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  1. Re:Processing speed at either end of the bell curv on What Applications Will Drive System Performance? · · Score: 1

    That equation doesn't work out the way you want if there is anything going on in parallel for left to right, or if you have queing delays when going right to left.

  2. Re:Overclocking reviews on Tom's Hardware End of Year CPU Roundup · · Score: 1

    If some of the cores overclock VERY well then you know that the platform supports faster processors, but just because the CPU doesn't overclock well you can't say the platform doesn't support fast processors. The limiting factor can be either the processor itself OR the motherboard.

  3. Overclocking reviews on Tom's Hardware End of Year CPU Roundup · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Overclockability reviews are pointless for a couple of reasons. The first, of course, is that there are never any guarantees - not every one of the famed 300MHz celerons would run at 450MHz, and just because the few samples a reviewer tests overclock well (or poorly) does not mean that all chips will be similar.

    The other major problem is that review parts are often hand-picked, nullifying their value as indicators of overclockability completely.

  4. Re:No it's different on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 5, Informative

    See page 6 of this pdf for what the article refers to... This is what Moz does.

  5. Re:2.0 on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 1

    That's how I felt too. And then I used winamp, and realized how convenient it was.

  6. Re:Ripping and Burning is Pro only on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 1

    Winamp Pro includes some 3rd-party intellectual property, and the owner requires a per-copy fee, so Nullsoft CAN'T give it away for free.

  7. Re:2.0 on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 1

    Winamp 5 is also decent video player... the winamp interface is nice and small so you don't waste screen realestate, and it works well.

  8. Re:Woo hoo! on Walgreens PureDigital Camera Hacked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The general population believes slogans like "digital quality" mean that digital is inherently better.

  9. The universe on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1

    A man finds a lamp and poof, out comes a genie who gives him 3 wishes.

    The man's first wish is to live forever and it is granted.

    Then he realizes that eventually the universe will end so he wishes for the hubble constant to be zero and it is granted.

    Satisfied, he sits back and wishes for a bowl of pudding. Poof, a bowl of pudding materializes out of nowhere, the hubble constant goes negative, and the universe collapses.

  10. Re:$100,000.... on After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. That was on /. a while back, and MANY packet sniffs disproved it.

  11. Re:Now what is that? on Breaking the Gigapixel Barrier · · Score: 1

    It's a known bug.

  12. Re:Not much on Broadcom Accuses Atheros Of WiFi Pollution · · Score: 1

    I think you can't use them all - don't they overlap? I think you can only use 3 or 4 at a time.

  13. Re:How Many Speakers Do You Need? on Single Speaker Unit Delivers Surround Sound · · Score: 1

    ...but you can't actually tell whether a sound is coming from ahead or behind unless you cheat and move your head around.

    The brain learns the filtering characteristics of your ear, and can do a very good job of figuring out where a sound is coming from.

  14. Re:I wonder if... on Batteries Continue To Suck · · Score: 1

    The RMS is 120, the peak is ~170. If the bulb could't handle 170, then it would blow out regardless of what the phase of the power was when it was turned on. Besides, the coil acts like a small inductor that limits the rate of increase in current.

  15. Re:I heard they needed skilled people on Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    It's not that they're in kernel space, it's that they run as root. There is a difference.

  16. Re:Not really... on Spammer DDoS-By-Virus On spamhaus.org · · Score: 1

    Is there anything special about how the worm hits google that might make it possible for them to refuse the connection so the worm thinks it isn't connected?

  17. Hot Hardware reviews suck on Athlon 64 Motherboard Triple Threat Round-Up · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    PLEASE wait for better sites to do reviews!!!

  18. Re:Open Sofware Not The Only Solution on Diebold Issues Cease and Desist to Indymedia · · Score: 1

    People have proposed this idea... but how what happens when your boss asks you for your secret number? If you don't give it to him, he assumes you voted against his candidate of choice... if you do, he knows.

  19. Re:Processors dying... on The Cost of Distributed Client Computing? · · Score: 1

    No, both chips run cooler when idle and hotter when loaded. I don't think you know what you're talking about. The Intel cpu throttling won't kick in if you have a heatsink with a fan.

  20. Re:SGI calling SCO... on SGI Compares Linux & System V Source Code · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Come on, try to hack my 31337 firewall! [127.0.0.1]

    That's wierd... your root password is the same as mine!

  21. Re:New Buisness Plan on Charter Cable Sues To Quash RIAA Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    If they just ask, and don't actually subpoena you, are you required to provide valid information?

  22. Re:Not really like VMWare on Xen High-Performance x86 Virtualization Released · · Score: 1

    Oh, cool :)

  23. Re:Not really like VMWare on Xen High-Performance x86 Virtualization Released · · Score: 1

    Note also that they only benchmarked against VMWare 3.x. VMWare 4 is significantly faster than 3.

  24. Come on... stop posting the Inquirer on New Pentium 5 Details - 5-7ghz? · · Score: 1

    They're full of baseless speculatoin. They're practically as reliable as the National Enquirer.

  25. Great OpenGL site on Is There Life Beyond DirectX? · · Score: 2

    NeHe's site has lots of good tutorials.