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  1. Re:Fanless on Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC · · Score: 1

    Zonbu.com? I prefer Zombo.com?

  2. Re:Truly free license: WTFPL on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Public Domain is more free since it is no longer copyrighted.

  3. Re:Tissue Rejection Not an Issue on Grow Your Own Heart Valves · · Score: 1

    Are you sure the lifetime of a pig valve is that low? I took a class about the history of artificial organs, and recall reading about newer generation processing to pig valves to make them last at least 15 years.

  4. Re:The ESRB exists for a few reasons on The ESRB Doesn't Take Games Seriously? · · Score: 1

    Ocarina of Time had Ganon clearly bleeding after you stab your sword through his head. Controversial enough to make later revisions of the game change the blood to green.

  5. UDP for no reset? on Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So would moving the bittorrent protocol to UDP solve this specific problem? UDP doesn't have a reset bit. And you can always just stick something exactly like TCP on top of UDP to make it almost no different.

  6. Re:Where is OpenGL when we need it? on DirectX 10 Hardware Is Now Obsolete · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is this a joke? SDL is not comparable to DirectX in any way, especially since it runs on top of DirectX in Windows.

  7. The Wii Fit parody on E3 Power Rankings, Probably Moving Next Year · · Score: 1

    The video linked from the article which parodied the Wii Fit was drop dead hilarious. Kudos to sarcasticgamer.com.

  8. Porn on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 4, Insightful
  9. Re:Modern processors on Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs · · Score: 1

    The NV condition doesn't actually exist anymore, it's used for reserved instructions.

  10. Re:WiiCade API for testing? on Nintendo Wii Homebrew Contest 2007 · · Score: 1

    You can make flash games entirely in actionscript using open source SWF creation tools. Only need flash if you want to have any vector animation which is not part of the code.

  11. Re:Other solutions on Nintendo Wii Homebrew Contest 2007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And Flash is 100 times slower than QBasic.

  12. Re:BAH - 10 already-dead skills... on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills · · Score: 1

    I'd disagree with you on #6. As long as Best Buy exists, there will be a need for home-crimped cables.

  13. Re:They all have good points on Bungie Vs. Miyamoto - Fight! · · Score: 2, Informative

    Game Boy (4.194MHz "GB-Z80") actually had more processing power than the Game Gear (3.58MHz Z80). This is true even after factoring in that Game Boy instruction timings are rounded up to the nearest 4 cycles.

  14. Re:If he made an FPS on Bungie Vs. Miyamoto - Fight! · · Score: 1

    Miyamoto was involved with Metroid Prime.

  15. Microprose Magic: The Gathering on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 1

    Microprose Magic: The Gathering came out a long time ago. I still play it heavily. The adventure game mode is a huge time sucker.

  16. Install OpenOffice on Would You Install Pirated Software at Work? · · Score: 1

    Install OpenOffice and change the splash screen and icons. Nobody will tell the difference.

  17. The answer on Solution for Remote Software Deployment on Windows? · · Score: 0

    Copy files, and run Regedit. Maybe run regsvr32 a couple times too.
    If you need to do it remotely, use SSH.

  18. Re:More Power for What? on The Gigahertz Race is Back On · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One word: Flash.
    Flash is ridiculously inefficient, and requires an extremely beefy machine to render real-time full-screen animation.

  19. Re:Not new; just a common interface on Enforced Ads Coming to Flash Video Players · · Score: 1

    You really think actionscripting is that enforceable? SWF isn't some black box, it's a well-known binary format. Run the SWF file through a proxy to change the actionscript code. There are tons of tools to decompile SWF actionscript either to source code, or a "FLASM" representation of the bytecode. From there, you can make any modifications to the actionscript code you want. Some stuff is trivially easy, like removing website checks. Does the file look at the _url property, then check its value, then set a flag? Remove that actionscript!
    Only issue is that you would need to design specific filters for each type of alteration.

  20. Re:What are you having trouble with? on Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh? · · Score: 3, Informative

    DD can copy all partitions if you specify the hard disk itself (like /dev/hda) instead of a partition (like /dev/hda1).
    You might have problems if the hard disks aren't the same size. If the destination hard disk is bigger than the source, you get some unpartitioned space at the end. Don't try it if the destination hard disk is smaller than the source.

  21. This really shows that FLASH is slow... on Java-Based x86 Emulator · · Score: 1

    You know something is seriously wrong with Flash when an X86 emulator running within Java outperforms Flash.

  22. Look at FFMpeg on Is Assembly Programming Still Relevant, Today? · · Score: 1

    Yes. Even today, the popular libavcodec library (often seen in Codec-Packs) still has plenty of ASM code poured into it to make it faster.

    ASM code is also especially important if you are programming for a more limited platform, such as a GBA or Nintendo DS. ASM code can often be four times the speed of C code.

  23. Re:Ten Other Subjects Not to Google For on Don't Google "How To Commit Murder" Before Killing · · Score: 1
  24. Re:wtf? seriously. on Sort Linked Lists 10X Faster Than MergeSort · · Score: 2, Informative

    Merge sort only requires extra memory to store a list of indexes or pointers, not extra memory for the full data. If your data is integers, then it's the same size. If your data is strings, then the array of indexes is smaller.
    As a plus, merge sort requires no recursion, which may be helpful if your stack is really tiny, like 200 bytes large.

  25. Re:Microsoft has killed my gaming laptop already on Gamers Don't Need Vista or DX 10 Says Carmack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can turn data execution prevention off, you know. No Playstation emulators work with it turned on.