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Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 222

Makes sense but most enterprises are moving towards high density virtualization. This seems to be going the other direction towards specialized appliances rather than.general purpose computing. I could see workstations/terminals going the arm route as well as highly customized and code optimized app servers. But I don't think you'll see many enterprises switching over just yet.

Comment Re:Mathmatics of dissatisfaction (Score 2, Informative) 772

Well lets break down the AC's self righteous gloating. He said its been 10 years since graduating so he graduated around 2000, he says he was in school for 5 years so he started college around 1995. Now let's take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_tuition#Disproportional_inflation_of_college_costs and you will see how divergent cost of attendance has become to the standard inflation rate. Furthermore if you take into consideration the oversupply of college graduates, erosion of earnings potential for a 4 year degree and extremely limited job market then its pretty clear its almost impossible for most students to be able to work off their tuition/room board/etc while working college jobs. Sure it may be possible to go to night school and work a full time job but that significantly limits your choice of schools and coursework.Taking less credits each year is another option but that may mean you are taking the 6 or 7 year plan to graduation which is ultimately not worth it when you consider the lost earnings potential (unless you are working towards a degree within your current field of work).

Comment Re:Not really, no (Score 2, Informative) 249

Counter to what you say, I would venture to say caffeine is better regulated than most the herbal garbage out there. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 limits the authority of the FDA in regards to dietary supplements. Its scary but they have more authority over your chocolate milk than your multivitamin. And if for some reason one of these supplements turn out to actually have efficacy then chances are they will be locked down just look at ephedra. From: http://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/default.htm FDA regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering "conventional" foods and drug products (prescription and Over-the-Counter). Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the dietary supplement manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that a dietary supplement is safe before it is marketed. FDA is responsible for taking action against any unsafe dietary supplement product after it reaches the market. Generally, manufacturers do not need to register their products with FDA nor get FDA approval before producing or selling dietary supplements.* Manufacturers must make sure that product label information is truthful and not misleading.

Comment Re:Worth every penny ... (Score 1) 377

Sadly you are also flat out wrong. McAfee is worth a boatload of money for their various other offerings. Antivirus is the most public to the general user so we have all this flamebait floating around here about how much their AV sucks. Mcafee has tons of government and fortune 500 contracts, that alone is worth a bundle. They also have a huge IP portfolio and tons of actual commercial products that are very valuable to large enterprises such as IPS or HIDS systems as well as data security and email protection and compliance technologies. Thinking all Mcafee does is sell crappy AV software for thirty bucks at best buy is a very myopic view of their operations. As a Intel shareholder I am glad they made the decision they did.

Comment Almost Always User Error (Score 5, Insightful) 930

From the article: Police in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., investigated and believe driver error was to blame, Chief Steven Riffel said Tuesday. He said surveillance video showed that the brake lights didn't illuminate until after the crash. But Mr. Riffel said that determination is preliminary and that his agency has turned over the investigation to NHTSA. Based on the black box data, NHTSA investigators found that the brake was not engaged and the throttle was wide open, according to a person familiar with the matter. Ms. Marseille sticks by her story. "It makes me very angry when someone tells me, 'She probably hit the gas pedal instead,' because I think it's a sexist comment, an ageist comment," she said.

Brake lights are controlled by a simple switch in the brake assembly. Regardless of how much TOyota may have jacked up the throttle system I doubt they were able to screw that up too. Sounds like most these idiots are too stupid to own a car

Comment Re:Summary is BS (Score 2, Informative) 284

I call BS on you, Anthracite coal is too damn expensive for use in power plants. Power plants use Bituminous coal which is softer, contains more impurities and is far cheaper. Anthracite coal is rarer than other softer coals since it require very specific geological conditions to compress out the impurities from the carbon. Anthracite is also much more difficult to mine since the locations where it is found are usually found deep in the mountains rather than on flat coal seams like some other type of coal. Burning coal and its impurities lead to air quality issues (carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and incomplete hydrocarbon burns) as well as deposition of toxic metals in the areas where emissions particulates travel such as Mercury, Arsenic, Manganese, Chromium, and Beryllium. Coal power just sounds awesome compared to the other options doesn't it.

Submission + - Police Seize Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen's Computers (consumerist.com)

gotpaint32 writes: Police on Friday seized several computers from the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, after they were granted a warrant allowing them to confiscate property that "may have been used as the means of committing a felony." While no specific crime is mentioned in the warrant, it's assumed to be in response to last week's series of posts about Apple's next-generation iPhone, a prototype of which Gizmodo obtained from a source who found it after an Apple engineer left it behind in a bar.

Comment Re:Hmm... (Score 1) 561

I hope you realize that Israel (where they did this study) has mandatory conscription for both men and women of age. There is not much self selection when everyone is forced to participate. Have you had your cigarettes today?
NASA

Submission + - Hobbyist Shoots Earth From Edge of Space With Used (go.com)

gotpaint32 writes: NASA Spends $450 Million for Shuttle Flights; Robert Harrison Uses Weather Balloons, Duct Tape for $750. A typical space shuttle mission flies 200 miles above the earth's surface and returns beautiful pictures on the way, but it involves 1,500 people, puts six or seven astronauts at risk and costs, depending on who's doing the counting, close to half a billion dollars. A British inventor uses a camera, balloon and duct tape to photograph space. Robert Harrison got some pretty good pictures too. He did it with a weather balloon, a used digital camera he picked up on eBay and some duct tape.

Comment Re:False! (Score 5, Interesting) 132

Good point, I have Win 7 on a Dell Mini 10 with 1GB of RAM, it boots to the login screen in about 30 seconds and comes out of standby mode in about 5 seconds. Considering how much more it is actually loading on Windows, it seems Google still has a long way to go until instant on is a reality.

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