Comment Hell no (Score 1) 561
I will spend another year with my iphone 6
Comment world hunger (Score 1) 216
I am sure that if all nations work together we could end war and world hunger
Comment The problem is in the subtext (Score 5, Informative) 606
The union says Amazon workers receive lower wages than others in retail and mail-order jobs and that other retailers pay overtime, but Amazon does not. Amazon has defended its wage policies, saying that employees earn toward the upper end of the pay scale of logistics companies in Germany.
Please note that the union sees the work as a mail-order job, where wages are higher.
Amazon thinks of it as a logistics job.
The union demands that Amazon recognize that the workers are in the mail-order business and pay accordingly.
Comment Only in America ... (Score 1) 299
oh no wait, also in China and most Middle Eastern countries.
Comment Sinfest deserves your recognition (Score 1) 321
Comics I follow are
http://www.sinfest.com/ (hands down the best)
http://www.dilbert.com/ (still going strong and providing daily comfort)
http://wumocomicstrip.com/ (funny)
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/index.html (mostly pro mac)
http://www.xkcd.com/ (the tool that belongs in every geeks toolbox)
Comment Metric, stop living in the past (Score 1) 304
same town, but since I live in Seoul
Comment Cowboy Neal for president (Score 1) 707
I would move to the US if he would win.
Comment Seoul (Score 2) 140
In the subway of Seoul wifi has been available to passengers for years. Three public companies (olleh, offer wifi in the subway and many other public places for a price as low as 8000 krw (about 8 USD) per month.
Comment Just don't loose it (Score 1) 191
What is important for me is that my data stays available to me.
If it also becomes available to other
Since I don't back up at all locally, I keep all my data on one raid-5 configuration, the way google/dropbox/apple store my data is probably a lot better.
Comment Re:The guy who invented the wheel (Score 1) 542
He (or maybe a she) also forgot to patent it
Another anonymous great inventor; the person who learned how to control fire.
Comment Cloud Atlas (Score 1) 647
One of the potentially great scifi movies of 2012. Read the book by David Mitchell before the movie is out.
Comment NASA Space Center (Score 1) 363
NASA Space Center in Houston. See a Saturn V rocket and Mission control and several other marvels of wonders.
Comment Re:doodle (Score 1) 241
absolutely, I found that since I use a keyboard all the time I stopped doodling.
Doodling gets my creative juices flowing, so now I have a pen and paper at hand just to doodle.
Comment Re:hackers? tools? Germany? (Score 2) 27
some/all "hacker" tools are illegal in Germany
http://nrrd.de/dasbuch/hadez/now_theyve_done_it_just_owning_hacker_tools_illegal_germany
Submission + - Supercomputers Crack Sixty-Trillionth Binary Digit (energy.gov) 1
Dr.Who writes: According to http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2011/04/28/supercomputers-crack-sixty-trillionth-binary-digit-pi-squared, "a value of Pi to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton." The article goes on to cite use of computationally complex algorithms to detect errors in computer hardware.
The article references a blog http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2011/03/Pi-goes-on-forever/ which has more background.
Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkley. I am presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI.
The article references a blog http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2011/03/Pi-goes-on-forever/ which has more background.
Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkley. I am presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI.
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