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  1. Re:That's it... we're dead on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    ...males are castrated, sent to a feed lot, shot with hormones and antibiotics and then ground into hamburger...

    and a bull is...male cow? Or are you hinging on the technicality that they're not adults necessarily?

  2. Re:why use botnet on BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration · · Score: 1

    But At least your article is likely to be duped one or two times that day.

    fix'd!

    fix'd and upgrayyeddedd

    the double 'd' is for a double dose of pimpin'

  3. Re:Sounds cool on First Touch-Screen, Bendable E-Paper Developed · · Score: 1

    Of OLED's ever get it together, then eventually it may be financially advantageous to use a roll up touch screen. Maybe not cheaper, but it's got some nice advantages.

  4. Re:Secret reason for this change! on Uproar Over Netflix's New Instant Viewer · · Score: 1
    Let us know the moment you get NetFlix working with this. I was going to switch my HTPC over to linux to reduce the overhead (it has trouble with HD streams), but now i'm going to have to wait 'till there's a viable option for Linux.

    Aside from that, I kinda like the new player, it seems more stable; though, i haven't gotten a chance to scrutinize the IQ (tossed on a movie and went to cook dinner.

  5. Re:Secret reason for this change! on Uproar Over Netflix's New Instant Viewer · · Score: 1

    Who stopped using VHS? I've got a 4-head player that's pretty sweet, I don't see no tracking lines or nothin!

  6. Re:I'm unimpressed. on Sony Blu-spec CD Format Detailed, Hits Stores · · Score: 1
    I think then, the idea may be to allow 'mastering' of a small set of discs. Creating a stamp is expensive, whereas if you're going to only do a couple hundred CD's, burning them might be cheaper.

    Still, I agree with one of the GP's that pointed out that CD's are old hat and quickly becoming irrelevant to the music crowd.

  7. Re:Vista is good. But there's a bigger problem. on Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard? · · Score: 5, Interesting
    As a long time Windows user, this is the reason I've got xubuntu on my laptop. I'm still having trouble navigating everything, and I don't understand a lot of it, but my experience with XP's activation and the issues I've had with trying the 7 beta have thoroughly convinced me that Microsoft is attempting to commit some bizarre music industry like suicide by choking off legitimate customers.

    Pirates will ALWAYS break your security, please stop punishing paying customers for it.

  8. Sorry for the inconvenience on Sony To Unveil New Fuel-Cell Prototype · · Score: 1
    I dunno, maybe because it's too early, but I read the headline as "Sorry to Unveil..." and all I could think was "it's okay, one of these day's we'll actually have an alternative power source."

    need coffee...

  9. Re:Power my cell for a week on Sony To Unveil New Fuel-Cell Prototype · · Score: 1

    Sean? I didn't know you were on Slashdot!!

  10. Re:Offensive on Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    Figures...whenever there's something I want to mod up, I never have the points for it.

  11. Re:nVidia is doomed. on Ion Platform For Atom Tested With Games, HD Video · · Score: 1
    I've got an e-machines laptop with that duo (see Woot sometime last week).

    I've got to say, I didn't have terribly high hopes going in (~$300...and e-machines), but it plays 720p content just fine, edits my source code with very little lag, and can actually playback 1080p content well enough (when plugged into my TV...so the 1080 is actually useful).

    Still sucks for games...but I don't play much.

  12. Re:Analogy on RIAA Backs Down In Austin, Texas · · Score: 1

    So say we all...

  13. Re:Hmm. on RIAA Gives Up In Atlantic Recording v. Brennan · · Score: 2, Funny
    So to further the OP's analogy, the thief was in your home because you were at his video arcade playing the games he offers for free, but not buying any of the merch he sells...

    It really sounded less convoluted when I started this post.

  14. Re:DTV? Hahahaha on DTV Coupon Program Out of Money · · Score: 1
    Good to know I'm not the only lunatic who shed cable in favor of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and any other random site serving up video.

    It is difficult to get live feeds of some things though.

  15. Re:Right on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 1

    How do you know he's white? What's with the racism?

  16. Re:Right on UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs · · Score: 1

    To hell with that. The current classification for which drugs are legal and illegal is totally messed up in my opinion. We need to re-evaluate what we're banning before we go off on such tangents.

  17. Re:Duh on Graphene Transistors Clocked At 26GHz · · Score: 1
    Ah if he only had a brain...

    referring to the straw man of course.

  18. Re:I'm glad I'm not a Hoosier on Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security · · Score: 1, Funny
    I think you mean "Hoosier daddy now?!?!"

    sorry...need coffee

  19. Re:Unganged channels = already non shared lanes to on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Good call, I didn't see the Direct Connect(tm) stuff. I should try to keep more abreast of such things. Nice design too.

  20. Re:So what does it mean for PCs? on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    No, you'll have a slew of desktop apps that will get split out amongst several cores. For the applications your likely to run, the more cores the better (well, I'm sure there's an upper limit, but it's most likely much higher than 32).

  21. Re:but.. on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 0
    I'd like to see larger caches getting put onto the processors. Yeah, it makes it really expensive, but if you do incremental speed/cache size updates it'll be reasonable.

    A gig of L1 and 4 gig of L2 would be blazing fast! Throw an SSD on that bad boy and you'd almost never have to wait for an app to load again.

  22. Re:Well doh on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 2, Informative
    That's how a lot of boards are already done. The issue is with a single processor that has multiple cores.

    There's no real way to split the banks for each core, so the net effect is that you have 4-32 cores sharing the same lanes for memory.

  23. Re:Reanimator! on Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation" · · Score: 5, Funny

    necktie?

  24. Re:Dupe on Study Confirms That Cars Have Personalities · · Score: 1

    It was a comment on the previous article.

  25. Re:Nice accident... on Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but my hopes are that these more sensitive photos allow the poorly lit part to go away...after all, if your images can take a much more sensitive photo, then you should be able to get lower ISO values in darker scenes with less noise...