Comment Re:Oh yes (Score 4, Funny) 136
Sshhhh. If they give it away I'll collect a few thousand and build a free beowulf cluster.
Comment It has to go this way (Score 1, Insightful) 515
It has to go this way for V to eventually be able to come and free us!
Comment Re:Whats the point... (Score 5, Interesting) 152
You're wrong there mate. On our corporate intranet there's a section of javascript that's 256k in size. IE6 (corporate standard) takes about 20 seconds to load that while Firefox loads it instantly. It's not about how fast the Javascript is received, it's about how fast it's rendered.
Comment EEE (Score 4, Interesting) 152
Looks like Google are going to try and beat Microsoft at their own game:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Comment Re:It sucks (Score 2, Informative) 175
Sure MS might suck as a corporation, and release dodgy software and charge more then acceptable for it, but their hardware division is actually quite good. I have plenty of MS hardware and it [i]is[/i] good quality, far better than the software. Don't paint all their products with the same brush.
Comment Hard Drive? (Score 3, Interesting) 94
Today the limitations of discovering these congruent numbers is limited only by the size of a computer's hard drive.
Can someone explain why they didn't use more than 2.7TB of HDD space if HDD space is the limiting factor?
Comment Re:Tor can be blocked as well. (Score 1) 374
The only thing preventing is their own population. I just don't think they would tolerate becoming prisoners in the their own nation.
They are prisoners in their own nation. They are not tolerating it. Hence the protests. Sure the fundamentalists have a solid backing among the populace but the rigged elections and censorship of protests show it is not as solid as they need to maintain power fairly.
It doesn't matter if they block TOR or just websites, they are still censoring what their people can see and read.
Submission + - British film 'Creation' banned in USA (digitaljournal.com) 8
thesappho writes: "From the story : "British film 'Creation' will not be coming to the United States because of its controversial theme. While the film opened the Toronto Film Festival to rave reviews, the religious undertones surrounding this Darwin biopic appear to be to much for the U.S. ". It seems that the film could not find even one distributor to be aired. Is this a kind of banning? negligence? censorship? or business decision?"
Comment Re:SheevaPlug (Score 1) 521
I looked at those devices a while ago, but was unable to get hold of one in the UK...
You can order from the US, but the shipping costs as much as the unit itself, and there doesn't seem to be any european distributor.
Comment Re:Intrepid? RV'er? It Hurts. (Score 1) 438
I have to agree with the BWCA suggestion. Used to go there with my father when I was in high school (mid-90's). The first day was the roughest, but after that you adjust quickly to the physical aspect of it, and the lack of technology. Its very refreshing to cleanse the system of overexposure to EM and computers.
If you want to get away from EM I'd suggest you stay out of view of the sun
Comment Re:Just reduce the bill (Score 1) 285
No, it's automatically deducted by direct debit.
Comment Ownership Chain (Score 1) 318
Maybe it can be argued that the state of Oregon owns the copyright to the book, and the citizens of Oregon own Oregon, therefor the citizens of Oregon own the copyright to the book? That argument would be valid, but maybe not sound.
Comment Re:toposhaba (Score 1) 792
And a GPS can't be removed and left at home? Slightly harder but come on.
GPS is not a perfect solution either. I have used several different models including the Pharos GPS with Streets and Trips. They often jump temporarily to another state or place on the globe and then after a few minutes jump back. So are we going to be able to challenge the 3000 mile trip we supposedly took on our way to grocery store? I have an idea just give me a check for 150million and I'll tell them it won't work.
Comment Re:I've used pre-production versions. They are FAS (Score 2, Interesting) 133
You are using comparing HDD's in a Clariion to your SSD's. Not a very fair comparison. Why not compare your box to a Symmetrix V-Max with SSD's, or even a DMX with SSD's. What you've done is like sticking a Ferrari engine into a Lada and compared it to say a Ford Focus and saying that your's wins. Just because your engine is faster doesn't mean your product is better.
Submission + - Would you trust an insurance company's "drive- (teensafedriver.com)
ramen99 writes: Our new car insurance company offered us discounts for our teenage driver if we agree to install a "drive-cam" that records driving habits and wirelessly transmits video footage to a "neutral driving coach" for evaluation and comment. While this might be great to monitor a new teen driver, it will also monitor other adult drivers. The insurance company claims that they would NEVER use any information obtained to consider changes in insurance rates, but that really sounds unbelievable. Would you give up your privacy to save some dough? Installation is free, and the camera mounts just under the rear-view mirror, but something seems fishy about this...
