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Comment Re:Half Jew, half Chinese... (Score 2) 145

I'm not sure him being Jewish was relevant. He never mentions it in the part of his diatribe that I read on scribd. Never mentions synogogue or any aspect of Jewish life. I'm guessing that while he may have some genetics that indicate he is of partial Jewish descent, I haven't see that he is one in a cultural, mental, or religious manner.

Comment Re:English, do you speak it? (Score 1) 131

Presumably the point of the lasers is to deliver data. It is not transmission for the sake of transmission. Similarly, the point of the truck and the Maserati is to move something. The most salient analogy would be cargo. But even if it were to move human beings, a truck, train, or freighter is much better than a Maserati unless your goal is to move a single person. Is this quad laser system for moving a single packet? I doubt it.

A link with a 5ms latency and 25mb symmetrical upload and download width is a faster link than a link with a 350ms latency and 1024mb/1mb asymmetrical width by any reasonable definition of the word.

Depending on what kind of data is being moved. Interactive web? Probably unnoticeable except for some AJAXy type stuff. For gaming? Sure, you're right. For doing a 500mb transfer via ftp or similar?

I'll take the freight train.

Comment Re:On that note (Score -1, Offtopic) 290

Is that what you tell the natives when they try to get you to stop calling them Indians?

Nobody wants to generate 'butthurt' and 'draw flames'. However, there are millions of Americans that do not want to be associated with the USA in any way.

You sound like an angry little person. I'm sorry that you feel the need to live your life this way.

Comment Re:If a picture's 1k words, video must be a 1Mb (Score 1) 50

The issue isn't so much video as such, but rather the lack of editing.

If going to the trouble of video, give me a script and some decent utilization of the form.

I think you've hit on it here. Video can add something. I watch a ton of motorcycle repair videos precisely because the video adds to the text of the shop manual. But I find that often the five minute video is better than the 15, as the former has spend up redundant parts, eliminated pointless pauses, etc.

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