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  1. Re:About overclockers: on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1

    AMD can. The K10's have a seperate voltage plane for the memory controller. Not only that but Athlon 64's are already handling 2v memory just fine already. It may be DDR2 but it still says it can be done, Intel just chose not to do it.

  2. I've got one. on DMCA Exemption Time · · Score: 1

    How about: "None of the measures mentioned here shall be legally binding in a manner where they are used to disrupt legitimate public discourse."

  3. Re:About overclockers: on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope, sounds like they just made a major braindead basic design mistake on their memory controller (in this case it looks like assuming a relationship between memory and CPU voltage that should not have been assumed). Although I do wonder if it's the kind of thing that could be fixed with some OpAmps or Zeiners on the motherboard or something. I'll have to ask my dad, I'm weak on hardware design.

  4. Re:Awesome! on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    That said space is big.

  5. Re:naked shorts on A Wikipedia Conspiracy and the Wall Street Meltdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now I at least know why people jumped down my throat when I said that I thought short-selling should be abolished because it made the market unstable. The only sort of short selling I knew about WAS naked short selling. And in my case it was just a belief that it discouraged self correction of prices. I didn't know that the brokers actually didn't fulfill the orders (shouldn't that be illegal by the way?)!

  6. Re:mythtv apps on Cell Chip Coming To the PC Via a PCI Express Card · · Score: 1

    Wasn't part of the news that both WinDVD and PowerDVD would potentially support this? That would certainly help for lightweight Windows HTPC's especially given that the card is a half-height and only needs a PCIe x1.

  7. Re:What Has Changed? on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    Actually I'd assume this means the data drive is MLC memory which has a painfully slow write.

  8. Re:What Has Changed? on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't multiple writes for the same data be considered again a BAD THING when talking about flash storage? By my count we might be talking buffer, journal, then write here!

  9. Re:Simple on Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure South Africa counts in quite the same economic unit as the rest of the continent.

  10. Re:Oh, god, no. on "Pull" Barcode Scanning Could Be Android's Killer App · · Score: 1

    It's in an optional addon, but they can. Go look at books. Most books even in the US have a bookland (all books are apparently country coded as coming from the magical land of books apparently) EAN barcode complete with the price addon starting with 5 for dollars and ending with the price.

  11. Re:Oh, god, no. on "Pull" Barcode Scanning Could Be Android's Killer App · · Score: 1

    The EAN price addon was what I was referring to.

  12. Re:Well.. on Australian ISPs Claim Net Neutrality Is an 'American Problem' · · Score: 1

    We are talking about Telstra and co here. Just their reputation outside their own market makes them look like they eat babies. Of course they defend the way they do things. They make quite a bit of money raping their customers.

  13. Re:Oh, god, no. on "Pull" Barcode Scanning Could Be Android's Killer App · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only in Europe. In the US the barcode doesn't carry price information.

  14. Re:First thing I do with every game I buy. . . on Game Distribution and the 'Idiocy' of DRM · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go so far as to say I bought Sins of A Solar Empire because of the anti-DRM publicity. And I'm sick of RTS titles. I won't be buying Spore unless they release a version with a CD that doesn't need to be activated at all because frequently I acquire a game that I don't pick up and finish until years down the road.

  15. Re:Looks like a job for Microsoft! on Princeton Researchers Say Feds Need Data Standard · · Score: 1

    Actually if most of the private actors are corporations I think neither can be trusted for competence. Rule by committee is rule by committee. My current pet idea is that any large group of people making decisions can only be considered to have the net intelligence of an animal as they never seem to get beyond stimulus-response.

  16. Re:Exactly on Mobile Phone Users Struggle With Hardware Adoption · · Score: 1

    I'd just settle for a 3 megapixel camera that wasn't fixed focus, screw zoom.

  17. Re:From one consumer's perspective... on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Lucky you. I'm struggling to scrape together the cash for a Netflix player right now.

  18. Re:Rental only on Playstation 3 Video DRM Only Allows One Download · · Score: 1

    Like the system E-Reader uses for the books I have on my Palm? My credit card and name literally IS my unlock code and I can do whatever I want with the files.

  19. Re:Jabber Inc on Cisco To Buy Jabber · · Score: 1

    Job ads are a crapshoot anyway, especially if centralized management prevents hiring authority by those able to judge competence. Also if you can skip the costs of training, acclimating a new team to each other, leasing new space to put them in, appropriating new computers. I could see a drop in the bucket like $56 million must be for Cisco with several advantage in time-to-market could make buying the whole kit-and-kaboodle very attractive. This is hypothetical but I think it's reasonable.

  20. Re:$30k - $150k? on Activision Goes After Individual Game Pirates · · Score: 1

    Ah, the Kaizer Souze school of sentencing!

  21. Re:Jabber Inc on Cisco To Buy Jabber · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or perhaps it gets them a few programmers who already know the ins and outs of said protocol and can now be added to projects creating an enterprise product from the system.

  22. Re:What no massive bid war? on Lockheed Gets $485M From NASA To Create MAVEN Craft · · Score: 1

    So we're bringing beer to Mars?

  23. Re:Chimney effects on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    I don't fulley understand the effect myself, gass laws were never my strongsuit, but chimney effectively let you convert some of the heat of a rising gas into airflow.

  24. Re:Hahaha! on Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot · · Score: 1

    Potentially illegal. Might be considered a literacy test.

  25. Re:costs on Should Organic Chemistry Be a Premed Requirement? · · Score: 1

    Funny story about Discrete Mathematics. In my experience it was a pre-major requirement for CS and a senior elective for the other majors. This meant you had your kids fresh from high-school AP Calc come in and sometime in the last month or so of the class the teacher would start covering the techniques for unrolling sequences and would ask "Who here has had differential equations?" and everyone BUT the CS pre-majors would raise their hand. That one was real fun! I still say some of this stuff is just academic hazing.