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Comment Re:Necessary Ebola reference (Score 1) 77

You can add FL to that list too, thanks to Governor Skeletor.) This lady is in NJ, still tests negative, has a temp of 98.6, but Christie still says she's "obviously ill", claiming "she may to be tested for that again because sometimes it takes a little bit longer to make a definitive determination, there's no question the woman is ill, the question is what is her illness." But I doubt the people who voted for him at his Hotmail voting booth address will ever regret hitting "Send".

Comment Re:This is silly (Score 1) 720

For example, FedEx and UPS could not handle the volumes of packages that each handles per day without automation.

OTOH, FedEx and UPS don't look like the sort of places where you'd want to eat.

McDonalds took a 30% hit in earnings. It didn't help that they were passing out pamphlets to employees on how to apply for food stamps. I had a friend who took her kids there all the time, but even she was revolted when she heard that and they never went there again.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 226

IMHO, the point of X network transparency is a no-brainer in the same way as local OpenGL acceleration. Instead of wasting bandwidth on raw bitmaps, you just send the drawing commands, whether over the network or PCIe. (It's like MIDI vs. raw audio for the keyboardists out there.) I don't know all the programming details, but I've done 3D modelling over 2 MB/s cable this way, and I can't imagine it would have worked as smoothly using raw video.

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