CommentRe:nobody is going to play a game designed by a sp (Score 1)207
Well this explains (...)
It doesn't explain anything, because it's not true.
CommentRe:Good riddance, Tesla (Score 1)232
Would it be a subsidy? I don't know, depends on the prices they charge, right?
CommentRe:Good riddance, Tesla (Score 1)232
Electrical companies, local governments and perhaps others.
CommentRe:Good riddance, Tesla (Score 1)232
Unless of course electric chargers are installed which can be used to charge any car (for a fee of course).
CommentGo into lower level programming! (Score 1)2
Go into jobs that use C / Assembly / (perhaps) C++ and you'll still be rather close to the metal!
I worked on 4G base station software and now I work on game development, in both cases I'm rather close to the hardware.
CommentRe:Potential, or likelihood? (Score 1)317
Weren't most (all?) of those layoffs done at Nokia?
CommentRe:Duh. But correlary (Score 1)21
I just think it's funny that you talk about "disposable email accounts" and then seem to value non-AC accounts, as there's any real difference...
CommentRe:Duh. But correlary (Score 1)21
Notice: If you post anonymously do not expect a reply.
A bit of an ironic signature then
CommentRe:Quiz to check your implicit bias (Score 1)398
I think it was the other way around for me, maybe it's randomizing the order for each instance of the test.
CommentRe:Statistics are not that hard to find... (Score 1)398
On average, just 2% of technology workers at seven Silicon Valley companies that have released staffing numbers are black; 3% are Hispanic.
But last year, 4.5% of all new recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science or computer engineering from prestigious research universities were African American, and 6.5% were Hispanic, according to data from the Computing Research Association.
Comparing one-year graduation numbers to total staff numbers seems like a fallacy.
CommentDo they? (Score 4, Insightful)329
"With computing, the social element isn't always evident. They ask, 'how am I going to make a difference in the world with a computer science degree?'"
I've never heard someone saying a sentence like this in high school (girls or boys). Anyone?
CommentActual details of the bug? (Score 1)131
Are there any actual details of how the bug works?
CommentRe:sure you want to go with 'undead' ? (Score 1)283
What about "the rumor of perl's death has been greatly exaggerated?"
Did Netcraft confirm it?
CommentRe:I don't get it (Score 1)79
Someone wanted to deliver content via webserver and then sue people who received this delivery as violating copyright?
Amazing.
They seem to be saying that, in addition to displaying the content on your screen, your browser also writes a copy into its cache, and that's two copies.
I wonder what they'd say of, say, a RAID1 file system, which makes two copies of the cached page, on two different disks. Would that mean two violations of the copyright? And if, after sending it from the screen to your eyes, the information in your brain is a third violation?
It's even worse. From the copy on the screen, each of your eyes makes another copy on its retina.
And on the technical side, all the routers temporarily put the data into a buffer. So it causes one extra copyright infringement for every router the data passes.
CommentEnergy cost of DRM? (Score 5, Insightful)339
Did they also calculate how much energy would be saved if we would not waste processor power on DRM decoding?
