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  1. Whether or not Intel would deliberately do something like that (which would be very foolish), individual developers have a general sense of camaraderie. They're not typically going to deliberately screw over people they view as being in friendly competition.

  2. It has a process per tab. Firefox has a thread per tab. There's a big difference

  3. Re:Yawn on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    Uh, yeah, not illegal. Unless they're making these things full-auto, there's nothing illegal about what they're doing in most states.

  4. Re:Simple on EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America' · · Score: 1

    Most console gamers don't care. They're just kids spending their parent's money.

  5. More upload! on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    I'd gladly pay for Cox's top tier (50Mb), rather than their mid tier (18Mb), if only they would raise the upload speed. The difference between their top tier and their lower tier upload speed is only 1Mb.

  6. Re:Nope, ain't happening on Valve's SteamBox Gets a Name and an Early Demo at CES · · Score: 2

    Like Starcraft 2?

  7. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    Trespassing makes sense, hate crime doesn't. There's nothing illegal about being racist, prejudiced, etc, no matter how much you or I may disagree with it.

  8. The average is a good price for one of them... on New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games · · Score: 1

    I've already got all but two of them, but it's still a great price and a nice gesture on THQ's part. It really is a pretty genius move on their part, as most people aren't going to buy those older games for the full price on steam, and it gives them some good publicity.

  9. Re:I'm still trying to wrap my brain around... on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Hours, assuming it's done intelligently. Something along the lines of: #> for i in {1..3}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=32M; done Without specifying a larger bs it'll take much longer.

  10. Re:i would love to sue my boss for that on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    I'm friends with my boss on Facebook (work for a large tech company). If anything, his posts are facebook are more controversial than mine.

  11. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    Frankly, mounting an ISO in that manner is basic knowledge that any sysadmin knows. If you aren't a sysadmin or something of that nature (ignoring the fact that Linux DOES have features that allow ISO's to be one-click mounted graphically), why are you using a server OS? Try creating a gui for something like rsync. The reason it's such a great program is the amount of options you have; good luck trying to create a simple gui that allows them all to be used easily.

  12. Re:The best option on Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? · · Score: 1

    I had a math teacher that did this. He had a netbook running Fedora and would use it to record audio and the overhead screen during classes. Since most of what he wrote up there were proofs, it helped a great deal. Last I heard, he and some other people (he's more of a CS guy than anything), were working on some software to stream the classes while in progress, as well as allow interaction from students not physically present.

  13. Re:Canon or Nikon on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    I definitely concur with SLR. Using a point-and-shoot and moving up to an SLR is a difference of night and day. Shooting with an SLR and then trying to take a decent picture with a point-and-shoot is... frustrating, to say the least. SLRs are a lot more accessible than they used to be.

  14. Re:Age on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 1

    For me it wasn't age. I simply started making more money than I did before and my time became more valuable. Buying games in store, having to install each one by disk and manually patch everything wasn't any better for me than pirating all of them and stashing them on a spare hard drive somewhere. I stopped pirating games because steam was more convenient and cheaper (time vs money). I've even re-bought some of the games I own on dvd media on steam so I wouldn't have to worry about keeping track of the disks or manually patching after an OS reinstallation.

  15. So much better.... on CS Prof Decries America's 'Internal Brain Drain' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hear plenty of arguments from friends as to how "college is completely unnecessary". Yeah, have fun working at McDonalds for the next 60 years. Better to have problems finding a job than to have no skills at all.

  16. Re:I miss the old country... on French Minister Sells Surveillance Legislation With Fake Benefits · · Score: 1

    You're right, now instead of retarded and lying we have a president that's brilliant and lies.... Personally, I'll take the retard.

  17. Re:I have a much more ambitious vision on The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit 451

  18. Re:Nation Red on Why Creators Should Never Read Their Forums · · Score: 1

    The main dev for AI War is the same way. He spends a lot of time answering questions and helping users on many different forums.

  19. Re:Yes, you are right on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 1

    That's one thing when it's a freshman course. But when you get into upper level CS or ECE courses a laptop becomes almost essential. I took almost 200 pages of notes in OpenOffice last semester for just one class.

  20. Re:Shocking news: on PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren · · Score: 1

    I grew up with a SNES and an N64. My first FPS was Goldeneye and I didn't start playing games on the PC until about 4 or 5 years ago. There are very few games I prefer a controller to a mouse and keyboard for.

  21. Sad on Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year · · Score: 1

    Wow... so they pirated an overrated game with a terrible single player campaign that they can't play online. I wouldn't even waste the bandwidth...

  22. The only reason... on Split Screen Co-op Is Dying · · Score: 1

    I rarely play on a console unless I'm playing a game like Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 with a friend on splitscreen. I prefer PC's for online gaming and I avoid games populated almost entirely by 12-year old brats like COD (at least most teenagers can't afford a gaming PC). Some of my most memorable moments in gaming the past few years were in my friend's living room eating pizza, drinking vodka, and killing zombies. ("Hey, keep that fire away from my vodka!")

  23. Re:Nicely twisted summary on Microsoft Charging Royalties For Linux · · Score: 1

    Sorry, only liberals race-bait.

  24. Too stupid... on Most Americans Support an Internet Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    > Sixty-one % of Americans don't know what an integral is. > Sixty-one % of Americans don't know the difference between a router and a switch. > Sixty-one % of Americans think "Internet Explorer" is the internet. Average Americans are too stupid to decide whether or not the "President" should have the right to have such a "kill switch"

  25. Re:I predict more are going to jump ship from Micr on Microsoft Admits OpenOffice.org Is a Contender · · Score: 1

    I'm the only computer savvy person in my family atm. About a year ago I got a few copies of MS Office 2007 for free and installed them on 3 of our computers. I hated the new interface and only used it for a few specific situations. My mom and my sister couldn't figure it out and asked me to put 2003 back on there. I installed open-office and told them it was ppretty much the same thing.