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  1. Re:Invade them! on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 1

    Perfect. We can once again use styrofoam containers for all the cheeseburgers we'll be eating.

  2. Re:Invade them! on Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, average temperatures aren't fluxuating anywhere near the 6 degree mark. We're talking tenths of a degree F of warming over the span of 120 years.

  3. Awww... on Moore's Law Staying Strong Through 30nm · · Score: 1

    Last para. of TFA: The I.B.M. researchers performed their research on a custom piece of equipment they call Nemo, referring to the character in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

    Ha! We all know what character they were really referring to.

    Nemo? That's a nice name...

  4. Re:This is ribiculious... on Next-Gen DVD Players to Rely on HDMI? · · Score: 1

    But money = power.

  5. Re:Count me in the Expen$ive camp on We Don't Need No Stinkin' Broadband · · Score: 1

    Ugh, feature creep. That's the problem with software nowadays.. can't install AV from company A because it has antispam that conflicts with firewall from company B, etc. Sounds like the previous version is worth a look though. Thanks to the GP for pointing it out.

  6. Re:Awww on ATI Claims HDCP Then Covers Its Tracks · · Score: 1

    Actually, wrong.

    The cards have no friggin HDCP connectors. Good luck simulating that in software.

  7. Re:crowd control on the keyboard on DARPA's 'Social Puppet' · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Great, now people will learn about:
    • fire without burning themselves
    • gills without growning them.
    • quantum theory without actually looking at atoms.
    • distant galaxies without actually going there.
    • flying planes without ever getting in one.
    • sex without having it.
    • foreign languages without leaving home.


    Blah blah blah.. Simulations are always used when the subject matter is too dangerous, too expensive, or otherwise impractical for hands-on learning. You don't jump into a firefight to learn how to shoot. Describing and/or simulating those events is pretty much the same way we've been teaching for thousands of years. If you're thinking the process goes like this:

    Drill Sergeant: "Ok recruit, sit down at that terminal and follow the instructions on screen."
    [30 minutes later]
    Johnny: "Ok, all done."
    Drill Sergeant: "All done WHAT?"
    Johnny: "All done, SIR!"
    Drill Sergeant: "That's right! Now get on that plane and get your ass on the battlefield. You're a soldier now!"

    You're sorely mistaken.

    (He'd have to do way more pushups).
  8. Re:Makes Sense on Alzheimer's Progresses Faster in Educated People · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Dumb people just have less to forget.

    Finally.. a reason to be proud of my horrible memory.

  9. News Corp. on MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    News Corp. holdings:

    • The New York Post
    • FOX News
    • MySpace

    Nuff said.
  10. Re:Ridiculous on ATI Claims HDCP Then Covers Its Tracks · · Score: 1

    doing stupid things like this to try to paint over the damage done is just plain stupid.

    Are you sure doing stupid things is stupid? Or is it just stupid to do stupid things?

  11. Re:Awww on ATI Claims HDCP Then Covers Its Tracks · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's no mixup, as the "related story" (aka dupe) explains. There's no method of retroactively enabling HDCP. From TOldFA:
    "The boards themselves must be designed with an extra chip when the board is manufactured. The extra chip stores a crypto key, and you cannot retrofit an existing board after the board is produced."
    ATI knew this. Everybody knew this. Somebody in marketing decided to advertise it anyway, nobody corrected them, and now they're trying to clean up the mess.
  12. Re:Too expensive? on We Don't Need No Stinkin' Broadband · · Score: 1
    Oh, it's you!

    Just kidding, it's me. Three things everyone should do in their lives:
    • Trip once (it's never as enlightening or fun as the first time)
    • Serve in the military
    • Avoid TV (and the news) for a couple of years

    Puts things in perspective.
  13. Re:Count me in the Expen$ive camp on We Don't Need No Stinkin' Broadband · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you, but dialup users are amateurs at bandwidth management. Try juggling 30 torrents (gotta seed enough to keep those ratios up, but you'll get crappy speeds on new torrents if you're not also sending to peers!) while downloading software from usenet with ReGet, grabbing a rare (SLOW) file on eMule, prevent any of the applications from hogging too much bandwidth; particularly from eMule, leaving enough bandwidth to play WoW and/or browse, and then throw in the random VOIP session.

    Broadband (in most places) is slow enough that you still play the waiting game; you just have more to manage. It's just like vehicular traffic paradox -- no matter how wide the road, there will always be enough cars to fill it.

  14. Re:That's nothing on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried cutting and pasting your comment into your sig, but it's not working.

  15. IE on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Wow.. just look at Internet Explorer trying to use up all that disk space.

  16. Re:If 2. did occur on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought that's where animal rights advocates go to die...

  17. Re:I've seen this simulated, it isn't pretty. on Has World Oil Production Passed Its Peak? · · Score: 1

    Guess it's time to invade Canada and Mexico then, since we get most of our imported oil from them.

    I'm getting tired of all this this Iraq=oil FUD. Iraq's total oil supplies are miniscule, so it's not like there's some effort to squeeze more blood from the turnup either. I'd put money on the possibility that we've actually used far more oil in the Gulf War II than Iraq itself could even produce.

    Whatever the actual grievances of the US government, spreading and maintaining inaccurate information is counter productive.

    I realize you were joking, but jokes are only funny when based in reality (unless you're British). "Hey, that spade's a diamond!" just isn't funny. That people assume you're right and laugh along doesn't make it true, it just makes them stupid.

  18. Re:I wonder what would happen on The BBC's Distributed Climate Prediction · · Score: 1

    Even so, increased CPU load during otherwise idle times will increase power consumption, albeit not as much as the difference between idle and off.

  19. Re:Only one problem on Build a Homemade Media Center PC · · Score: 1

    I have no idea, but it smells a lot like fish...

    Babelfish.

  20. Re:Foster's. Australian for beer. on Olympic Medalist was Spyware King · · Score: 1

    And you're likely to get equally quizzical looks if you go to Australia and request either.

  21. Re:Better Than a Teenager on Best Method for Automated CD Ripping? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or just gladly promise pizza on Tuesday for a ripping job today.

  22. I'll play on Microsoft Hopes Prizes Will Attract New Searchers · · Score: 1

    While not result = "Congratulations!" and x Dictionary.SumOfEntries
    Submit(Dictionary.Entry.X)
    X=X+1
    End While

  23. Re:"Brighter == Better", not in this test. on LCoS Shoot-Out Results · · Score: 1

    What you mean, of course, is that panelests were told not to evaluate brightness. Whether they effectively ignored it or not is another question altogether, especially when evaluating nonidentical models simultaneously.

  24. Re:Why the delay... on Linux beats Windows to Intel iMac · · Score: 1

    We prefer to call it "on demand application generation."

  25. Re:National Toad Wacking Month. on Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia · · Score: 1

    George W had a solution as well.

    "Liberate" the rat farms.