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  1. Re:2,000,000,000,000 on WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test · · Score: 1

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/UnderstandingHDFormats.aspx#storageneedsforhdcapture

    Short answer: hell no.

    We will always find something more to store. See above for a concrete example, recording raw HD video. For a more abstract version, see: everyone's DNA, biometrics, IRS/similar, etc. etc. forever.

  2. Re:Waiting.. on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technology is pretty fast. 18 years in terms of technology, especially computers, is almost like an eternity. If we can't develop new touchscreens or other COMMON things because of patents, then patents are not very helpful. If it were up to me, I would make patents expire in 2 years concerning all things technological, including and especially software.

  3. Re:Vocaloid is different on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1

    So if we take Vocaloid, put in some random notes, and put it through Songsmith, then we will create music out of nowhere! All we need is lyrics and we will have FREE ENERGY I mean MUSIC!

  4. Re:Great headline! on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1

    Blue haze

  5. Re:Adult entertainment? on Child Online Protection Act Appeal Rejected · · Score: 1

    Pendant point, but sex is instinctual. If a girl and a boy were left on an island and they learned to survive but were not taught anything about sex they will eventually "figure out" how to have sex so to speak if they were attracted to each other; clumsily I might add.

  6. Re:OMG on An Early Look At New Features In OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    A chair thrown at you?

  7. Re:Objection on RIAA Walks Away From Another "Discovery" Case · · Score: 1

    You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

  8. Re:These studies are so full of shit on Coffee Can Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    His Alzheimers was to blame for that. He forgot how to brew coffee.

  9. Re:Until the point at Windows doesn't "just work" on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wine has serious compatibility issues with most viruses. They should fix this.

  10. Re:Get well, Steve on Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple · · Score: 0

    "RIP" would mean he's Jesus.

  11. Re:Let me get this of my chest... on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 4, Informative

    Almost all of those issues are from third party software.

    Nvidia is notorious for awful drivers, especially for dual display. The screensaver issue is also probably from bad Nvidia drivers.

    Adobe Flash is unstable in Firefox, especially on 64 bit systems. Open Source alternatives are also very outdated and slow.

    Third party plugins like Java and Flash can make Firefox have to wait. The Mozilla team needs to design much less dependency on plugins and more of a sandbox model, so that a crash or hang of a plugin will not freeze all of Firefox.

    Programs become unresponsive due to a lot of disk activity for reasons of speed; DiskIO has more priority. This is a GUI design problem and it should be decidable/configurable easily on or after install.

  12. Re:reformat? on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 4, Informative
  13. Re:Why wasn't this tagged 'edison v. tesla'? on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1

    In other words, you have a much higher chance of dying from a DC electric shock than compared to an AC shock.

  14. Re:the words "no shit" on 3 Cups of Coffee Increases Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it will make you shit. And drop all your water. The reason shit is soft is mostly because of water, and the bile.

    Lots of caffeine = no water, and it is a laxative, so you get hard shit if you don't replenish the water.

  15. Re:Obligatory on Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    2 girls 1 dish

  16. Re:Obligatory on Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is slashdot, and you don't WANT to let 2 women be able to reproduce?

  17. Re:wtf? on Researchers One Step Closer To Creating Life · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obligatory XKCD comic:

    http://xkcd.com/387/

  18. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    #include <stdio.h>
    int main(void){
       int i,sum=0;
       for(i=0;i<100;i++){
          sum+=i;
          sum++;
       }
       printf("The sum is %d\n",sum);
       return 0;
    }

    //While I agree the Gauss solution is the quickest and best solution to the problem, this is the most readable in my opinion.  It's the process of going through the sum I think people would want if it was really needed, where a special case could arise in the middle of the sum or something.
    //Also this is C.  Is it correct C though?

  19. Re:ipv6 increases by a factor of almost 8. on IPv4 Address Use In 2008 · · Score: 1

    I'll tell you when I post from said ISP.

  20. Re:Uhh, yes it does... on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    Webcam chat, by accident, mom's daughter runs by naked after bathing.

  21. Re:It can't do HD.Fail. on XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID · · Score: 1

    http://embedded-system.net/omap3503-omap3515-omap3525-omap3530-processors-omap35x-dvsdk.html

    If you try to search for 1080p hd omap3530 on google you will get that it can do 720p no problem, but 1080p is a stretch at best. This is probably only decoding and displaying together however.

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/28/0033204

    Also remember this? Can YOU tell the difference between even 720p and 1080p?

  22. Re:It can't do HD.Fail. on XBMC Running On an Atom-Based MID · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/omap3530.html

    The omap3530 can do HD, and it's not even an Intel processor, it's an ARM, so the power savings are enormous.

    http://openpandora.org/

    This device will be able to play HD in about the size of a DS lite. It's not out yet however.

    http://beagleboard.org/hardware Right now, you can buy a beagle board which will do mostly the same thing, except not in a real handheld.

  23. Re:It will come down to clock speed. on AMD Phenom II Available To Distributors This Week · · Score: 1

    It will also drive the prices of their older CPUs down. Everybody wins!

  24. Re:Minature pandas on Amateurs Are Trying Genetic Engineering At Home · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why not a panda with 6 asses?

  25. Re:Install Ubuntu on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Desperately needs a link!

    http://gnomestyle.blogspot.com/2007/05/make-ubuntu-look-like-vista.html

    Google make ubuntu look like * where * is obviously what you want it to look like.

    XP and Mac are other examples. Vista is linked on top.