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  1. Re:someone educate me (Request for Comments) on Dual Athlon Motherboards Creep Closer · · Score: 1

    a good point to support this is the fact that nearly noone writes SMP optimized code.

  2. Re:Cool! on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds · · Score: 1

    but jigga is spelled wit a J

    JIGGA

  3. Re:Quickie practical explanation on Making Quantum Crypto Actually Work · · Score: 1

    I'm not good enough with QM to tell you either way. I have only just started to deal with the idea of entangled anythings, I was helping the guy out with the understanding of how it can ignore thermodynamics.

  4. Re:Quickie practical explanation on Making Quantum Crypto Actually Work · · Score: 1

    well, you have to remember that ALL the 'laws' of physics work in special cases. If I'm moving at 20m/s and I throw a baseball at 20m/s, it's going to be going so darn near to 40 m/s that the error is negligible. (newtonian mechanics)

    now, if I'm going .9c and I throm a baseball at a speed of .9c(in the same direction I'm traveling, relative to me in my reference frame) it only ends up going .98c relative to somone in the frame that I'm traveling at .9c in. (relativistic mechanics)

    now, you're trying to apply a division of physics(thermodynamics) to an area where it doesn't entirerly apply. If you run back through all of your thermodynamic derivations, you make assumptions such as the number of mols of molecules is large enough to make the size of them negligible and the fact that you can ignore interactions between items in your set.

    In QM(quantum mechanics), you can't make those assumptions. Quantum mechanics is based around a set of assumptions that flaw thermodynamics.

    (IAAP - I am a physicist)

  5. I've an idea. on Worlds.com Patents Quake-like Games? Kinda. · · Score: 1

    how about, instead of actually posting these articles, we just add a counter to the first page that keeps track of stupid patents.

    the reason I sugest this is that I(along with others I'll assume) no longer care to even hear about what some idiot tricked the government into letting him patent.

    Later All

  6. /. effect on The 2.4.x Kernel, ECN And Problem Websites · · Score: 1

    but the question on everyone's minds is how will this help prevent THE /. effect

    (ignore grammer/spelling errors here. It's 1 AM and I'm drunk)

  7. Re:Some things better left unsolved on 3D Microfluid Computers Used To Solve NP Problems · · Score: 1

    shoulda made at least 2, funny for this refernce... quote follows. (in both latin and translated american english)

    Cubem autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquatratos, et generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere. Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.

    It is impossible for a cube to be written as a sum of two cubes or a fourth power to be written as the sum of two fourth powers or, in general, for any number which is a greater power than the second to be written as a sum of two powers. I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

  8. Re:Misconceptions on The "Omega Number" & Foundations of Math · · Score: 1

    Pi is the ratio of the circumferance of ANY circle to it's diameter. ANY circle, could have an area of 14 or 42.

    ALSO it can be represented as the infinate sum:

    infinity
    sum (4*(-1)^n)/(2*n-1)
    n=1

    or something very similar to that(don't have the book it's in here in florida right now)

  9. Re:Hmm.. on Illegal Prime Number Unzips to DeCSS · · Score: 1

    Nah, they'll just define pi as 3.14 and e as 2.71 to solve the problems

  10. Re:An interesting perspective.. on Second Thoughts: Microsoft on Trial · · Score: 2

    ok, I'm only 20 and I remember when netscape wasn't free. Netscape navigator wasn't free thre 3.0 Gold, unless you were a student or a member of a non-profit organization. It only became free when Internet Explorer(which was free) started to gain merit.

    (on a side note)

    I really miss netscape 1.1 It was a nice piece of software.

  11. Re:How photosynthesis works on Bacteria to Destroy Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    no no no, it needs to be CH3CH2OH
    man can never have too much of that.....

  12. Re:Embedded GUI Generally Bad, IMHO on Cherry, Cherry, Blue Screen Of Death · · Score: 1

    I don't know, maybe I'm a little old fashioned, but if you strip the GUI off windows and rewrite it to give more IO control to the developers.... don't you have ..... DUH DUH DUH.... Dos?

    Just my thoughts though

  13. Re:Recovering From Windows on Indigo Magic Desktop, Now On Linux · · Score: 1

    Just because it's different than microsoft doesn't necessarily make it anti-microsoft. If you concider the fact that requiring one additional click also frees up directly right clicking an object, it adds more functionality.

    But that's just my opinion...

  14. Re:Not likely on New "mp3PRO" From Fraunhofer, But What About LAME? · · Score: 1

    SiCAS uses the same mathematical process as STFT but adds a few features. It uses variable length STFT to reduce Blur on rapid tone changes. It uses Only the Cosine Terms(Even Terms) of the series, which reduces cancellation through mutual orthogonality, and it adds compensation for the DeBragg Effect(or is it affect.... never can remember).

    That's the Differences from a Physicist's point of view.... if you need help understanding any of it, let me know.

    Pat

  15. Re:I don't get it on Contests: Mind-Twisting Winners And Tiny Entrants · · Score: 1

    the easiest way to code like a dying cat is to omit tab stops and CRs. One of my coworkers went to edit a page of mine that I DIDN'T write in our 'holy grail' thas is Cold Fusion Studio. He saw what he called a garbled mess. I had multiple TDs on one line(heaven forbid) and I didn't explicitly state what HTML version I was coding for in the first line. Oh well, he lived

    Enuf Rant 4 Now

  16. program of a program..... on Contests: Mind-Twisting Winners And Tiny Entrants · · Score: 1

    The program the prints the source thingy(read the article, you'll understand) reminds me of a program I wrote in Fortran once.....

    The teacher gave us the assignment and told us that it didn't matter if we did it his way, only that it worked. He (remaining namless) got on my bad side earlier that week by waking me up in the middle of my nap. To get back at him I put two or three format statements on each line of code. To further anger him, I used half a dozen subroutines just to set up the Read statements.

    Oh Well

    {/. should put a time of day filter, I'm sure that 90% of the crap posted wouldn't be if posts weren't done at 4 AM}

  17. LEGO robots on CONRO Configurable 'Lego' Robot · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that you can never find enough of the little 2 dot red ones...

    (not an attempt at a FP here, just late at nite ramblings)

  18. VIC-20 on The Good Old Days..... · · Score: 1

    My first real 'computer' was my VIC-20. I used to get a computer magazine that had programs in the back. I would program them in and play them. Then one day I was typing in this program... kept going... kept going... ran out of memory. They never noted that the program was designed for the C=128.

    So I grabbed my space invaders cartidge, popped it in, and forgot about it like the stupid 8 year old I was.

  19. Re:Change one, change all on Non-Traditional Keyboard Reviews · · Score: 1

    I ran into a SIMILAR problem. I learned to play the guitar in Drop-D tuning. All my friends learned to play in standard(open-c or something like that) tuning. If I went toplay at my friends place, I had to re tune the guitar and it was all awkerd. I got used to it though.

    I ran into EXACTLY the same problem as you did last semester. Got bored one night and switched the keyboard over to Dvorak. Learned it over a 2 week span. Got a job, sat down at a qwerty keyboard.

    Oh well, I learned to type both.

  20. Re:Same here on Non-Traditional Keyboard Reviews · · Score: 1

    IF you have the patience and attention span for it, the new mavis baecon teaches typing has dvorak settings. Or you could learn it my way... Chat rooms

  21. Re:Another problem with Dvorak on Non-Traditional Keyboard Reviews · · Score: 2

    you can always use key sequences like shift-insert and such in the place of ctrl-v.

    This is what I've done. I have switched over to dvorak at a doctor's recomendation. I had been doing data entry for a few months and the dvorak layout provided a LITTLE relief. I was suffering from repetitive stress syndrome.

  22. Re:connecting them together on Free Cable Modem From The Shack · · Score: 1

    we're using BNC 10 base 2 networking in my house right now. It's only 10 megabit, but our modem is only 33.6(ANYONE BITCHING ABOUT BANDWIDTH SHOULD BE SHOT, there are 5 of us sharing a 33.6 modem here.... wanna talk about slashdot being slow to load?)

  23. Re:don't be a pedant on New MPEG 4-Based Open Source Codec · · Score: 1

    the k is kilo B is byte b is bit hence kbps (baud rate - kilo BITS per second) and kBps (how fast you boast to your friends about - kilo BYTES per second)

  24. Re:Three years?? on Beer In Space · · Score: 1

    you could spin the bottle about an axis that runs perpendicular to the length of the bottle and through the neck. This would cause the foam to flow to the center, which is, in this case, the neck.
    ~~~

  25. Re:Classic gaming is real gaming on First Ever Pitfall Perfection? · · Score: 1

    Pitfall was great, but Galaga was king. I used to pump $5 a day into that frickin machine and I FINALLY got to the 700,000 mark just to have some tourist show me up in 50c.... kinda made me glad that had more of a life than him though....