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  1. Re:The Rules on An Affordable Pro-Quality Sound Card? · · Score: 1
  2. The Rules on An Affordable Pro-Quality Sound Card? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now, the only audio input work I've done was digitizing vinyl, which isn't all that taxing. However, I'm fairly particular about sound quality.

    What I've determined is that even good quality on board D/A equipment is poor. Much better, for a number of reasons, to use an external converter plugged in to an spdif jack (input and output).

  3. Re:"How long will we keep getting lucky?" on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    You asshat, the Shi'ite 12th Imam was born quite some time ago. The belief is in his return, at a time determined only by God, to save true believers from injustice. No plagues or mass destruction required.

    Anticipating a nuclear apocalypse was always left to the likes of these guys.

  4. Re:MAD on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    Dear Leader Kim is not genocidal that I have found in research.

    He is reckless (abducting Japanese and S. Korean nationals and smuggling them to N. Korea), megalomaniacal, personally insecure (wears platform shoes), a bigamist, a liar, and is batshit insane besides, but he is not genocidal.

  5. Re:Realistic Guns on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1
    The only iffy bit is how the hell they'd carry that much ammo on them, but give or take that issue, pretty solid.

    Each guy had ~10 clips taped to his vest.

    The only thing they got wrong was discharging their firearms inside a vehicle without hearing protection.

  6. Re:It just amazes me on Looking Back on Five Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1
    Users should never be delving into the Registry. As such, it's level of "crypticness" is utterly irrelevant to, well, pretty much everyone.

    Except administrators.

    * You have a multiuser OS, thus need to be able to provide both system and per-user areas and allow for concurrent read/write access.

    NT as a multi-user OS was always an afterthought. Besides, the concept began (in Microsoft culture) with Win 3.1, which was single user only.

    Anyway, how is your statement a requirement for a registry? A multi-user, multi-tasking OS has to be able to do this with almost everything, including files.

    * A top-end PC is a 33Mhz 386 with 4M of RAM.

    With NT 3.x, you wanted the fastest machine you could get with at least 16mb of RAM.

    No version of OE, AFAIK, has ever automatically executed attachments by design (there have been bugs that allowed it, but that's a different issue).

    The problem was with VBX scripting in rich-format emails, which did allow execution of attached binaries by design.

    To be fair, I believe this was long since patched to be disabled in the default configuration.

  7. Re:Giant yawn on Linux Kernel Developers' Position on GPLv3 · · Score: 1
    Firefox: Mozilla Public License

    Clicky clicky!
  8. Re:Can we de-orbit the ISS now? on Chemical Leak on ISS · · Score: 1
  9. Re:PDF using Evince on How Do You Share Presentations Under Linux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    1) Evince is for viewing PDFs (which it does well).
    2) Beamer is for creating PDFs in a slideshow format (which it does well).

    Just thought you should know.

  10. Re:PDF on How Do You Share Presentations Under Linux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed, PDF is nice. Especially when it's used with Beamer.

  11. Re:X2's? He said they routed X2's.. on Intel Core 2 Duo Vs. AMD AM2 · · Score: 1

    No. AM2 Windsor is dual core, AM2 Orleans is single core (so is Manila, but that's Sempron, not Athlon).

  12. Re:Strange comparison... on MythTV Compared with Windows Media Center · · Score: 1
    And in a month or two, the version after that will be released as part of Vista.

    Sure it will.

    Seriously, you just go on thinking that. Yeah.
  13. Re:First, you better learn HTML before complaining on What's in Your HTML Toolbox? · · Score: 1

    I'd say that XHTML is a subset of HTML. All of the markup in XHTML can be expressed in valid HTML4, but the reverse is not true.

    XHTML1
    <p>...</p>
    <img ... />
    <div class="...">...</div>

    HTML4
    <p>...
    <img ... >
    <div class=...>...</div>

    The XHTML elements are, of course, case sensitive.

    XHTML is a grammatically strict dialect of HTML4 with HTML4 compatible semantics. XHTML grammar rules are HTML4 compatible as well as XML compatible.

    Things do get a little more snakey when you start using MathML embedded in the document.

    * Perhaps to be clear, I should say that when I refer to XHTML, I mean XHTML 1.0. I don't think XHTML 1.1 has gathered enough steam for me to bother with. XHTML 1.1 breaks backwards compatibility in many ways.

    ** You fell into a fallacy. e.g. dogs are animals, cats are animals, no dogs are cats.

  14. Re:First, you better learn HTML before complaining on What's in Your HTML Toolbox? · · Score: 1
    HTML is still SGML


    As is XML, therefore XHTML.
  15. Re:First, you better learn HTML before complaining on What's in Your HTML Toolbox? · · Score: 1

    What is your criteria for excluding XHTML from the set of valid HTML specifications?

  16. Re:DOS is used is more places than you think on FreeDOS 1.0 Released · · Score: 1
    all slow machines run dos


    They wouldn't have the poop for running Vista, now, would they.
  17. Re:32 bit DOS extender? on FreeDOS 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
  18. Re:First, you better learn HTML before complaining on What's in Your HTML Toolbox? · · Score: 1
    Hey, 1998 is calling, it want's it's post back.

    HTML is not XML.


    It is now.
  19. Re:Windows Vista - So What? on Windows Vista RC1 Complete · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Sorry, I took exception to the general ignorance in your post, as well as the way you describe (with bated breath) features common in Windows releases all the way back to Win98. Anyway, retarted comments. Such winners as:

    Except for the office applications, Vista (as shipped in sort-of-almost-RC1) does everything that Ubuntu does with the default install, and is coming closer to OS X.


    Methinks such comparisons are not so black and white.

    How about this one:

    "I for one don't plan on giving Microsoft more money for their software until they release an OS that is totally useful and original." are just a reflection of the blind anti-MS zealotry that's too common here. You've just asked for a software panacea, and one that uses none of the metaphors and conventions that make desktop operating systems accessible to average users.


    Most of the complaints against Vista that I've seen were along the lines of:
    1) Vista doesn't appear to do much more than XP. Why should I buy it?
    2) I'm worried Vista will run slower on my existing computer.
    3) Why can't I just skip a cycle, and get Windows 2010 when it comes out?

    An OS is not like a car. It doesn't wear out. You don't have to replace the brakes after 60,000 kilometers. If a new iteration of operating system does not improve on the old in the eyes of Joe User, why shouldn't (s)he have the option of sticking with what (s)he is already using?

    I was unsure at the time whethor you were astroturfing or just whoring. I took a stab in the dark. I guess I was wrong, and it's the latter. Then again, maybe you're just a moron.
  20. Re:Windows Vista - So What? on Windows Vista RC1 Complete · · Score: 1

    Hmm, dropped comment about being a Mac user. Dropped comment about using Slackware. Dropped comment about not being a MS fan, but Vista is still good.

    This much fake-cool can only mean one thing -- AstroTurf.

  21. Re:Umm, why? on Lockheed Martin Wins Contract to Build Mars Lander · · Score: 1

    If NASA went totally robotic, yes they may learn things, but public interest and their budget to do such missions would shrink as a few nerdy folks in the bowls of mission control would actually care.


    That's exactly what happened with the manned Apollo missions. That's what will happen with the Orion project in it's present form.
  22. Re:again, he's right on ESR Says Linux Followers Should Compromise · · Score: 1
    Right now, the best brand going IMO is Panasonic. Both their cameras and camcorders are great (as long as you buy what you need from their lineup) and seem to play nicely with everyone else.


    How are the Pentax SLRs? For lense selection, I gather they're awesome. What about software support?
  23. Re:Not the real problem on Building the JDK on Debian GNU/Linux · · Score: 3, Informative
    Are you thinking that Sun JDK will conflict with, say, SableVM? Milarky! You just use update-alternatives to point javac, java, javaw, etc. at Sun JDK as the primary provider of said facility.

    e.g.
    update-alternatives --config java
     
    There are 4 alternatives which provide `java'.
     
    Selection Alternative
      1 /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-4.0
    *2 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/java
    +3 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java
      4 /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-4.1
     
    Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 2
    Using `/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/bin/java' to provide `java'.
    Simple, no?

    Sorry, it would look nicer if slashdot accepted preformatted text :(
  24. Re:Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators on Voyager 1 Passes 100 AU from the Sun · · Score: 1

    Other kinds of radioactive waste isn't generally hot enough to create a useful amount of work; otherwise, they would have left it in the reactor longer to generate more power.


    Sorry. Try again.

    Spent fuel is removed because many of the byproducts of fission tend to poison the chain reaction. As the concentration of these contaminants increases in the fuel channels, the reactor loses efficiency. Old fuel bundles must be replaced in order for the reactor to get back up on plane.

    There's still a large amount of enriched uranium in the spent fuel, but the used rods must be reprocessed to reclaim it. Also, Plutonium can be recovered from the spent fuel and processed into new fuel (or bombs). Reprocessing spent fuel is controversial because of the expense involved, as well as implications vis-a-vis nuclear proliferation.

    Many products of nuclear fission (present in spent fuel) have very short half-lives and generate much heat due to decay. When the spent rods are removed from the reactor, they must be submerged in huge pools of water until they've cooled enough to be worked with. They used rods still have lots of energy in terms of decay. The reactors simply don't generate electricity in the same manner as RTGs, so they can't take advantage of that energy.
  25. How about the FFT algorithm? on The Greatest Software Ever · · Score: 1

    The Singleton implementation (and it's chronologic comrades) makes the grade in my opinion. This was software which squeezed every drop of performance out of the primitive machines they had at the time and made many avenues of scientific research available where they had not before.