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  1. Re:No DX11 - DX12 comparisons this time on Fable Legends DX12 Benchmark Stressing High End GPUs · · Score: 1

    Yes, but now it is rewritten to be slower on dx11.

  2. Re:Oh good on ELIoT, Distributed Programming For the Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    another boutique language that won't be here in five years.

    Agree. But the ideas, if novel will continue in generations of boutique languages, until they get refined and distilled to a core that can be incorporated into a future C++ standard. (And then be misused for decades).

  3. Re:What about the larvae ? on Inventors Revolutionize Beekeeping · · Score: 2

    No you keep the queen confined to a smaller part of the hive.

  4. Re:3 Quick Fixes on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Companies With Poor SSL Practices? · · Score: 1

    Wrong order, FFS, change password now if you have not.

  5. Re:Same as it's been forever. on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1
    The systemd haters are not the doers they are the talkers, so you will hear a lot of systemd hate but see a lot of systemd integration.
    Get over it, let the meritocracy of open source work its pace.

    Put up or shut up!

  6. Re: So.... on Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager · · Score: 1

    No thats not the Fedora way. The Fedora way is replacing working feature filled software with buggy software that barely solves the mandatory features just because it has some cool new feature. Then they push a gazillion man hours into that crap until it becomes very good and then replaces it when users starts to love it.

  7. Re:+ operator for string concat? on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Yes "clever" operator overloading comes up high in my list.
    Scripting languages are full of it like in Pike: str/" " Divide a string by space to get an array of the words.
    But I dislike it way more when operator overloading abuse is done in user code than when it is a language construct.

  8. Re:question on Building the Infinite Digital Universe of No Man's Sky · · Score: 1

    You only need to save the seed for the pseudo random number generator and the world will look exactly the same every time you re-generate it.

  9. Re:meh on Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure · · Score: 1

    I like the tape measure choice.
    It shows how advanced constructions you can do, and the limitations of such advanced constructions. As I understand it, it is fully functional right out of the printer. This is a little bit more advanced than "possible" but thats why it is cool.

  10. Sometimes you win some times you lose. on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 3, Informative

    NSA has been good to US companies in the past, sometimes it fails. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial_espionage

  11. Re:More than that... on Owncloud 6 Brings Collaborative Open Document Format Editing to the Web · · Score: 1

    What is the lag on edits? Sharepoint is not usable for conference call editing as it takes too long for the edits to propagate to all participants. Googledocs is great, often quicker than screen sharing. What other alternatives are there and are they quick?

  12. Windiz Update solved that problem. on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 1

    I miss Windiz Update....

  13. Re:Canonical might suck... on Debian To Replace SysVinit, Switch To Systemd Or Upstart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Upstars solves some problems with sysv, but includes a whole array of new ones. Systemd solves almost all problems with few new ones, except for all the parts that is not implemented yet. Systemd is a mess for novices to use and understand, the helper tools are not as good as they should be.

  14. Re:oh man, what a mess on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 1
  15. Re:G'DAY MATE on Beer Fridge Caught Interfering With Cellular Network · · Score: 1

    Light spread, you are not kidding, graphene is thick compared to the thikness I apreciate.

  16. Re:Money well spent on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 1

    ... followed by the tedious process of downloading and waiting for update after update to install, then installing virus and security software, "productivity suites" and any other software that they need, each likely to have its own updates...

    Who the hell would do that if they got more than a few machines, update the frekkin image, then clone. Follow up with some polish.

  17. Re:Not that old chestnut on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1

    [citation needed].
    I have never seen any reasonably creative use except for musical toys on pads. Please post examples.

  18. Re:What? on Salesforce, a Pillow Maker and a $125k AmEx Bill · · Score: 1

    So that they can ask you for late fee if you miss a payment, instead of just adding interest.

  19. Re:An obvious extrapolation... on Coelacanth Genome Sequenced · · Score: 2

    That said, it's not like the ocean is dominated by coelecanth, so it doesn't mean they've reached optimality or anything. Just that they're good enough to continue reproducing and surviving.

    I would say that their genes are stuck in a local maxima where they can't evolve. Any mutation dies off or are so different that they leave the area and become a new species.

  20. Re:Is this not your local net police? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    I would fear what unforseen bugs the pen testing causes (database gioing down, queries cut short etc) bugs that are good to find but absolutely not in a production environment. Dangeorus in a hospital enviroment.
    I would send their packets to a honeypot machine (possible with less security for the giggles) to get more information about the "attac".
    In reality they are probably just running foundstone or some other security suite.

  21. Re:Play a good April Fools joke for once on Google Bumps Up Search a Notch With Google Nose BETA · · Score: 1

    If they are down, use this rot-13 program:
    tr "a-zA-Z" "n-za-mN-ZA-M"

  22. Re:C-like C++ is the way to go on Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost · · Score: 2

    Read Stroustrup, code C++ the right way. (i.e C extended by the possibilities of c++, opposed to schoolbook object oriented language with a tendency to over complicate)

  23. Re:try a foreign language on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    Tried that, but I now know too much German to not sing along, maybe I need to change language.

  24. Re:Not constrained on OnLive's Epic Plan For a New Type of Video Game · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Correct, and they aim for the wrong type of latency demanding games. To survive they must go for games that can handle bad latency. OnLive has a huge potential but only if they stop selling an impossible product and start going for achievable goals.

    Guess: They have sold a lie to investors and are stuck in it.

  25. Re:Masseuses on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    Two, at least.

    Two: Happy beginning AND happy ending?