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  1. Because a real watch... on Microsoft Shows Off Watch, Portable Media Player · · Score: 1

    On your wrist lets you know the time in less than a second and without the inconvenience of having to take your cell phone out of your pocket.. AND doesn't run on an OS that is well known for bugs.

  2. Another law... on Moore's Law Disputed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every 18 months, computer software will be made to take twice the processing power for the same task.

  3. Re:Encryption and compression make a lot of sense. on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 1

    I did not mean compression by an external program, but compression which is done by the encryption program itself. In that case, they will probably avoid using a string such as PK in the beginning:)

  4. Re:bzip on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Update: bzip is horribly horribly slow.

  5. Re:Encryption and compression make a lot of sense. on PKWare Zips to Growth · · Score: 1

    Apart from this, encryption gains from having the data compressed. If the data is not compressed, it has redundancies, which means that it is possible to predict some patterns (that is what compression uses). This makes it easier to crack the encryption.

    Having the data compressed removes redundancy and makes it hard to find patterns in the data. So good encryption removes redundancy first. That is why PGP compresses files.

  6. Re:MSVC++, VBasic, Dreamweaver.. on When Good Interfaces Go Crufty · · Score: 1

    I have found nothing better than Emacs for my needs. I did have to learn some key bindings, but that is the same for every editor, unless you use, *shudder* the mouse *shudder. You do not have to use every single feature of Emacs, but in Emacs, a chance is that you will easily find the proper command for a LOT of needs. You need only memorize or add keybindings for the commands you use most.

    I used to use vim before emacs, which is a very good editor as well, but I do not want to compile in some shell and follow the error line numbers manually.

    MSV* has some nice features as well, such as completion of member names, but it does not match Emacs (or vim) in editing power.

  7. Re:Hey... on Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the center? That gives you two narrow columns to build. I always leave the single block wide path at the extreme left or right.

  8. Re:This test is flawed, OGG may not be better on Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test · · Score: 1

    I don't know the url, but last time I read something similar to this it said that it was Windows Media that increased the volume.

    How can we know which encoder is the real cheat? This technique can introduce distortion for high amplitude sound waves.

  9. Re:Power Plant "Idling" on Danish Goal: 50% of Electricity from Wind · · Score: 1

    It is not quite correct to say that resistance goes down as voltage goes up. When voltage goes up, for the same power transfer less current is needed. And most of the loss is proportional to the square of the current. So the voltage is increased to reduce the current.

    But at these high powers and long lines, the power loss consists of various other factors, apart from heating of the cables. Capacitance of the cables to ground and the inductance of the cables themselves spring to mind.

  10. We need Java 3... on 10 Reasons We Need Java 3 · · Score: 1

    The article is written by one of the most active Java book writers ever, so he's probably written about every aspect of Java and needs a version 3 to write some new books.