Slashdot Mirror


User: Alien+Being

Alien+Being's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,113
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,113

  1. Re:Slightly Off Topic on Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card · · Score: 1

    "In particular, I'd like to see someone quantify exactly how much of an advantage White has if mathematically perfect moves are executed by both sides."

    I think it would have to be "always wins" or "always loses", but I'm not sure how to prove it.

  2. Re:Isn't samba GPL on Open Source Community Approaches SCO · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Isn't this a stupid strategy?"

    Not really. Consider that Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk...

  3. Open Source Community Approaches SCO on Open Source Community Approaches SCO · · Score: 1

    Picture the villagers approaching Dr. Frankenstein's castle.

  4. form and maintain their own network on Networking the Redwoods · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spanning tree?

  5. Re:How does it work? on New WiFi Standards, Double the Data? · · Score: 1

    Aaah... TY. Reminds me a bit of Carver's sonic holography, except in RF.

  6. Re:How does it work? on New WiFi Standards, Double the Data? · · Score: 1

    This link might be right on the mark.

  7. How does it work? on New WiFi Standards, Double the Data? · · Score: 1

    There doesn't seem to be much in the way of details. My hunch is that this is a diversity antenna. I'm guessing that it does bit by bit comparison from 2 or more frontends.

  8. Re:Gonna need some serious memory on Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera · · Score: 1

    Think about cropping and zooming. You notice a region of interest in the picture but it's all fuzzy by the time you blow it up.

  9. Re:I hope they integrate NX compression on XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website · · Score: 1

    Wow! Have you tried it?

  10. Re:I hope they integrate NX compression on XFree86 Fork Gets a Name, Website · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it makes sense to put some better hooks into X so that x0rfbserver doesn't have to do so much polling.

    But it would be even snappier if the X11[VNC|RDP|NX] conversion(s) could be handled in the same process space as the physical server.

  11. Re:OS Change on Apple's School Days are Numbered · · Score: 0

    Are you telling me that the "industry standard" PDP8 skills I learned in HS are obsolete? Should I go to PDP11 school?

  12. Re:India already has long range missile capability on India Plans Moon Mission by 2008 · · Score: 1

    "Why dont we all give it up???"

    The genie is out of the bottle. Saddam was recently spotted buying enriched uranium from a 7/11 in Africa.

  13. Re:Maybe india should worry more about planet eart on India Plans Moon Mission by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Moon cheese.

  14. Re:Lessons from the ancient on Hardware Based XRender Slower than Software Rendering? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's just like my uncle Fortranna Rosanadanna used to tell me. It's always something. Either your XRENDER is slow or you're stuck with a two bit disk drive.

    Back to you, Jane.

    -Rosanna

  15. Re:Welcome on Iron-eating Bug Found to Thrive in 121C Heat · · Score: 1

    LMAO. If Taco adds a "-10 tired old joke" I hope he also adds "+10 classic".

  16. Re:I like the wooden better on Mirror, Mirror · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks like muscle wire would be to slow. Max cycle rate seems to be about 1/second. Electromagnets would probably work better, like those green flip-dot highway signs.

  17. Re:Oh please on Miniature 5400 and 7200 RPM HDDs Reviewed · · Score: 1

    What a jerk. If you want to differentiate IDE from SCSI then go back and correct your own post, not mine.

  18. Re:Oh please on Miniature 5400 and 7200 RPM HDDs Reviewed · · Score: 1

    With 2.5" hard drives at 7200RPMs, how could they possibly be called "nowhere near as fast as 3.5" models."

    Track seek times should/could be better on a smaller disk. But at the same rpm, number of heads and bit density data transfer would be slower due to the lower linear velocity.

    They whole point is that they ARE as fast... 3.5" HDDs have been stuck at 7200RPMs for some time now

    I've seen speeds as high as 15k.

  19. Re:Welcome on Iron-eating Bug Found to Thrive in 121C Heat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "its' small size would prevent it from doing much immediate damage."

    What if he has a brother?

  20. Re:With 20k rpm scsi drives.... on Miniature 5400 and 7200 RPM HDDs Reviewed · · Score: 1

    only for very small values of K

  21. Re:This is not the first one. on Iron-eating Bug Found to Thrive in 121C Heat · · Score: 3, Funny

    And his 140 IQ is actually only 60 ;-P

  22. Re:USB Key's on Miniature 5400 and 7200 RPM HDDs Reviewed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "will the spinning disk still be a relavant tool for easy to carry around storage."

    It's about 100x cheaper than solid state and storage "requirements" keep going up, so I'd say yes. Disk based digital video recorders will probably catch on at some point.

  23. Re:The key on Los Alamos to Use AMD's Opteron in Linux Clusters · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "But Intel has something in the server market that AMD doesn't: a reputation."

    At Intel, Quality is Job 0.99999998!!

    Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
    A: A random number generator.

  24. Re:WAIT! It's already been done!! on Chemical Element 110 To Be Named · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Pounds - not kilograms?"

    Or, married vs looking.

  25. Anagrams of "Santa Cruz Operation" (SCO) on OSDL Releases Q&A on SCO Legal Actions · · Score: 2, Funny

    sue a corp, anoint tzar
    ran crap zoo, sue titan
    i can root azure pants
    rapacious, not zen art
    can't earn it, zap our os
    ip rat unto an os craze

    - a post one czar in a rut