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  1. Re:This article is bullshit on Tom's Hardware Looks At WinFS · · Score: 1

    Okay... I read down about 10 posts :)

  2. Re:This article is bullshit on Tom's Hardware Looks At WinFS · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it is going to be a full file system. WinFS will completely displace NTFS. Where exactly did you read that it would be running on top of NTFS?

  3. Re:I'm impressed on New Tidal-Energy Testbed Launched In Devon · · Score: 1

    Aren't those two intertwinded? Supply and Demand, if they have too much power then costs will drop, if they have to little it will go up. I know this is a gross simplification, but isn't it the overall trend.

  4. Simplex on The Secret of the Simplex Algorithm Discovered · · Score: 2, Funny

    What a poorly chosen name. Simplex is pretty complex when compared to some of the other things I studied in math class. I always wondered why they called it simplex.

  5. Decoding binary name on Microsoft To Demo 'Palladium' At WinHEC · · Score: 1

    101011010 or whatever the guys/gals code up top is, converts to 666 in decimal.

  6. Re:Perhaps not that hard? on Teach A Robot To Drive, Win A Million Bucks · · Score: 1

    If I remember my neural nets correctly there is no real idea of teaching it certain concepts. Instead, the neural net is fed certain inputs, like a picture of the view in front, and other things. Then a bunch of calculations go on, then there are some numbers at the output nodes, which would represent pushing gas/break or turning. The outputs of the neural net would be compared to the actual actions of the driver, and you would adjust values in the neural net accordingly. There is no real appeal to learning what a road or collision is.

  7. Re:Next gas: 50 miles on Digital Restrictions Management in Office 11 · · Score: 1

    What's to stop you from converting the document later? It's not like this format stops YOU from copying and pasting a document that YOU created and have the permissions for. It seems like you are just fear mongering without any actual facts or guesses about what might actually happen in the future.

    ps. I don't have them either, but that doesn't mean I can't call your bluff. In my opinion it may be come more difficult to convert files, but I'm not totally sure about it, so I'm not going to start yelling about it.

  8. Sounds like the Unix Filesystem... on Digital Restrictions Management in Office 11 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...The only difference is, you can set the permissions for everyone. The document can spread and you can keep those permissions in tact.

  9. Re:ANTLR? on GCC Gets PCH Support And New Parser · · Score: 1

    "Basicaly: you are NOT context-free, but you are context-sensitive"

    Having k lookahead is not the same as being context sensitive. Context sensitive grammars come in the form.

    non terminal or terminal 0 or more times :- not terminal or terminal more times than the left side.

    Using K lookahead to resolve ambiguities is not the same as being context sensitive.

  10. Re:The one missing point on Star Wars Galaxies Only to Allow One Character Per Account · · Score: 1

    What if the game isn't as character class based as all of the old games? You don't need to try a new character to try out different skills, they let you do it with the one you have. Instead of trying to make a pre-judgement this early, why not wait a few and see how it turns out?

  11. I mean come on.... on Kid-Safe Domain Created · · Score: 1

    How can George W. mess everying up, I mean come on... "kids.us". Isn't it obvious to everyone that it is "kids.us." that we are talking about here? Freaking moron.

  12. Re:Like poking a savage dog with a stick on Slashback: Circumvention, AOLandfill, Scoffing · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, as I'm not on the same sub-net with MS I doubt that my MAC address will make a huge difference. The MAC address shouldn't show up anywhere past my nearest gateway.

  13. You mean... on XBox Live Network · · Score: 1

    They can turn a linux box into a bridge... holy cow. Even more amazing is the fact that you can do this with a windows box too.

  14. 10 bit color? on Matrox Parhelia 512 Preview · · Score: 1

    It looks like they just stole 6 bits from the alpha channel and added it to the RGB. So only four levels of Alpha with 10 bit color?

  15. Weather Prediction on Internet Storm Center Tracks Hack Attacks · · Score: 1

    Will we be able to predict storms soon?

  16. Good news for humanity on Japan Builds World's Fastest Computer · · Score: 1

    Too bad the post on the main page came across as America vs Japan.

  17. Flexibility on Sharpei Virus Written In C# · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad to hear that C# is flexible enough to write viruses in. My job was considering not using C# due to flexibility concerns, but this virus has put all of our fears to rest. Haha.

  18. Monopoly? on DVD Player Chipsets To Support Windows Media Files · · Score: 1

    What does this have to do with the monopoly? It doesn't seem like Microsoft is using windows to do anything in this case? If Microsoft does anything to extend it's business is that it extending its monopoly?

  19. Manifold Time on NASA On Mining Extraterrestrial Sources · · Score: 1

    This is the basis for a bunch of stuff in Manifold Time by Stephen Baxter. He doesn't really go into much detail, but any chance I get to mention Stephen Baxter I will take.

  20. Re:Message to Microsoft from a shareholder on Open Source Is Bad [updated] · · Score: 1

    Just to make a quick comment. C#.NET isn't the only thing that is comming with .NET, it's one in a (I was going to say long, but...) list of languages that are going to be throwing out with .NET. .NET is trying to be language independent.

  21. Microsoft Bashing at it's finest on MS Wants To Know Whose PC Is Windows-Free · · Score: 1

    From my understanding of the article, Microsoft is going after businesses that try to steal the operating system by selling systems that are covered under some liscense agreement when one does not exist that apply's to consumers. You see a long time ago people like you complained and said that you didn't want to have to pay for an operating system that you weren't going to use, the courts agreed and microsoft had to terminate all their deals with big OEM's to allow bulk licensing of O.S.'s. Now people are claiming to have these licenses when they don't so microsoft, like any good corporation, wants it's money. Imagine for a moment that Redhat had to give out free phone tech support to a bunch of people that didn't pay anything for their distro. Software to microsoft = tech support to Red Hat. I can't argue against the comment that Microsoft shouldn't charge for their O.S.'s that is an entirely different comment, and this is probably a good thread to have an argument about business models in. How about for every mean word you think about Microsoft you try to write an hours worth of code for some open source project. That might actually accomplish something. That would probably require a lot more work than some of you are willing to put in though. It's easier to smear Microsoft with some lame comment than to do something about it. It's the same attitude that has our landfills filling up with trash and has everyone out their trying to find the easy way out of things. I'm not aiming this specifically at you, but you do have a bit of it in you... come on I know you do. I do too. I think we all do (except maybe Carmack, what a monster :) ).

  22. Fibre on Ethernet Sets To Bridge The Last Mile · · Score: 1

    Doesn't one of the ethernet standards use fibre as its underlying transmission medium?

  23. ooops on Sandia, Compaq, and Celera To Build Petaflop Machine · · Score: 1

    It's petaops not petaflops. Different things. Just making sure you got it right.