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Comment Note that article mostly has negative comments (Score 3, Interesting) 56

Most of the comments on the linked site are pretty critical, here's a typical post:

rfordwm - Feb 21, 2012:

I don't understand what the point of this piece was. All I heard on the recordings were cool headed honest assessments of what information they had on Japan.

Yet Ryssdal says such things as "Wow. Scary when nuclear guys start using phrases like alarming language,' betraying a predisposition to distrust in these "nuclear guys." But for those listeners who don't share that predisposition what is it exactly we were to be scared of?

Perhaps Mr. Chadwick will enlighten us:
  "this is the NRC -- they'e watching YouTube and CNN."

Huh... So there is a breakdown in information I should perhaps be concerned about?

Again Chadwick gives us the answer:

"Because this area is so devastated by the tsunami. So many people are lost, 20,000. The infrastructure is all blown away."

Well that seems like a good reason for information being sparse. Not to mention the NRC is a national agency, concerned with domestic nuclear safety.

Again, what was the point of this? Why were Mr. Ryssdal and Mr. Chadwick using words and tones that denote alarm and concern? Perhaps they could clarify?

Comment Re:But will it run Linux? (Score 2) 241

The problem in Microsoft's case is that they seem incapable of dumping what they have and doing a complete rewrite.

It's really tempting to think that way, but actually doing a clean re-write is usually a complete mistake. I'd say Mac OSX is one of the only successfull examples of this (and that largely because their previous versions were so horribly outdated it was unbelievable).

Joel has a great article on this from a while back:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Comment Free transit on New Years in US too (Score 2) 404

Comment :Peter Kasting needs to take the red pill (Score 1) 151

The overwhelming thought that comes to my mind is that this poor engineer has actual bought the company line. All that kool-aid drinking thats so common at giant tech companies actually works on some people. He's a naive young engineer, who truly believes what he is saying. And that means that Management has done their job.

Listen up, kiddo... You think you know [b]why[/b] Google is building Chrome? LOL. What you think the "corporate strategy" is, is actually just the part they tell you to motivate you. Someday, hopefully, you will peek behind the curtain and see whats actually going on (hint- it ain't pretty)

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Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With Bastion 154

Multiple readers sent word that Bastion, an action RPG from indie developer Supergiant Games originally made for Xbox Live Arcade, has shown up in the Chrome Web Store. The purpose of the move is to showcase the browser's Native Client technology. From the article: "Ian Ellison-Taylor, Google's director of product management for the open Web platform, said that Native Client, also called NaCl, can currently improve browser performance by 1 to 10 times. 'What would it be like if we could run native code inside the browser,' he asked the crowd, and he enumerated two goals for the Native Client project. He said Google wants to bring native applications to the Web for performance and security reasons, and it wants to enrich the Web ecosystem by bringing popular, long-in-use programming languages to the Web."

Comment Re:Where's Jesus? (Score 2) 585

It is kind of obvious, isn't it? I mean, these scrolls were written by Jews who were not converted to Christianity. For the majority of the Jews who were not converted, if Jesus existed he was nothing but a false prophet, certainly not worth mentioning.

Judaism has had many "false prophets", and doesn't shy away from calling them out. Wikipedia even has a whole list of them. And more specifically, many of the Dead Sea Scrolls talk extensively about bar Kochba....

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Like a Redstone Cowboy Screenshot-sm 166

neonsignal writes "Machine creations in Minecraft are becoming increasingly complex as people build on each other's ideas. Some notable examples include a Rubik's cube simulator, a 5-channel music sequencer, a 3D color printer, a 16-bit processing unit, and Conway's Game of Life. My own recent contribution is the world's slowest Universal Turing Machine. I'm now waiting for someone to implement Tetris in Redstone logic."

Comment Re:Not convinced. (Score 1) 464

One way that one can be biased is to not question studies showing that discrimination might be a significant factor while questioning those that show that discrimination could not be blamed for a negative outcome. Are you sure you're not displaying this kind of bias?

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