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  1. Re:Use a real alarm clock on iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug · · Score: 1

    I remember learning the correct date formulas in the first semester. What's so hard about them?

  2. It will fix its self? on iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug · · Score: 1

    OMG, it is self aware, has introspection and can self improve? Now I know what all the Apple fans love it so much.

  3. Where's the data? on Do Sleepy Surgeons Have a Right To Operate? · · Score: 1

    Just track the time since the last decent night of sleep and correlate it with the incidence of complications. That's not rocket science.
    Do this anonymously and as a matter of course for a year.
    Actually it's so obvious that I'm sure it's been done and the results were such that they had to be swept under the carpet.

  4. Heard it all before on Replacing Traditional Storage, Databases With In-Memory Analytics · · Score: 1

    Remember when the first 64-bit machines became commercially available?
    "zOMG, now we can keep whole databases in RAM with the 4GB limit gone!"
    This is just CS101. Memory hierarchy - you keep your data in the fastest memory it'll fit in (that you can afford.)
    Now we can afford more RAM so we can do more per unit time because we don't have to wait for IO. Duh.

  5. Re:First hard drive I ever saw on Some Hard Drive Nostalgia To Start Off the Year · · Score: 1

    I still have the 10MB 5.25" from my first XT compatible. Those old drives make nice bookends.

  6. Re:Ahhh, the good ole days... on Some Hard Drive Nostalgia To Start Off the Year · · Score: 1

    Mine is 8GB, just enough for a basic installation, for the rare case that I actually need to run some legacy stuff like a BIOS upgrade.

  7. Re:About damn time. on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is so ridiculously obvious that lots of libertarians will scream murder. Forcing a standard down our throat, oh the arrogance! I will only buy phones with a different connector just out of spite!

  8. Re:Far-north global warming is still accelerating on Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? · · Score: 1

    The other day, a town in Greenland (forgot the name) was 2 degrees warmer than St Louis, MO. Clearly a case of global cooling, for some definition of "global."

  9. Re:I see the Al Gore haters are out. on Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? · · Score: 1

    Intellectu-what?

  10. Re:Dual core cell phone ? on Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 · · Score: 1

    Agree. Some phones are underclocked already, running at 800MHz while the processors are spec'd at 1 or 1.2GHz, to save battery life. Unless you want more gaming there isn't much use for additional CPU power in phones.

  11. Re:Tablets on Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 · · Score: 1

    Yes. My list goes to 11.

  12. Re:And so on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 1

    You just confirmed my point. The upper intestine has to manufacture sucrase. That means it's a different metabolism than that for a glucose/fructose mix.

  13. Re:I wonder how that relates to spatial reasoning on Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life · · Score: 1

    That unlimited thing has only existed for 50 years or so, only in the western world, and will be over soon.

  14. Re:Keep multiple profiles on Old Facebook Apps Still Plunder Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    You must be one of the two people in the world who read that.

  15. Re:GNU? on Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    They already use free as in beer.

    Pirated Windows?

  16. Re:Bad on California Rare-Earth Mine Reopens · · Score: 2

    China is going to stop burning through anything soon because they're experiencing peak coal right now. The exponential growth we've seen over the last couple of years (>10% per year) is going to hit a wall real soon. That's going to be interesting.

  17. Re:training on Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life · · Score: 1

    Training and experience, yes, but the real question is why do you have that desire?

    To get laid. Go read some Geoffrey Miller.

  18. Re:I wonder how that relates to spatial reasoning on Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life · · Score: 1

    That's easily explained IMHO. There's finite volume and energy, hence finite capabilities in the brain. Depending on fetal and early life development this capacity is apportioned to various functions. If it was possible to be highly functioning in all areas, we'd have evolved to do that.

  19. Re:so that's it... on Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life · · Score: 2

    Sounds plausible. I was the same. And remember the woman without functioning amygdalas who has no fear whatsoever.
    Later in life, I must have toned down my amygdalas. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have raced motorbikes and jumped out of airplanes. And looking back I have reduced my social life quite a bit.

  20. Re:this is no news ... on The Animal World Has Its Junkies, Too · · Score: 1

    Drunk elephants are the best. I forgot where I saw that, must have been National Geographic.

  21. Re:Depends on what language you use on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Agree. Churning out new code is the exception, generally only during the early phases of a project. Then comes integration, testing and debugging. Sometimes even documentation, yuck.
    I just spent almost a whole week on one bug :(

  22. Re:And so on Pickens Wind-Power Plan Comes To a Whimpering End · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly. Sucrose, glucose and fructose use separate metabolic pathways so the comparison of HFCS and sucrose in chemical terms is meaningless. You have to compare their metabolic effects (including absorption rates, satiety (leptin/ghrelin response) and effect on the intestinal flora.)
    Those have shown to be different.

  23. Depends on what language you use on Does Typing Speed Really Matter For Programmers? · · Score: 0

    Yes, for Java you'd better be able to type 100 WPM.
    Me, I prefer C, C++ and Perl. Much more expressive and dense source code. Yes I'm a lousy typist.

  24. Re:A linear induction motor is not a railgun. on Navy Uses Railgun To Launch Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    Agree. It looked like the acceleration could be smoother at the beginning, in the first 10th of a second. There was a big jerk at first.

  25. Re:Getting tired of this... on The Smartphone That Spies, and Other Surprises · · Score: 1

    Just get a phone that's easily rooted.