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  1. Re:Too bad TurboHercules collapsed on IBM Mainframe Running World's Fastest Commercial Processor · · Score: 1

    Huh? I think his Orale example misses the point, but your statement is a bit off. In any case. I doubt you see a lot of people going the Orale on Z route.

  2. Re:Overpriced crap on IBM Mainframe Running World's Fastest Commercial Processor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have a point, but you missed it. At least talk in terms of modern workloads. These machines are running over 1,500 MIPS. Your talk of systems running 25-30 MIPS is silly. If your 114 is running at 25 MIPS it is broken. Really, really broken.

    No single processor desktop CPU can handle that. Even dual processors. Hercules is no where near the performance of a modern Z series mainframe.

    Can you build a server complex with more MIPS for less money? Absolutely. The question becomes what is the cost and risk of migrating that legacy application.

  3. Re:phew on Apple v. Samsung Jurors Speak, Skipped Prior Art For "Bogging Us Down" · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't get your hopes. The Groklaw account differs from a lot of other sources. Since the site is fairly anti-apple, you might look for a more objective piece before relaxing.

  4. Re:Freedom to wear the shirt. on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Freedom from government consequences....

    However, it appears it was Delta (a Private company) that complained and ultimately decided they did not want him as a customer. By his own account the TSA let him through without any hassle. They were probably busy groping children and old people.

  5. Re:Inflation? on Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess that doesn't make as interesting a headline. That fact is buried in most of the stories.

  6. Re:If this article... on Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So you believe Market-Cap as a metric is unabashedly pro-apple? Got it, I guess.

    BTW Exxon-Mobil is responsible for less than 3% of world oil production. OPEC could easily raise quota to make up for that. They are the biggest refiner, so there may be a bit more impact there.

    By current market standards, Exxon and Apple are both undervalued.

  7. Re:If this article... on Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History · · Score: 4, Informative

    Everything in the piece is a fact. There is no commentary on why this might be good or bad.

  8. How can this be ? on Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Google is good and would never sue anyone. I guess they are just looking for some more FRAND abuse smackdown.

    Google will learn this is the worst 12.5b anyone ever spent.

  9. Re:May not be plagerism on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The conclusions this piece draws are not supported in any way. I am not even sure the author could define plagiarism.

  10. Not Exactly on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    I believe all the reports were attributed to he Sam Pseudonym and none of the other papers had writers claiming the work as their own. Moreover, it appears there was same sharing arrangement between most if not all of the papers involved.

    This is not the world's clearest case of plagiarism.

  11. Re:People want cheaper tablets on Why the Tablet Market is Really the iPad Market · · Score: 1

    There are three functions for the home button. (I guess four if you count it taking you back to the first page of the home screen). I would hardly call that absurd. I would love to hear your take on the ridiculous gestures and how the other OS's handle similar functions more elegantly.

  12. Re:People want cheaper tablets on Why the Tablet Market is Really the iPad Market · · Score: 1

    I can fit my kindle touch (smaller then Nexus 7) in my pocket. Kind of. In baggy gym shorts I look only a little silly. In jeans I look like some bizarre deformed nerd creature.

  13. Re:People want cheaper tablets on Why the Tablet Market is Really the iPad Market · · Score: 1

    If Apple only sells iPads to rabid fanboys, the rest of the industry is in trouble. Apple is finding 17 million fanboys a quarter.

  14. Re:LOL on Is Phoenix the Next Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    It was a fresh prince reference, but I have no idea why.

  15. Re:As an Apple hater, I disagree. on Apple In Trouble With Developers · · Score: 1

    Evernote (from the AppStore). Can still take screenshots of anything.

  16. Re:Pray I don't change them further.... on Apple In Trouble With Developers · · Score: 1

    Did you know this article is about OSX?

  17. Re:Good luck... on Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Steam has a lot of OpenGl ports for OSX.

  18. Re:Part of the solution? on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1

    You should sue, because they have already infringed by selling your device. They should not be stripping functionality from existing devices. That will not reduce their damages.

  19. Re:Because Apple owns grep? on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1

    MS has a license..

  20. Re:Wackier then the Gong Show on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1

    Prior art could only possibly come from the Apple WAIS consortium in the 80s. I am not sure you will be able to invalidate it. People really need a better sense of history.

  21. Re:Another victory for patents on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1

    Not sure why you believe the GS3 is outselling the iPhone 4s, perhaps you had a dream it happened?

  22. Re:didn't i have local search on my Mac years ago? on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1

    You do realize that WAIS predates the existence of gopher, Archie, or Veronica. Hardly a next obvious step when existed by all the things you claim it is based on.

    Perhaps you did not bother to read any of your own links? It is clear you do not have any idea what you are talking about. I suppose it was not quite as obvious as you thought.

    You should apologize to /. now.

  23. Re:didn't i have local search on my Mac years ago? on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1

    Read the patent.

  24. Re:didn't i have local search on my Mac years ago? on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1

    I am not aware of Apple ever suing over a patent that is not in a currently shipping product.

  25. Re:didn't i have local search on my Mac years ago? on Samsung Galaxy S3 Stripped of Local Search · · Score: 1

    Neither this poster or any of the children apparently read the patent. (Maybe they can't read). Why do people make bold comments about subjects they don't understand even a little. Every story on patents is always flooded with people abusing the term prior art. They are only outdone by people with absolutely no sense of the history of technology.