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  1. Weight on Toshiba Launches Laptop With Three GPUs · · Score: 1

    It also weighs in at a svelt 11 kilos. Definitely the road warrior's first choice.

  2. Exactly on Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles · · Score: 1

    As yet another martial artist, I agree, and while I know that many schools tend to lean towards lots of static stretching prior to the real workout, I do not. I limber up a bit so I won't injure anything, then do some stretching afterwards during my cool down.

  3. Make friends with a beancounter on How Do You Justify the Existence of IT? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Make nice with someone in Finance/Accounting/etc. and get statistics on what the average productivity figure is per worker for the various functions that make up the company. From there you can calculate not only the cost of downtime but also the improvements in efficiency when common tasks are made easier via the databases/applications that are deployed.

  4. Re:Importance of warm-up on Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's like most things in that too much of even a good thing can be bad for you. It's very important to limber up before a workout, but anything can be taken to extremes.

  5. Re:Because you're locked in on Which Phone To Develop For? · · Score: 1

    Every smartphone I've seen comes with links to online stores and resources, and most people also know how to use Google. Your arguement is a bit weak.

  6. Re:I don't know what to make of this on Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is no reason at all that they couldn't integrate an OSS web rendering engine into Windows just as tightly as they have done so with IE.

  7. Re:Some possible problems, here? on Ballmer "Interested" In Open Source Browser Engine · · Score: 1

    Right Click on the IE icon and select Internet Properties, then set the homepage to blank. Download away. Pretty simple.

  8. Re:Sarcasm on Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads · · Score: 1

    And you don't think fewer women would be victimized if it were legal and somewhat regulated?

  9. Re:If you give it some thought on How To Cloak Objects At a Distance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You obviously haven't given it much thought. If your logic held true, there would also have been no reason to develop stealth technology for our aircraft. As someone else astutely pointed out in response to you, every advantage helps. There would be many, many applications for 'cloaking' technology against even high tech militaries.

    Of course, it's fashionable around here to say will really only be useful when used against civilians.

  10. Re:One theory of dark matter eh? on New Type of Particle May Have Been Found · · Score: 1

    Actually it looks like they are saying the muons might be decay products of the particle that mediates forces between dark matter particles. Even one step further out but still very exciting.

  11. Re:40 years? on The Laptop Celebrates Its 40th Year · · Score: 1

    My first thought was we should then celebrate the 40 millionth year of Humanity, since by then the basic 'plan' for hominids was well under way.

    I have an idea for using exotic matter farmed from black holes in order to build an Einstein-Rosen bridge. If in 1000 years our descendants manage to build one will that mean it's the 1000th anniversary of the wormhole?

  12. Re:Just imagine what could be there on Cassini Could Find Signs of Life on Enceladus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Precursors? They've already determined that complete amino acids can be found on carbonaceous asteroids. It's actually *easy* to make amino acids; the mystery is how amino and nucleic acids came together to form what we call life. My guess is given the right environment (liquid water, ingredients, and a source of energy) and enough time 'life' forms under a variety of other variables.

  13. Re:Just imagine what could be there on Cassini Could Find Signs of Life on Enceladus · · Score: 1

    I would not be surprised to find single celled life to be rather common given liquid water environments, a source of energy, and organic molecules. I'll be surprised when (if) anyone finds any complex life forms in our lifetime. I fully expect to live long enough to find evidence of current or former single celled life elsewhere in our Solar System.

  14. Re:The Pentium 1 floating point bug was 15yrs ago. on Intel Core I7 Launched, Nehalem and X58 Tested · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every time a brand new processor architecture comes out there are either errata, unforseen shortcomings, or more often both. It's always a good idea not to adopt a new architecture immediately. Let them work the kinks out over the first few steppings.

    You obviously know little about processor design nor how many times over the past two decades new architectures have shipped with bugs or design flaws.

  15. Here's an idea on How To Supplement Election Coverage? · · Score: 1

    How about just vote, then forget about it until later in the evening or the following day when the winners are announced. Unless you're working the polling places or on voter turnout initiatives there's nothing you can do but vote to affect the outcome, so why obsess about it?

  16. Re:Antitrust? on Low-Income Users Latch On To iPhone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's pure BS. I have had Sprint for years and I can install any app I want on my phone.

  17. Re:Gosh and I wondered what they'd do with P.A. Se on Apple Plans To Make Chips For Handhelds · · Score: 1

    I think I qualify as 'one of the rest of us' here, and I've heard of them. A lot of chips that go into embedded devices don't get a ton of press.

  18. Re:empty threats on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 1

    Then you're doing it wrong. I've dealt with all the major carriers many times and I've never had to wait that long for a line to be provisioned.

  19. Re:empty threats on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 1

    Getting a T1 or T3 might have taken weeks several years ago. The last few times I've had any setup it was done within a week, sometimes within days.

  20. Re:wow on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: 1

    Heaven forbid people be held accountable for their actions on the EA forum. I wish they still hosted the UO forums. Stratics (the de factor offical forum venue for UO) is famous for flamers and otherwise bad behavior.

  21. Re:Well, we made the Dust Bowl. on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    Any way you look at it, dumping large quantities of toxic chemicals into the atmosphere ain't really a great idea.

    On that we agree. CO2 isn't one of said toxic chemicals though.

  22. Re:Global warming is a fact, not a theory or hoax. on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    The deluded people are the ones who really think that our actions are the main driver of climate change. Do we contribute? Probably, as do ALL life forms. Are we the main driver? Most likely not and there is no proof to the contrary.

    I find it the ultimate hubris that we think we have that much more control over climate than, say, the Sun.

  23. Re:An Honest Question.... on The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1, Informative

    GP was talking about *companies* who got involved with Second Life, not individual entrepreneurs. Catch the fuck up dude ;)

  24. Re:Tens of billion? on Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit · · Score: 1

    It just means more than 1x10 billion but not many multiples thereof. Yes, it's a fuzzy definition.

  25. Re:I don't understand. on PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He said 'written for lean performance'. That is not Linux. I'm not saying Linux performs poorly, but it's hardly designed with performance being the primary goal, and it *certainly* doesn't boot nearly as fast as BeOS did.