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"Future" police state?

How is this different from the hundreds of aftermarket fans already available? This article implies that no one has ever thought to redesign computer fans before, yet if you take a…

I don't believe he said it makes no difference.

"there is only who has the military power to dictate terms." That's generally how these things work, yes. What were you expecting?

Fairly sensible advice. One quibble I have is the idea that computer science departments are somehow shortchanging students by not teaching them business skills. If you want to lea…

Well, I think you could be a bit more specific than that and reasonably say something like "If speed is a high priority for you, then C++ is often a good choice." That's why PC gam…

Should be interesting to see how they define "bad."

Kind of off-topic but the Korean term for a Samsung type of company is Chaebol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

I guess this might be focused on the consumer end, but if you're looking for this in the enterprise, you can get it from IBM and Oracle. You can buy Oracle (Sun) hardware, Solaris,…

TLDR: A little, but if you read between the lines you can still figure out which games are worth playing.

Maybe I'm being nit-picky, but it's not "entirely self-sufficient," as it still needs light from an external source.

Are there better quality images anywhere? On the Antartic Heritage Trust site it's just a crappy Flash slide show. Would be nice to see high res JPEGs.

So doctors get paid less than, say, used car salesmen, pawn brokers, payday lenders, etc?

What exactly is the point of ruining their contest?

I realize this article is from 2010, but it could have mentioned AMD, which does have a 5 GHz chip available now. It requires liquid cooling however.

Yes, did you notice that Salon edited "Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen?" Salon's version: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Nobody knows my sorrow Nobody knows the trouble I’ve…

How is believing in religion different than believing in irony and pluralism?

No idea, probably just a mock-up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests

"becoming the go-to technology in Enterprise[y]" Hmm, I work for a company that processes insurance claims. That's enterprisey, right? Let me tell you you'll get a blank/'are you c…

Care to explain? We just lost two wars, were embarrassed by Putin over the "red line" in Syria that turned out to be an empty threat, Iran is moving towards nuclear weapons, Hagel …

I don't either, but this is the way the world works. Exiting powers create a vacuum. Expect to see more of Russia and China asserting themselves on the world stage now that the Uni…

The literal meaning of the individual kanji is not the same as the entire word. You might want to do a bit more research into what a geisha actually is ...

Life's a marathon, not a sprint.

Not quite. We can compute any determinate process, perhaps. (Although as Gödel‎ showed, self-reference introduces computational paradoxes even in closed, limited, artificial, forma…