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  1. Re:one and a half months till uk pi day on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    unless you can find/define a calendar such that this year is 1592

  2. one and a half months till uk pi day on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    us brits have to wait till 31st of april

  3. Multi-cpu Mother boards for consumers? on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    are multi-cpu mother boards likely to leave the server market and enter the consumer market at anypoint (soon?)

  4. Re:$16000 another way on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    you'd probably need a top end router to handle all ~50 of them, unless the 11Mbps ad-hoc speed is good enough for you

  5. Re:And a $1000 PC next year will outperform it on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    or zero if its a job that can be moved to gpgpu

  6. Re:24 Samsung SSD's on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 4, Interesting
  7. 24 Samsung SSD's on What Does a $16,000+ PC Look Like, Anyway? · · Score: 1

    for those whom have seen this, im sure many of you, the rig for that reportedly cost £24k, as was said in the b3ta thread where it was posted, i dont know if this was mentioend elsewhere where the video was posted, ill try and dig it up

  8. Re:How big of a scratch? on New Take on Self-Healing Polymer Could Mean Scratch-Free Screens · · Score: 2, Interesting

    9.5 micrometer, but how far does it go, is that as big as it can manage? How many of the noticeable scratches on the display of your favourite phone/mp3 player/laptop etc could be healed by this, i.e what is the typical size of a scratch in the real world

  9. How big of a scratch? on New Take on Self-Healing Polymer Could Mean Scratch-Free Screens · · Score: 3, Insightful

    im sure most people imagine large gashes closing themselves perfectly a-la movie style regeneration, but a little common sense says that is probably a bit beyond this techs capabilities. What size scratch can it really 'heal', and in what time frame?

  10. youtube...hulu... on YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    who knows what else, anyone got a half decent US proxy?

  11. becomes? on Lawyer Sues To Get a Patent On Marketing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    sorry, prior art, no dice

  12. Advertising not boot times on Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users · · Score: 1

    how many people who arnt already aware of linux will read this article? Im sure its still so that the reason the majority of (non-commercial) users havent tried linux, let alone switched is because theyve never herd of it

  13. Re:...Falcon & Strike Commander on H.A.W.X. Brings New Perspective To Tom Clancy Series · · Score: 1

    I think the biggest problem is probably getting the arcade-realism balance right, some like one way, others the other, getting the balance right is hard enough, and to try and do both at once with a toggle button between them is asking for it

  14. Torrent for the PC demo on H.A.W.X. Brings New Perspective To Tom Clancy Series · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Re:Girls like porn? on Is Salacious Content Driving E-Book Sales? · · Score: 1

    Well there are no girls on the internet, so they have to get it from books

  16. The internet is for porn... on Is Salacious Content Driving E-Book Sales? · · Score: 1

    as always

  17. How do raids perform? on Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    could a raid structure give the performance boost i assume you are after? ive no experiance with them but i gather they can offer higher read/write rates. Can someone with more experiance say exactly how much of a performace boost they give, a set of small HDD's could be the same price without the concerns over cycle limits

  18. what about hard drives? on A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray · · Score: 4, Informative

    It manages to list lots of faliures and successes, but still managed to miss HDD's and SSD, y'know, the sporta thing where people probably store most of their data

  19. Re:Pricing between i7 and phenom II 3ghz on Dell's First XPS System With AMD Phenom II Tested · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:Newegg on Dell's First XPS System With AMD Phenom II Tested · · Score: 1

    nah, just compare it against a macpro of similar spec

  21. Sounds like a good idea on LimeWire Brings Darknets To All · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it's what i actually think it is. Which is private sharing within your own group without others being able to see what's going on. It would only take a modest half dozen or so friends to share thier video collections, and you could have a pretty extensive collection, with some reasonable speeds and redundancy. And by videos i of course mean all those silly videos from when you were drunk that night, definately not those feature length things shown in cinemas.

  22. Re:Why stop online? on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe in the second world war, the english government had a large number of road signs removed, to help confuse the germans if they ever managed an invasion, the only result was alot of lost brits.

  23. Re:Nothing wrong with models. on The Formula That Killed Wall Street · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even more important that the limitations of a model are the assumtions taken in developing the model and/or feeding the data into the model, these should always be made clear to whomever the user of the model is, and it is then up to the user to decide if those assumtions are reasonable for their use of it.

  24. Not anonymous on MD Appellate Ct. Sets "New Standard" For Anonymous Posting · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If its possible to hand over details of who posted an anonymous message, then it wasnt 100% anonymous, there must be some sites that dont log any details of anonymous posters, so cant hand anything over

  25. Re:Another perspective on Small Asteroid To Buzz Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    about Zero when integrated over enough orbits, but for this encounter, while the speed wont change by then end of the encounter, but the velocity will, i think