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Comment Re:Cooling is the issue (Score 1) 421

The reduced cooling should help in lowering the costs of the LED versus the CFL and the reduced energy consumption will be a help as well.

Yesterday I went to Walmart to get new light bulbs, old CFLs I had burned out. There Walmart had LED bulbs in stock, at around $20 a bulb. I ended up going to Sam's to get CFLs, an 8 pack cost less than $6.

Falcon

And 3 years ago CFL's were going for as high as $10+ per bulb.

Comment Re:if only more technical leads had this mindset (Score 1) 1051

i had the opportunity to work on three different commercial unix operating system teams and this mindset is consistent with the teams that hit schedule with the appropriate quality.

That's nice; it's still not a management style most people tolerate well. However, coercive leadership is useful when there is a serious issue occurring (emergency, etc) and work needs to be accomplished immediately to correct it. Yet, I think it could have been worded a little differently--they're volunteers after all.

Comment Google Docs is no MS Office (Score 5, Interesting) 243

The company I work for uses Google Docs extensively; in fact, we use it so much I wrote SAS scripts to interface with the API so we can easily share datasets in and out of Google Docs. While it's powerful for collaborative work over the Internet, especially with remote resources housed all over the world, it's no replacement for Office.

It doesn't have all the powerful tools Office does, it doesn't format documents the same as Office does (especially importing and exporting--and yes, I realize Office doesn't do all that well version to version), and it doesn't work all that well offline (if at all).

So it's no wonder a corporation dealing with other corporations would require Office knowledge. This is a non-story.

Comment Is this comment some kind of a joke? (Score 5, Insightful) 223

First of all, you can tell a LOT from this particular data point.

That aside, what are you insinuating? That a group widely and routinely chastised as espousing a "liberal" and/or "leftist" agenda by conservatives, opposed the now-cancelled US Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program, and is opposed to nuclear weapons in general, is executing a propaganda campaign to make North Korea look more primitive than it really is when it comes to its rocket programs?

Are you serious?

After a veritable comedy of errors, North Korea finally has a successful launch, can't even get or keep the satellite launched from it into a stable orbit, and now an anti-nuclear advocacy group is really a secret US propaganda campaign to inappropriately embarrass the North Koreans, who are really more advanced in rocketry than all of their misadventures would indicate? The same North Koreans who just announced they have uncovered a unicorn lair?

Really? I mean...really?

Please â" I would love to hear how this is "propaganda", and how the DPRK is really a capable member of the space and nuclear clubs. To what possible end? Even IF it were true, why/how would that be a good thing?

Or is this one of those topsy-turvy bizarro-world lines of reasoning where anything and everything that is in ANY way opposed to anything related to any US or Western interest is automatically true and pure, but anything that originates from the US or West, in any way, shape, or form is always "propaganda"?

Comment Re:Oldspace got fat and lazy (Score 1) 215

Your brother needs to brush off on his study cases, Little Caesar's and Pizza Hut were founded almost concurrently.

Why spoil the fact 99% of the comments praising SpaceX are based solely upon fallacies and not even knowing their heads from their rear end on the total processes and limitations of either manufacturer. They're praising a start up who in Lockheed's position will gladly extort the government and any potential client if it becomes the predominant player. These libertarian twinkies will never admit their free market is a pipe dream and will roar with delight the next private space transport start up hoping they will become the SpaceX killer the day SpaceX reveals its spots. Of course, these praising SpaceX now will be dead before that happens.

Comment Re:So... Question, (Score 1) 1232

Columbine and Newtown school shootings were both with legally acquired guns in the wrong hands. Robberies and drug deal shootings frequently use illegal (hence less traceable) guns.

So your premise assumes guns were legally in the wrong hands due to the devastating end results, correct? It's an erroneous statement as the determination is always post criminal activity.

Comment Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership (Score 1) 1232

If someone used voter registration rolls to publish a map of all registered black voters, would that be a 1st Amendment vs 14th Amendment issue, or would that be a 1st Amendment vs privacy issue?

No, but are they publishing gun ownership by race? Political contributions are publically broadcasts on maps every election.

Comment Re:Distaste of C++ (Score 1) 476

On the other hand, it's the only mainstream language I know that supports both very low-level and very high-level programming style. This can be a real plus for compute intense signal processing, were a small minority of the code really requires low-level implementations. Being able to mix that with high-level abstractions (e.g. linear algebra factorizations) can give both efficient and maintanable code.

Objective-C.

Communications

Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate 151

New submitter Likes Microsoft writes "Yesterday, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced a Net Neutrality bill aimed at ISPs using data caps soley for profiteering purposes, rather than the 'traffic management' purpose they often claim. The text of the bill is available at Wyden's Senate page. It would require ISPs to be certified by the FCC before implementing data caps. It says, in part, 'The [FCC] shall evaluate a data cap proposed by an Internet service provider to determine whether the data cap functions to reasonably limit network congestion in a manner that does not unnecessarily discourage use of the Internet.' In a statement, Wyden said, 'Americans are increasingly tethered to the Internet and connecting more devices to it, but they don’t really have the tools to effectively manage data consumption across their networks. Data caps create challenges for consumers and run the risk of undermining innovation in the digital economy if they are imposed bluntly and not designed to truly manage network congestion.'"

Comment Not the real question (Score 1) 258

The real question is, ``When will the US reinstate Pebble Bed Nuclear that Professor Fermi patented and the first act of the Atomic Energy Commission shut down due to its lack in aiding for Weaponry" would be the more appropriate question. Westinghouse busts a nut with South Africa and we're going to get what they now call 4th Generation [Actually it was 1st generation that got cock blocked] and then pulled out a couple years back when they started pushing older Nuclear Reactor tech that is already craptastic for efficiency and safety, but would allow them to charge asinine prices to build replacement/new reactors. Pebble Bed is the cheapest, safest and cleanest Nuclear Energy solution ever devised and who is all in? CHINA. The Not Implemented Here syndrome continues in America.

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