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  1. Re:'All in one media player' exists already... on Boxee Box Pre-Orders Start At $229 · · Score: 1

    Boxee is a fork of XBMC

  2. linpack on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    maybe they should just use flops in the sequence number, with power draw if they were feeling actually informative.

  3. Re:if it's still there may make for a good court c on "Canadian DMCA" Rising From the Dead · · Score: 1

    And because of this, DVD spindles don't have the levy, but CD-Rs do. This makes them quite a bit more expensive than DVDs.

  4. pulling a gmail on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When gmail first appeared, the two big free email services were yahoo and hotmail. Hotmail have you 2MB to play with, and Yahoo was a bit more generous with 5 (if I remember correctly). That seemed to be the status-quo until google offered with gmail 200 times more free storage (plus features).

  5. Re:Oh really? on In AU, Film Studios Issue Ultimatum To ISPs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Canada there is a blanket tax for all Cd-R's that goes to the record companies. If you guy a blank CD in Canada, your automatically considered to be copyright thief (at least probabilistically), or as some other people prefer to think about it, you already paid for your right to pirate.

  6. Re:Treason on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 1

    What if this happened in the Athlon/Pentium IV days? Maybe this guys were extremely patriotic and when the Navy demanded inefficient Pentium IVs they went to all this trouble to deliver them a chip that actually worked.

  7. Re:Wishful thinking on After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo · · Score: 1

    sorry, no. It drops potentially.

  8. Re:Limits on simulation. on 100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Not true. That is only true on explicit discretizations, CFL doesn't apply for implicit problems. On the other hand, you do have to invert a large matrix, but there are tools for doing that with large sparse matrices.

  9. Re:The easiest solution on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1
    sorry about that, the product I meant to slashvertise is:

    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html

  10. Re:The easiest solution on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 1

    Product requirements;

    - Decent latency

    - Decent bandwidth

    - Available everywhere

    - Reliable

    Solution; none.

    (Almost) not true. There is an experimental product that satisfies all of the above:

    http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090909/wr_nm/us_safrica_pigeon

    In South Africa, it was recently shown that it provides faster data rates than Telkom (major South Africa telecom):

    http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090909/wr_nm/us_safrica_pigeon

  11. Re:Math? on Graphene Could Make Magnetic Memory 1000x Denser · · Score: 1

    wow, that even greater than I expected. Seven orders of magnitude!

  12. Re:Hmm on Zotero Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have zotero with 3.0.10 (as I'm sure many people have, it's the default Ubuntu version in 9.04) and Zotero works flawlessly. I've had issues in the past, when trying the Firefox3 beta, but it's been stable for many months now.

  13. Re:THIS JUST IN on Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition · · Score: 1

    My dad only plugs me with original Microsfts.

  14. Re:Digital Retro? on Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film · · Score: 1

    that product, and further iterations like the Polaroid Pogo, or even the Dell Wasabi printer for some reason print 2 by 3 inch pictures, instead of the 3 1/2 by 4 1/4 (frame included). This was a deal killer for people I know.

  15. also first on carbon tax on City of Vancouver Adopts Open Standards · · Score: 1

    a bit off-topic, but British Columbia is so far the only place in the world with a carbon tax up-and-running.

  16. Re:this just in on Wolfram Alpha vs. Google — Results Vary · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Not weeks on Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready · · Score: 1

    thanks for the link, it's the first time I see a reputable source with hard data. If true, the outlook looks more optimistic than I thought.

  18. Re:Just use the Kermack-McKendrick model on Flu Models Predict Pandemic, But Flu Chips Ready · · Score: 1

    you need a differential equation system with delay. The big issue are the one or two weeks where an infected individual remains asymptomatic but already infectious. Solving DEs with delay is hard, and chaotic solutions are quite common. A more common modeling technique is a complex network statistical approach, such as when they modeled the whole city of Portland http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=if-smallpox-strikes-portl

  19. Re:Not very "Family Friendly" either on Watchmen Watched · · Score: 1

    Woodland Critter Christmas

  20. Re:Drum on A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    With a grain of rice and a pin, I can store 1 LOC and it kicks ass.(heard it in Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland...). Append everything in one LOC to form a somewhat longish binary fractional number. Use a pin to carefully (as in atomically) mark the grain of rice in the exact place that corresponds to the LOC fraction. Voila.

  21. Re:Out of copyright monopoly? on "Authors Guild" Skims Half of Google Book-Rights Settlement · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity I looked at War and Peace in google books, and every page of the >2000 page book has a "copyrighted material" watermark in the lower right hand corner. Not too sure what they mean by that.

  22. Re:Where's the beef? on Designer Babies · · Score: 1
    For whatever reason it seems like girls didn't attend slashdot today, either.

    In my hometown, whenever a girl becomes pregnant, the question everybody ask, aside from what name, is would you like a boy or a girl. And given the choice and not just the wish, why not take it? And while your at it, why not add straight teeth, decent ass, hairless armpits, etc. In wishing the best for him, you are providing a competitive advantage to your child in today's society, shallow as it may be. Then again, if by going the way of Fertility Institute ends producing a freaky mutant, well, don't be an early adopter.

  23. Re:i don't think obama has a blackberry on The Real Risks of Obama's BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    when someone talks about obama keeping his "blackberry", i think they are using the word "blackberry" the way some people use "xerox"

    He most definitely uses a blackberry 8830. A sectera is not a blackberry, not in the usability sense. I wouldn't even want to see the operating system of that thing. That doesn't mean that the NSA didn't go through the internals and added some of their black magic

  24. Re:In Soviet Russia on Comrade, You Are So Not Getting a Dell · · Score: 1

    You could always try using magnetic triodes: plus, minus, zero.

  25. reminds me of Neuromancer on Keanu Reeves To Star In Cowboy Bebop · · Score: 1

    this sounds almost as bad as the new Neuromancer movie, which is supposed to starr none other than Hayden "Anakin" Christensen.