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  1. Re:3d desktops and performance. on Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative · · Score: 1

    Your saying that X with a dri driver renders to frambuffer, I'm not supprised that people complain about X so much.

  2. Re:Old information? Interesting point..... on DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System' · · Score: 1

    There also a government agency: nothing would supprise me!

  3. Old information? Interesting point..... on DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lets say the information is held on magnetic tape, now after a while I suppose it starts to get a bit brittle.
    Running it through a reader without first restoring the tape could degrage the data and tape to the point where it could no longer be reconstructed, e.g. all the ferite comes off of the tape and floats accross the room in a plume of dust.

    So, if the data's stored on old tapes they may have a case.

  4. 'roads should be toll based' on The March Towards Micropayments · · Score: 1

    I think everything should be 'free', or do the animals and insects have to pay a toll for crossing the road.

  5. Re:Ummm.. Jesus on Mind Scans to Map Decision Making Mechanics · · Score: 1

    A lot of the apparent function of the brain, isn't done in the brain. e.g. reflexes, you hair standing on end when you get cold, breathing, your ballance. If you were religious you could say that your body has many souls.

  6. Re:'there is no quantity of juice sufficient' on Mind Scans to Map Decision Making Mechanics · · Score: 1

    You could probably train the rats to take the food sometimes. maybe by occasionally not giving them coke until they feed.

  7. Bad Programming? on Blame Bad Security on Sloppy Programming · · Score: 1

    More like bad mangement:
    Poor requirements, with new features getting added too near relese.
    Well it looks like it works fine so lets release it.
    Make sure the product performs well, don't bother with the checking everything(not that you can't have performance and security)
    Poor recruiting by HR.

  8. cocaine on Mind Scans to Map Decision Making Mechanics · · Score: 1

    Even a trained monkey, could we use this to develop better rehab. Some people who've given up coke before know how to do it again, and don't get re-hooked.

  9. Ummm.. Jesus on Mind Scans to Map Decision Making Mechanics · · Score: 1

    Because when you cut those bits out of your head, (Yep we have the Nazis to thank) the functionality relates to the energy burnt.

  10. 'there is no quantity of juice sufficient' on Mind Scans to Map Decision Making Mechanics · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What even if the monkey hasn't had anything to drink for the past week (well maybe day or two, I don't tnik it could do anything after a week).

  11. money exchanged between "accounts". on WA Bans Gift-Card Expirations, Fees · · Score: 1

    if it is just ' money exchanged between "accounts".' then that makes them a bank dealing in there own currency which has all kinds of regulations.

  12. Re:Moore's Politics on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    I think that he's implying that they had slightly less to do with it that than American foreign policy.

  13. ACSI music on Profiting From A Vague Patent HOWTO · · Score: 1

    Didn't someone write a document that played a tune when printed on a dot-matrix printer a very long time ago?

  14. SQL Server 2000 on Advanced PHP Programming · · Score: 1

    SQL Server 2000, what year is this?

    On a more serious note,
    PHP==free
    Apache==free
    MySql=free
    Postgr esql=free

    IIS=!free
    Oracle=>!free
    SQL Server=!free

    I use Apache 2 because it scales better and Postgres because I already know sql and don't want to spend half my life screaming because MySql doesn't support xyz abc etc...
    Infact I try to avoid having MySql on anything, because I know that if i ever want to extract or archive my data it's going to be a pain.

  15. Green Screen on Toshiba Develops World's Smallest Fuel Cells · · Score: 3, Informative

    They didn't just pick green for fun, green on black provides very good contrast with little eye strain.

    Blue's a good background colour too, lots of Dyslexia associated sites recomend it.

  16. Computers are everywhere on Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    haven't you ever looked in a skip?

  17. Re:Come on... on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Ok, in the UK, where were supposed to be metrificiedish all out road signs are in whole miles, half miles and hundred yards. Sometimes they an aproximate metric value on the sign too. Now you'd think that every time they put up a sign they'd shift it a little closer to the K boundry, but they don't.

    Changing all your manufacturing equipment so that it can deal with liters and not pints, cm's not inches is going to cost a shit load more that repainting a few road signs (that will probably have to be on 10cm poles (not 3 inch) etc....)

  18. Re:What about a "Times New Roman"? on Microsoft Patents The Body Bus · · Score: 1

    No, Microsoft hold copyright on Arial.

  19. or an arial on Microsoft Patents The Body Bus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Every stuck you finger in tha back of a T.V. arial socket to get a better reception. That's multiple modulated frequencies. If my video pickes up some information from that signal to start recording then I've selectivly activated a device.

    In the audable range, I've used myself as a very noisy conductor for hi-fi equipment before, maybe I had a pizeo attached.

  20. shool boy stuff on Microsoft Patents The Body Bus · · Score: 1


    We used to physics expetements at school where you hold each others hands any make a light come on, I'm sure we had to try and be synchronised, that to me is using the skin as a serial bus.

    What about a lie detector test, don't they measure skin conductivity and that kind of stuff.

  21. Plenty of RAS on Building a Better Office · · Score: 1

    A good office is one that people don't have to attend all the time if they don't need to.

    Make sure you have plent of remote access capability so people can work from ,home, the park, a cafe, anywhere they feel relaxed.

    If you worker doesn't have to drive to the office, they've probably got an extra 45mins sleep, they'll also have a bit more time to themselfs (upto a couple of hours I suppose) so be happier and more refreshed, perfect working conditions.

    25%, 75% home office split is good to start with, migrating up to 80% 20% if people get on well.

  22. GPG and PGP. on Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout · · Score: 1

    I didn't see results for how much span GPG and PGP block.

    It's normally around 100% on my pc, but sometimes about 110%.

  23. Come on... on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Like the cost of moving a road sign's going to be a huge burdon compaired to the rest of metrification.

    Did little green men help them conspire to make 1/3 a nice number in imperial but a nasty number in metric too?

  24. Re:My Thoughts on The Mythical Man-Month Revisited · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most of your work is in Java and C# (yuck) because I expect your doing scripting and glue, maybe a bit more core functionality if Java but nothing my little sister couldn't do.

    If you were doing more techinical work (that I wouldn't expect my little sister to do) then I expect you'd use a more technical language, like fortran, c, c++. with a bit of prototyping in Java, VB or .Net if you want to.

    Swing=C (because Java's slow at GUI's)
    Windows=C (because .net's slow at GUI's etc...)

  25. 6 million who on EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech · · Score: 1

    Gypsies? or Zionists.
    Kill all the Zionists for they will kill you so that they may inherit the earth.

    Remeber the poor Gipsies celebrate the killing of the zionists.