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  1. fade to black on High Dynamic Range (HDR) Technology Analysis · · Score: 1

    Going outside made you realise how much we're missing? [/basement-joke]

  2. Campus Map on Fire Destroys Southampton Fibre-Optics Center · · Score: 1

    Southampton University has a handful of campuses, the largest being the Highfield Campus at the north-east end of the Common, towards the outskirts of the city (the others are the Avenue Campus, Oceanography Research Centre, New College, Winchester School of Art and Chilworth Science Park). The Highfield Campus map is here: http://www.soton.ac.uk/about/campusmaps/highfieldm ap.html. The burnt-out building is building 53 just north of Salisbury Road in Square C1. At present there is reduced access to the cluster of buildings immediately south of Salisbury Road.

  3. Re:"Downgrade" to 32 bit browsers?! on Why Won't Macromedia Release 64-bit Flash? · · Score: 1

    You forget the advantages of 64-bit memory systems: more addressible space to be swallowed by the browser.

  4. UK:resistance does it best on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    The folks at UK:resistance made me laugh with their take on this.

  5. Re:Great, does it have an alarm? on A Clock That Runs for 10,000 Years · · Score: 1

    If you build it, they will come... But if you don't, it may be possible to get Neuros to add the features to their PMP.

  6. Re:Not mentioned in the article... on A Clock That Runs for 10,000 Years · · Score: 1

    I understand that you're quoting from elsewhere, but 2000 was a leap year, a one-in-four-hundred-year exemption from the normal 'centuries aren't leap years' rule. That's it as I remember it. At the moment, the Wikipedia agrees with me that 2000 was a leap year, but it is, after all, our socially constructed version of the truth...

  7. Re:Has anyone RTFA? on Intel Slashes Computer Startup Times · · Score: 1

    Apple's code is licensed under their own license, which looks like the MoFo Public License (in that Apple Computer still has rights to your amendments -- but I don't know if that makes it GPL-incompatible), and there is this comment above that mentions FC4 and recompiling init.rc to run in an asynchronous mode.

  8. [ot] metacomment on Intel Slashes Computer Startup Times · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry your parody of the SlashMeme "...but does it run Linux?" was moderated off-topic. Such is the luck of the draw with moderation. Better luck next time, when you get to moderate Soviet Russians. Or something.

  9. Re:Blah on Weta Digital Grows Cluster · · Score: 1

    The ability to render 3D images on the awesome Intel Extreme onboard graphics versus the cluster dedicated to rendering CGI?

  10. [ot] regulation on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Please cease and desist from infringing my patents in the area of "mechanisms to facilitate business". Or you'll be sleeping with the fishes. That's an offer you can't refuse.

  11. Thank you. on Microsoft's Unique Innovation · · Score: 1

    You're spot on. The poor guy is talking about the MS development environment and MS' own paradigms for doing stuff. That should be compared to the BSD paradigm (of excellence for whatever purpose wherever you use it) or the GNU paradigm (of freedom and liberty in software for the good of all) -- which interleave in places, but appear to be the appropriate comparison to me.

  12. Re:Music Industry? on Music Labels Charge Too Much For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I assume I'll be sued if I ask whether you meant to quote the Radiohead line from Lucky :

    "It's gonna be a glorious day".

  13. Re:Maybe now on Shuttleworth on Ubuntu's Direction and Intent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Considering Linus' recent words about specs and meaningful code, I reckon that Mark Shuttleworth's pragmatic efforts with the multi-distribution bug tracker (bazaar) will do much better for software compatibility among the Debian family, and possibly even outside it.

    In the fine article, Mark makes the great point that the strength of FLOSS stuff is the source code, which can be compiled to whichever architecture it supports. It made me wonder if ABI compatibility in LSB is a silly x86-centric mistake.

  14. [ot] Naming fun! on Shuttleworth on Ubuntu's Direction and Intent · · Score: 1

    Would Gay Gannet do? Or Queer Quagga? Or would they get beat up by the Straight Snake and the Exodising Elephant?

  15. Re:Uptime ++ on Tips for Increasing Server Availability? · · Score: 1

    I'm no expert but that sounds like the filesystem or RAID program isn't doing a good job of planning where it puts the data (or its hash) in the array. While there will be benefits in avoiding putting data in the same access pattern across an array of drives (if the drive heads all scratch the same area of disk surface), if you have the datalined up nicely, rebuilding the arrays should be lighter work on the drive.

    I would advise that the MTBF divided between the drives in the array be used to give a guide as to when risk of failure is increased to the point that you perform a pre-emptive drive retirement.

  16. Re:WHAT about Medical WIPO on Boyle on Webcasters and WIPO · · Score: 1

    Companies are dissuaded from massive profiteering in making life-saving pharmaceuticals while still making profits from supplying some drugs, but to those who can't afford life-saving medicine at a time of need, it's great.

  17. Re:Account how? Brownie points? on C-SPAN Interviews Wikipedia Founder · · Score: 1

    By correcting it. (And you are right, it's not accountability of the writers we're talking about, but of the content. And even then, it may waver in subjectivity, in which case we're left to trust other human beings to work out toward the good of humanity.)

  18. Held to account on C-SPAN Interviews Wikipedia Founder · · Score: 1

    However, they had the relative freedom to do what they wished because they were free from the accountability that holds back today's politcal leaders from doing similar things (although that last one is contentious). While not perfect, Wikipedia holds anyone who writes for it to account by it being published immediately.

  19. Collusion and/or Collation? on C-SPAN Interviews Wikipedia Founder · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about the difficulties of peer-contributed and unregulated texts like Wikipedia to transcend the problems of spin and personal interest? It's the same problem with open source code, which is met with the claiming that distributed development makes more reliable program code ("with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"): sufficient people viewing and vetting the Wikipedia's content will ensure that its 'currency' is not devalued.

  20. Re:Hexus must be happy with /.! on ATI Launches Crossfire... Finally · · Score: 1

    If you can get to the Coral Cache, read the fine article (and this is the printable single-screen version) and see that the master-slave relationship puts an existing ATi card into 'slave' position. The Crossfire 'Master' card has an FPGA to unite the output of the Crossfire card and its slave. Then read about how the Crossfire features can be switched on and off without restarting your computer.

    Hexus rate Crossfire as a preferable method to link two cards than nVidia's SLI. However, the present execution of the system (like many ATi things) requires the kinks taken out first.

  21. Re:Which of course is nonsense on C-SPAN Interviews Wikipedia Founder · · Score: 1

    I think that we need to temper this discussion with the word 'polemic' (a posh word for black-and-whitism). Wikipedia is terrible when anyone can post factually incorrect content which damages its usefulness to inform. Wikipedia is great when there are other sources than the Orthodoxy -- any of the religious, political, historical or other expressions of fact -- allowed to make contribution to its content. Wikipedia is best when the alternatives to mainstream views are represented, listened to and learnt from.

    Why the word polemic? While it will really upset the trolls and people of fixed opinion, the diversity of people-groups across this planet we share will require a listening ear before a speaking tongue if we are to share what we have in peace. Polar opposites of opinion need to meet somewhere to disagree. The eventual disagreement without concession is an okay end to the discussion.

  22. Re:Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected on Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's a serious threat to the elderly members of society who are at increased risk of catching flu from their e-mail program.

  23. [ot] lyrics on The Chumbawamba Factor · · Score: 1, Funny

    /me drinks to remind me of the good times.
    /me drinks to remind me of the better times.

  24. Re:SeaCiety on SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha released · · Score: 1

    Flock?

    (after the ???? should come the profit!)

  25. Re:huh? on Dell Releases First Consumer Product with Mandriva · · Score: 1

    The UK site (dell.co.uk redirects to euro.dell.com) has the 110L. However, 'Configure and Buy' only offers Windows XP.