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  1. Re:from the Napster network? on RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes · · Score: 1

    eDonkey network automatically creates the MD4 hashes for every file. So it is actually easier to track ;-)

  2. Re:What if... on RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes · · Score: 1

    Then what's the point to track the songs back to Napster (using MD5 etc)?

  3. Re:simple on Say Goodbye To Your CD-Rs In Two Years? · · Score: 1

    So true. Most "high quality" brands have relatively cheaper models named "professional", "budget" and the like. They are manufactured by the same factories who produce the $0.2 media (CMC, Princo etc).

  4. Re:Am I the only one disturbed? on Divx Now Adware Supported Only · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If this FUD was about your company, wouldn't you be pissed off?

    Exactly. What would you think about a news article somewhere else that reads "Slashdot switches to paid subscribtion, no free news anymore"?

  5. Re:Looks more like assembler to me... on A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC · · Score: 1

    No. If it was, all the examples of Sinclair Spectrum BASIC manual wouldn't use n and m as the loop variables :-)

    I think the reason is the convention used in mathematics while indexing matrices. A matrix value is usually shown as A[i,j]. (Remember, loops are often used for indexing arrays)

    Fortran convention most probably follows the mathematical convention (hence FORmula TRANslation :-).

  6. Re:Looks more like assembler to me... on A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC · · Score: 1

    In Sinclair Spectrum you could only use 1 (one) character for string variables and loop variables (for/next). For numerical variables, there was no restriction (you could even put spaces into variabla names!).

  7. Re:Looks more like assembler to me... on A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC · · Score: 1

    You could also use the "ON GOTO" syntax:

    40 ON A GOTO 110,120,130,140,150

  8. Re:Not really a mutant on Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo · · Score: 1

    Actually mitochondria can be assumed as a different cell, like a symbiotic life form. If they made a DNA by adding some genes from human and some from rabbit, I'd call it a mix.

  9. Re:Improvements to you or to the company? on Reviving A Dead Hard Drive The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    I agree with the parent. A friend working at automotive industry once said that you should never buy a car in the first year of its release, due to many bugs. But he also said that you shouldn't buy it more than 2 years later, either, because many of the revisions tend to be made for making it cheaper to produce, not to increase the quality by then.

  10. Re:i *WANT* to buy CDs... on Kazaa CEO vs. Hilary Rosen · · Score: 1

    Since when General Protection Fault is free?

  11. Re:Broadcasting C64 programs over the air on Tulip to Relaunch C64 · · Score: 1

    God, I just recognized that actually it was you who asked the question on GA. I was surprised at the coincidence that I saw the mention of the same radio program on both places in the same day :-)

  12. Re:Broadcasting C64 programs over the air on Tulip to Relaunch C64 · · Score: 1

    Do you still remember what was the name of the show?

  13. Re:It's Useful Where ... on CD Burners with Built in Compression · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you need an over-over-burning feature for another 10 MBs...

  14. Re:Sega Dreamcast on CD Burners with Built in Compression · · Score: 1

    That would be GD-ROM , not GB. Otherwise only Englishmen would be able to read it.

  15. Re:$175 is even better on CD Burners with Built in Compression · · Score: 1

    This one handles every format I've heard of...

    Sorry if I'm mistaken but where is the DVD+R/+RW support?

  16. Re:better question to ask is... on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1

    I always thought PiNG was the interlaced variant of PNG, but maybe they are pronounced the same.

  17. Re:It was a restrictive patent on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1

    Huffman is not that efficient for compression because it does not take repeating strings into account. You could although use a primitive of LZW like the original LZ or LZSS (Storer-Szymanski [sp?]) which are not patented AFAIK. It is easy to understand and implement, and compression ratios are comparable to that of LZW.

    Then you can reoptimize the resulting compressed data using Huffman, which almost makes your algorithm same as LZH (used by LHArc).

  18. Re:Hard to do on GameCube ISOs Released? · · Score: 3, Informative


    Dreamcast drives are CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) and have a hard time reading the inner tracks. That's why when you backup a game, you should use specialized software like DiscJuggler that can calculate where to start writing so that the data ends at the outer edge of the CD. I believe it then fills the inner tracks with dummy bytes.

  19. Re:You know what I find funny about all this? on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    JAR has the same structure and compression methods as ZIP, only the extension is different.

  20. Re:Splitting Those ZIPs on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    Only if you use solid archive option.

  21. Re:More importantly.. on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    It is not lossy. You can construct the original words ("usually" and "yes") without any ambiguity.

  22. Re:Sheesh. on SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence? · · Score: 1

    Your typo ("from Linux" instead of "from SCO code") makes one wonder if SCO did copy some code from Linux?

  23. Re:Problem is, its EQUALLY distributed. on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Nope. If somebody did it WITHOUT being punished, it will hold. There is the notion of "previous case" in Turkish law too (emsal karar).

  24. Re:RLL or MFM? on Old Hard Drives = Free Electricity · · Score: 1

    By 1987 when the PS/2 line was launched, a 10 megabyte disk was hopelessly small.

    My PS/2 Model 30 came with either a 10 MB or a 20 MB disk. I don't know about the Model 60 though.

  25. Re:Uglly and big phone- hard to use on Nokia 3650 Released in US Market · · Score: 1

    The user interface and slowness of T68i is horrible. If T610 is similar, I wouldn't buy it.