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  1. Re:amd HAS sata 6 on all ports intel does not and on Sandy Bridge Chipset Shipments Halted Due To Bug · · Score: 1

    FWIW Intel's 2x SATA III (6 Gbps) ports are a lot faster than AMD's.

  2. Re:"Sport" mode on Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013 · · Score: 1

    The Falcon is a straight 6, not a V6. But you're right, and in fact in the newest model the picture is of a car sliding all over the road having some fun.

  3. Re:Song of Ice and Fire on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 1

    Does this also include the fantasy series by George R.R. Martin ?

    One can only hope.

  4. Re:Envirowackos won't like this on Sahara Solar To Power Half the World By 2050 · · Score: 1

    I am not an Ecco anything but to be honest this kind of thing statement seems so dumb that it makes my head hurt. Deserts are not useless. They are an ecosystem just like a rain forest, coral reef, river, or prairie.

    Damn right that deserts are an ecosystem too!

    There are plants and birds and rocks and things, there is sand and hills and rings. The first thing you met is a fly with a buzz, and the sky, with no clouds. The heat may be hot, and the ground may be dry, but the air is full of sound.

  5. Re:One more comment on Texas Supreme Court Cites Mr. Spock · · Score: 1
    Interestingly, I noticed this trend particularly about Oscar Wilde. I've only read a few of his works, but it seems that every witty and wry quotation that is normally attributes to him is actually said by a character in one of his stories.

    Admittedly, the characters may be proxies for the author since there usually seems to be one in each work, but it still seems a bit presumptive to attribute them all the the author as if he actually said these things in society.

  6. Re:The industry can take all the time it needs on WD Launches 3 Terabyte HD · · Score: 1

    Depending on which company that sells RAID devices you work for (Qnap?), it's quite possible that the fault is with your devices and not the drives.
    They are just hard drives like any other, after all. They work just fine for most people.

  7. Re:Single Player is key on Too Much Multiplayer In Today's Games? · · Score: 1
    Every 'craft title (and most contemporaneous RTSes besides) have had multiplayer, not just Starcraft.

    I would say Starcraft became most popular RTS simply because of the time that the internet and LAN cafes became popular.

  8. Re:So what? on Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums · · Score: 1
    Maybe so, but they collected everyone's first and last names quite a while ago now, before any of this RealID friends list and public forums identity was announced.

    So back then, almost a year ago now, what reason did you have for giving Blizzard fake details? And it's too late to change them, the account-holder real name is read only without providing some serious documentation (passport, etc.)

  9. Re:Back to the original subject... on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 2, Informative
    You can start typing the name of a program to run or document to search for in the Classic Start menu as well, you know.

    Also, "Back" is not the same as "Up" and a dedicated button for one of the most used functions in Windows Explorer would be much more user friendly and efficient than having to read, parse, and hit a variablly sized and situated breadcrumb.

  10. Re:2TB with 512-byte sectors on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    The Master Boot Record itself cannot handle drives larger than 2TB. Partitioning is no help - you still need to have a GUID Partition Table that Windows cannot boot off without EFI.

  11. Re:It's True. on Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    The 68020 doesn't have a MMU. However, it can optionally per paired with an external MMU.

  12. Re:One suggestion on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 1

    After they break into my car, how do they know where I live to actually utilise this bundle of keys?

  13. Re:How to tell on Companies Skeptical of Commercial Space Market · · Score: 1
    Estimation is basically extrapolation, except for some reason people always expect estimates to be accurate but accept that extrapolations are idealisations only.

    See also Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

  14. Re:ResEdit on System 7? on Making Closed Software Act Like It's Open · · Score: 1

    These days .nib files are compiled and most applications are generally signed. You can't do this kind of stuff anymore without breaking something, although usually in a minor way (updates, keychain.)

  15. Re:Not a crap article on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 1

    The "Quicktime APIs that expose hardware acceleration to H.264" are hardly all that brilliant. H.264 acceleration is only supported inside QuickTime X under 10.6 if and only if the machine has a Nvidia 9400 IGP in it. (http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html)
    That's a lot of conditions on playback that really restricts the number of machines that can actually use the feature.

  16. Re:UO wasn't that much fun really on Why Are There No Popular Ultima Online-Like MMOs? · · Score: 1
    Just to backup that PVP realms are hardly empty, I looked up some stats. These are from warcraftrealms.com, and rely on players running 'censuses' on their realms. The results are then upoloaded to the site.

    PVE realms - 2,915,502 active players A to H Ratio: 1.6 : 1

    PVP realms - 2,200,206 active players A to H Ratio: 1 : 1.6

  17. Re:Something the world DIDN'T need... on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 2, Informative
    *First* Edsel?

    I guess this is the old thing about forgetting the failures and celebrating the successes. NeXT, iPod HiFi, G4 Cube, etc.

  18. Re:Tesselation could rescue PC gaming on NVIDIA Previews GF100 Features and Architecture · · Score: 1

    I think he meant that until the next generation of consoles launches, graphics within a generation are fairly stagnant. This has pretty much always been the case, but these days seems to be affecting the PC games market more than it used to.

  19. Re:Better ads on Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Forget Privacy · · Score: 1

    One problem is that it doesn't matter whether you yourself use Facebook, or whether you put any details up on their. If any of your friends use it, then potentially private info about yourself (your email address, full name, probable friends and acquaintances, pictures tagged with the location of your face, ...) is up there whether you like it or not.

  20. Re:TOO MANY LINKS man! on Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uninstalling the flash player is not really a good idea in this day and age. It seems that browsers will helpfully tell you that you're missing out on a Great Web Experience by popping up a modal dialog about a missing addon every time a page loads that has flash on it.

  21. Re:Well that's easy... on Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's? · · Score: 1

    What's probably worse - Apple MacBooks/Pros all halve their CPU speeds if they don't have a battery installed, or if the battery that is installed doesn't hold a charge anymore. Combine this fact with the poor quality of Apple's pre-unibody batteries, and now I have a nice shiny dual-1GHz laptop.

  22. Re:Quick Guys! on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 1

    That would explain the actions of the robots running the healthcare industry, after all...

  23. Re:Pattern here. on New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books · · Score: 1

    Step Three: Let the proposed law quietly languish away for a while and eventually disappear, making it obvious the the lobbyist that their method works and they should be ready to use it again in the future.

  24. Re:Had a chuckle at this. on The Perils of Ramming Products Down IT's Throat · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, that's spearmen! The longbowman can however successfully *attack* tanks and aircraft, and even cruise missiles.

  25. Re:Detection on Ford's New Radar Technology Based On Open Source · · Score: 1

    Firstly, you are pretty much correct. LIDAR is very hard to detect without already being the target and a lot of radars are instant-on, which means basically the same thing.
    In practise though, there are still a lot of reasons why having a detector is a good idea. LIDAR can only be used while stationary, so it can't fully replace radar. It is also possible to get backscatter off another car being targetted in front of you, and it is also possible to be hit with a misaimed beam that does not return a usable measurement to the cop.
    Radar of course is a lot easier to get a warning signal from a car ahead of you, and instant-on radar doesn't affect that. Additionally, cops over here don't seem to use their instant-on feature properly and most HWP cars leave it on all the time so they can instantly get readings from speeders ahead of them. Thus, the net effect is that they constantly emit a strong warning signal for almost a kiliometer ahead of them.
    Finally we hit that old bugbear, the stationary (possible fixed) speed camera. A lot of departments have a HUGE investment in radar-based models which a radar detector is still very useful against.