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  1. Re:Keep going on Electrode Implant Gives Mute Man a (Synthesized) Voice · · Score: 1

    There is always the risk of the doctor installing the device to your good eye and failing.

  2. Re:You mean physical memory right :-) on Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? · · Score: 1

    What are Kelvin bits? And Apollo Missions did have more than 2 kilobytes of memory, 36864 words of ROM and 2048 words of RAM, 15bits per word, thus 67.5kB ROM and 3.75kB of RAM.

  3. uTP might solve "freezing" routers problem on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 1

    When you allow high number of connections on bittorrent, almost all home routers die as their session memory fills up. On Azureus I've noticed that the maximum is somewhere around 256-512 simultaneous connections and even such a low number sometimes freezes up my Netgear router, so I am forced to use Linux box instead and can now put the connection limit to 8000-16000 connections and get much higher download speeds. Switching to UDP should bypass the session limit problem on cheap router boxes, so it is all good.

  4. Re:printf on Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python · · Score: 1

    And PHP version:


    printf('I ate %d %s in %.3f seconds', 99, 'hotdogs', 62.0895);

  5. Re:Even if.... on Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately to my knowledge it is actually quite difficult to get a public domain status to a copyrightable work while it is still under copyright (life of the copyright holder + X years or something like that).

  6. Re:Even if.... on Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    BSD License doesn't allow me to do whatever I want with the code, for that I would need a totally free license.

  7. I couldn't agree more on Psystar Antitrust Claim Against Apple Dismissed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Re:If these guys couldn't bounce back

  8. Re:Holy Mackerel! on Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore · · Score: 1

    Or even better, use antimatter explosives.

  9. Re:The deciding factor for me on Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game · · Score: 1

    I agree, 10USD (or 10EUR which is roughly the same after you add the mandatory VAT to the price) is about what I would pay for a good "indie" game, maybe 15 for amazing game that I could play for weeks. 20 would be ok for a game like Half-Life 2 and 30 for games like Baldur's Gate that took me ages to finish.

    Unfortunately the trend seems to be for higher prices and shorter gameplay.

  10. Re:She's bad-stupid, and this is why: on Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no no, when in doubt, use someone else's money, that way you wont get burned yourself.

  11. Re:What about the "traditional" camera companies? on RED's New Digital Stills and Motion Camera Pushing the Limits · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you could shoot video and record it on Ultrium tapes :)

  12. Re:What about the "traditional" camera companies? on RED's New Digital Stills and Motion Camera Pushing the Limits · · Score: 1

    Umm.. An hour of 70mm film (which is smaller than the the 6x17cm sensor in this digital camera) weights about 200pounds, not something I would just carry around for fun. Assuming the RED camera uses JPEG compression, one frame is about 10-25MB, or 800-2100GB per hour, and a SAN of few terabytes should be less than 200pounds.

    Ofcourse I am just pulling these numbers from google, but film is probably less portable you think and digital film more portable, though you most likely don't wanna be running around with either of them.

  13. Re:I can see the the other side as well. on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 3, Funny

    What kind of search engine kills people when you do a search?

  14. Re:RAID-Less how??? on Sun Unveils RAID-Less Storage Appliance · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe instead of an array of disks it is a hash or maybe even a linked list.

  15. Re:stirling engine is a no-go on Dean Kamen Combines Stirling Engine With Electric Car · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually stirling engine in theory has almost perfect efficiency, unfortunately in practice this is difficult to do. A large, as in huge compared to car engine, stirling engine is easier to make efficient and there are several applications where these are used. And if you run it in reverse you have a great heat pump, often used in cryocooling etc.

  16. Re:Context vs Hubble Deep Field on Very Large Telescope Captures New 27-Megapixel Deep Field · · Score: 0

    Also this 27Mpix image is very blurry, they could probably taken it at 10Mpix and still have the same amount of information.

  17. Re:X-forwarding on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    This render everything locally can sometimes make RDP much much slower than VNC. A text window that scrolls and displays alot of text is poison for RDP as it sends all the text over the connection but VNC will just send bitmap snapshots every now and then.

  18. Re:Another helpful hint on EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key · · Score: 1

    At what point does the cat die?

  19. Re:The advantage of BASIC on Scripting In Commodore BASIC For Windows & Linux · · Score: 1

    Someone should port Simon's Basic for C64 which gave powerful (albeit slow) graphics commands and allowed me to render my first fractal images (in about a week per image).

  20. Re:clue ? on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I recall that in a revisit of the revisit of the chicken gun they shot chickens through stacks of glass windows and the frozen ones did more damage so it did matter of the chicken was frozen or not, if you have strong enough target.

  21. Re:8 light-minutes on Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth · · Score: 1

    I see a problem here, well, two actually. First, if the speed really is metric foot per nanosecond, the field is moving faster than speed of light or if we use the cm/ns value you gave, the field is moving as fast as light, which conflicts with the parent who said they dont propagate at the speed of light.

  22. Re:8 light-minutes on Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth · · Score: 1

    At what speed do they propagate, in vacuum?

  23. Re:eDonkey/eMule anyone? on Researchers Decentralize BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I don't think the servers in eMule-protocol keep track of chucks/blocks of clients, but Bittorrent does.

  24. Re:Smells Like FUD. on Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Why do you need a RAID chipset if you are using software RAID? Software RAID also usually gives you more options to recover data than hardware RAIDs do (you can recover from multidisk failures on RAID5 by using different disk arrays for different range of sectors etc). And when you are using software RAID you can always plug the drives to another machine and they will just work, but if you hardware RAID controller fails, it might be difficult to get compatible controller to recover the data.

  25. Re:Looks Legit on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    Nope, he basicly has common law trademark for Chicago2016 in the field of discussion forums (assuming he does business), Chicaco2016 can be also registered trademark of Olympics event and even a landry detergent (see trademark for Linux).