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  1. Re:Extra Extra! on Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding · · Score: 1

    Well, except that they have a couple of hundred "cores", rather than the 4 - 8 we all use today (if we're lucky)

  2. Re:And the whole GUI overhead on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 4, Informative

    it's called a "core" install in Server 2008 and up, and if you do that, there is no going back, you can't ever add the GUI back.

    What this means is you can run a small subset of MS services that don't need GUI interaction. With R2 that subset grew somwhat as they added the ability to install .Net too, which mean't you could run IIS in a useful manner (arguably the strongest reason to want to do this in the first place).

    Still it's a one way trip and you better be damn sure what services need to run on that box for the lifetime of that box or you're looking at a reinstall. Most windows admins will still tell you the risk isn't worth it.

    Simple things like network configuration without a GUI in windows is tedious, and, at least last time i looked, you lost the ability to trunk network poers because the NIC manufactuers all assumed you had a GUI to configure your NICs

  3. Re:$4,337 from a multi-billion dollar company? on Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties · · Score: 1

    Not that I don't like Chrome being better, but shouldn't the Adobe team work on their own products *cough* 64 bit flash player *cough* before find other products to fix?

  4. Re:Did I notice a severe slowdown? on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obviously if it works fine for you then it must be perfect, and anyone else who has any issues (or thousands of people) must just be wrong

  5. Re:'Bout time on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go read the anandtech.com articles for a full description of the problem. in short, yes all phones do this, but in the case of the iphone 4 with it's external antenna's it's WAY worse than on any other device

  6. Firewall it on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Assuming you can't disable the feature I'll be firewalling it's IP address completly

  7. Re:As they should be. on Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually that would be an interesting experiment. Every law reviewed by the population every few years. This would give the population control, it would also limit the amount of laws that could be feasibly enacted ehich is something everyone should agree is a good thing. Every first world country is burying itself under the new laws it creates every year when we all have perfectly good laws already on the books to punish those same crimes.

  8. Re:Join removal is cool on What Is New In PostgreSQL 9.0 · · Score: 1

    I _think_ what they are saying, is if the column you remove from the select clause, is the only column from that table being used/displayed other than the column used in the join, then the optimizer will remove the entire join from the query, thereby speeding up the query. But I could be very wrong because I've been wondering the same thing as you since it was first mentioned

  9. Re:Flamebait on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have BDC's, but it still has a PDC, as well as RID Master, Infrastructure Master, Schema Master and Domain Naming Master. So yeah, other than all those they are just peers...

  10. Re:Even Windows for free would have replaced Solar on Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm not aware of any MS product thats per core, you would be thinking of Oracle. Per CPU, sure, per core, no way

  11. Re:I want software freedom instead. on Firefox Is Lagging Behind, Its Co-Founder Says · · Score: 1

    Oh the proxy PAC bugs Firefox has..... how I wish they could have been fixed sometime in the last 2 major versions

  12. Re:Doesn't sound so bad on Mass. Data Security Law Says "Thou Shalt Encrypt" · · Score: 1

    Until you have to reinstall your OS. Then it can become all manner of hard to get that data back

  13. Re:Here let me fix that for you on Fate of Terry Childs Now In Jury's Hands · · Score: 1

    This is not something I ever saw mentioned anywhere, do you have a link? If thats the case then I go from supporting him and thinking the city was negligent to let him get this much power in the first place, to thinking he deserves what he gets.

  14. Re:Question on Why Aren't SSD Prices Going Down? · · Score: 1

    You speak of the Quantum Bigfoot, the last 5.25 drive and at the time the cheapest drive you could buy. Of course there was a reason for that

  15. Re:Well unless one jailbreak's one's iphone on Bad PR Forces Apple To Reconsider Banning Mark Fiore's App · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But you knew that going in. It's not like that wans't the case when the iPhone was a brand new product with no market share. Apple hasn't changed the rules you agreed to when you bought the product, no mater how much the market has changed

  16. Re:Best SSID on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Along that train of thought I'm betting

    [É*ÙC/îa|bziürÍqe¦>IÏqKÎ:]

    is also the key for this AP

  17. Re:This is amazingly deserved. on ACM Awards 2009 Turing Prize To Alto Creator Charles Thacker · · Score: 1

    PARC invented the laser printer, this single invention, it's been said made Xerox more money than they ever spent setting up and running PARC.

    A good read if you want to know just how many revolutionary things were invented at PARC

  18. Re:They have the money already on Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    How do you know. Most crackers want the game to function, thats it, if it works get it out lest another group releases before you. If you happened to miss the bit of code that sends the 30 byte packet to onlinenow.ubisoft.com and that doesn't break the game then who would know?

  19. Re:Down or DDoS? on Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they are doing this on purpose so they can track the users that pirated it...

  20. Re:Little Flawed study. on Wear Leveling, RAID Can Wipe Out SSD Advantage · · Score: 3, Informative
    He may have half missed the point, but so did you.

    I clicked on this thinking this guy has done some testing... somewhere. Nope, nothing, no mention of benchmarks or what hardware he used. I'm sure some of he said is true. But I'd really like to see the data that he gets the

    I have seen almost 4 to 1. That means that the write performance might drop to 60 MB/sec and the wear leveling could take 240 MB/sec.

    from. I'd also really like to know what controllers he's tested with, wheather or not they have TRIM support (perhaps none do yet), what drives he used, if he had a BBU and write-back enabled etc etc etc.

    Until he give us the sources and the facts this is nothing but a FUD piece. Yes, wear levelling will eat up some bandwidth, thats hardly news... show us the data about how much and which drives are best

  21. Re:Moving to other ISPs on New Zealand Legislature Mulls File-Sharing Bill · · Score: 1

    Actually you are wrong, Telstra have cable networks in Christchurch and Wellington. Full Internet,TV and Phone

  22. Re:Wait, what? on USPTO To Review Controversial VoIP Patent · · Score: 1

    Aha!

    But you have foiled his sinister plot by writing the summary that should have been at the top of the page so we can all continue to not RTFA

  23. Re:not quite that on Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I understand where you're coming from, but to me he did explain it well enough to teach it. A number of other mathematicians went over this and claimed it complete, sure, it took them a few years, but thats pretty much the standard now anyway. It sounds to me like he was happy enough to make this understandable by those smart enough to use it and leave it at that

  24. Re:Behind the scenes or not on SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day · · Score: 1

    Surely you would suggest they grab a public domain compiler given your stance on the GPL?

  25. Re:Almost competing on Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day · · Score: 1

    Actually Nvidia do now release their notebook drivers since OEM's sucked so much at keeping them up to date. ATI/AMD don't though