Comment Re: our Universe shouldn't exist. (Score 1) 188
Wake up, gweihir. The matrix has you.
Comment Re:What a punishment (Score 1) 270
The old auto racing quote:
"In order to make a small fortune in racing, first you need a large fortune."
Comment Re:"Freedom Act" (Score 1) 107
Yes. I have often wished I could vote for the Republican Party of the 1860's. Sadly, the economic wing of the party was all to eager to jump into the pockets of the robber barons; and the social wing ran right off the deep end with their pivot from abolition to prohibition.
Comment Re:Don't complain. Sue. (Score 1) 297
Well. Clearly you have not been looking at her XKeyscore file.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 35
You missed the key element. The title includes the text "(Video)". I.e. there is no content here, but somebody managed to find a way to stretch this lack of content out from a 5-6 sentence PR piece into a 20-25 minute video. Just skip the whole thing.
Comment Re:"Freedom Act" (Score 4, Funny) 107
Finally a jobs bill that republicans can get behind.
Comment Solving the wrong problem (Score 1) 800
All crashes are avoidable. ALL.
Once you take this as your primary design principle, all this ethics gobbledy-gook goes away.
Comment Re:Zenimax is salty (Score 3, Funny) 72
Me: "Ok, they are offering me XXX you give me XXX*20% and I'll stay"
Proposal Accepted.
Valve Sponsors Work To Greatly Speed-Up Linux OpenGL Game Load Times 202
An anonymous reader writes "Valve Software has sponsored some interesting improvements developed by LunarG for the Mesa OpenGL library on Linux for deferred and threaded GLSL shader compilation. What these changes mean for users of the open-source Linux graphics drivers when running their favorite games is that OpenGL games now load a lot faster. As an example, the time from starting Dota 2 until the time actually being within the game is reduced by about 20 seconds on an Intel system. While Direct3D has offered similar functionality for a while, OpenGL has not, which has given it a bad reputation with regard to game load times until all shaders are compiled and cached — fortunately it's now addressed for OpenGL if using the Mesa Linux graphics drivers on a supported game."
Comment Re:Zero malware (Score 1) 269
Not to worry. I am sure the boys up in Redmond are working night and day to increase the % of malware affecting windows phones.
Comment Re:No thanks on Nuclear proliferation... (Score 1) 281
Hmmm. Fat is more energy dense than coal.... I have a modest proposal!
Comment Re:Survivalist (Score 1) 109
What is your basement made of? H2 will diffuse through solid metal. This fact (among others) is what keeps fuel cell vehicles in the realm of science fiction (or very expensive demonstrations anyway).
Comment Re:Pointless? (Score 1) 171
False. Any salt is easily reduced to its component ions by exposing it to water.
Comment Re:most lego's are a rip off (Score 1) 355
Do you have any idea how close a tolerance you must have in order to have millions of bricks and have any pair of them mate cleanly, easily, and with sufficient clutch to not immediately fall off? And have multiple "legal" connection locations on each brick? And permit multiple bricks attach with equal spacing and equivalent strength?
We are talking a process capability that rivals, if not vastly exceeds, most aerospace manufacturers. No disrespect to the rocket science guys, but we are talking tight tolerances on small parts.
