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  1. you would potentially need to precompile for every chipset, driver version, and opengl version combination. its just a lot easier to do it for one. you could cache them between runs as well, as long as the video card, the driver, libopengl, and the os has not changed.

  2. Re:Fiscal cliff on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Republicans are trying to do the right thing and that is do what they were hired for.

    if spending is 3 and income is 1, then the right thing to do is balance those so s=2, i=2. this is how families do it. the job of the republicans is to decrease both, after they are balanced. democrats have the opposite job, but both parties should be working to shrink the gap right now. maybe im stupid and oversimplifying it, but to me this is a clear goal. after that we can argue about which way we need the government to go.

    To put in an ultra conservative mandate in 2010 to stop government and bailouts

    without the bank bailouts, everyone's bank balance would be zero. with the bank bailouts, we got to keep our money (yeah i know how it sounds, but i think its a true statement) and the government made a nice profit on those loans. i balked at the auto bailouts, but i cant argue with the result. mostly paid back, and lots of jobs.

  3. Re:Remember Remember on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Bozo B learns right away to not do what Bozo A did, so that Bozo B can get reelected. congressman apply their critical thinking abilities not to the problems of this country, but the problems of reelection. unfortunately a side effect of seeking reelection is casting votes.

  4. Re:Remember Remember on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    there was a great question proposed during the founding of this country. does a "good" congressman vote how his constituency wants him to vote? or what he feels is best for the country? that question was also the basis for the founding of the electorate college. voting the former would increase his "credit score", voting the later would increase his "balls score". of course most times these two are not in conflict. especially with two highly polarized parties. i feel that all candidates just tow the party line. (not a recent development). i would be more interested in the "balls score". see HW Bush for a relatively recent and memorable example of "political balls", while it may be good for the country, candidates like that rarely get reelected. its unfortunate.

  5. Re:Did they sign Norquist ? on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    id argue the other way, they were greedy for campaign funds. thats the beauty of the pledge. (within the current rules of campaign finance). he created a prisoners dilema for all repulicans.

  6. reveal codes FTW on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 2, Informative

    i still use word perfect. being completely OCD about formatting, i cannot stand anything but that old standby. using word is just frustrating. how come my table just got deleted? why is it typing in italics now? everytime i use it, these questions just take more of my time than actually typing the document. with word perfect, there is a legitimate explanation every time this happens, and since you can see all the markup codes, it most likely wont happen.

  7. Re:Looks like fun, but... on Star Wars Fans Plan Full-Size Millennium Falcon Replica · · Score: 1

    fully functional? have you built a C3PO to translate those beeps?

  8. Re:Time for a car anology on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    correction, 20 of your friends get pulled over after a party the next week, all are drunk, and all of them testify that you drank too much the previous week. they all get deals, and you get screwed.

  9. Re:Lies on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    i've watched enough law and order to know that a body of evidence consisting solely of co-conspirator testimony does not meet the burden of proof. but the USADA is not held to this higher standard. i smell a spin-off.

    law & order: ADA. they make the rules and enforce them

  10. Re:Drug test the final standard? on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    It already has. Eyewitness testimony can often trump scientific results. Scientific results come with a margin of error, eyewitness testimony does not.

    http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Eyewitness-Misidentification.php

    somehow (just speculating here), im guessing that does not come into play here.

    it would be nice to see consistent rules being followed, regardless of what i actually think happened (knowing no facts). i tend to believe armstrong's characterization of the USADA's vendetta against him. it sorta reminds me of the RICO statute.

  11. Re:Just Wait on Why Professors Love (and Loathe) Technology · · Score: 1

    what you described is computer operation, not computer science.

  12. Re:Not a problem on German Government Wants Google To Pay For the Right To Link To News Sites · · Score: 2

    this doesnt seem like a good solution for the ailing news sites. murdoch has been beating this drum for a while in the US, and nobody is listening.

    however, the sites producing content are not getting compensation for doing so, is this just a paradigm shift, or can something be done to protect some of their revenue?

  13. Re:I keep laughing at my friends... on Knight Trading Losses Attributed To Old, Dormant Software · · Score: 1

    great point and rhetoric, but it wasnt hft.

  14. Re:The NYSE shouldn't reverse trades. on Knight Trading Losses Attributed To Old, Dormant Software · · Score: 1

    the market isnt going to cater to the small players, because the small players are not the main users of the market. and a lottery to settle trades? you are free to make your marketplace work that way (in fact you can start your own stock exchange), but i guarantee that nobody would want to trade there.

  15. Re:The NYSE shouldn't reverse trades. on Knight Trading Losses Attributed To Old, Dormant Software · · Score: 1

    thats why they only do this when a stock moves a certain amount in a certain period of time. in effect they are retroactively suspending trading on that stock after that threshold is crossed, until the market can stabilize. they do not reverse individual trades, because of fat fingers, sitting on the space bar, or any other reason. they do this only when it benefits all market participants.

  16. Re:The NYSE shouldn't reverse trades. on Knight Trading Losses Attributed To Old, Dormant Software · · Score: 1

    vwap is not high frequency. it is intended to aquire a certain amount of shares with some risk guarantees. hft does not intend to aquire a certain amount of shares, it is essentially day trading (you cash out at the end of the day), but on a much smaller scale.

  17. Re:Fuck you on Managing Servers In the Frigid Cold · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck Apple and all their shitt iFag dvices. YOU DO NOT OWN THE CONCEPT OF RECTANGLES WITH ROUNDED CORNERS! Burn in hell you faggots!!

    while apple does support same sex marriage, and legislation to further that humanistic goal, i doubt that everyone that works there is, in fact, a homosexual. Steve did have children, and seemed happily married to a woman till the end.

  18. Re:From Minnesota here on Managing Servers In the Frigid Cold · · Score: 1

    not everyone lives in that type of climate, i havent RTFA, but i assume there are some more challenges that people dont usually think about. seems like it would be interesting if your into data centers.

  19. Re:That looks... on CDE Open Sourced · · Score: 2

    At least the Application Manager doesnt take up the whole screen. What i wouldnt give for that in windows 8.

  20. Re:Kickstarter on Notch Wants To Make a Firefly-Inspired Sandbox Space Game · · Score: 1
  21. Faster Than Light on Notch Wants To Make a Firefly-Inspired Sandbox Space Game · · Score: 1

    a little slow to the draw. its called faster than light. SunDog was a good one, but its a little dated now.

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-than-light

  22. Re:That's nice on AMD's Piledriver To Hit 4GHz+ With Resonant Clock Mesh · · Score: 1

    for a single executing thread of a specific bit width GHz means everything.

    if the pipeline length of a processor is 2x as long, then it will be equivalent in performance to a processor 1/2 the speed. combine this with the fact that different instructions have different pipeline lengths, and you have a recipe for the GHZ to tell you squat. would you rather have a 2008 netburst pentium 3 or a brand new intel chip? both were available clocked at 3ghz.

  23. Re:Well on Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't. There is a good amount of Open Source software available for iOS.

    let me rephrase then. you cannot sell or even distribute for free open licensed software through the apple app store. to install open source software (legally, and in compliance with all of apple's eulas) on your phone or tablet, is to apply for a SDK license, and once apple approves said application, you then have the pleasure of paying $99/yr for access to your own phone or tablet. you may then download, modify, compile and install to your own machine only.

    You would be a complete idiot, and your app would deserve to fail if you did not test/debug on both platforms, ...

    of course you dont blindly distribute programs without testing on the actual target hardware. however its a lot easier to test through emulators before throwing the app on the hardware (this is 99% of development and debugging). its even easier if actual development machine provides the same API access that the target machine has. this means no cross compilation / emulation for regular day to day coding / testing iteration. throw in a touch screen monitor (or emulate just the input) and you have a giant tablet on your desktop, that will make development and testing 100x easier.

    now im probably not gonna get a microsoft tablet or phone, but what they are doing is nothing apple hasnt done before. in actuality the situation is not as bad as the situation with apple. its just a group-think microsoft bashing and FUD spreading. before you know it, some people are under the impression that windows 8 is getting rid of the desktop.

  24. Re:Well on Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM · · Score: 1

    im typing this from windows 8 right now (developer preview), and its all FUD. the desktop remains untouched. save for this version (and i think its just for the developer preview) they added a metro interface when you press the start button. this is so developers can start programming their apps for the tablet environment before having access to an ARM tablet. the API's (for metro) are actually pretty good. and everything you used to run still runs.

    i hope they bring back the regular start button for the community preview coming out later this month. im pretty sure they will, because the community will collectively *shit a brick*, as they say, if they dont.

  25. Re:Well on Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM · · Score: 1

    ahh, i still dont get why people are so put off by this whole thing. W8oA is identical to iOS in access, and its easier to compile windows programs for it. its actually a little bit better, since iOS explicitly prohibits open source development, and charges 99/yr for the SDK. Also since the same API's exist on both architectures, it might be the first development environment where you dont have to use an emulator. you can compile/test/debug on x86 and deploy on ARM without hassle.

    and as far as the desktop goes, its gonna be pretty much the same for 8 as older versions of windows. (i dont think that the metro start menu will be as omni-present in the community preview release, as it was in the developer preview, but we shall see later this month)