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  1. Re:Rock Rainbows? on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 1

    So... you just have to find a nice spot near the terminator line and you can have a perpetual sunset/sunrise, rainbows and all, right?

  2. Re:Closing the Architecture on NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API · · Score: 1

    Uhm, there's nothing wrong with their cards. At least the older cards like the SB Live, which provides true hardware mixing. I still put them into new multimedia computers (yes, even the ones with onboard 7.1 sound). The Emu10k1 driver works splendidly, but then again that's not exactly an official Creative driver.

    I can't comment on their more recent cards.

  3. Re:Related to the current poll ? on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shirley you can't be Sirius?

  4. Re:Too bad StackOverflow sucks. on StackOverflow For Any Topic · · Score: 1

    One with a blocked nose, I would suspect.

  5. Re:I don't understand the obsession... on New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second · · Score: 1

    This BIOS will give a quicker return from hibernate.
    Hibernation, of course, involving powering down the machine. The rest is just loading enough of the OS to read the hibernation file back into memory and restore the appropriate state registers.

  6. Re:STFU needs to be heard. on Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing · · Score: 1

    I'd like Gnome-terminal to let me turn off the default behaviour of CLOSE BUTTONS ON EVERY TAB, which pretty much makes it unusable except for the most basic single-tab tasks.

  7. Re:Happened to my Parents on New York Times Site Pop-Up Says Your Computer Is Infected · · Score: 1

    Though take a look at the recent attention that bug has been receiving. I think you've had a positive effect there!

  8. Re:I've met the enemy on According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated" · · Score: 1

    I'm interested in this. Can you please list some of the worst offenders so we can get started?

    thanks

  9. Re:Someone has high demands. on "Going Google" Exposes Students' Email · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry, perhaps you missed the part where students could read each others emails.

    Microsoft participation is not required in this case.

  10. Re:Jesus, cut the cord already on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    Those skills could at least plausibly become useful one day, if there is a breakdown of social order or some other catastrophic event. However you're still right on the main point - old styles of writing and measuring should be done away with.

  11. Re:Bogus outdated thinking on RAID's Days May Be Numbered · · Score: 1

    An electric car.

    (given the current track record of SSDs)

  12. Re:Imagine on Gene Roddenberry's Mac Plus Is Coming Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    "Overrated" is a good substitute, if someone has been modded up +1 Informative and is clearly, and I mean clearly, wrong.

    And that happens frequently here.

  13. Re:Not ever Microsoft employee is evil on Sam Ramji, Microsoft's Open Source Guru, Is Moving On · · Score: 0

    Really? Ray Ozzie said that?

    That's great news, and here's why: Given that Cloud Computing is a hype bubble waiting to burst, we can only hope Microsoft gets fully on board before this happens. Then the rest of us can watch from afar as they implode.

  14. Re:Because it's an advetorial, perhaps? on Parallel Processing For Cardiac Simulations Using an Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    With R&D budget cuts across the board, Santa is pretty much their last remaining equipment source.

  15. And this, Sony on Parallel Processing For Cardiac Simulations Using an Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    ... is what you'll be missing out on. All because you ostensibly couldn't pay someone to write a hypervisor driver for your new SKU. You would have been better off releasing the specs and having the community do it for you.

  16. Re:A list of what not to include on New 2D, HD Sonic Game Coming In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Dr Robotnik.

  17. Re:Linux audio on Linux Kernel 2.6.31 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is true. I don't think any software allows you to adjust individual sources (or tracks even) for latency, i.e. tell it your MIDI device has 20mS latency and your direct WAV output has 0mS latency, and let it auto-correct everything. This would be useful.

    A lot of DVD players do this to allow for TV latency. Hell, mplayer does it (for a/v sync). I don't see why high-end software wouldn't allow for this.

  18. Re:What has the Tolkien Trust ever done? on Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    The difference that I can see, is that the movie studios actually created something. A derivative work, to be sure, but a creative work nonetheless.

    Every time someone re-tells or re-enacts "Cinderella" or "Othello", do we call them parasitic? I don't know, maybe some people do.

  19. Never underestimate on Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net · · Score: 1

    ...the bandwidth of a truck full of backup tapes.

  20. Re:good idea but wrong age on The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School · · Score: 1

    Uhm, I was more referring to the ability to pick up touch-typing. But granted, keeping kids away from computers until high school isn't necessarily the best idea in this day and age.

  21. Re:What has the Tolkien Trust ever done? on Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    Are you sure YOU have thought this through?

    You're making an argument for perpetual copyright based on a desire to not be assaulted by hordes of derivative works.

  22. Re:Shorter lifetime? on Intellectual Ventures' Patent Protection Racket · · Score: 1

    Not if you were granted a patent for "Method of hiring an attorney for financial compensation". Remember the US must provide legal counsel, but there's nothing requiring you to hire one yourself. They'd be forced to get a crappy state attorney instead of a high calibre lawyer.

  23. Re:Return? on Future of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Looks Bleak · · Score: 2, Funny

    All the stuff they did?

  24. Re:How can you... on Future of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Looks Bleak · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Which religion would that be? I can tell you it sure as hell isn't Christianity.

  25. Re:Apple Hates Geeks on Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It certainly is. And more telling that he's not there now.