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  1. Re:Surprise? on Large Caves Found on the Surface of Mars · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Surprise? on Large Caves Found on the Surface of Mars · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Surprise? on Large Caves Found on the Surface of Mars · · Score: 1

    An oceanic plate ordinarily slides underneath a continental plate.
    etc....

    And there's a bit on the chemistry.

    And we all know that there's no water on the oceanic plate don't we.

  4. Re:Soul? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Many people think that the soul is your 'concious' the thing that make you who you are.
    If I were to measure it it would be interms of neurons etc... and you could say that it exists (but I wouldn't call it a soul) if a religious person were to measure it it would be some kind of supernatural thing that passes on when you die. And you know why they call it 'supernatural', because that's what we call things that don't exist in the real world and only exist in the imaginary world created by fairy tales.

  5. Re:Soul? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    Anyone that has ever had anything to do with studying the brain, it's the same kind of evidence that shows that love doesn't come from the heart (though I sure there are still people around that think it does).

    Anyhow, try taking some ketamine, maybe the drug has supernatural powers or maybe it just alters the way your brain works.

  6. Re:Soul? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's a large body of evidence that the soul does not exist, there is no evidence that the soul does exist. Make your conclusions.

  7. Re:Soul? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    s/believes/made up nonsence

    I can't stand it when people believe or even accept made up nonsence.

  8. Re:Awesome! on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    Rights do not come with responsibilities, otherwise I could go round killing all the babies in the world without any problems. After all their not responsible so they shouldn't have any rights in you book.

  9. Re:Soul? on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 2, Informative

    nothing that exists has a soul, that's what I know.

  10. Re:good old EU on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 1

    The UK is being ripped of be being charged more than other countries even though the distribution etc... costs are the same.

    How else would someone be ripped off?

  11. Re:Surprise? on Large Caves Found on the Surface of Mars · · Score: 1

    You seem to know very very little about the process of subduction

  12. Re:Surprise? on Large Caves Found on the Surface of Mars · · Score: 1

    You need liquid water (or possibley some other liquid) to have plate activity like earth.
    Some of the solid planets (venus?) don't have signs of plate techtonics but have surfaces that are even all over.

  13. Re:good old EU on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 1

    No the price of the Ps3

  14. Re:potential privacy concern? on Facebook's Cross-Language Network Library · · Score: 1

    XML is slow, if you want fast lightweight RPC which is generally what I want unless I working over the internet which is slow anyway then your going to have to write something proprietary.

  15. Re:good old EU on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That should be,
    Realizing that the UK is getting ripped off yet again the EU tries to do something about it

  16. OSS one? on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    What about OS X, that was based on OSS and so was the TIVIO.

    and if I'm being really picky windows contains some once BSD licensed code.

  17. the funny thing is on Digital Watchdogs Widen Anti-Piracy War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't shell out for a movie or software, but I would make donations to people who write OSS.

    Somehow the people who don't want to grab all the money seem more deserving.

  18. Re:GTA IV - Gimped Thanks To The Xbox 360 on GTA IV Trailer Released, Slows Sites · · Score: 2, Informative


    How fast can you read/write data on a Blu-ray disc?

    According to the Blu-ray Disc specification, 1x speed is defined as 36Mbps. However, as BD-ROM movies will require a 54Mbps data transfer rate the minimum speed we're expecting to see is 2x (72Mbps). Blu-ray also has the potential for much higher speeds, as a result of the larger numerical aperture (NA) adopted by Blu-ray Disc. The large NA value effectively means that Blu-ray will require less recording power and lower disc rotation speed than DVD and HD-DVD to achieve the same data transfer rate. While the media itself limited the recording speed in the past, the only limiting factor for Blu-ray is the capacity of the hardware. If we assume a maximum disc rotation speed of 10,000 RPM, then 12x at the outer diameter should be possible (about 400Mbps). This is why the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) already has plans to raise the speed to 8x (288Mbps) or more in the future.

    The Blueray drive in the PS3 is faster than the DVD drive in the XBox360 so load times should be faster.

  19. Re:GTA IV - Gimped Thanks To The Xbox 360 on GTA IV Trailer Released, Slows Sites · · Score: 1

    I've got enough music to keep me going for months without a single repeat, I'd like to see the XBox 360 do that.

  20. Re:GTA IV - Gimped Thanks To The Xbox 360 on GTA IV Trailer Released, Slows Sites · · Score: 1

    Simple,
    Don't buy an XBox 360, if enough people didn't buy the XBox 360 the games would be available on the pc, with better graphics, sound etc.....

  21. Re:GTA IV - Gimped Thanks To The Xbox 360 on GTA IV Trailer Released, Slows Sites · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've seen games that take more than 10GB to install, I'm sure it's not beyond the imagination of the developers what could be put on the extra 15gb.

    and yes the XBOX360 is crap, especially when compared to a PC or even the PS3, fortunately GTA 3/ SA for the PC had better graphics etc... than the console versions so hopefully the same will be true for this version.

  22. I hope they don't on Linux Preinstalled Dell Available Soon · · Score: 1

    Just updated Ubuntu today, it installed a new kernel, I lost X and my Wifi connection.

    Fortunately I could fix the problem, my mum wouldn't have been able to.

    Also many of the apps I've tried (e.g. Gift, MonoDevelop) didn't work under ubuntu, and it doesn't come with decss/mp3 stuff installed out of the box and it's a pain to setup if you don't know what your doing.

  23. Re:600 million squid? on Linux Makes For Greener Computing · · Score: 1

    population of the uk >60Million, cost of a windows license >£10

  24. Re:Isn't it the root of all programming languages? on Is Assembly Programming Still Relevant, Today? · · Score: 1

    And by far the easiest way of knowing the costs of the operations is to know what will be produced when the application is complied.

    Knowledge of assembly language is probably the easiest way to know this.

  25. Re:Why does anything cost what it does? on Why Next-Gen Titles Cost $60 · · Score: 1

    Sony's just about to release a new version of the PSP, that's hardly a disapearance.