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  1. Re: I don't understand the big deal here. on A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    there is nothing like preparing for the future....

  2. Re: Keep her in Mexico! on Patricia, Strongest Hurricane Ever Seen In Eastern Pacific, Strikes In Mexico · · Score: 1

    Without Mexico in the way, Texas would get the full force of the hurricane

  3. get rid of the bags and get an infuser for loose leaf tea that sits in the cup - much better tasting tea. the tea in the bags look like dust scrapped off the floor, for me the bigger the leaf generally the better the taste.

    i shake my head in disbelief in someone investing in internet connected appliances, tjhey'll probably only use it when friends come over to look at it.

  4. Re:Why the fuss? on Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes of the Rich · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the rich know nothing about the real stress, rich people's "stress" is just a fake situation. Not knowing if you have enough money to feed your family each day is real stress.

  5. Re:Does it have systemd? on Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 (openbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    Shows how little you know about what depends on what. do some research instead of relying on post of ignorant trolls

  6. Re:Does it have systemd? on Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 (openbsd.org) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    mod him up? What for? he's talking complete bullshit and by association, you too

  7. Re:Does it have systemd? on Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 (openbsd.org) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so is yours but at least he is correct.

  8. Re:Does it have systemd? on Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 (openbsd.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    linux doesn't have a systemd problem, systemd has an ignorant trolls problem

  9. Re:Does it have systemd? on Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 (openbsd.org) · · Score: 0

    thats a far too complex an answer for the anti-systemd/LP trolls

  10. Re: Don't care on BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    piracy will happen regardless

  11. Re:Nice slide show. We see lots of these on Hurricane-Resistant SURE HOUSE Wins the 2015 Solar Decathalon (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    i guess as soon as you flash the cash and provided the land. :o)

  12. Re:huge open windows facing a busy walkway? on Hurricane-Resistant SURE HOUSE Wins the 2015 Solar Decathalon (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    the aesthetics of external design is irrelevant in this instance, its the construction, how it runs and what it does that are the important factors.

  13. Re:Weather isn't the only reason to close windows on Hurricane-Resistant SURE HOUSE Wins the 2015 Solar Decathalon (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    when a building is properly insulated like this, it is very very quiet as long as the windows/doors are closed. A well insulated building keeps a lot of heat out as well as the cold. You also have PV which can run any AC you have for nothing and because of the insulation, it won't work nearly as long or hard as it does in a normal house. The continuous HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilation) system runs 24 hours a day exhausting the stale humid air from the house and brings in clean, filtered temperature adjusted air to all rooms that are connected to the HRV.

  14. Re:This haiku should also win an award on Hurricane-Resistant SURE HOUSE Wins the 2015 Solar Decathalon (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    you should keep your personal dreams to yourself. it gets embarrassing for you when say things out loud by mistake.

  15. Re:I like some parts on Hurricane-Resistant SURE HOUSE Wins the 2015 Solar Decathalon (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    the placing of interior walls is not important to the design (apart from a few structural ones for either another floor or housing equipment in the roof cavity) so you create the rooms you want. The important thing is to make it leak proof but obviously the bigger the floor area, the more PV etc you'll need but i doubt it'll be very much more

  16. Re: Don't care on BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    its probably the 3rd party that already has the rights sorted in those other countries and have a revenue stream from them, its probably more profitable for the 3rd party to have separate licences.

  17. Re: Don't care on BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    you should check your facts, Downton Abbey is not on the BBC

  18. yet more spin i'm afraid. these books are cherry picked for the good bits, they should rebind these books without the bad bits if they don't want to be charged with gross hypocrisy.

  19. Re:I find it amusing on Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    code quality style opinions have been a dung heap of nonsense for years, its always the last resort of trying to trash something or someone.

  20. Re:Greetings from Florida Polytechnic on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the answer is "Or if social media just brings the people that are stupid more out of the woodwork for the rest of us to see."

  21. so what? its quoted and preached from when its convenient and nice. Perhaps suggest the old testament is torn up and thrown away so only the new testament is applicable. but i guess it can't be done

  22. Re:I find it amusing on Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    "For the ignorant this looks as if systemd is one piece of binary blob that does everything, but in reality it is just a 'one tool does one job' bunch of components that are now bound together with a new way to describe dependencies and allows parallel loading because there is no longer a reliance on an out dated script single thread interpretor."

    Unfortunately you could beat them over the head indefinite times with that explanation and they still won't understand it because they don't want to get it, they have painted themselves into a corner of ignorance that they cannot get out of without eating tons of humble pie.

  23. Re:I find it amusing on Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    From the Wayland FAQ

    Is Wayland network transparent / does it support remote rendering?

    No, that is outside the scope of Wayland. To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid doing. The reason Wayland is so simple and feasible at all is that I'm sidestepping this big task and pushing it to the clients. It's an interesting challenge, a very big task and it's hard to get right, but essentially orthogonal to what Wayland tries to achieve.

    This doesn't mean that remote rendering won't be possible with Wayland, it just means that you will have to put a remote rendering server on top of Wayland. One such server could be the X.org server, but other options include an RDP server, a VNC server or somebody could even invent their own new remote rendering model. Which is a feature when you think about it; layering X.org on top of Wayland has very little overhead, but the other types of remote rendering servers no longer requires X.org, and experimenting with new protocols is easier.

    It is also possible to put a remoting protocol into a wayland compositor, either a standalone remoting compositor or as a part of a full desktop compositor. This will let us forward native Wayland applications. The standalone compositor could let you log into a server and run an application back on your desktop. Building the forwarding into the desktop compositor could let you export or share a window on the fly with a remote wayland compositor, for example, a friend's desktop.

  24. Re:I find it amusing on Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    you really need to get out of your moms' basement and get a life. you seem really wound up about nothing

  25. Re:I find it amusing on Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    "People have been reading through the code [slashdot.org] and finding things to dislike." - well, thats a surprise. people have differing opinions on coding styles. i'm shocked