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  1. Re:Facebook Still Runs Terribly Slow on Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver · · Score: 1

    Chat is powered by Erlang not PHP/

  2. Re:Ambitious on Facebook's HipHop Also a PHP Webserver · · Score: 1

    No it's been running FB for six months, so the recent problems are either unrelated or due to some recent change.

  3. Re:Geeks miss the point again. on MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative · · Score: 1

    So, how many non-malware apps has Google refused or pulled exactly?

    Also you can install from third party sources if you want, you don't have to be tied to their marketplace. There's plenty I don't like about Google but Android is excellent.

  4. Re:multitouch? on MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative · · Score: 1

    To be honest Android apps perform better on my phone (Touch Pro) than Windows Mobile 6.5 ones, and that's with software rendering.

  5. Re:Entropy increasing, Slashdot-style on Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought · · Score: 1

    4 .

  6. Re:Confusing icon practices on For GUIs, Just the Right Degree of Realism · · Score: 1

    If you have the space then an icon with text is ideal. It's easier to zoom in on the position of a known icon than to find the text, but the text lets you know what it does until you recognise the icon.

  7. Re:Yet another infomation-free summary... on OnLive Gaming Service Gets Lukewarm Approval · · Score: 1

    OnLive have clearly said that they think the latency isn't too much for most people if it's lower than 80ms, they've made a big deal about how far you have to be from the server and a reviewer dislikes it because the latency is too high when he's using it in a way that OnLive said would make the latency too high? What a surprise!

  8. Re:Yum on Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's mentioned in the article, though in the case of the Nazis' attempt they made something to look a bit like them rather than have a similar genetic makeup as in this case.

  9. Re:The article forgot to mention on Boxee Opens Beta To All · · Score: 1

    Yes because that's the only purpose for 64bit apps.

  10. Re:Oops on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I was at school this kid was showing off his unbreakable watch. I said I bet I could break it. He said 'go on then' and gave me the watch. It's amazing how much pressure you can apply to something with a point. In this case the point of an iron (we were in an art room) was more than a match. I still feel bad about killing his watch though :(

  11. Re:An iPod? on iPhone-Controlled Helicopter With AR Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The default software comes for iPhone/iPod but they've published an API and open sourced the demos. Good on them, this thing has great potential, hope it doesn't cost too much :)

  12. Re:Stop with the drugs already on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to hear about your bad experiences and I can understand your feelings about the financial motives of commercial health centres.

    I'm also glad that it seems from what you say that you're healthy now, but those PDFs you linked are pure quackery, please don't rely on them.

    Anyway best of health to you :)

  13. Re:How many times... on Monty Wants To Save MySQL · · Score: 1

    Use InnoDB (or other non-MyISAM engines) for everything and use a proper search engine for your searches...

  14. Re:Me too! on Monty Wants To Save MySQL · · Score: 1

    How would another license fix either of these potential problems exactly?

  15. Re:How many times... on Monty Wants To Save MySQL · · Score: 1

    Very few people doing anything serious with MySQL use MyISAM much. InnoDB ships with it and is a nice engine.

  16. Re:How can it be a run for it's money at $200? on Move Over BoxeeBox, Here Comes PopBox · · Score: 1

    Seems pretty simple to me.. The settings menus could use a little re-organisation but otherwise I like it.

  17. Re:How can it be a run for it's money at $200? on Move Over BoxeeBox, Here Comes PopBox · · Score: 1

    But one of them is Boxee, which is XBMC with a new skin, and some plugins pretty much.

  18. Re:How can it be a run for it's money at $200? on Move Over BoxeeBox, Here Comes PopBox · · Score: 1

    Oops, good point, I stand corrected :)

  19. Re:How can it be a run for it's money at $200? on Move Over BoxeeBox, Here Comes PopBox · · Score: 1

    Sure but for people that just want to plug it into the TV and go then something like the BoxeeBox could be great.

    Regarding NetFlix, AFAIUI Boxee have been playing cat and mouse with them for ages, NetFlix keep making changes to break Boxee's usage of it so I'm guessing there's not licensing agreement there, but maybe D-Link are working on that.

  20. Re:Stop with the drugs already on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    > It's blood poisoning

    Surely that depends on whether the infection gets into your blood? :)

    I don't think anyone's suggesting you shouldn't get antibiotics for MRSA, provided you can get some it's not resistant to. The issue is that MRSA develop(s)(ed) from over-use of antibiotics for treating things that don't really require them, and by people not completing their courses.

  21. Re:How can it be a run for it's money at $200? on Move Over BoxeeBox, Here Comes PopBox · · Score: 1

    Have you ever used XBMC or Boxee? The UI is great, the playback quality is superb and the feature-set is enormous.

  22. Re:Cloud Gaming? on OnLive One Step Closer · · Score: 1

    It means utility computing. As long as it's used in that context it's meaningful. It's unfortunate though that a lot of people don't understand what it means so it's constantly misused elsewhere.

  23. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on OnLive One Step Closer · · Score: 1

    Well they seem pretty confident they can manage 80ms. If so then it's got a good chance of working with most games, especially with console controllers. I seriously doubt you'll find anyone playing Quake 3 with mouse and keyboard though :p

  24. Re:why? on Chinese Pirates Launch Ubuntu That Looks Like XP · · Score: 1

    My point is that supposed OS stability generally isn't about the OS, it's about the drivers, unless it's a really bad OS, like WinME or something.

    I do personally think that the Linux development model (*not* the open source part, the keeping the driver maintenance inside the kernel source tree part) is a better bet for stability however, which is relevant to the OS. Linux has driver stability problems too, but the vast majority are in the binary blobs that are maintained externally by 3rd parties rather than as a part of the kernel tree by a mixture of third parties and the kernel maintainers.

  25. Re:Great! on UK Consumers To Pay For Online Piracy · · Score: 1

    > Now that the government has to pay for the costs
    > of enforcement, there is a dedicated tax.

    No there isn't, this is the estimated cost of implementing the law, that's a different thing to a dedicated tax. Also the money being paid to implement the law isn't being paid to the **AAs as compensation.

    Everyone seems to be discussing this as if it's a compensation tax like the duties on blank media, it's nothing like that. It's a law to deal with people caught committing copyright infringement, it's not a tax, there's no compensation going to the labels or studios.

    As I said, I don't support the law but let's at least discuss it for what it is not what the completely incorrect summary says it is. RTFA :)