The subby did finish it. Just read it as an exclamation of joy. "Astronomers something something stuff - YEAH!!!"

FTA: "The walls and other components of the structure were fabricated offsite with a diagonal reinforced print pattern and then shipped in and pieced together. The company then placed beam columns and steel rebar within the walls, along with insulation, reserving space for pipe lines, windows and doors."

From the text and what few pictures of the actual construction material they show, it looks like they basically print it with voids specifically for skewering it with rebar on-site.

Now, whether or not you trust the final assembler to actually *do* so and then backfill the voids with some sort of mortar so the rebar actaully has something to stick to... Well, we'll find out in the first big earthquake they get, I suppose.

Okay, technically we have an "interglacial" period, if you want to get pedantic.

When the "ice age" really ends - We have a problem.

I fully agree that PhysX and G-Sync aren't open either.

As for Mantle being Open there was the case of Intel asking about Mantle information -- and AMD declining the request.

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

In no way shape or form is Mantle "open".

Don't believe me? Go ahead and link to the online documentation that tells me how to make a triangle pop up on a screen using Mantle.... Go ahead I'm waiting.

That's not even taking into account the fact that Mantle works with Windows and uh... Windows.

Direct3D: Also not "open" but anyone with a working Windows installation can still write & compile programs that use Direct3D to do graphics without any further licensing needed, and Direct3D is documented.

OpenGL: Actually is Open and if you keep up with the newer releases you'll note that a lot of the miraculous features promised in Mantle seem strangely similar to features that were already available in OpenGL.....

Obligatory XKCD - And this one might actually educate rather than amuse!

Now look at the last 12000 years - The last ice age completely ended 9500 years ago.

Every. Single. Time.

Pray, could you tell me about how Intel "illegally" pounded ATI -- you know, the discrete graphics card company -- into the ground illegally? I know that way way back in the day, long before AMD's very ill-advised $6 Billion boondoggle buyout -- that Intel tried to launch a discrete graphics card, but it didn't go anywhere and didn't seem to phase Nvidia, AMD, or 3dfx (yes, it was THAT old) in the slightest.

P.S. --> If Big Bad Intel was really that Big & Bad at "pounding" AMD, then where did AMD get that $6 Billion for a massive buyout of ATi in the first place??

P.P.S. --> Why is it that Nvidia, ARM licensees, and everyone else seem to have no fear of Intel, but whenever it comes to AMD the only thing we hear are these made-up persecution fantasies? Is everyone else... or maybe is it just AMD?

The problem is that no one is asking what sucks about IT. Could it be:

I agree with all of those, but, not one of them discriminates against women vs men.


one has to ask is there something that is preventing women from getting jobs in IT

Yes, one does. You haven't.

So given that we know where to find it and could use the orbiter to send a strong, tightly-confined signal that its (poorly placed, apparently) antenna might have some small chance of detecting - Any possibility that we could revive it at this point, send it some sort of "reboot and try again" signal?

Dammit! First it's spy satellites watching my every movement on earth, and now you can't even have privacy ON MARS!

So where can I buy 900 foot runs of cable that have the ends already on them that I can fish through conduit easily?

Right next to the switches that can handle that extra 578 feet.

Pope says Global Warming Bad! Enact Ecotopia now!
Slashdot Crowd: Pope agrees with our preconceived notions, GOOD! All that crap we say about how anyone religious should just STFU and die*? We take it back!

* Exception for Muslims of course since we love to call all Christians evil barbaric murders but are too chicken to do it for the "religion of peace."

Pope says: Freedom of Speech should be limited!
Slashdot crowd: Religion is EVIL! STFU AND DIE POPE!!

Good Atheist Liberals: Basically agree with the Pope but couch their censorship argument in politically correct terms like "cultural diversity" and the fact that Muslims are a "poor oppressed minority"
Slashdot Crowd: AS LONG AS IT'S NOT FROM SOME EVIL RELIGIO-TARD I AGREE WITH IT 100%!! SCREW REPUBLICAN HATE SPEECH!!

After 3 months most people forget what they were conversing about anyway

Yes, they do, except I draw a different conclusion from that than do you.

I get questions literally on a weekly basis along the lines of "Why the hell did you do it that way?"

I find it somewhat satisfying to answer by simply forwarding the asker an email, usually their own, in which they insisted I do it that way, typically over my objections that it wouldn't work correctly "that way."

Both of which were caused by Microsoft giving into OEMs and allowing cheap hardware. Same mistake as Windows 8 allowing machines without digitizers or capacitive / resistive touchscreens to run Windows 8.

So they keep making the same mistake, and you just give them a pass on that?


Linux changes much faster than Windows does.

You've conflated updates to individual packages with the one thing most users care about - The look and feel of it. If I wanted to, I could run a fully-patched Linux box with the look and feel of a circa-2000 KDE2-style desktop today, and I fully expect I could keep doing so for the next dozen years as well without much difficulty.


They serve us in the aggregate not in the individual case.

Win7 didn't overtake XP until October of 2012 (the same month Windows 8 came out). Win7 still, two years and two versions after Win8 came out, has 56% of the desktop market share (and that includes Apple and Linux) - And we have an FP telling us about mainstream support for 7 ending? I'd have to call a solid majority "us in the aggregate".


Sorry I don't agree at all.

Fair opinion, and you have every right t it. If I regularly had the majority of my customers still running something two versions old and actively protesting what I considered the latest and greatest, I'd take that as a hint to quit changing things. YMMV.

Microsoft made a terrible mistake in allowing enterprises to remain on XP so long and thus allowing this culture of not upgrading to take place.

"Allowing"? Good one!

If Microsoft had tried to force companies to migrate to Vista, we would have seen 2007 as finally the year of "Linux on the Desktop".

Software vendors need to get a grip on their role in the ecosystem. They serve us, not the other way around. When people still run XP (hell, people still run 95!), that should tell Microsoft everything it needs to know about the viability of continuing its current trend toward forcing rapid unwanted change on people.