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  1. Re:There's the Z800 on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    400x600 per eye.. :-)

  2. Re:There's the Z800 on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    is that 800x600 per eye or 800x300 per eye.. It's soo hard to know.

  3. Re:Depends on what you want. on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    Hmm slashdot seems to mangle utf-8: mÃssan

  4. Re:Depends on what you want. on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    OMG buzzword bingo[1]. You fail in the head tracking area, if you ain't using a staionary person and those IR leds as beacons to track the movement of the head.

    Head tracking + high FPS is the most important thing for steroe vision. Stereo vision is actually only important after that.. :-)

    [1]Herregud snacka om att tala ur nattmÃssan.

  5. xbattle on Examining the Beginnings of the RTS Genre · · Score: 1

    Unix has, XBattle RTS released in 1991 networking by using X11.

  6. Re:Yes that's nice. on Micron Demos SSD With 1GB/sec Throughput · · Score: 1

    It's funny, I seldom get better than 72MB/s with dd on my 4 year old system, even if it's serving from OS filesystem cache. I find that kind of slow actually..

    Though you can't beat the seek of flash devices, serving static images over HTTP from flash is a killer application.

  7. hurry up then on Massive Martian Glaciers Found · · Score: 1

    Willis is about 50 years old now, we need to sen that oil rig now!

  8. Re:Huh? on Massive Martian Glaciers Found · · Score: 1

    Yes but the distinction is only important for scientists, and it might be seen as "complicating the language". Another way of writing it would be to mention the dry ice in the polar regions, and make comparisons, that would probably stop people from going "wtf of course it's water ice".

    This all depends on your target audience, I'm not sure what Scientific American readers want.

  9. Re:That's actually an interesting idea on Massive Martian Glaciers Found · · Score: 1

    I've already lived in 5 different countries in my life and pretty much "started again" several times... a new planet is just the next big step from that).

    Problem is if you want to start again on Mars there is not much you can do.. And one of the cool things about starting again in a new country is the new culture and people you meet. You are not going to get that on Mars, it's completely different.

  10. Re:Time to move... on Massive Martian Glaciers Found · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually you would only gain 30%-50% by going nuclear. There are apparently experiments with plasma that could be used as propulsion, using a cannon from earth. That would allow you to not bring lots of fuel.

    That's really SciFi though, I wonder if they even have done something similar on earth except with water in amusement parks attractions.

  11. Re:Is this really news? on Microsoft, Blizzard Crack Down On Piracy, Cheating · · Score: 2

    It would be my game CD they broke, and there is little I can do about that. Kids break stuff and it's ok, you have to be very boring parent if you haven't noticed that.

    This is highly theoretical since I have no CDs, you should only buy CD unencumbered games, such as:

    There should be others, but those run on many platforms..

  12. Re:FF 3 in portage on Firefox 2 and Gecko 1.8 End of Life · · Score: 1

    How do they manage to get FF3 to be unstable? It crashes very seldom for me on Ubuntu, Debian and Mac OS X. Sure the history browsing is a lot slower now days, but still fairly usable on older computers.

  13. Re:Why not place IR floodlights around the screen? on Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre · · Score: 1

    And give radiation poisoning to everyone in the theater, sure.

    Whoosh!

    Whooosh!

  14. Re:European Parliament on EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts · · Score: 1

    But the processes of getting those decisions are nerve wrecking, and you really feel like you have no chance of affecting their decision.

  15. smaller size efficiency? on Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car · · Score: 1

    What exactly is it that makes them worse at small sizes, and what is small sizes? (Great article by the way)

  16. Breathing is bad for you on Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles · · Score: 1

    Well you are right and it's a very well studied problem, proper breathing is very hard to do and if you want to breath lots of times per minute you have to be aware that it can lead to unconsciousness.

    Breathing is a natural pain reliever, and relaxant.

  17. Tor without encryption... on UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    Routing my non encrypted data through an host that is probably listening to my data stream.. Seems like a wonderful idea..

  18. Re:Elections on UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    Do you mean "choosing a mayor", and do you have any links even in Dutch?

  19. Flicker free for frontends on Wayland, a New X Server For Linux · · Score: 1

    Well that's probably what he ment, you want the kernel to switch to one mode after booting up and then use that all the way until all your desktop icons are loaded. I believe Mac hardware does this in firmware.

  20. Re:No that's not a problem on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 1

    I live to serve

  21. Re:The biggest most awesome change in Intrepid!!! on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    The GTK button bug was killed at just seven years old.

  22. the bug is 7 years old on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    We should all thank: Cody Rusell, Ed Catmur, Matthias Clasen, and everyone else who did something should have a big thank you.

  23. No that's not a problem on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read the FAQ; drives usually have larger block sizes than the block size used for encryption, so there is not much difference.

  24. Re:This has happened on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 1

    This is a very old problem, that's why you have a backup of the encryption key somewhere, I'm sure PGP has such a system builtin to their tools.

  25. Re:Here's a quick experiment on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 1

    You can get a dump of usage pretty smply now days (echo 1> /proc/sys/vm/block_dump), but it's going to be slow logging via syslogd to local disk. And you only get reads from files not dirs.

    Or you can use blktrace haven't done that myself.