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Comment: Stupid. Use the money elsewhere. Or not at all. (Score 1) 709

by TheCeltic (#38182694) Attached to: California Going Ahead With Bullet Train

Stupid... cost is high, value is minimal, chances of it being maintainable are negative.... How about spending a few billion giving Los Angeles a decent subway system to cut down on smog and traffic? Or spending the money on better water treatment facilities to keep our oceans clean? Or just saving the money since both state and federal debt is out of control? *sigh* Thank goodness we have "stimulus" programs like this.... NOT.

Comment: "except in cases arising in... public danger" (Score 1) 885

by TheCeltic (#37578090) Attached to: Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure

"except in cases arising in... public danger" A terrorist helping recruit crazies in another country certainly is a "public danger".

Calling Anwar al-Awlaki "an American born cleric" is like calling the devil "an angel that likes warm temperatures".

I'm not a fanboy of Obama and think he has done many many things wrong while president, this however isn't one of them.

Comment: Sooo... closed source fixes "broken" code? HOW? (Score 1) 295

by TheCeltic (#36090652) Attached to: Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced

Bummer.. over the years, with all the contributions that Google has given to OSS (and received from it). What happened here? This is silly, they KNOW the benefits of keeping code open. How can anyone argue "we won't open the code because it's "broken"?" If I could name all the great open source projects that had "broken" code when they started and now are incredible I would.. let's just name a few: The Linux Kernel, Apache (a "patchy" web server.. name says it all), snort, and on and on an on.... What better way to foster development and maturity of code than to open it to the community?

Comment: "Anti-Science"? Hrmm... (Score 1) 726

by TheCeltic (#35122812) Attached to: New Mexico Bill To Protect Anti-Science Education

Since when is questioning THEORIES "Anti-Science"? Sounds like someone feels threatened.

"public school teachers who want to teach "scientific weaknesses" about "controversial scientific topics" including evolution, climate change, human cloning and â" ambiguously â" "other scientific topics" may do so without fear of reprimand" ... DUH! That is what teaching is... showing the strengths and the weaknesses of different ideas and attempting to prove or disprove them. I'm sure Copernicus would have been considered "Anti-Science" by those who don't want theories taught as such, but would rather they be taught as fact.

Comment: can someone translate this for me? (Score 1) 176

by TheCeltic (#23698193) Attached to: Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos
Does it mean "We've been slashdotted", our nifty new technology relies on active-x and therefore can't scale for beans.... Not to mention it's lack of security.

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Microsoft

MS Releases New Media Player Firefox Plugin 191

Posted by kdawson
from the windows-only dept.
SilentChris writes "Microsoft today released a new Media Player plugin for Firefox that resolves the problems users of the older version were experiencing. According to the company's Port 25 blog, it's backwards compatible with Windows Media Player 6.4. The plugin is for Windows XP and Vista only, but if you have to watch WMV video at least it's less likely to crash your browser."
Google

+ - Traffic flow now on Google Maps

Submitted by JohnAGonzalez
JohnAGonzalez writes "A recent look at Google Maps shows that they have added a new traffic feature. Click on the Traffic button in the upper right-hand corner of the map window while viewing your local metropolitan area and the major roads will be overlaid with colored outlines that show the traffic flow for that particular roadway."
Intel

+ - The Multicore CPU Race Is On

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Anonymous
Anonymous writes "Data center consolidation and virtualization may be driving server implementations these days, but there's a much more fundamental shift occurring at the microprocessor platform level. To wit, an article on ChannelWeb.com reports that systems based on the industry-standard x86 architecture are taking on a predominant role in the overall infrastructure, rivaling the performance and capability of higher-end processors. At the same time, new generations of RISC-based enterprise platforms that run improved multithreaded implementations of Unix are making huge strides in throughput and performance."

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