Mon 12/15/2014 8:49 am. The article refers to bricked PCs, but no statistics on the frequency -- a common journalist practice. I.e., "ICE CAUSES CANCER" -- it probably has at least once somewhere, but *how often*? Tell me percentage of bricked PCs or tell me another story....

Tue 12/09/2014 8:48 am. I assume a lot of people write supposedly C++ programs that are actually mostly C; I know I do....

Mon 8/11/14 9:27 am. Whenever solar electricity actually costs *less* than utility power -- without ridiculous taxpayer subsidies -- *then* come back and complain.

Mon 7/07/2014 9:11 am. Using the term "shortage" in any discussion of market-driven activities is stupid. The term is meaningless and only causes confusion on both side, and in this case is *undoubtedly* used by employers to do that very thing and cover-up their simple desire to *pay less*. ... Which of course is also why they are so active in supporting the STEM propaganda: more engineers etc. means cheaper salaries.

Thu 5/15/2014 8:48 am. In the last few months, I MP3ed about 30 gigabytes of *my* CDs -- 338 CDs -- which I started buying a few years after the thing was introduced in the US at any rate; co-shoppers still asked what they were when I bought the first few. One or two failed to digitize; 3 or four required cleaning, with hand cream. I have, however, noted *many* failures of *some* CD players to *play* them. ... And I hope they're not confusing CDRs with CDs, as the illustration at http://www.theatlantic.com/tec... suggests.... -- jgo * owenlabs.org

Thu 4/10/14 9:11 am. The trailer I looked at it *did not* say the sun revolved around the earth. I assume slashdot is lying about it intentionally; or perhaps the actual film has a whole segment slashdot didn't tell us about. ... The trailer said the earth was "special" and quoted cosmologists who are professionally confused about various complicated matters, mostly to be sure in an effort to get more funding for cosmology. The universe may be created by a guy with a beard, and a teapot may be simmering on the other side of the moon, but the trailer didn't say anything around the sun revolving around the earth.

Thu 2/27/14 8:56 am. A secret internet currency promoted by criminals? ... What's not to trust!

Mon 12/23/13 6:03 am. So you torture the outsiders to convince them to sign-up? That should work well.

I suspect "Content Aware" means it *knows* it's fixing a lawn, or sky. The fix on the panaramic sky inserted a new cloud on the left! Cool, but will it know to insert a new zoo animal when you remove the concession stand in the zoo? The comment about seeing a detailed result is right-on, too; these things *often* look much better from a distance.

I agree; CPUs have *not* increased in speed as per Moore's Observation for some years. I would suggest that the constant puffery for multi-cores and parallel processing is *evidence* of that. And I think Microsoft at least knows and fears it; see the upcoming PLINQ feature for C# etc. (http://home.att.net/~owen_labs/rant14.htm#revealed).