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Comment Re:Bad analogy. Poor understanding of issue. (Score 1) 139

It's not really like that any more. Yes, originally a single vial of Pfizer was intended for 5 shots. It was discovered that with the right syringes you could get 6 or even 7 shots out a single vial. Pfizer also saw this and changed the the rules: a single vial could now deliver 6 shots. All shipments to EU countries were changed because of this. We all got less vials as there now as a 20% increase of doses per vial. But they don't supply the syringes you need to get to 6 doses...

Comment Re:vGPU seems cool (Score 2) 90

AMD has something similar with their FirePro S series. The difference is those cards implement the SR-IOV standard to 'split' the GPU into 16 parts (at most). Unfortunately, the kernel driver is still not part of the kernel. There are patches floating around so it's probably for 4.11. The primary use case for this is virtualization. You can give several vm's a slice of the GPU and deliver near bare-metal performance. But it may be of interested for gamers too: the can share their GPU with a windows vm to play games under Linux. No hassling with an additional GPU or monitor. The intel (and nVidia) solution look interesting as it should work on all recent hardware while AMD only adds it to their S series. The advantage of SR-IOV is that it is a proven hardware solution.

Comment Re:Before you laugh (Score 1) 239

Let's just get this out of the way now: If Hitler were alive today he'd be able to have Google remove all links to anything relating to himself as the Nazi leader.

Hypothetically:
He could ask that if you search for his name, you won't find any links about him being the Nazi leader. However, if you search for Nazi leader, all these links would show up again. Same for 'genocide jews', ... Google only has to remove the link between a search term and a search result. It doesn't delete the actual search result from it's index.

Comment Re:Good. (Score 3, Informative) 138

It's not like removing the information from their index without removing it from an actual website is going to make the information 'private' again.

Nope, because google does not have to remove it from their index. All they have to remove is the link between a search term and a search result. The result can still show up if you use a different search term.

Comment Re:At what point (Score 5, Insightful) 60

And leave behind a 500M people market? Abandon all their current contract and cloud services? I don't think so. The EU is the second biggest market after China.

Even if they do, several European companies will quickly fill the void (like in China) and the USA based companies will have an extra couple of competitors in the world.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 116

The only thing proprietary are the video drivers and that's because GPU vendors are douche bags.

Ubuntu Touch uses libhybris to use the same proprietary drivers as android. In that regard it's not more open dan android itself.

Comment Re:so... (Score 1) 172

Nobody is going to make you a car out of this, but some of these 'exotic' materials they need to create in a lab can tell us some interesting things about the early universe.

It's not gonna tells us much as it is extremely short lived. They haven't 'seen' the atom itself. They measured it's decay products. There are no physical properties known of un-un-pentium because it's extremely difficult to measure anything about it.

Comment Re:Obvious (Score 4, Informative) 238

Our carbon foot print is big because our living standard is high but if you look at and activity basis rather than a per capita basis we do things with higher carbon efficiencies than most of the world.

Most (western) European countries have an equally high living standard but a considerable lower carbon footprint. I doubt that bringing activity into the calculation will change much...

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