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  1. Re:Remote Exploits? Poor user security model? on Windows Vista 5342 Screenshots · · Score: 0, Troll

    Tabbed browsing? How about, in no particular order:

    SVG
    CSS2
    Non-bullshit DOM
    XHTML
    No more ActiveX
    A decent JVM

  2. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if those things could make 100 million keypresses.

    The new ones aren't good for even 1 million, specwise, and fail long before the spec says they should anyway. Then again, they only cost $5, so who gives a fuck?

    Compare this to flash, where an automatic process might rewrite something several times a second.

  3. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    These things take years to make it to the marketplace. Some cases they don't. What if it works, is perfect, but costs $1000 a meg because it require exotic materials? The price simply won't come down no matter how efficient they make the process.

  4. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    Everyone is doing tags. Kinda lame. I don't feel like doing something someone else was doing.

    People who claim it's overkill usually are lacking imagination.

  5. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    I was going to say a helluva capacitor, because the motors need to spin up. Lol. Yeh, that might be doable. If not now, in a few years anyway.

  6. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    I think I've seen 1 million recently. Was kinda surprised by that. Let's say it's 5 million though...

    Can you not think of a single instance of where an OS might write that many times to a location in something like a reasonable human length of time?

    Can't wait though. I hope I'm not using spinning discs 20 years from now, anyway.

  7. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's actually what most people consider overkill.

    "Actions" in a picture are many to one, in a picture. Each "action" has a giver and a reciever, which can refer to arbitrarily any "person" record.

    That takes care of orgies.

    Any person in any picture can have any arbitrary fluid denoted as covering any and all parts of their body, these are stored as UV texture maps of some generic model. (Also store where tattoos and piercings, freckles, and a bunch of other things are located this way).

    Tubgirl is simply the "action" called "Defecating", with both giver and reciever pointing at the same person record, with maybe a "fluid" record showing where exactly she is covered in it.

    You'd have learned all this, if you had bothered to read any links.

  8. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    Still not good enough.

    The capacities are more than enough now... it's not inconceivable at all, to think of a 300gig flash drive in a typical 3.5" physical format.

  9. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    Oh? So when because your filesystem wasn't specifically designed for it, and it rewrites some place in the middle of the drive 120,000 times and it fails, you don't want the filesystem fragmenting files around the flaw?

    Sounds like you're the one that doesn't understand flash very well.

  10. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most flash is rated for 100,000 writes, mean.

    Nothing I'm aware of is realistically rated anywhere in the millions.

    If we're only talking cache, what's the point of flash? That's dumb, use ram, and sram if you can afford it.

  11. Re:Spend the extra money on flash-cache on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    Yes. And at 80,000 writes, the drive is dead. Nice. Your 100gig solid state drive will be a 40gig drive (and fragmented at that) in a year.

    Do you own semiconductor stocks or something?

  12. Re:Probably money. on GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You can also put a corvette engine into a Ford Pinto. It's still not a sports car.

  13. Re:Heh. on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    Uh, looking this over, are you sure it isn't more khtml than it is webkit?

    Even so, worth installing to test against.

  14. Re:Heh. on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    Read that on the webkit wiki. Seems I should have looked further.

    Thanks for the link.

  15. Re:Heh. on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    Yeh, but webkit will only partially compile on windows, and not at all on linux. I think an emulator (ok, technically not emulation, rather a clone of the win32 libraries for wine, and of cocoa for osx) is more likely, and certainly more useful... you could run all the OSX stuff then.

    Of course, if I had both available, I'd probably take the linux native webkit. Hell, I even managed to get IE6 running on this, and I've got every other browser that matters... Safari is the last one I have to go find someone on IRC for to bug and hope they're willing to check it out for me.

  16. Heh. on Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out · · Score: 1

    This is nice for them, but I really want to know how long it will be before we have the wine-equivalent of OSX... I need to be able to run Safari on my slackware laptop, so that I can test my website.

  17. As someone with some idea of all of this... on DoJ Following Porn Blocker Advances? · · Score: 1

    It's pretty dumb. Every previous claim of this functionality has turned out to be skintone detection.

    Machine vision can't even begin to start on this until you actually know what porn is, from an ontological point of view (a problem I've mostly nailed). Even then, the recognition algorithms for such won't be written for many years, and won't run on reasonable hardware for years after that. It's pretty dumb if you ask me.

  18. Great. on Silicon Valley Firms Having Cash Showers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where do I sign up?

  19. Bullshit detected. on Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain · · Score: 1

    Second, if these senators didn't propose this, would the debt disminish? No, it's a COMPLETELY UNRELATED thing.

    Really? Would seem to me that senators only have 168 hours in their week just as I do. Most of that week is taken up with boring, unuseful but still necessary things. Sleeping, eating. Driving around. So, at the end of the week, they have a mostly fixed amount of time on their hands, let's say 20 hours, with which to get real legislative work done.

    They're wasting that time doing this bullshit, rather than putting it to use. The debt isn't just some dumbasses' idea of what they should be doing, it is arguably the most important problem facing our nation today. Even those that wouldn't put it at spot #1 would still have to include it in the top 3.

    This shows just what our senators priorities are. It shows they aren't capable of doing the job they're supposed to be doing. It shows they don't even understand the job they're trying to do and that they should keep their noses out of it.

    When we have a looming national emergency that is the scale of the debt, I expect them to ignore all else until it's fucking fixed. Nothing else is tolerable.

  20. Re:Domain Name Squatters on Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but I just registered pdatabase.com last week. Bah. I don't suppose they'll mandate switching over such domains for free?

  21. Re:Standards and Bueller, both missing. on Internet Explorer Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    He's not the worst. Most open their yahoo.com bookmark, and type in website.com there, hit enter, then click on the link yahoo brings up. I'm not kidding.

    That they can type it in directly to the url field is a mystery to them.

  22. Re:Standards and Bueller, both missing. on Internet Explorer Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Either lost, or they'd gain productivity, from not having a million fucking IE windows open all over the place.

  23. Re:Standards and Bueller, both missing. on Internet Explorer Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    You mean like Cavalier Telephone?

    Then again, the people in charge do still run it as if they were a telephone company, instead of an internet one...

  24. Re:Indeed. on Comic Book on Copyright and Creativity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh my god. Unlike you, I am all for indoctrinating our nation's children in the ways and methodologies of godless communism. But quiche? They go too far.

  25. Re:Other things... on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Don't know, but I'm getting in early. Postgres here all the way.

    Wasn't fun looking for forum software that worked with it though, and I didn't feel like running poth pg and mysql... ended up using phpbb for lack of anything else.