Posts by Bill Neal

Mako

I can't see anyone making an optical processor either. Until someone makes some sort of optical transistor, we will still have to translate the light into electrical signals & back again. This would take a lot of chip space in any implementation.

Re: "They did not invent."

HP TC1100, 7 years older & had better specs

A quick google image search shows it many places.

Re: Methinks Mr. Dotcom needs to re-evaluate the situation.

Couldn't agree more. I don't see Romney R-money helping the situation at all. Here is a perfect example: http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-vows-to-ban-pornography-by-installing-a-filter-on-every-u-s-pc

Re: The last tale...

I always thought guns were cool, but never had the desire to bring one anywhere near a school. I didn't need safety lessons to teach that common sense either. Kids make mistakes, but that kid was seriously underestimating the purpose of a gun. A WEAPON is something you show friends at home or while camping perhaps. All the safety I was taught later in life seemed obvious by my own reasoning. That kid & his elders all fail to meet minimum standards for critical thinking.

Re: OCP

Keiretsu, meaning "series" or "subsidiary" - A subsidiary of the still existing Mitsubishi conglomerate is still part of a Monopoly IMO. Did I miss something, or did you forget that the leaders of all these subsidiaries still regularly meet up and talk shop in ways that would be considered questionable, if not illegal in the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu

Re: Climate versus weather forecasting

In many cases the power/fuel needed is not reliable, making the event even more chaotic. Perhaps the only answer is that the water is & is not going to boil.

multiple monitors?

What was wrong with multiple monitors before? I haven't had trouble with Windows or Linux.

Re: The Weakest Link...

aren't the fattest pipes in the sea?

Velv

It is quite simply because they claim he stole property from US companies and profited greatly from it. Then again, look at what people in China get away with.

Re: Aha! The acronym is cracked.

Pipeline Emission just to dirty for you? needed some protection?

SkipyBing

small enough to be "comfortable to hold for women, because this Pantone can be carried with one hand while doing something else".

This marketing would not be the least bit acceptable here, would it? just a bit sexist

Re: Honestly...

more practical design: the earth warships from Babylon5 had a very simple solution for artificial gravity, counter rotating hull sections. always seems the most practical to me

Re: Sticking

After the whole Sabu trap, this is very likely a sort of honeypot/misinformation campaign by the "governments agencies who keep monopolies in place"

Re: Yawn

Just because 500 million people (or systems, since most people use more than one these days) were desperate to get away from Vista, Ballmer thinks that = 500 million just as eager to use win8? At least somebody over there had some coffee and decided to let the rest of the world know that was just a dream

1/4 cup of butter?

2oz. Of course many sticks of butter here have the wrapper labeled in both systems, and most recipes would call for a 1/4 stick. Also every 'merican measuring cup I have seen has both metric & "standard" (as we like to call it)

Re: Can we get Gnome and KDE to do three-point-turns, too, now?

Have you seen Gnome3? They just tried the same "Radical" "Innovative" & "belongs-on-a-damn-tablet" changes we see in Win8. I hate it just as much as Balmer's Metrosexual CP. I hope people have some choice other than what the Metro Consumer Preview looks like. At least with 'nix you have MANY choices for appearance.

@h4m0ny

I agree, but you don't seem to notice that my comment was loaded with sarcasm. That said, there have been several comments towards anon-related news which imply nothing is to harsh a punishment. Of course these are often severely downvoted very quickly.

And for those of you...

There should have been a few 'nix distros on the list, if only to use as file recovery when the free av fails to catch anything REALLY bad/annoying. The only program on the list that I have used is VLC. Probably the only one on that list I will ever use. (well, I used OOo until the fork) At home I just keep the Windows boxes off the internet at all times. My cat could probably update Facebook with linux. Its not that difficult.

using gamma rays as a scanning technique

riiiiight

Re: Buy the market leader?

Even if they could afford to buy a market leader, how would they avoid the DOJ & antitrust? They can't. They will just have to figure out how to make better software, because in the end that is what they are.

Re: Raptor is NOT the highest-tech aircraft

Aside from the optional tail hook & VTOL, what does the Lightning have that the F-22 doesn't? the electronics, much like everything else was borrowed from the F-22 design and made smaller/cheaper. & they are still trying to figure out how to keep the lightning from falling apart.

Re: But I wonder...

sounds like she should get a job as an entertainer in the up & coming field of teledildonics. She could make some money with such long shows. (note: add teledildonics to spellcheck dictionary)