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Comment It's Italy (Score 1) 145

by xerces8 on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @06:06AM (#35718220) Attached to: Yahoo! Liable In Italy For Searchable Content

This from the country where the president (Prime Minister to be exact) engages in sex with underage prostitute(s).
No surprise.

Comment Acronym Fun (Score 1) 610

by xerces8 on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @03:19PM (#34756936) Attached to: NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

> Science and Entertainment Exchange

S.E.X. ?

Are Browser Games Filling the Same Role As Political Cartoons? 33

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 22, 2008 @05:01AM from the pointing-out-our-leaders'-flaws-with-flash dept.

Amazon's Game Room Blog is running a piece asking whether modern browser games are coming to occupy the same purpose as political cartoons. The article was inspired by the variety of shoe-tossing games that sprung up after President Bush's recent run-in with an irate Iraqi journalist, as well as the games satirizing aspects of the presidential campaign and candidates. Quoting: "The games are certainly no works of art, but they were not designed to be awe inspiring. They were instead designed to capture the moment, and immortalize it from a particular point of view that people in this particular time can appreciate, or at least recognize. ... just like the satirical editorial comics of our own past, these snippets of code will offer a window into the past, and the individually conceived past moments that it consists of."

Comment Depends on the country (Score 1) 412

by xerces8 on Sunday December 21, 2008 @07:50AM (#26190425) Attached to: Broadband Access Without the Pork?

It depends where you are. Here in Slovenia you can get VDSL internet without TV or phone service.

Price:
1/1 Mbps - 22 EUR/month
10/2 Mbps - 29 EUR/month
no hidden costs.

Unfortunately it is available only in close vicinity of the phone central.

(small test, ignore : ÄÅÅ¾ÄOEÅÅ½)

Comment Check the facts ... (Score 1) 258

by xerces8 on Sunday December 21, 2008 @07:42AM (#26190403) Attached to: Java Performance On Ubuntu Vs. Windows Vista

I posted this on the moronix forum:

Phoronix discovered that the server HotSpot VM is about 60% faster* than the client VM.
Guess what, this is true on both Windows and Linux.

The real result is not "Linux is 60% faster than Windows" but "server VM is 60% faster than client VM".

Anyone who has doubts, can repeat the tests on their own PC.

* - depends on actual code; for Bork File Encryptor it is about 60%

And this on another forum (no need to translate to see the essence):

Evo, gehajmnis geluftet:

Java 1.6.0_11-b03
HostSpot 11.0-b16

Test : Bork File Encrypter v1.4
Ukaz : java -server/-client "-Dbork.password=testpassword" -cp bork.jar org.matthew.bork.Bork ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso
Testni fajl na FAT32 particiji. V vsakem testu na isti.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Q6600
RAM: 8GB DDR2 800 5-5-5-5

Windows XP SP3 :
- client VM : 15,5 sekund
- server VM : 8,9 sekund

RIPLinux 7.3 (jedro 2.6.27.7)
- client VM : 15,8 sekund
- server VM : 10,3 sekund

Torej so pametnjakoviÄi na moronix-u ugotovili, da je server VM 60% hitrejÅi od client VM.
Pol so to zlagali v "Linux je 60% hitrejÅi".

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