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  1. Re:StarCraft on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw recently that a fix went in to make shadows work correctly in SC2. I guess that probably means it works ok.

  2. Re:Games? on Wine 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    A number of Touhou games work, and Starcraft works. What else do you need?

  3. Re:Why use symbols? on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    HTML entities
    €
    or
    €

  4. Re:Second comment debunks on Sun's Dark Companion 'Nemesis' Not So Likely · · Score: 5, Informative

    that's the third comment.

    Here is a bit from the second comment:

    The fact is that with modern and better paleontological data any peridocity is rejected, as easily checked with autocorrelation [Alroy, 2008]:

    "Quantitatively, extinction rates in the Fossil Record 2 family data (3) and Sepkoski’s family and genus data (1, 2) are not correlated with themselves at any time lag (49), which is a necessary condition for periodicity to hold. That said, analyses of origination rates in all three datasets (49, 50) suggest short-term autocorrelation. However, the current dataset shows no autocorrelation in either kind of rate (Fig. S1), and a standard spectral analysis (Fig. S2) also suggests purely random variation through the time series (i.e., white noise)."

  5. Re:All well and good... on How To Use HTML5 Today · · Score: 3, Informative

    IE8 is a lot further along than IE7; and IE9, which should hit beta later this year, supports all HTML5 elements.

  6. Re:How can a black hole emit anything? on Black Hole Emits a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Gas Bubble · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, antimatter does not have antimass. And it is 50/50 as to which of the pair falls into the black hole. But for that formerly virtual particle to now exist as a "regular" particle it's energy has to come from somewhere, and in this case, "somewhere" is the black hole. I believe that this is one of those points where to go further, you need to get into the actual math.

  7. Re:Have I missed any? on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Modding me down? why? I feel that was a very relevant response to a sentence like this:

    "Because Flash it also comes in Adblock configuration, which is handy for when you want to disable the default configuration."

    The dang thing just doesn't parse.

  8. Re:desktop as a document? on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    >Win32 and X11 are both truly horrible API's

    Luckily we have GTK/QT and uh, .NET to cover that up

  9. Re:Have I missed any? on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 0

    what

  10. Re:Please, electrical gods, make it 12V on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    Interesting, thanks for the info

  11. Re:good. on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Displayport has more video and audio bandwidth and much more aux data bandwidth.
    As a VESA standard, it is royalty-free.
    It relates much more closely to how modern digital displays are driven, allowing "Direct Drive Displays" and eliminating certain complexities in encoding/decoding DVI/HDMI.
    eDP is replacing LVDS internally in notebooks, and iDP may replace LVDS in smaller devices, these share silicon with standard DP.

    A lot of good detailed info here (start on page 16):
    http://www.displayport.org/cms/sites/default/files/downloads/DisplayPort_Technical_Overview.pdf
    obviously from VESA so it has some marketing stuff, but the technical details are right. They do omit the ability of HDMI 1.4 to run 100 Mb Ethernet, and HDMI's support of more color profiles.

  12. It has a real name, you know on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    > standard 3-pin "kettle cord"

    You mean an IEC C13/C14 connector?

  13. Re:Maybe it's because .. on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    "sel" "warez"? Really? Is this what we've come to?

  14. Re:Please, electrical gods, make it 12V on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    What happened to the idea a number of years back of moving cars to, what was it, 48v or somesuch?

  15. Re:Wow on The Secrets of the Chaocipher Finally Revealed · · Score: 4, Informative

    >(still, where is the AES equivalent of a secure hash?)
    here:
    http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/timeline.html

  16. Re:Firefox is playing catch-up on Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    I have a dozen or so extensions in FF and SeaMonkey, and they are very stable, despite being nightly builds

  17. Re:Firefox is playing catch-up on Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    No real extensions, just greasemonkey-level scripts

  18. Re:Do not want. on Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    And Chrome is horrible in the first place. Luckily you can switch back to a decent UI style (and on Linux the new UI isn't present at all yet).

  19. Re:Agree - Old wireless house phones! on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    The DECT phones that finally made it to the US use 1.9 GHz, and they seem to be very common in stores now, and fairly cheap.

  20. Re:Good article on Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code · · Score: 3, Informative

    >It seems little has changed in the day to day affairs of man.

    Not only has it not changed much in 2,400 years, if you read about ancient Mesopotamia, you will find that not much has changed in 5,000 years

  21. Re:Yeah that sounds nice - but using what codec? on Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    WebM+Flash fallback

  22. Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? on FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    >immunize the guy
    Against what? the flu? mmr? polio?

  23. Re:I hope this isn't too mean on Rats Breathe Air From Lungs Grown In the Lab · · Score: 1

    >assimilates to a level that will affect its children's lungs?

    Lamarckism was disproven

    (Well, there is epigentics, but I don't see that methylation would be an issue here)

  24. Re:UI Lag on Firefox 3.6.4 Released With Out-of-Process Plugins · · Score: 1

    >My problem is that I kind of hate the Internet with NoScript.

    really? I hate the internet *without* noscript

  25. Re:UI Lag on Firefox 3.6.4 Released With Out-of-Process Plugins · · Score: 1

    My setup is similar, although my main browser is SeaMonkey 2.0 nightlies, and I run NoScript. Although it takes some time to load that many tabs, it doesn't cause any problems.