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Comment Re:Retro-mirrors anyone? (Score 1) 274

Could enough coolant be pumped through a laminated plate armor to dissipate kW per square inch of localized heating?

The only thing that might kind of work is clouds of steam and/or smoke. But a liquid isn't going to help you, this thing can turn solid engine block into vapor, what do you think it's going to do to your magic liquid?

Comment Re:Defense? (Score 1) 274

What can the average person do if some whackjob starts running around the city or a shopping mall with one of these things targeting innocent people?

Absolutely nothing. That guy is a goddamned superman, and he could crush you into a thin paste with his bare hands. Make peace with your maker, you're coming to meet him.

Comment Re:Not Like Sun (Score 1) 300

Sun produced a lot more innovation than ZFS and Zones. There's DTrace, NFS, the Solaris Kernel (too many aspects to list here),

If only you could read, you could see I was talking about Solaris. Specifically, SunOS 5.x, although technically speaking due to retcon SunOS 4.1.4 is also Solaris 1.x.

Comment Re:Sounds cool (Score 2) 87

If it's transparent, I want it on my windshield. Even if it wears off after a year, this is still a major win.

You can use Rain-X and have it wear off after a week, or one of the many various hydrophobic coatings-in-a-can and have it last maybe a month, right now.

If I rode a motorcycle I'd put it on the visor, that actually seems practical.

Comment Re:A serious question (Score 1) 300

even those that are hooked on the extensions going to one of the alternate like PaleMoon,Waterfox, IceDragon,etc.

This is only one step off the reservation. If Firefox gets decrapified and released as 64 bit then I'll step right back across the line. I'm running Pale Moon now, but the whole point of doing so is that it's still Firefox.

Comment Re:Is this such a bad thing? March of progress... (Score 1) 300

The problem with Firefox is that it's not much better than IE and is following the exact same trajectory of constantly getting crappier.

Wait, IE has gotten less crappy with each release, but Microsoft has decided that it's reached its lea of crap, and so they're delivering a new browser with their new Windows. That seems like IE just fell off the opposite trajectory.

Comment Re:Xbox OS != Win2k (Score 1) 66

Contrary to popular belief, Windows XB wasn't a fork of NT 5 any more than CE or NT was a fork of Windows 9x. (Source: Xbox Engineering)

Before people inside Microsoft said that, other people inside Microsoft said the opposite. But good luck finding that reference now, because of all the people crowing triumphantly about the particular reference that you cited.

Comment Re:WTF? What has this guy been smoking? (Score 2) 300

That is due to Google releasing the awesome Chrome browser, because the web is too important an income vector to them, so they decided to pull it inhouse and cut out the policy middleman.

Which hilariously hasn't really panned out for them. I use Chrome and Firefox side by side on Windows and Linux (Pale Moon x64 on Windows, actually) and the only websites which are more reliable in Chrome are gmail and G+, and the latter of those still isn't very good. In spite of running G+ in Google's browser, their interface still takes longer than eternity to load and it still jumps around like crazy. And now that Chrome is approaching Firefox levels of functionality, guess what? It's just as heavy as Firefox, maybe even more bloated.

I've got FF in everyday use and will continue to use it. If they build an independant contacts application for mobile and web alongside a calendar and perhaps some simple docs management, preferably all of it encrypted, I'll be on board from day one.

That's easy enough to build in $CMS_OF_YOUR_CHOICE, you can literally get it by installing Drupal and some modules and enabling them. (start with views, date, and calendar.) You're going to need some online storage someplace for your files anyway, getting it with web hosting doesn't really cost more.

Comment Re:sun? maybe, but who cares. (Score 1) 300

Even MSFT got the message when their sales tanked and punt kicked the sweaty one and his Metro crap to the curb

To be fair, Metro isn't actually gone. It's still a big part of Windows 10. You can even still enable the AOL start screen if for some reason you want to do that. So it's going to continue to rear its freakish head periodically for the next while.

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