Go there after dark. At the base I visit frequently, they've got rent-a-cops doing gate guard duty during the day (presumably backed by some sort of military rapid-reaction force), but they've got full-out military handling the duties at night.

Fuel air bombs have nowhere near the yield that nuclear weapons do. Not even close. Even Russia's supposed "father of all bombs" only had a yield of 44 tons of TNT. The smallest nuke ever created, the W54, had a one kiloton yield - more than 20x times that amount.

How is this contradicting what I just wrote? epsxe runs almost all PS1 games, not just lots of them. SNESGP2X can't run a lot of SNES games that SNES9X on the PC can. You've basically proven my own point for me. Congratulations.

Forget "handles multiple cores". Just multi-threading the emulator is not nearly as difficult as you propose. The problem is that you've got to discretely manage those threads _plus_ those SPEs. Sorry, but it's a ton of work for a feature that's not really going to add a lot or help very many people.

FYI, most of those "custom emulators" are just ports of existing ones, like SNES9X. And most of them don't work as well as their PC brethren anyways.

The parent here makes it sound like you should be able to just write a few lines of code and set a compile flag to have your program start using the SPEs on the Cell. That's completely untrue - you'd need to write some very specific, very custom code to use them, as they're basically just very fancy DSPs with regards to C coding.

As a point of reference, no one's ported x264 to use the Cell for encoding, and that's the sort of application that the Cell is supposed to be very good with. IIRC, part of the issue was that each SPE only has 256kb of cache on it, which is rather marginal for high resolution rendering (you can't fit a whole 1080p frame into the SPE).

Doesn't matter. _It's illegal_. Also, I'm not Christian, I haven't done a damn thing to you. But I guess collateral damage from your bigotry isn't a big deal, eh?

I can see why you'd post that anonymously - it's illegal as hell to do what you're doing. Not to mention _stupid_, given that there's no scientific evidence that having religion makes you worse at doing your job.

I am reasonably sure I was discriminated against on religious grounds against by an interviewer at one state college I applied to work at. To this day, I'm still not sure I made the right decision to let it go, but it's jerks like you who make this world a worse place (and hurt your own employer doing it).

The thing they never tell you is that FBML is a straight-up nightmare, and using an iframe is far easier and faster.

Really? So they gave you software upgrades to go from 4G to 5G? I think not.

Are you familiar with the term "false dichotomy"? Besides, using the obvious FDR comparison, the only way out of is war - the public works programs, contrary to what you read in your erroneous grade school textbooks, simply didn't work all that well in terms of recovery.

Instead, let's use the Japan comparison. In that case, we should do:
3. Let all these firms fail, take the hit quickly, and move on.

The Japanese did:
4. Never acknowledge you have a problem, let recession/stagnation go on for 10 years.

IMHO, it's teacher's unions. The complete resistance towards standardized measures of their members' expertise in _doing their jobs_ is appalling, to say the least. Combine that with exorbitant retirement benefits weighing down on school budgets, and it's no wonder the current public schools can't do their job.

Want to reform education in this country? Take back the schools from the unions, or at least provide vouchers for school choice and competition.

I also think we waste too much money on the lowest-performers and don't spend enough on the highest-performers, but that's a different problem.

But it seems like the real problem he's trying to solve is that current ranking algorithms don't take into effect the fact that "users" are not one segment, but rather composed of different segments with differing political, religious, sexual, ethnic, etc. tastes. That is to say, Digg's algorithms are very good if you match a stereotypical Digg profile. If you weren't, well, it wasn't so amazing.

However, this is _hardly_ an unexplored area, and I would further submit that _Amazon_ is surprisingly good at this kind of thing. By analyzing what random samples of users bought (or, in other cases, ranked up or down), they're able to make (IMHO) often-insightful recommendations about what else you should buy. I've had thoughts about how you could make a site that would kick Digg's ass and probably be more valuable to advertisers using tagging, ranking, and some statistics, too.