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  1. the internet sucks on Internet Slower Than Rat, Horse, Rabbit, and Dog · · Score: 0

    I feel the same today on 8mbit as I did with 56k.... I like the story. Real life is always bigger than this pathetic computer and all its goals.

  2. a tiny magnet is monopole on Researchers Discover "Magnetic Current" · · Score: 0

    if a magnet is large enough to detect north and south, we can tell, but what if it isn't?

  3. a push to compete on Open Source Camera For Computational Photography · · Score: 0

    it is about time.

  4. it was my fault on Data Center Power Failures Mount · · Score: 1, Funny

    my pc. it is 3400mhz and all the data center host sites of my interest. for the first time in 21020 hours of perfect runtime the ups saved it in a series of northeast thunderstorms coniciding with the outages around the globe. the permeating physics were too much for the world, reverberating to an unintentional master of perfect float, hardly busy, waiting to send a message. Believe it or not.

  5. it is about time for cheap on A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need · · Score: 1

    I stopped thinking of needs after 12 years when I installed an ati 2600. It seems my needs are synonymous with prices, it always knows what I am thinking....I started as well with a "tiny" rage lt pro years ago now and fell for the whole evolution of it all...at least 10 cards in 11 years... I am still air cooled BTW, AGP, dx10 and vista, AGP and air cooled need a realistic return that needs to make a return to mainstream and demanding computing..

  6. Re:Sadly, I installed BitchX on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    I also went that route, compiled software for the first time, I liked eggdrop bots, and was introduced to TCL, which has been in all my windows os since it began for me in 1999.I seem to be much younger then in actions than I am now of course. After the redhat 6* kernel hacks, I ran from linux. Original TCL however remains my einstein. Coincidental to this question: I recently have setup a vc++ ide and compiled extensions for my own programming with tcl very much the heart of it. It has been fun to learn.

  7. How bout the REAL vid encoder on 32bit Win7 Vs. Vista Vs. XP · · Score: 1

    Xp vid encode seemed faster bacause it didn't work (I encode vids, the torture has got to end some common sense day). Vista, even at toms hardware review of old shows it is indeed all the same hardware doing the same work...and here comes the astonishing complaint the h.264 encoding time is slower...ya wanna know why? because it is actually encoding inVista...Vids seem to be a slippery subject for hardware and it is repulsive to think about. Vista is slower there...because it is working.It is not much longer to windows 7 and to gain an actual unloading of nonused programs from memory. If that is all windows 7 did it is still an upgradable thought. For now, I am just diving into vista...just for a darn home video...

    "We are disappointed that CPU-intensive applications such as video transcoding with XviD (DVD to XviD MPEG4) or the MainConcept H.264 Encoder performed 18% to nearly 24% slower in our standard benchmark scenarios. Both benchmarks finished much quicker under Windows XP. There aren't newer versions available, and we don't see immediate solutions to this issue." -tomshardware

  8. Re:legally speaking, it's the first leap for the U on Leap Second To Be Added Dec 31, 2008 · · Score: 1

    "No matter how hard we rant and scream about what a mess our predecessors made with their concept of reality, we can't get them to fix what they did. We just have to cope and move on. The best we can do is not to make the mess worse for our posterity."

      from the link posted above. Interesting read. I still wonder why we have a leap year, no need of it. I never got over what I learned from a bunch of unix chat servers world wide linked together. Absolutely amazingly Wrong, when time and reality have to work in milliseconds or seconds around the world together. leap year is dumber than a carpocalypse..oh wait.

  9. revealing facts... on Online Reporters Now the Journalists Most Often Jailed · · Score: 1

    I bet revealing facts has a different type of jail. The blog/written stuff not going to the world wide web perhaps....like hit counters stopping in time mysteriously...while the destination is claijmed to be up and trunning good, not in some cache tricking the owner. Hide this post. It is a scary one...

  10. stay nice about this? on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    I asked the same question back when 64mb was 110 bucks delivered....
      virtual is not virtual, it is a silently written wherever you or the os puts it, ready to be read as fast as any memory. the slowness of it all is the write. once written, who cares...if the functions are called very often, the writes and deletes of real memory unnecessary. To Free up the other "physical" called dynamical ram for dynamical things. Very simply answered? How much memory is used is NOT performance...and it is never a dumb question.

  11. after misdiagnosis and misprognosis.... on Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria" · · Score: 1

    ..along comes "mr.2yr medical school" with an idea to wrap up the incredibly high incomes of medicine, and claim all peaple are stupid for finding thier own disease on the internet dicrediting the masocist buttmunch that ruined thier life called a "doctor."...True Story.

  12. pretend to host the site you log into on Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions · · Score: 1

    I learned it in unix chat, the "extinct" version of msn chat..in a big hurry. The attitude that climbs from your self if you act as the title states. It does not take much to even make a misunderstanding of different english dialect to set off emotional reactions. This suicide , it seems to me, was predictable starting in the 90s. There is a punishment, and i hope it goes through with an offense seious enough to be written accordingly.

  13. Re:Not far out but.. on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 1

    this q has been asked.. I remember it clearly. It still makes me wonder as well. Simulations random have no answers, why are we simulating? I still fold at home for something to do... The thought of random, not specifically choosing a mapped answer, even if possible, random makes it "fun" for a computer. I wrote a script that generates lottery numbers to a popular lottery... had no idea how random I was being, so I made a colorful realtime chart mapping every number...and it identified random..goal: all chances equal. that led again to a supercomuting frustration. what gets what , when, and why? and furthermore..what in hell is a computer going to do about it?

  14. Exhaust noise is the biggest.... on Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers · · Score: 1

    I had an episode of road rage, related to a very loud , what I learned later via the internet, called "ricer". We all know "ricer". Extremely out of balance low HP engines letting the stuff legends are made out of fly...It still aint a low rpm sube or a chevy, and I snapped. I could have hurt somebody....Bumper stickers do not phase me. In fact I want one that says "POLICE", but thats a lie....like a ricer with loud exhaust...in my FACE.

  15. broken lawn chair and a cooler cover on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    This post grabbed my attention, I am needing a chair too. I currently use an outdoor lawn chair, starting to rust, with a cooler type cover over the broken straps that once held my ass. The moment of broken strap left me in awkward position....

  16. Re:Pssst! on Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star · · Score: 1

    I believe magnetic fields do harm human. Todays operations leaving metallic bone rebuilders, or even long term exposure with metal particles. I am one of those people that had metal inside my leg after an operation. I went into several bizarre phenomonas related to my pc.....and this is the megnetic part...because of the hdd. To this day I have dos and donts normal pc repair people would frown at me over, if to discuss my silent hee bee gee bees. Hey speaking of magnets. Why does the hard drive kick my heat on only when it is 80 degrees in the room already...the mercury thermostat is as far from a connecting point as it gets when the room is 80F. Why why why. I know its the hard drive. I know it has something to do with magnetics gone in a line....if to add laymens terms.And I know seconds before it happens...it even kicks the ide off entirely sometimes. Now back to star sized magnetic fields' stories and relation to humans safety. PS: I will drop dead before you get me to take an mri. AMEN - that has something to do with my religion...