Comment: Re:lp0 (Score 1) 65
Huh. I was fully expecting someone with a four-digit UID (or, perhaps even one of the rarely-seen three-digits) and bitchslap me. C'mon guys...
Comment: Re:lp0 (Score 1) 65
...says the guy with a six-digit UID. Get off my lawn.
Comment: Another sign of societal decadence (Score 1) 133
...and what exactly is the point? To separate the rich hedonists from a little more of their disposable income? I sure don't see those of us commoners being able to take "advantage" of such a ridiculous luxury.
Comment: Your poor business decisions are not Apple's fault (Score 4, Insightful) 660
Putting all your eggs in one basket is a poor business decision, and now you are reaping the rewards of that decision. Apple is not solely to blame here.
Comment: Skeptical (Score 1) 220
Been wearing one on my hip every day for the past 4.5 years, and have noticed no problems. Anecdotal, I know. But I'm skeptical.
Comment: Re:Reproducibility (Score 1) 361
Carl Sagan reproduced the Miller experiment for his series "Cosmos." Check out the second episode. It's on Netflix.
Comment: Editor: please change "tera" to "peta" (Score 1) 1
Proofreading failure on my part.
BOINC exceeds 2 teraflop barrier 1
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Myrrh writes "Though an official announcement has not yet been made, it would appear that for the first time, the BOINC project as a whole has exceeded two teraFLOPS performance. According to last month's Top500 list of supercomputers, BOINC's performance is now beating that of the fastest supercomputer, RoadRunner, by a factor of about one-third. Not too shabby!"