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Comment Re:Isn't this obvious? (Score 1) 70

"Underbanked" accounts for 80% or more of that statistic you mentioned. Someone decided that anyone who doesn't have enough bank accounts or who used some other form of financial tool in the past few years is "underbanked". They counted people and came up with a number and judged that those people aren't banking enough and so lumped them into a statistic.

*It is totally false that 25% of people in the USA do not have a bank account.*

Comment OOVOO (Score 1) 170

If you want multi user video conferencing, not all are created equal.
After trying many products, I settled on OOVOO because of reasonable cost (free for two-way, pay for more), quality (excellent), and features (even higher quality video and ability to chat with those who don't have the application installed).

Definitely an option for those of us who are mere mortals...

Comment Re:Off topic, but I have to mention it (Score 2, Informative) 294

FLOPS = FLoating Point Operations Per Second

The C64 has no floating point unit in hardware. All floating point math had to be done through software emulation. It's a lot of extra work.

The C64 may have "fast" bytewise integer math in comparison, but there's a lot of overhead when you try to do floating point in an integer system.

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Next-Gen Mars Rover In Danger of Cancellation 210

OriginalArlen writes "NASA's next-generation rover, the nuclear-powered, laser-equipped Mars Science Laboratory is reported to be at a serious risk of cancellation due to budget and schedule overruns, including non-delivery of vital parts by a subcontractor. Costs are running over $2B so far, and the already thin schedule of Mars missions planned for the next decade — with budget ring-fenced for an outer-planets flagship mission — is in danger of further cuts."
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Journal Journal: A Briticsim I Like 3

Bollocks. Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks. Unless you have a deep southern drawl, it sounds a lot better than "Bullshit" (for the Southerner, it's "Boolsheeuht."). I propose we adopt it as an American expression, and besides you can sort of say it in polite company. "That's a lot of bollocks."

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