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  1. Re:You are not Microsoft. on Pay to Play the U.S. Way · · Score: 2

    When it's that entities goal to turn those people into more-or-less slaves it can't be right.

    If I were to quit my job tomorow I'd be ~=fucked, I am a slave.

  2. Re:And your point is? on Pay to Play the U.S. Way · · Score: 2

    communism socialism(capitalism c){
    return(c-greed);
    }

  3. Re:Definitely useful on Secure, Efficient and Easy C programming · · Score: 1

    Or, write/find a good C++ framework and don't use C, which kinda makes sense seeing as most C projects are written C++ style

    myfunction(mystruct* this,params.....)

  4. Re:The colour counts on Angry Spirited Away Fans Strike Back · · Score: 1

    I can usually notice 80hz (some of the time), not quite a flicker more a shimmer. And the cinima's a nightmare!!

  5. Re:Spam the spammer on HOWTO: Annoy a Spammer · · Score: 1

    One problem, He asked for it.

  6. cool but on Angry Spirited Away Fans Strike Back · · Score: 1

    I'm blue colour blind..... So I need purple blue test cards.

  7. The colour counts on Angry Spirited Away Fans Strike Back · · Score: 5, Interesting

    People with Brown eyes(on average) are less sensitive to flicker than people with blue or green eyes by about 5-10hz. (not sure about grey eyes).
    The internet's a bit lacking on information, so here's some info on colour sensitivity...

    Sensitivity to Color:

    Different areas of human eyes have different sensitivity to color. For example, the eye is not sensitive to color at the periphery. It is only possible to discriminate between colors only +_60 of the straight head position. The color awareness range is about 90 to the straight head position. The eye is least sensitive to red, green, and yellow at the periphery. Thus when designing interface for large screen, blue would make a good background color.

    The front of the eyes is more sensitive to red, green, and yellow. If we put small blue objects on the screen, which will usually be in the front of the eye, these objects will tend to disappear form the screen.

    Discernment of color differences:

    Eye is also least sensitive to changes in the shades of blue. It is very sensitive to changes in the shades of red. Eye is sensitive to the differences between colors in various degrees and the discernment of color differences is not uniform across the spectrum.

    The eyes need to refocus for the colors, which are not near on the spectrum. Thus it would be difficult (tiring) for human eye to focus if red and blue are placed together.

  8. Re:unreadable format' on Free Software, Free Society · · Score: 1

    On a simpler level, I cold re-compile the book into a 'code' that only a few people understand.

    Let's say the book was in Ancient Egyption and there was no rosetta stone.

    Computers are really quite simple, and given a few years you could work out what was going on from a binary executable file, well kinda.

  9. well OT on Cancer Mouse Not Patentable in Canada · · Score: 1

    good point, how's Montana doing these days?

  10. unreadable format' on Free Software, Free Society · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ' You cannot "compile" a book into an unreadable format'

    Sure I can, it's called PGP.

  11. Re:Tolerance of intolerance on Free Software, Free Society · · Score: 1

    How can you be 'egotistical' in a 'communist' way.

    Come on, please explain, I dieing to know, don't be selfish, share your thoughts with everyone.

  12. one word on Cancer Mouse Not Patentable in Canada · · Score: 1

    good

  13. Re:I can make a better, silent, non-mechanical fri on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 1

    opps, got caught out be the french again.....

    Well, a hole in the ground was good enough for a few thousand years or so, so I'm sure it's good enough now.

  14. Re:why? on Understanding the Microprocessor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hmm... By the looks of things there using a flat model, no CS/DS and a few other bits and bobs, it's not just the addressing that's changed by but the 'way' that you address memory.

    This is a small step away from CISC, since the memory access model is becoming simpler, which inturn can give performance improvements.

  15. Re:CFCss... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 2

    Decades, and they still 'brag' about not having CFC's on many products.

  16. I can make a better, silent, non-mechanical fridge on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 2

    Just dig a holw a few feet deep in the ground, and get a cool 4deg all year round.

    Easy, didn't take any rocket science, doesn't produce green house gasses (maybe some radioactive ones), doesn't make any noise, doesn't cost much to run, only a space and a pick needed.

  17. Re:Also on Scientific American on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I see a darwin award comming.....

  18. Re:why? on Understanding the Microprocessor · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Basically, Hammer (64 bit cpus) = larger addressing space, not nescessarily faster processing."
    I suggest you go read the developer docs for the hammer.

    Memory addressing has been re-designed, because no-one uses the protection model in x86. etc....
    Do you understand me, or the developer docs, probably not.
    now read Understanding the Microprocessor and say that the Hammer isn't an improvement.

  19. rights of sysadmins on X-Force Changes Vulnerability Disclosure Policy · · Score: 2

    I'd like to know that there was XYZ vunrablilty in a service I was running, so that I could implment a work-around until a patch comes alongs(assuming that one does).

  20. Here's how it works on Using Neuromarketing to Sell Products · · Score: 3, Funny


    MrMRI : Hey Mr advertising guy, we've got this great Idea.

    MRAdd: What?

    MrMRI: Just lie down here, keep still and I'll tell you...

    half an hour later.
    MrMRI wispers :yep, he's gullable.

    MRMRI: Well, you get people to lie down in an MRI machine and user ther brain waves to sell.......

  21. Re:NASA should benchmark other organizations, on Actual Costs for the Space Station · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Christ, I've no clue what he's talking about either.

  22. Re:it takes more to be a good Unix admin on Win2k Cheaper than Linux · · Score: 1

    agreed

  23. Re:it takes more to be a good Unix admin on Win2k Cheaper than Linux · · Score: 1

    Not to use Windows?

  24. Re:it takes more to be a good Unix admin on Win2k Cheaper than Linux · · Score: 2

    Ok, My windows box at work started crashing, so support try to remotely fix the problem.
    Un-install/reinstall a few things, run reg-clean, that's about it.

    Still crashing, so someone comes to the PC, backs up all the data formats the HDD and reinstalls Windows, it still crashes... Three days later the install is just about stable .

    I still get the odd BSOD, so I try disabling a few drivers (obviously its a ring 0-1 problem) until I don't get a BSOD any more, and download the correct version of that driver. It took about 3hrs.

    If I get problems at home, running Linux I check the logs, if I'm a little unsure I'll search on the web or isolate the fault, sometimes I need to get an updated version of xyz library, sometimes I have to make changes to a driver (e.g. when my USB ADSL modem stopped working, because of changes at my local exchange).
    I haven't formatted a HDD for years (probably more than 5). Unix may be more complex, but it's easier to find out what's going on, usually in a plain text configuration or log file, things tend to be more uniform etc....

    Windows is easier to learn, but almost impossible to master, Unix is hard to learn but can be mastered.

  25. it takes more to be a good Unix admin on Win2k Cheaper than Linux · · Score: 2

    It takes a hell of a lot more to be a 'GOOD' Windows admin than a good Unix admin, have you ever seen a 'GOOD' Windows admin?
    (nb not the one with a 'to re-install is good, to format is better' T-Shirt).