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Comment Re:Multi-tasking (Score 0) 266

I have never heard such nonsense in my life, go back to CS201, multi-tasking is all about manageing multiple CPU entities and nothing at all to do with battery life or power management.

On one or many CPUs (cores) you need power management and background work management, see the LHML on Android sleep management.

Linux has had SMP for years and the BKL has just been removed from the last of the code. WNT inherited a BKL from the VAX VMS guys design, and you could never persuade people like Cutler that this was piss poor design!

Comment SEX (Score 3, Funny) 214

Italy is different, they like sex and are not ashamed of it,

Tolerate alternative lifestyles, eg LBGT

Have some of the most passable/beautiful TS outside asia, and go to confession.

Burlisconi has few problems, at his age most Italians envy him, as in the US its only the PC liberals who hate success and fun,
and at 74 who can grudge him that.

Comment Nuclear (Score 1) 385

More ignorant gumph from the US Ecotards, early 1960-70 nuclear reactors were slow-neutron to produce Plutonium-238 by neutron capture from Uranium-238, this was spun.

We now have enough Plutonium, and with a half-life of c 24000 years it will be around for a good while.

The down side of slow reactors is they produce Actinides cerntred on AW 116, fast neutron reactors are designed (a) so they can not go super-critical and (b) burn down (existing) Actinides to AW c 29 which have very short half lives.

This is what is the matter with Ecotards and Watermelons in the USA, they were dreaming of cheerleaders and holding their dick when they should have been paying attention in Science Class, if any real unpoliticised science is still taught in US schools.

Comment A good case for Engineering Aprenticeships (Score 1) 845

Having read the Fixit article it seems mostly an advertisemnet for their screwdrivers, and replacement screwkit.

As an old tired engineer, this is cr*p, you need some mild steel rod, a lathe, a file, hot, and carbon hardner powder and 10 minutes to make a Pentacr*p screwdriver if you arnt smart enough to go to the right place to find the REAL name of this fixing.

They will be on eBay next week.

Comment STUPID (Score 2) 136

This is all getting SO stupid, copying a bit of text is NOT infringment so long as fair use is not exceeded, and if the text or the idea was already written that way, shoot or throw all the STUPID corporate f**kers and lawers and throw the bodies in the Charles River, along with the Tea chests.

Comment Re:Hmmm.... (Score 1) 257

Very HIGH,

This guy is just getting out of order, (a) we know that only 1% of these patents are viable if challenged in court, (b) that this is a US only phenonema, certainly not in DE.

We do not need anymore intellectual property pimps,

Real enterprises do due dilligence, but the real cure is liability for costs, in the UK and most of Europe costs are "Costs in cause" and the whole trial cost goes with the eventual judgement ... which quickly stops weak patents being litigated.

The USA stands to be a huge looser from this domestic nonsense post 2007. No one in Asia, China ... Europe, Russia cares any more! Notice.

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