Comment Re:Gitmo still needed? (Score 5, Insightful) 528
The fact that you (& many others) consider this not unique (i.e. normal) is even worse than the request itself.
Comment Re:When to say enough? (Score 1) 521
That is a matter of personal preference. Just because a dude believes in a sadistic bearded dude doesn't make his wish to live stronger than mine; I might happen to be extremely nothingnessfobic.
Comment Re:When to say enough? (Score 1) 521
Yeah, because a nonbeliever (such as myself) has only *nothing* to be afraid of.
Comment Re:Really??? (Score 1) 585
IBM is coasting?
You have no clue what you are talking about.
I am not even going to mention basic research, but IBM dropped Apple (they are innovating, right?) because Toys & Accessories Corp didn't generate enough volume on PPC CPUs. That's just one indication how coasting and declining IBM is.
Comment Re: capable of 67 trillion calculations per second (Score 1) 53
Trillion calculations? WTF? How many megapixels is that?
Comment Re:God, god, god.... (Score 1) 1328
Pi having infinite number of digits is not the kind of infinity we can not grasp. Draw a circle; ratio of circumference to diameter is pi. You can stare at it and contemplate all day long, having it in front of your eyes in its entirety.
Infinity that we can not grasp is, for example, infinitely long truly random sequence.
Comment Re:because... (Score 1) 473
Training office drones is one (costly but doable) part of the transition. The other (AD, Exchange, Office, Sharepoint, 3rd party stuff available only for Windows...) is not so simple, and often impossible.
Comment Re:Of course the funny thing (Score 1) 140
Exchange integration is cool but I think they love it for Echelon integration.
Comment Re:USD per watt and watts per sqm (Score 1) 635
Care to support this with a citation? The only news I read about nuclear is how to get rid of waste and at the same time stop teRRists from getting it.
Comment What's that sound? Plonk? (Score 0, Troll) 31
Another in a line of moronically named products.
Brings the audio memories of a carelessly dropped shit in a highly acoustic toilet.
Comment Re:Hmm! (Score 1) 502
There are many great Anglosaxon contributions, I never tried to dispute that.
But to list "if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking - gasp - German" as an achievement worth of praise is laughable.
Comment Re:Hmm! (Score 1) 502
Of all the things you found the language to be the most significant Anglosaxon contribution to the world?
English or German or whatever, same shit. What else do you have?
Comment A thoughtcrime (Score 1) 140
"Intellectual property crime", "IP offence"... George Orwell should rise from the grave and sue for "IP theft".
Submission + - IE9 Throws Down the Hardware Acceleration Gauntlet (msdn.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Over on Microsoft's IE blog they have an interesting comparison of browsers with regard to hardware accelerated page rendering. They write, 'One of our objectives with Internet Explorer 9 is taking full advantage of modern PC hardware to make the browser faster. We’re excited about hardware acceleration because it fundamentally improves the performance of websites. The websites that you use every day become faster and more responsive, and developers can create new classes of web applications through standards based markup that were previously not possible. In this post, we take a closer look at how hardware acceleration improves the performance of the Flying Images sample on the IE9 test drive site. When you run Flying Images across different browsers you’ll see that Internet Explorer 9 can handle hundreds of images at full speed while other browsers, including Internet Explorer 8, quickly come to a crawl.' Absent from the comparison is a nightly build of Firefox with the Mozilla's forthcoming Direct2D acceleration enabled.
Submission + - Veteran IT hack Guy Kewney dies (livejournal.com)
99luftballon writes: Guy Kewney, veteran British IT journalist has died at his home last night.
Guy Wrote his column in Personal Computer World from its inception in 1978 to the final issue in 2009 and set up the UK editions of Microscope and PC Dealer. He wrote to the end, still publishing until weeks before his death. He is fondly remembered by colleagues and former foes.
Guy Wrote his column in Personal Computer World from its inception in 1978 to the final issue in 2009 and set up the UK editions of Microscope and PC Dealer. He wrote to the end, still publishing until weeks before his death. He is fondly remembered by colleagues and former foes.
