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  1. Re:Useless Statistics! on The Ultimate All-In-One Storage Solution · · Score: 1

    Too bad it's too late to use that for some return-of-the-lord thingy.

  2. Re:If it was just 'found' today on Study: Small Doses of Caffeine Best to Stay Awake · · Score: 1

    I used to be prone to migraines.

    I've quit caffeine several times.

    The withdrawal headaches aren't as bad as migraines. Quite. They can still leave you on the floor, literally, if they catch you at the wrong moment. It varies from person to person, ya know?

  3. Many of them... on Non-English Programming Languages? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Any language which doesn't define a core of keywords, but instead just has functions that can be overridden... and which supports unicode. Variants of lisp anf forth qualify, off the top of my head. Of course, languages with only a few keywords, like java, are amenable to trivial pre-processing of those keywords, and also support unicode right out of the box.

  4. Re:Link on Pointers for Developing x86 Virtualization? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is legal for the author to make a copy of their paper available free of charge, although the ACM (and other professional organizations) discourage it. The author is the copyright holder.

  5. Link on Pointers for Developing x86 Virtualization? · · Score: 0

    Here's a link that should have more than enough information to get you started.

  6. Re:Power consumption is important on Intel to Dump Pentium 4 in Favor of Pentium M · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Frequency is NOT squared, voltage IS.

  7. Re:Interesting Uses Possible on DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s with Solid State Disk · · Score: 1

    Well shoot, I'm still working on my third frank.

    (I'm amazed that I resisted saying 'my second willy.')

  8. Re:tech info on AMD Launches Low-Voltage Processors · · Score: 1

    Yep. GPU, hard drive, and especially cd can all spike to be the biggest power user, sometimes for quite a while... "Normal" usage is browsing the web, office stuff, and so on, I assumed.

  9. Re:tech info on AMD Launches Low-Voltage Processors · · Score: 2, Informative

    The greatest power users in most laptops are, in decreasing order, cpu, screen, 802.11, gpu, hard drive, and other crap. Under normal usage, of course.

  10. Re:What's the problem here? on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They're not attacking India... or China... or, for that matter, Switzerland or Norway or Italy... they're attacking the US. Burkahs don't seem to be the issue. Nor does GDP, or technological development, or population, or skin color...

  11. Re:What's the problem here? on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what kind of solution do you propose?

    I suggest that we, as a country, conduct ourselves in such a manner that not everyone wants to see us dead. While that won't stop the truly crazy people, it is not crazy people who are causing the feds to see monsters under their beds.

  12. Re:Sorry, I Had To Do This on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 1

    The difficulty is inversely proportional to the quality of the weed... which was the point. Read the parent of my former post.

  13. Re:C++ test on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 1

    If it makes you feel better, I put no effort into it (well, one hour taking the test, and two hours sleeping in an uncomfortable chair... more than I've done for some courses; certainly no studying or class or anything) and got a 5 out of 5, and 8 credits (half a semester's worth).

    That doesn't make you feel better?

  14. Re:Sorry, I Had To Do This on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 1

    Yes. In C++. Got a 5. Never took the class, though, so I can't comment on that.

  15. Re:Language shouldn't matter! on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 5, Funny

    2) Describe the benefits of a hashtable

    it keeps your hash off the floor.

  16. Re:What's wrong with Intel? on AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales · · Score: 1

    Well, it would be all, if I used preview.

    MMX < SSE < SSE2 <= SSE3 << Altivec.

  17. Re:What's wrong with Intel? on AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales · · Score: 1

    MMX SSE SSE2 = SSE3 Altivec

    That is all.

  18. Re:Talk about making statistics say anything. on AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales · · Score: 1

    Right, but it's a good reminder that intel having 90% of the market is truly over, even if we all agree they probably still have 60%-70%. It's the kind of slow decline that just makes you smile.

  19. Re:Apple first, again... on AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales · · Score: 1

    Let me check your logic...

    Integrated: Plugs into the motherboard where the consumer can't touch it.
    Not integrated: Plugs into the motherboard where the consumer can touch it.

    Okay, that's fair, as long as we're on the same channel.

  20. Re:cats? on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Yep

  21. Re:Accessibility Improvements on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 2, Funny

    While the spoken interface is, indeed, the cat's meow, your second use case may be better served by a watch...

  22. Re:If it works, why this application? on Gas Plasma Antennas Help Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 1

    The "war on terror" is turning into a pork program.

    See the bright side of it... maybe it means the talking heads are realizing the "war on drugs" is dead.

  23. Re:Actually, wrong thread for Mac advocacy on The FragBook · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except IPC varies greatly with type of instruction. With integer stuff, the G4 has at most a minimal advantage over the P4 (shorter pipeline to flush on prediction misses, but not a much higher dispatch rate). For floating point stuff, the G4 has a small but significant advantage -- certainly less than a factor of two; this is mostly because the P4 floating point architecture is painfully byzantine. For vector stuff, the G4 has a significant advantage, around a factor of two, assuming equal optimizations on both platforms (altivec doth rock). But games mostly use integer stuff, and toss fancier stuff to the hardware... so PowerPC does not have too great of an IPC advantage on gaming.

  24. Re:"The computer you want always costs $5000". on The FragBook · · Score: 2, Funny

    I switched to Mac, now the computer I want only costs $4000... which is still $3000 over budget.

  25. Re:Books too Heavy, Laptops to Expensive on Notebooks Replace Textbooks in Texas · · Score: 1

    Why do your teachers care where you keep your notes? Get one 1" notebook, and leave 90% of your notes at home when they're not needed.