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Audio

Could this insulate my house, so I can listen to White Zombie even louder but not frighten the neighbours?

Comment

That is the weirdest ad I have ever seen. I will never forget MSI x laptops. I do not think I will buy one after watching the ad though - the associations are too off. MSI should have contracted the ad out to some JAV-starlet porn flick shop instead.

"...coming in late summer."

Halfway through August, I guess it will be late summer any day now.

Those crazy Mactards! Just can't wait for their Apple pie!

High orbit & shadow

Well, I did not know that, thanks.

Bernie 2

Exactly correct.

Debian

Whatever you may think of Debian you cannot *touch* the strength of it's package management system. Rock solid in my experience, nearly bulletproof graph based dependency if I understand it correctly. Much better than SuSE or Fedora.

@R 11

Then... don't use Redhat!

I predict

that tweets concerning the current service level of Twitter will bring Twitter to it's knees for the next week or so.

And... really, who the fuck cares anyway?

It is mostly a brand

Rackable bought two things with SGI: the name and some very nifty common address space across multiple box tech. I dunno if the common address space stuff will sell (you know IBM Power racks do make much of it) but 'SGI' the name carries some weight. There is a lot of respect in at least the grey beard set for SGI. I'm not a grey beard but my last sysadmin job - they had dozens of 15 year old SGI boxes still running nicely. How many top 5 x86 pizza box vendors can make that claim? HP clusters where I work are given no more than 5 years to replacement, as much for failure rate as new hardware available.

@Chris 19

The thing I do not get is how Apple took over 'i'. Always seemed to me that would be the Intel letter.

What if were DARPA?

They'd be equipped with butcher knives and an "identify brown people" AI control program.

Progress...

Just imagine if Blair & Bush had had fully automated military and police forces in 2002! Nobody would even know there was an Iraq war, the tortured and mutilated bodies would still be piling up in Abu Graib, Iran would have been invaded (because well, wtf, why not?, it's not like it would kill brits or yanks) as would Syria, N.Korea, Canada (for letting the 9/11 terrorists in, ahem), and so on.

Call me a luddite, I just don't trust politicians with this much direct power.

12 core processor?

I'll take 4 on a nice Tyan board with quad-fire 4890's. Finally, 100 FPS in Crysis!

What lang would you write an OS in?

Seriously.

Java = slow but runs anywhere there's a Java runtime. Oh, wait.

Python = runs anywhere there's a Python runtime. Oh, wait.

Assembler = you think C++ is too much for normal people?

Smalltalk & spawn = you are mad.

How many Python & Java runtimes/interpretters, and how many assemblers, are written in their native lang? Most of theme are written in C or C++!

C++ is a fine programming language. So is C. The reason they are still around is that they are fine languages. Programmers make mistakes while coding in all languages, it's not the fault of the language.

Entirely aside: IMNSHO, if you can't handle pointers and addresses and reference variables, then there was something lacking in your education. Memory addresses are fundamental to computers.

Economics

Who said you can't make money off open source software?

Who's your daddy?

I do not get it

I've been to Tokyo. Metro Tokyo is about 35x10^6 people spread over a 3pi/2 arc with a radius of maybe 15 or 20 Km. How can 20K or so crows be a problem in such a large city?

Unless these are Left 4 Dead crows?

Screw it...

Gimme a zombie plague.

And guns.

Lots and lots of guns.

Tux because, wth, why not.

@AC 09:39 GMT

You should have said 'As an ignorant person of Jewish decent...'.

[West] Germany has, since not very long after the end of WWII, taught the truth in it's schools about what the Nazis did, about 6 million murdered Jews, and the other forgotten 6 million: mixed communists, gays, Roma, persons with disabilities, others.

What Germany also did was ban the Nazi party, and it's iconography. The salute is a bit of Nazi iconography, yes?

I recommend you pick up some books and read the history of West Germany from the period 1945 to, say, unification with East Germany. Then you will be less ignorant.

LOLZ

I got the past few source code tarballs if anyone needs a copy! A modest deliver charge will apply though and only shipped on Blu-ray media, bwahahahah!

Can do this to most any box without a browser

while (1)

void *foo = malloc(1000000);

Not the memory leak, just the massive allocation.

And though it isn't memory, there's always this gem:

while (1)

fork();

Whats the big deal?

Stop whining

Gates puts the lectures up there for all to watch for free, and you buggers still find a way to insult him for it. Fuckwits, all of you.

And then lesson is

...pick your hardware to match the characteristics of your software!

The beauty of the research funding systems

I'm not normally one for poking at the reporters, but...

That cats do stuff like this was reported in a new study some, IIRC, ten years ago. Cats mimic the sounds of new born babies when they want something from people. It was reported widely as a 'funny science story' on TV news and also in newspapers.

I'm not suggesting that we need to "tighten the purse strings on those wastrel boffins", but anybody who watches or knows scientists ('specially those in the soft sciences) knows that publishing a cute puffball paper - that recaps existing knowledge - often counts for as much as publishing doing original research.

Could a physicist get away with publishing new research that establishes, oh, I dunno, that light has both a wave and particle nature? Or a mathematician publishing new research that shows that, surprise, lines can only be locally parallel in non-euclidean geometries?

How come journalists can?

NorK assets

What would the USA retaliate against? NorK's web server?