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  1. No worries on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Life here has spent millions of years adapting and evolving defenses against such threats. Considering the massive amount of interactions taking place here, our microbes are likely far more dangerous to any life that may be there.

  2. Re:display or drivers? on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Could be - the computer was sending a 1280x720 signal and the TV upconverts everything to 1920x1080i

  3. Re:The Tech FAQ Hand-Off on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    He has a 9800 pro and my 9700 pro connected to my HDTV with the HDMI connector does the same thing. I didn't really notice that it was the digital connection that was what was making it seem a little laggy until I had them both set up next to each other. The TV doesn't lag when I use the TV in.

  4. Re:got the message yet? :-) on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    My TV does it when the digital input (HDMI)is being used, but not when I use the regular TV in. I'll bet it's the digital decoding that's lagging the monitor.

  5. Re:Not the Flat Panel.... on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Try running your LCD both ways (analog inputs and digital inputs). That's where you'll see the difference. The analog inputs don't lag.

  6. Re:display or drivers? on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    I have my home theater setup connected to my hdtv through its HDMI port with a DVI-HDMI cable, and when I mirror the display to a regular vga monitor right next to it, the display lag is obvious. I'd just assumed it was a digital decoding delay.

  7. Re:Your Rights Online? What a joke. on 1984 Comes To Boston · · Score: 1

    In the beginning stages of nearly any change, the process will not be complete. The first cars were loud, inefficient and noxious, bearing little resemblance to modern vehicles. The infrastructure behind the society in 1984 wasn't built immediately. Showing parallels to demonstrate some basic functional similarities between what is in the book and what is happening right now isn't intellectually dishonest. It's insightful. The processes that occur when a government sees an opportunity to increase it's power are important to note. Just because we aren't already there, doesn't mean that we may not be on a dangerous path with a similar destination.
    Bringing up pertinent issues that you've ignored is a perfectly valid form of discussion.

  8. Re:Piracy implications? on 600 PowerMacs Make One DVD · · Score: 1

    I don't doubt that there are thousands of people out there who would do exactly that. HD Blu-Ray ISOs would kick ass.

  9. Re:Peering into my crystal ball... on Microsoft To Be Fined E500M By European Union? · · Score: 1

    Keep thinking that, and nobody gets mad until we have one working. Thank you:)

  10. Re:So when you walk into a store... on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 1

    Lassie could probably survive the 10 seconds.

  11. Re:...On this whole piracy thing... on BitTorrent Blamed for Matrix2 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Excellent argument. You should've been modded up.

  12. Re:Counterfitting measures updated. on New US $20 bills Released, Colors & Layout Change · · Score: 1

    Actually it's only the ones that don't have the security strip.

  13. Re:Responsibility on Ethical Dilemmas Related to Technology · · Score: 1

    He could have bombed Tokyo.

  14. Re:How many times... on Murchison Meteorite Still Contentious · · Score: 1

    Let's analyze your comment. You use stereotypes, name-calling and weak assumptions to make your attack. Your apparent grasp of logical concepts is not impressive. Bloody arrogant, indeed.

  15. Re:The truth on "Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud · · Score: 1

    Here's a clue: it's not his helmet.

  16. Re:A terraflop? on Playstation 3 CPU Almost Finished? · · Score: 1

    This article states the 1 teraflop statistic and an estimate of 100x performance increase over the pentium 4:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-948493.html?tag= fd_l ede
    Very impressive if it's true.

  17. A little late, maybe on MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong · · Score: 1

    Who exactly is this article trying to convince? With public video and internet surveillance growing at a pretty quick rate as well as the police powers to go along along with them, I find this an odd view to take. In the name of our security, the government is convincing us that this whole infrastructure is necessary to protect us from the bad guys. Why do they need these powers specifically designed with no checks and balances?

  18. Re:Erk! on Windows 2000 - Nine Months to Live · · Score: 1

    Remote desktop is the main reason I put up with it.

  19. Re:The Console winner will be? on Carmack on Doom 3 Video Cards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All right, people. You're technically correct about the NTSC specifications, but with TV, it's not the same as it is with your VGA cards. On your computer you can see the full 1024x768 or whatever, but your TV gets chopped off at the edges, quite significantly, it's interlaced and there are intentional, inherent degradations in an NTSC signal because of bandwidth limitations. I think the original poster was being generous when he allowed for 400x500.

  20. Re:Better than USB 2? on 1394 Trade Association Adopts FireWire Brand · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Compactflash cameras transfer files onto the cards using files and directories. They've been working with filesystems for years.

  21. Re:Iraq on E3: Epic, US Army Develop Games as Recruitment Tool · · Score: 1

    You almost had a complete thought there - don't forget that we lock up murderers that have already killed. Saddam Hussein has developed a pattern that he's continuing. It's more like stopping a serial killer than stopping a potential murderer.

  22. Re:Way to go on E3: Epic, US Army Develop Games as Recruitment Tool · · Score: 1

    He was just showing the basic mentality, which you continue to demonstrate.

  23. Re:blech. on So Did the Hordes Really Skip out for Episode 2? · · Score: 1

    Get some counseling. Please.

  24. Re:Some Disk Array on Reaching Beyond Two-Terabyte Filesystems · · Score: 1

    Expensive, but definitely not unheard of. We will have drives much larger than that someday. The best now isn't the best ever, it's in next year's bargain box. It doesn't hurt to plan ahead when designing any framework for a computer system, much less a filesystem. It's ironic that the OS with the best basic design (BeOS) had such a short lifetime.

  25. Re:This is fairly amusing... on Online News Stories that Change Behind Your Back · · Score: 2

    ...and I get modded offtopic. Very funny. Next time I'll post my 'censorship in the media' posts under the Star Wars topic, or something more appropriate.