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  1. Re:Well that just about wraps it up for Intel on AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel · · Score: 1

    ... and your game lags because of resource contention due to too many threads and context switching threads between available cores. D'oh!

  2. Re:Forget the money on AMD Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, they need to get more fab capacity somehow; the demand for their processors outstrips their ability to actually make the hardware.

  3. Re:Odd... on A Gaming God For Dollars A Day · · Score: 1

    City of Heroes has a downloadable 14-day trial, no credit card or anything required. Voila, the best way to check out this MMOG... a demo.

    It worked on me (Ex-calibur on Victory).

  4. Re:standards compliance on 10 Percent of UK Sites Incompatible with Firefox · · Score: 1

    That requires JSP... have you got a version that'll do it just with JavaScript?

  5. Re:Deal on Inside the OpenSolaris Source Code · · Score: 1

    I think he'll need to "open the kimono" first.

  6. Re:Outsourcing? on Xbox 360 GPU A Vector Co-Processor? · · Score: 1

    You laugh, but in days of yore, the CPU inside the Commodore 64 disk drive (the 1571) was more powerful than the CPU in the C=64 itself.

  7. Re:hmm... on Gentoo Founder on his way to Redmond · · Score: 1

    Linux has supported BSOD for years.

  8. bah on Testing Cheaper Printer Ink · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I gave up on inkjets and bought a decent but inexpensive laser (Lexmark E232). It cost me less than my first inkjet (an HP Deskjet 500 back in the day), and I've found that I really don't need to print in colour that often.

    The E232 is ridiculously fast, too, which is great.

    I've still got my inkjet (a crappy Lexmark Z32) on the off chance that I really do need to print colour some day, although I'm more likely to drop a PDF onto a CD and take it to a print shop... it'll be much cheaper than investing in new ink.

  9. Re:new flash... on Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Funny

    The best part is how the Linux community is banding together to investigate why someone (anyone; I know a lot of Linux folks moving to Mac OS X) would dump their OS in favour of a BSD variant. And how they're totally not burning bridges to lure folks back!

  10. Re:How does the money change hands? on CA Warns Of Massive Botnet Attack · · Score: 1

    PayPal.

  11. Re:Yes, they're already here on Are Video Game Patents Next? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like role-playing game experience.

  12. Re:Aren't they already here? on Are Video Game Patents Next? · · Score: 1

    I think Lego Star Wars (hilariously fun game!) is the only PS2 game I've got that doesn't have any load times. Well, not entirely true, it masks them with the pre-level text crawl.

    I assume Eidos are the brain surgeons behind the fact that Lego Star Wars is available for every platform except the Cube (hell, you can get a really crappy GBA version of it).

  13. Re:privatizing SS on HP Announces National Id System Built on .NET · · Score: 1

    Interesting fantasy you've got there; from 18-25, I was pretty much entirely in school. I could barely afford food, there's no possible way I could've saved $2000.

  14. Re:I'm pretty torn about this on HP Announces National Id System Built on .NET · · Score: 1

    If you're interested in making GUI interfaces, you should really check out Apple's Interface Builder and Objective-C. Once you figure out how it works, it'll make your .NET and Java GUI experiences look like programming in assembly language.

    I've been very impressed since I started looking into Cocoa.

  15. Re:The editors are just imitating Intel on New Pentium Chipsets Launched · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly a threading error, they didn't protect the post with a mutex.

  16. Re:Personal blogging... on Motivations for Corporate Blogging · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you're an angsty teen. My blog is almost entirely weird/interesting things that I think my friends might be interested in reading about. And ranting. Nothing beats a good rant for reducing stress.

  17. this game has The Fun on Review - Lego Star Wars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My son (4.5 years old) and I have played through this twice since we picked it up on release day. It's great fun, although playing co-op with a four year old is somewhat annoying...

    Even though we've been playing the hell out of the game, it remains fun, and I'm enjoying going back to find all the mini-model pieces, get enough studs to open up the New Hope scene, etc.

  18. Re:groovy... on Blu-Ray DVDs Hit 100 GB · · Score: 1

    Actually, step three involves chafing...

  19. Re:BSA?!? on BSA Reacts to 'New' BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mod: -1, Hungarian notation and ugly brace style.

  20. Re:Arbitrary marketing decision on Windows XP Starter Edition Snubs P4, Athlon · · Score: 1
    It is of course, an arbitrary decision manufactured by the marketing department as to my knowledge, there is no real functionality that is enabled on the "Pro" version of Windows with the Pentium 4 or Athalon chips.


    Maybe they'll release "Windows XP Pro EXTREME EDITION!!!!1!!" in a few months, compiled with P4/Athlon instruction scheduling and optimisation turned on (warning: won't run on P3, Duron, Centrino, etc.).

    I love those "we have no new product, but we still rock!" ads they've had on TV ever since Apple released Tiger. "Brand" advertising always smacks of desperation.
  21. it's not the size, it's how you use it on Due Next Year: Dell's 19-inch Laptop · · Score: 1

    The only good thing about these ridiculously huge laptops is that they keep meetings down to about an hour, max. The managers' laptops run out of battery, hey, the meeting is over, back to work!

    The 12" iBook G4 I picked up last fall to replace my ancient 15.1" Dell Inspiron 7000 is so much more convenient (much lighter, much smaller, over 4 hours battery life) I can't believe I ever put up with the Dell.

  22. Re:Review? on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 2, Funny

    "One of my office assistants said she read it, and it was fine. I voted in favor."

  23. Re:Patent #7,554,674 on Longhorn: Fewer BSODs, More RSODs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next up, skinnable *SOD screens.

  24. Re:Two words: on Initial ROTS Reviews Hit the Internet · · Score: 1

    Damn furries.

  25. Re:No it won't on Initial ROTS Reviews Hit the Internet · · Score: 1

    Also, it's a great game, and you can kill Jar-Jar yourself as much as you want.