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  1. Re:never heard of VP8 or VP9 on Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec · · Score: 1

    All current browsers currently support h.264 (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari).

  2. Re:4 years later on Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec · · Score: 2

    VP9 doesn't compete with h.265, it is 6% larger than h.264 and 112% larger than h.265. That's not even a competition.

  3. Re:4 years later on Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec · · Score: 1

    Just use the VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) plugin or Aplayer (http://aplayer.open.xunlei.com/) plugin for IE and you are all set. The Aplayer even does hardware acceleration if available.

  4. Re: 1940s technology, here today! on New Ford Mustang May Have Electronic "Burnout" Button · · Score: 1

    I'd put up my American sports car up against anything you drive.

  5. Re:Burnouts are illegal. on New Ford Mustang May Have Electronic "Burnout" Button · · Score: 1

    Actually it's not even illegal in Texas, at least not by that law unless you are (and can be proven to be) attempting to impress or show off to another person.

    IANAL, but I do know my rights pretty well.

  6. Re:Burnouts are illegal. on New Ford Mustang May Have Electronic "Burnout" Button · · Score: 1

    I have a '01 WS/6 and it still runs great. I use it as my winter car now mostly because it sits next to my '14 stingray.

  7. Re:5x price differential at any time on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.. Most of the reviews I saw of the 840 EVO said they kind of blew and to buy the 840 PRO instead which was a much better product.

  8. Re:Before increasing capacity, what about encrypti on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Many SSDs don't rely on compression to store their data. I've never bought one that did, and as far as I am aware, the problems you are describing were solved a long time ago. The laptops at my office (which are SSDs) are all encrypted currently using sophos full disk encryption, and we are soon moving to bitlocker for it instead (not sure exactly why other than sophos in general just sucks).

  9. Re:My rule for SSD on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    SSDs are also excellent for mobile devices because they don't suffer catastrophic failures if they are moved while operating.

  10. Re:$1000 each? on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Plenty of laptops out there that support 2 drives.

  11. Re:Write limits on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you might also want to include a 128GB SSD, so that on power drop the system would start to write the data from DRAM to the SSD before it shuts down completely.

  12. Re:Write limits on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Most SSD drives have sectors you can't see. Even a 80% full drive likely has another 8-10% of underallocated sectors that you can't touch, specifically set aside for remapping purposes. I thought the new controllers would even do as you suggest and remap some of the static data to the heavily modified sectors in the background for better wear leveling as well.

  13. Re:Write limits on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    I do, it is quite easy to do. But I'm not an average user, nor do I pretend to be.

    I also use SSDs, and know not to send the high throughput writes to it. I send them to my 12-drive raid array that has even better throughput than my Raid-0 SSD array. I do keep my pagefile/swapfile on my SSD because latency is much better on it. I also monitor the SSD write levels, and last I checked, I'm good for another 8-9 years according to SMART, and probably closer to 12-13.

  14. Re:Write limits on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1

    I do. I have 64GB of ram in my machine, and still carry a page file for when I exceed that.

  15. Re:Write limits on Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 · · Score: 1
  16. Re:350mm (18inch) wafer on Moore's Law Blowout Sale Is Ending, Says Broadcom CTO · · Score: 1

    I am a programmer, and have been writing multiple threaded programs for ~16 years. It's not that difficult, and most modern languages make it pretty darn easy. Try it when you are writing assembler and having to code up your own task scheduler, state management. That's a bit harder.

  17. Re: history in motion, transiting from hooliganism on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do. Sorry my post was partially in response to a cross post by BMO. Yes people have the right to free speech. No, it doesn't give them the right to say whatever they want whenever they want.

    I should have saved most of my response for the other thread, however, the use of speech when the main purpose is just to annoy and not to convey a message is not, should not, and was never a right. It was never the intention of the founding fathers to have it bastardized enough to support that and if you think otherwise, I suggest you actually read it and then go read some history on it.

    There is a large difference between the government being able to silence a message (originally meant for POLITICAL messages only by the way), and allowing protests that are designed to annoy people by impeding traffic, normal operations, or noise pollution.

  18. People rarely care about more than 10%-25% depending. Seriously, people have known for years about electricity vampires in their homes, and most people don't unplug their TVs so they don't sap power when not in use, because it's convenient to hit the power button on the remote.

    Personally, I would use it if at least 20% of the power was actually used (80% loss) for my electric car. I'd rather pay the $0.25 per day than have to plug it in. Just park in my garage every night, and let it charge. I might even go as high as 8-10% actual useful power, that'd still only be $15 a month.

  19. Re:history in motion, transiting from hooliganism on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 1

    No, people like you are the problem. I'm mailing you a tape recorded loop of an elephant farting. Please put the included headphones on, and never take them off, because as you feel, I have a right to be heard. You expect that other people should have no right to not have your shit spewed in their face, now eat your own dog food and stfu.

  20. Re:history in motion, transiting from hooliganism on eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 · · Score: 1

    While that may make some sort of sense, in your example, you were using the mail system as it was meant to be used, and you would have no idea that it would cause a problem by doing it. The problem is that they were actively trying to bring down the system completely, and each individual person was running a program meant to do just that. Smaller systems may even be brought down by a single person running it. It wasn't an "accident" that the system was brought down, it was intentional.

  21. Re:Cross language - what .Net gets right on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    I should add Scheme (IronScheme) and Perl (Niecza) to that list as well. I would add JAVA (J#) to that list, but well... Sun killed that.

  22. Re:Cross language - what .Net gets right on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    .NET (CIL) has the following languages:
    VB, C#, Python (IronPython), PHP (Phalanger), Javascript (Multiple), ADA (A#), COBOL, F#, Ruby (IronRuby), Lisp (IronLisp), Eiffel, Clojure (ClojureCLR), Prolog (P#), and quite a few others.

  23. Re:How about.... on Inside the War For Top Developer Talent · · Score: 1

    I've had this come up twice in my employment contracts, and I told them to strike that clause, and they did... right there on the spot.

  24. Re:Rockstar on Inside the War For Top Developer Talent · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I've seen this all too often. I've actually been told that one company was impressed with me, but they were looking for someone with more experience in x. I had been working with x before it was even publicly available (alpha private release), so they only possible person with more experience with it was the original team that wrote x. Where x is a large language/platform. Was quite hilarious, and I declined when the company asked me back for a second round of interviews, and I told them why.

  25. Re:Doesn't seem to be the case in Oz on Inside the War For Top Developer Talent · · Score: 1

    I get 5-6 requests per day from random recruiters, and 1-2 a week from serious recruiters in Chicago. I also get requests from other places occasionally, like Milwaukee, Dallas, Atlanta, and Raleigh, NC.