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  1. Re:shouldn't they work on... on Pentium III 1.13: Tops For Speed, 'F' For Price? · · Score: 1

    I think you missing the point while Marketing is good and necessary for the Company trying to sell its products. To the purchaser its at best just an extra cost and at worst trickery or an attempt to rip them off. Do those da da a da notes Intel has paid millions upon millions of for in TV adverts, make the internet or quake run any faster. Have they make Intel and Intel share holder any money yes. Marketing is like a gun, fine and dandy if you the one thats holding it, but nasty if its pointed at you.

  2. Re:yeah that's the solution on Hawking On Earth's Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Of course you've never seem it before, that because is bollocks, Volcanos release plenty of fluorine and chlorine but their don't make complex ChloroFluoroHydroCarbons because complex molecules like that don't exist in nature in quanity because they require complicated manufacturing.

  3. Re:Secrecy: we need privacy and protection from TH on PGP Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    I guess you'll be dead happy when we know your bank details and pin number then.

  4. Look at the size of damn thing on Personal Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Look at the size of the damn thing, its like having two jet engines on your back. I profered the dinkly little rocket pack James Bond had in thunderbird (a real prototype of the something the military thinking about, add enough fuel for 30 seconds only), or maybe his autogyro in a bag, Little Nelie [An Autotgyro is like a heliocoptor but with unpowered rotors]

  5. So up goes my Mirror on More On Kaplan's Ruling Making Links Illegal · · Score: 1
    The more they try to make this stuff illegal the more we'll just mirror it.

    Here is my mirror:

    DeCSS

    Since i'm in England Judge thicko's lack of judgement can't hurt me.

    Pity really i'm lisiting to the Clashes, 'guns of Brixton' right now and getting worked up for fighting off police.

    Takes me back to my teenage years.

    Any other stuff i should be mirroring?

  6. Actually on Making Technology Democratic · · Score: 1

    Actually the flush toilet was invented until the late 1900s, by a man called Thomas Crapper working in London, after Queen Victoria complained about the poor state of toilets in the UK. Which is where the word "crap" comes from.

  7. Re:Sledgehammer as a high end server platform? on AMD and SuSE Porting Linux to Sledgehammer · · Score: 1

    Sledgehammmer will start off high end, but because the core is only a little larger than the athlon core, I expect the sledgehammer core to be an all new AMD chips within a year of release. Products in 2002 might look something like this (This is a guess by the way) Sledgehammer, Duel core 2GHz-2.5GHz 2M Cache Athlon Pro 64, Single core 2GHz-2.5GHz 1M Cache Athlon 64, Single Core 1.6-2.2GHz 512K Cache Duron 64, Single Core 1-1.5Ghz 256K Cache Now the average business user isn't going to need the 64bit core on a low end Duron machine, but they'll fall of the marketing hype. While the tech savy student with not to much money will love the Duron 64.

  8. Useful Stuff you can do with impants. on Human ID Chip Implant Prototype Unveiling · · Score: 2

    Yes, is very important to worry about impants being used to track people, but if you start to thing about it their are thousands of medical uses things that can be done with implant technology. Here are a few in roughly the order of technological difficultly. Blood Sugar checks for diabetics. Energemency dailing for an ambliance in case of an heart attack. Checking Hormone levels for early worning of deseases. Checking blood for antibodies or DNA sequences of bacteria and viruses for early worning of deseases. Replacement nerves, after spine damage. Replacement senses, after damage. Hormone release and T-box gene activation to induce regeneration of lost limbs/organs. Culture style neural lace, for VR and augmented reality (AR). SoulKeeper (impanted computer, continuosly copies brain state and neuron configuration to a backup copy of the persons mind.

  9. Re:Speaking of vaporware... on Coming Soon From Intel · · Score: 1

    No but kryotech do supercooling for AMD machines. 1.5GHz Kryocooled Athlon is promised from them around october, with 1.2 due soon (actually i think AMD will beat them to a market with a non cool chip). Kryotech makes the "rengade" cooling system which overclockers can use to home brew super cooled Intel machines. But Intel doesn't give Kryotech any enough help or early access to the Intel tech so they don't do Intel based systems.

  10. Re: Serious answers to stupid questions. on Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbits Epsilon Eridani · · Score: 1

    Unless Pansperma theories turn out to be true, any aliens will have totally different biochemistry so we can answers. 1. No, if their not downright poisonious they'll indigestable and not neutrious. 2. Yes, Human are worse than dogs, some of us will screw anything. Seriously therious suggest that two or three sex species get a big evoluationary advantage compared to one or four sex species. 3. Their not here yet so no. 4. Humans evolved from territorial mammals some species are quite non territorial, and might have evolved into intellgent species without war. 5. No, different biochemistry so their virius and bacteria are unlikely to find us eddible either. 6. Their iludium PU 36 explosive space modulator was recently reported stolen by be a long eared grey anthropomorphism.

  11. Re:Re:Send a probe now on Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbits Epsilon Eridani · · Score: 1

    >How does one ransack and rob neighboring countries without a military, huh Microsoft does it just fine, as does the world trade association.

  12. Re:So, yay or nay for Napster alternatives? on Napster Ruling Stayed · · Score: 1

    To be fare most of these programs are alpha software still very in developement. freenet in particular is still an experimential software product with big plans for the future.

  13. Re:Wow, my brand new P3 is now even more outdated on Intel Announces Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    Mod it up, that was funny.

  14. Re: HTML and Perl on MySQL Released Under The GPL · · Score: 1

    When writing Web application I never (except
    for debug) put any on the HTML in the program,
    the graphical designers can't be expected to
    edit Perl, instead by Perl scripts and load
    and edit and display HTML templates with space
    to for the variable. So I get to stick to the
    programming and the GD's and stick to the
    design without to much worry. A simple subroutines
    is even to add the data to the HTML with
    purals and conditionals, e.g.

    <PRE>
    sub output {
    $output = $_[0]; # Template passed in $_[0]
    $output =~ s/\[(\w+)\]/${$1}/egs;
    $output =~ s/\[s\-(\w+)\]/ "s" if
    (${$1} != 1)/egs;
    $output =~
    s/\[IF\s+(\w+)\=(\w+)\](.*?)\[\/IF\]/ $3 if (${$1} eq $2)/iegs;
    print $output;
    }
    </PRE>

  15. Re:They said it's not a Java copy, anyone believe on Microsoft Releases C# Language Reference · · Score: 1

    >Java doesn't have any versioning mechanism It does for serialisation. All cases are marked with a versionID, which you can override with your own if necessary. public static final long versionID = 0xCAFEBABE00000001L;

  16. Re: TeX on Iranian Coup Plotters Exposed By PDF File · · Score: 1

    TeX is assume, most thesises and scientific papers are written in TeX, if you don't believe me look at xxx.lanl.gov, and these comminities are very grateful to Donald Knuth. But I'm afraid its just to hard for the pointy hair briggade let alone office administrators.

  17. Re:No one makes *cheap* multiprocessing systems. on Overclocking The AMD Duron · · Score: 1

    AMD would love to offer SMP systems, their working on the 760-MP chipset right now, that it takes time, there also offering plenty of help to third parties making chipsets, but SMP it completed. 760-MP should be due out in 4Q2000. The duron will work on 760-MP mobos, but the mobos might now be that cheap.

  18. Re:Forget the Kool-Aid on Evidence Of Water On Mars · · Score: 1

    >Aren't some of the local supernovas (supernovae?) >made of alcohol? No matter what you do, nature >has always beaten you to it. No some nubulae contain plenty of alchool, ethyl, methyl, butyl, isopropyl etc, but supernovae are way to hot and energetic for organic compounds to exist. They've got a whelk's chance in the supernova.

  19. Re:Glub, glub. on Evidence Of Water On Mars · · Score: 1

    To you know how many thousands of miles of roads would have to all their sign changed, if we brits changed these to metres. We still drink beer by the pints, because its about the right size. But jeeze guys, if your doing science or even just talking about science, then use SI. Have you ever trying doing even the most basic physics, with crappy units like foot-poundals, it sucks. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19991212& mode=classic

  20. Re:This again?! on BT To Enforce Patent On Hyperlinking? · · Score: 1

    U571 lied. It was the Royal Navy the captured the enigma machine. Once again you jingostic americians rewrite history in your favour.

  21. Re:I want two... on AMD's Duron Birthed · · Score: 1

    socket A is socket A, a dual Durons will fit in the same boards as dual thunderbirds or mustangs.

  22. Re:that's right! on Mozilla Adds MNG Support · · Score: 1

    PNG doesn't even show up on Usenet yet, all the Piccys there are still gif's and jpgs, with the odd bmp from the clueless. Unisys' LZW patent runs out very soon anyway, so gif's will be free again pretty soon.

  23. Re:Rambus' patent on Rambus Gets Toshiba To Sign Patent Concession · · Score: 1

    Digital are doing this on the Dec Alpha Bus before Rambus existed.

  24. Re: RDRAM isn't incredibly fast on Rambus Gets Toshiba To Sign Patent Concession · · Score: 1

    On PIII system RDRAM is slow the PC133 SDRAM has demostrated at Toms Hardware Guide. 266 DDR SDRAM has 1.5 twices the bandwidth of RDRAM and much lower latency.

  25. Re:But will it really take off? on Intel/HP Release Linux SDK For IA-64 · · Score: 3

    Well with Slegdehammer and Willament expected at 2GHz next year. And Foster still to be late and expensive. PowerPC and Alpha will tail a little at 1GHz-maybe 1.5 next year, maybe more. So i would say IA-64 hasn't got a chance until Northwood 3GHz in 2002/3 and then only if the rest of the industry is sleeping. Follow link for a leaked IA-64 roadmap http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.theregist er.co.uk/990428-000005.html+IA-64+roadma p&hl=en