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Comment: Re:great news. (Score 1) 170

by TangoMargarine (#46492719) Attached to: VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8

POST alone takes like 30 seconds. How can you possibly be doing a cold boot if you're skipping that?

And just FYI, Windows 8.1 Pro cold boots in about 8 seconds on my laptop, coming out of hibernation takes about 5 seconds and waking from sleep is instant.

I'll believe this voodoo incantation when I actually see it. Do you have an SSD?

Comment: Re:Another (Score 1) 234

by TangoMargarine (#46486183) Attached to: Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again

Making fun of HURD plumbs whole new depths of the phrase "beating a dead horse"...HURD is more like the horse that was beaten within a few inches of its life, all of its legs were nonfunctional and its skin was rotting, but it still managed to drag itself across the finish line by its teeth, a mile away and a whole year later, but all the spectators have long since left.

Comment: Re:Apps (Score 1) 170

by TangoMargarine (#46484431) Attached to: VLC Finally Launches App For Windows 8



Comment: Re:The real puzzle (Score 1) 369

Wikipedia has a number of interesting articles where the pilot stopped responding, the flight crossed a fair portion of the continental U.S., and eventually ran out of fuel and crashed. The presumption is that they had a loss of cabin pressure, which if it happens slowly can render you incapable of salvaging the situation before you realize it's happening.

Comment: Re:What about radar? (Score 1) 369

Or it left the radius of the radar? An early part of the flight path is over open ocean, but I'm not aware of what the range is on those things. Not to mention, would Vietnam/Laos/etc. be tracking them if they were just overflying the country without a stopover?

(From skimming the Wikipedia article on radar, the number that pops out at me for range is 60 miles. For comparison, it looks like parts of the search area are 175-300 mi across.)


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