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  1. Re:Cache Your HDD With an SSD on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 1

    The Momentus XT is a 2.5" laptop drive. It beat The WD Black in 75% of tests, and is only 40% more expensive.

  2. Re:Yes, but will it support multiple users...? on Google Preps Devs For One-Size-Fits-All Android · · Score: 1

    You aren't the only one who wants this. 171 comments on an android issue. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15030

  3. Re:It's because on The Rise of Git · · Score: 1

    I'm sure i'll get modded down into oblivion, but clearcase will do this. It won't do much else, however.

  4. Re:Gone in 10 years. on RIM Responds To an Employee's Open Letter · · Score: 1

    How about 900 million profit?

  5. Re:Workrave on Australian Tax Office Seeks Keylogger To Combat RSI · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that you recommended a program that does exactly what the ATO is proposing.

    From my workrave statistics:
    Date: 5/4/2011 from 9:07 AM to 6:17 PM
    Mouse usage: 36:56
    Mouse movement 366.80 m
    Effective mouse movement: 256.91 m
    Mouse button clicks: 1731
    Keystrokes: 5935

    I do not see a way in the preferences to disable statistics monitoring, either.

  6. Re:Genius overblown, evil underrepresented on Lawrence Lessig Reviews The Social Network · · Score: 1

    Since about 1995, it's not a big deal to score 1600 on the SAT--a good fraction of 1% of test-takers manages this. In prior years, with different scoring adjustments in place, only a handful in a million would score so high.

    Assuming that a significant fraction of 1% is 0.07%

  7. Re:I hope this doesn't fly ... on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    (4) is worse then (2) for Intel. With (4), they can't sell anymore i5s.

  8. Re:code comments? on Hole In Linux Kernel Provides Root Rights · · Score: 1

    signed-off-by is for the committer. It certifies that they own the code. See http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

    There are other tags for people who review the patch, but they aren't required.

  9. Re:What are the odds? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 1

    The following article, back when PI was a lot shorter, says that it is uniform: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2146295.stm

  10. Re:New sealing method on Turning Your Home Wiring Into a Giant Antenna · · Score: 1

    The frenectically sealed batteries are the ones that explode.

  11. Re:Exploitation for the win! on Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones · · Score: 1

    You have a completely screwed up definition of "the lowest levels of poverty". I encourage you to travel the world and see what true poverty is.

    It's dangerous to look at something as big as world trade from only the perspective of a rich American.

  12. Re:New iPod Touch missing GPS :-( on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 1

    And even if they were packaged separately, the GPS receiver is so poor, it needs time and approximate location from GSM to have a chance at working.

  13. Re:Kindle version? on Oxford Dictionary Considers Going Online Only · · Score: 1

    The CD-ROM version says it needs 1gb for installation. That's 66% of the total memory on a Kindle 2.

  14. Re:so... on Prosecutor Loses Case For Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    When you're writing for academic reasons, you don't use expert witnesses, you use primary sources. You would use the writings of the survivors of Little Big Horn.

    An expert on the battle of Little Big Horn but who didn't experience it would be a secondary source at best, and possible a tertiary source. An encyclopedia is always a tertiary source.

    ...you should never use an encyclopedia, any encyclopedia when there is a better source to cite

    Your quote is wrong, because there is always a better source to cite, the sources that the encyclopedia used.

  15. Re:One word: on Pentagon Selects Companies To Build Flying Humvees · · Score: 1

    The V-22 Osprey was grounded for a while, but now it's in full rate production currently and in operation.

  16. Re:Doubtful on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 1

    Canada is a colony of the UK. And still part of the UK, due to its control of the Canadian constitution.

    That hasn't been true since 1982.

  17. H.G. Wells on When On the Moon and Mars, Move Underground · · Score: 1

    Once again, H.G. Wells was right, with The First Men in the Moon.

  18. Re:I agree on Hooked On Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price · · Score: 1

    My program manager claims it's necessary to have a frontal lobotomy to get into management.

  19. Re:Mistake my ass. on Malfunction Costs Couple $11 Million Slot Machine Jackpot · · Score: 1

    Selection Bias. Given that machines are tested periodically, it's reasonable to assume that more machines are fixed silently then make the news.

  20. Re:Lousy marketing? on The Sad History and (Possibly) Bright Future of TiVo · · Score: 1

    TiVo doesn't delete your recordings to make room for suggestions.

  21. Re:Why on 2016 Bug Hits Text Messages, Payment Processing · · Score: 1

    "Uncle Bill" was actually a very good coder. From http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm

    Using the Altair's published specifications, Gates and Allen created a simulator on a DEC PDP-10 computer that allowed it to emulate the MITS machine. Working day and night, they created the first version of MICROSOFT BASIC for the Altair

    Jan 2, Bill Gates and Paul Allen complete BASIC

    Allen is going to deliver it to MITS president Ed Roberts in Albuquerque. Realizing he didn't have a way to load it into the computer, Paul Allen hand assembled a loader program for BASIC at 30,000 feet in the air, on the flight to New Mexico. Even though it had never been tested on an actual machine, it ran perfectly on the very first try.

    If only the rest of Microsoft's Software Engineers were as good as Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

  22. MIT Won on MIT and the DARPA Network Challenge · · Score: 2, Informative

    Congratulations to MIT for winning. https://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/

  23. Re:Electric car with problems? on Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start · · Score: 1

    The Chevy Volt lets you set a schedule when to charge. You can plug it in when you get home, but not start charging until midnight.

  24. Re:Oops on SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation · · Score: 1

    Which for 5000 PCs comes to 600k per year.

  25. Re:Tour a sub. on Two Sunken Japanese Submarines Found Off Hawaii · · Score: 1

    There's also one in Long Beach, next to the Queen Mary. http://www.russiansublongbeach.com/