn't put a lot of weight on what they say. Still though, it's one possible reason, and a possible reason that would correlate with global warming. The real story is probably different, but that doesn't mean their guess is necessarily wrong.

    This turned to: hey, it's getting warmer at the north pole, so this argument can't be right. Well, the north pole and the south pole are not the same place. Obviously if the ice is growing at the south pole and shrinking at the north pole, something is happening differently in those two places. Does the disparity directly support global warming, of course not. Does it undermine it? Of course not! If the specific reasons for the growth of ice in antarctica were better understood, then maybe that would do one or the other.

    Just because a set of facts isn't sufficient to show global warming is inaccurate doesn't mean that it's proof that it is accurate.

    The thing you have to realize here is that global warming is really so widely recognized that's it's essentially a fact. As a result, people who are aware of this may respond to "challenges" in a somewhat ill-considered and hostile manner.

  16. Re:Hmmm on Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? · · Score: 1

    Oh right, the government totally created the housing bubble as in a playfield levelling action. They really regulated banking so that the banks could compete on an even playing field.

    Oh wait, it was the opposite.

  17. Re:A cautionary thermal tale on New Data Center Will Heat Homes In London · · Score: 1

    To me, all of those were obvious, except "DP", which I've never seen before in my life.

    HTH.

  18. Re:After three tries on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    I say sincerely: Fail.

    Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Go away legitimate user! you made some mistakes with a horrible captcha!

  19. Re:without interruption of its primary function... on Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C · · Score: 1

    Ericcson has been doing this on phone switches for decades.

    No, it's not in general use, and it's not trivial, but it's also not new.

  20. Re:Ancient egyptians had bad data preservation too on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 1

    Since the nuclear payload causing monstrous mutations was unleashed upon the jungle by a rocket gone wild!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ONE

  21. Re:What a load of rubbish on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 1

    That's totally reasonable, but doesn't jive with Bible literalism which insists that the age of the earth is so short that Egyptian history covers all of it.

  22. Re:Effort in wrong place on Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance · · Score: 1

    Shedskin is a degenerate specializing compiler.

    It assumes that all variables never change type and thus only one specialization need be created.

    This is useless for real world python, where it's quite common to acquire references to things and handle them regardless of their type.

    Making a real specializing compiler, like psyco, go as fast as a traditionally compiler is really hard, so this is faster than psyco, but psyco works.

  23. Re:Cops on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 1

    Dude, I set that signature back in 1997. I might have been being ironic, or sarcastic, or just wrong, I have no freaking clue.

    What I do know is that I set it about 1 minute before I disabled viewing of signatures for the next 11 years of Slashdot, because signatures on web forums are stupid.

    But just to be a hypocrite I fixed the spelling error. Enjoy!

  24. Re:Needs an Easier mode on Battle For Wesnoth Version 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Heir to the Throne, the default campaign, is the one I've spent the most time with. It needs a less challenging mode.

    At one point back in 0.9.x I hacked up the game to apply multipliers to the damage table to tilt it towards the human player, but it didn't feel right at all.

  25. Re:Cops on German Police Union Chief Wants Violent Game Ban After Shooting · · Score: 1

    (cocks gun.)

    I have no tolerance for those who do not understand grammar. *fewer* people!

    *BLAM BLAM BLAM*