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  1. Re:What about the A9? on Freescale Unveils Design For $199 Tablet · · Score: 1

    I believe the A9 can do out of order processing while the A8 can... so the A9 should be able to to do more per clock than the A8.

  2. Re:Didn't see Avatar... on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wanted to see it too, but my wife made me watch Alvin and the Chipmunks instead...

  3. Principles on Apple Censors Dalai Lama iPhone Apps In China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looking at the comments around, I'd say it seems far easier to demand that someone else follow your set of principles... than to follow them yourself.

  4. Re:Cross another one off the list on Apple Censors Dalai Lama iPhone Apps In China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mod parent +1, Naive

  5. Re:You may have already seen it on Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube · · Score: 1

    This is of not much use until Youtube accepts pornographical submissions.

    She is now nude and lying on your bed, watching you and waiting for your next move.

    To spread her legs and insert your penis, click here.
    To perform cunninglus on her, click here

  6. Re:things have changed re drunk driving. on Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names · · Score: 4, Informative

    It doesn't seem so bad until it happens to you.
    Most of the victims of drunk driving accidents are innocent bystanders.

  7. Re:Great way to encourage use of open-source! on SFLC Sues 14 Companies For BusyBox GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    The violators probably did not make any modifications. But it is still their obligation to make the unmodified source code available.

  8. Re:How does it compare to the Droid? on Google Releases Experimental Phone To Employees · · Score: 2, Informative

    Specs seems equivalent to Droid, with a faster processor, minus the physical Qwerty keyboard

  9. If we learn anything from past experiences.. on Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres · · Score: 1

    Do not colonize the planet after a terrorist sets off a nuclear device nearby.

  10. Re:Code Review on Microsoft Takes Responsibility For GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    Well typically GPL'ed code is supposed to be released together with the license, often as comments at the top of the files, or as a LICENSE.txt file together with the package.

    If you suspect that the third party contractor could be maliciously including GPLed code with license stripped out (why are you working with them in the first place??) you could use http://www.google.com/codesearch

    I'd expect MS to be suing the pants off the third party contractor if they had been maliciously included GPL code and representing it as their own proprietary code. The fact that they hadn't make it look like it's a big horrible oversight on MS's part.

  11. No, it doesn't run on Linux.. on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 4, Informative

    And I haven't had much luck trying to get it to run on Wine. 1.1.31 from wine1.2 package on Kubuntu 9.10, hangs at the end of installation when it tried to install Nvidia PhysX. I'm using an ATI 4770 with FGLRX drivers, running the game gives me garbage on the screen.

    Had to boot back into my WinXP partition that I haven't touch since April.

    Looking at appdb, it seems not many people have much luck either, but some have managed to get it to run. Wonder what I'm doing wrong.

  12. Re:Sgt is an idiot on Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? · · Score: 1

    I think he meant Calculus..

  13. Continuous Shufling Machine on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The few casinos I have visited (around East Asia) use continuous shuffle machines with multiple decks. Seems like a far cheaper method of defeating card counters without having to confront them with big burly dudes and earning bad PR.

  14. Re:Worrying precedent on In the UK, a Few Tweets Restore Freedom of Speech · · Score: 1

    We're talking about parliament here, not a court case. It's accepted that some court cases can be sealed by court order, but parliament?

  15. Re:Of course, I didn't RTFA on Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For WoW · · Score: 5, Funny

    It means your WoW guild leader can see that you are online playing Starcraft II instead of being in WoW during raid time. And that is 50 dkp minus.

  16. Re:Sidekick on Server Failure Destroys Sidekick Users' Backup Data · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ohh yes.. Need an ASCII table? It's just a Ctrl-Alt away

  17. Re:Patent filed in August of 2002 - prior art? on Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others · · Score: 1

    I would assume that any prior art would have already been put forward by Microsoft's legal team while defending against Eolas's first lawsuit. Unless they are that incompetent...

  18. Re:Andoid Touch on Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google · · Score: 1

    That's the point of the grandparent's post. Did you read it?

  19. Re:Andoid Touch on Android Modder Tries To Outmaneuver Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's the Zii Egg...

  20. Re:Very short summary of how ROM was dumped on Gameboy Color Boot ROM Dumped After 10 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe he also had to short the 3.3V rail to ground during the time the clock is stopped, to randomize the registers values.

  21. Re:Sure... on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The main issue with the Atom is that it does not do Out of order execution.
    ARM processors do, so an equivalently speed ARM will easily out perform the Atom

  22. Re:Bad Summary on BellKor Wins Netflix $1 Million By 20 Minutes · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Ensemble beat BellKor by 0.01% on the quiz set. Basically there are 2.8 million records in the qualifying set that the teams must predict the grades of. Half of the records (which half is known only to Netflix) form the quiz set, the other half form the test set. Teams submit their prediction a limit of once a day to get a result from the quiz set, but the final decision of who won is made on the result of the test set.

    So even though Ensemble beat BellKor on the quiz set, the test set results came back dead even.

  23. I ran out of names for my workstation on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 4, Funny

    My first workstation was named tangent (after myself!)
    My second workstation was named sine, followed by cosine, secant, cosecant and cotangent.
    I got stuck for a while before I decided to go with arctangent, arcsine, etc but that didn't last
    So out came hyperbolictangent... and I promptly gave up and now I name them after hot young female movie stars.

    Morale of the story: Make sure your naming convention has room for expansion.

  24. Re:Wow on Microsoft Trial Misconduct Cost $40 Million · · Score: 1

    I'm beginning to think that the entire legal system is a scam to make money flow from people outside the system into people that are inside the system.

  25. Re:Great... more things to spend tax dollars on... on Philips Develops Roadside Drug-Testing Device · · Score: 1

    There are two ways to deal with the drug problem. Either you legalize it, or you clamp down really really hard on it. Anything in between is simply a half-fucked attempt and end up in a long drawn out cat-and-mouse war.