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  1. This was not a used rocket on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    This wasn't a previously flown rocket as misreported here. It was a brand new first stage, and information from SpaceX says that it was a pad issue during fueling, not a problem with the rocket itself.

  2. This card isn't a gaming card, far from it. The Quadro line of cards are workstation cards, not built or made for gaming in the first place. As you missed a few words as well in the title "...for Game and VR Design"

  3. Re:Lights that count down on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    I agree, these things are great, a lot of the pedestrian signals around here are being changed to them. I live a bit north of Ft Myers, in Port Charlotte, and some intersections around here have them, where as further north in Sarasota county, almost all major intersections along 41 have them, useful since very often work takes me south or north along 41 primarily.

    About short yellow lights, I guess it's about where you are from, a few years back a guy I knew from NH commented about how the yellow lights lasted longer here.

    The cameras are also becoming more common around here, though you still see many people run red lights, most often following the car's bumper in front of them, or snaking behind cars in left hand turns.

  4. Re:Having fun with the articles title: on Will Wright Leaves EA/Maxis For Stupid Fun Club · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well my first glance was: Will Wright Leaves EA/Maxis for Stupid Fan Club ... made more sense my second look.

  5. Re:There seems to be a tags issue on The Other Side of the Sprint Vs. Cogent Depeering · · Score: 1

    By looking when you mouse-over the tags, you will see there are 3 sets of tags. From the right there is the "Type Tags", which is usually just story. Then we have the "System Tags", general categorization of the article, such as tech, game, security, etc. Last there are the "Top Tags", or the user tags, which seem to be the mostly useless set of the three, as pointed out, mainly comments about the story, but sometimes do contain a useful tag.

  6. Re:Why take a snapshot? on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, using my media player of choice(Zoomplayer) and choosing a video overlay, in my case: Haali's Video Renderer, even the VMR9 choices work with Prnt Scrn.

    It works the same as if I moved the video screen over to the second display and all it would show would be black box, why I changed it from the standard 'Overlay Mixer'. I also believe VMR7 works with Prnt Scrn as well.

  7. Re:Intel on AMD's Triple-Core Phenom X3 Processor Launched · · Score: 1

    I probably won't be upgrading my system for a few months, once some AMD stuff is sorted and the new southbridge/etc is out. Sadly I can't just pop a new CPU into my system, still on socket 939 :P

    Started out with an opteron 165 OC, until I blew that and now run a more modest X2 4200+, still OC'd ^^. Recently upgraded my brothers computer and dropped in a 5000+ black edition. I'm happy with the power of my computer, but things have come a long way, and seeing benchmarks seems Intel all the way.

    Even though it doesn't look good for AMD atm, I still have a few months to see how things will play out.

  8. Re:Any advantages over having only one connector? on eSATA Connectors · · Score: 1

    That missing pin doesn't always help, I've had people still put them upside down and just push that pin inside of the HDD or optical drive, real pain to fix too. I'm glad I've moved to sataII, the cables that came with my ASUS a8n-sli deluxe are thinner than most sata cables I've had and fit snug in my Seagate drives, never had a problem with them coming loose. Even use an IDE->Sata converter on one of my older HDDS to save space on an extra IDE cable.

  9. Re:That sounds about right. on Even The Blind Get Deja Vu · · Score: 1

    Same, Not so often though, usually I just start thinking it was a dream or something. Like certain conversations and the way people are, location, clothes, etc, I'll feel like I've done it before and then start thinking immediately it was a dream.

  10. Re:Suuuuure on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    I never got AMD Cool-n-Quiet to work under windows ever, enabled in BIOS and with drivers installed, I never noticed my CPU to throttle down. In Linux I would constantly notice my CPU going from 2ghz down to 1ghz when not doing anything. Of course this was a about a year ago.

    Also this notebook I'm on must be magic, only computer I've ever used that hibernate works right, sure after a few days of going back and forth my wlan dies, but is fixable with a quick reboot. At work I get so many calls on hibernation, its really annoying on desktops because you never expect it to be turned on. Clearing the hibernation data has become a very common thing to do. I think before MS can fix power saving we should raise on standards on efficiency for ATX PSUs, seeing as cheap low efficiency ones are most common, especially in the OEM market.

  11. here at sony... on Toshiba to Exchange 340,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    I work for sony VAIO tech support, and the only thing we tell a customer if they think they're battery is affected is that sony uses different saftey features and blah blah and that there are no plans for a recall at this time, there are no reported incidents involving our computers. We do have information about why the exploding batteries were exploding if someone asked us that. But I cant wait for work tomorrow after this bit of good news. Always good to have one more issue to deal with.

    BTW, I dont own a single sony product, honestly can't afford them.