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  1. Laws of Physics on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    This is more a case of performance I expect, the higher I/O speeds of the newer memory and graphics ports and PCI-e are such that the costs to maintain signal integrity through a socket adaptor are horrid. If your really performance minded, you'd shotgun the socket and solder existing PC's to the motherboard today, over clockers would likely benefit from the lower noise due to removing the inductance of the socket leads on the power and ground pins. This would yield higher reliability at higher clock frequencies. The concerns over socket signal integrity have been an issue testing these high end CPU's since the I/O bandwidths approached 100Mhz.

    I agree with Jump! Jump! Jump! To quite a dramatic conclusion.

    Also... in the IC testing community, regardless of the physical structure (flip chip/BGA/PGA), we still refer to the electrical contacts of a device under test aka (DUT) as "pins". So these devices are likely to have "pins" forever, even when we start interfacing to these chips with photons...

  2. Not at the Crimson Permanent Assurance Company! on Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties · · Score: 1

    Monty Python's Meaning Of Life: Crimson Permanent Assurance
    Bean Counters there have a life!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX61PUZ3xkI
    When Crimson Permanent Assurance takes over warranties will be a thing of the past!

  3. Re:so? on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 1

    Good point.

  4. Re:SQL too on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 1

    BitZStream.
    Nicely done and fucking awesome post. Best /. Read for me in years.

  5. Ying Lim...are those Slugs or Newtons on NASA Snaps New Photo of Incoming Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Ying,
        I'm reviewing your trajectory data, Just wanted to double check... I'm sure the astroid is going to miss us, but wanted to double triple check, you remember that probe that sort-of hit mars?
        So your measurements of the acceleration were in inches per second, and slugs of force right? Thats what we have been using here at NASA, we never managed to convert to the metric system in the '70s.
    As far as I can tell, this things going to miss us by a mile right? Or was that a kilometer?

  6. Re:The most important question: on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    The laser will be aimed at the HP Pavillion in San-Jose. There are Sharks there.

  7. Something Wonderful is going to happen... on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Oh my god...
    It's full of...
    Stray socks and dryer lint!

  8. Re:True, but that's still going to be a tough sell on Astronauts As Alien Life Hunters? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure, but if you built a private spaceship, you would be hard to chase, given that the US government has no official space flying capability. If you leave US airspace before leaving 18,000 feet, I think your probably fine. My point is that if you can solve the technical problems, you can just go. Join an EAA chapter, and build a spaceship in your garage, start the open source mars project...let's do it.

  9. Re:HP Didn't Spin Off Its Soul on Why HP Should Sell Its PC Business To Save It · · Score: 1

    I think I agree to this, but the nail in the coffin was spinning off Agilent in the late 90's, since them it's been a downward cycle IMHO. . That engineering/scientific business was what brought HP into the world. The calculator division used to be huge!

  10. Re:perfect match on Why HP Should Sell Its PC Business To Save It · · Score: 1

    Brilliant solution! The company coul be split into two business units, H-Net and P-Flix, which would raise prices, make you go to the nearest Best Buy to pick up your movies once a week, where you have to sit through a 90 minute timeshare sales pitch or buy a laptop before you can take your movie home.

  11. Perhaps HP and Netflix could merge on Why HP Should Sell Its PC Business To Save It · · Score: 1

    They could alternately announce price hikes, name changes and spin offs until customers get so fed up, they start buying crayons and paper to draw their own entertainment.

  12. Re:Idiot on Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up · · Score: 1

    I love the use of the term 1% er. Nicely done.

  13. Re:...the dock. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    You are 100% on. I REFUSE to wait for any user interface. I also find "it's now OK for you to shutdown" what about power outages. If an OS can't let me be in charge, it fails.

  14. Re:...the dock. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    Hate to ask, what is a PHB? I know what a PhD is but a PHB has me wondering what I'm missing.

  15. Re:Einstein replied "Check your measurements, son" on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    I agree, as much as it would be cool to see a breakthrough here, it could be a failure to calibrate, or account for propagation delay betwwn triggers in an instrument.

  16. Star mining on Astronomers Find Unusual Star · · Score: 1

    It's not too hard to consider mining a star here are some examples:
    1) Wait until the star is bar hopping, and steal the bling from their jewelry box.
    2) Remove the heavy elements from the outside of the stars Bentley.
    3) When the star enters rehab, file a leon on the heavy elements, then pay to have them delivered to you.
    4) After the big bang, when the star is asleep, take a few heavy elements.

  17. Useful research but what about a grass runway on The Mathematics of Lawn Mowing · · Score: 1

    I live adjacent to a grass runway, and part of my responsibilities include mowing my section of the runway. Some of my neighbors are particular and for safety reasons demand the mowing occur lengthwise along the runway so you can see an airplane coming at you and get out of the way. This is a constraint that could be mitigated if I had 360 degree vision.
    How do the authors address constraints like this?

  18. Boring Oregon on Places With the Most Wikipedia Articles · · Score: 1

    This just proves the need for the non profit "boring initiative" to begin funding articles about Boring Oregon. Every individual needs to be interviewed, historical significance of buildings, which doorknobs were brought in bybwagon train, etc.
    A team needs to examine the micro organisms unique to the soil etc. Only megabytes of wikapedia data can keep boring boring.

  19. Re:Hardly surprising on Apple Support Forums Suggest Malware Explosion · · Score: 1

    I love this post, but don't want to bother to verify the accuracy of the # of Mac infections. I'm too busy entering my password to install this free mac virus checker that just popped up humping my leg

  20. Re:North v South on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    Great leader in North Korea is working with Samsung Marketing. Successes with key loggers and the Galaxy tablet marketing campaign are making great strides!

  21. Great leader triumphs again! on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    Our Great Leader Kim Jung Ill, has installed these key loggers to discover why citizens have not yet placed orders for the great leaders Galaxy Tablet, or downloaded the new apps of the great leader using a laptop with the key logger installed.
    Thank you Samsung for implementing our great leaders wishes!

  22. Our great leader loves Galaxy Tablet on Samsung Galaxy Ad Misleads With Fake Interviews · · Score: 1

    The Great leader loves the Galaxy Tablet! There will soon be several applications that will download different photographs of our great leader using his Galaxy Tablet!
    Hurry and get yours today!

  23. And your point is? on Saudi Students In US Seek Segregation By Gender On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I get the point of this? I mean, cant you form your own group on FB?

  24. Zaphod Beeblebox Gene found by British Boffins on How To Grow a Head · · Score: 1

    Well, it was only a matter of time.

    "It turns out that this gene was easy to find, once the SEP field around it was turned off".

  25. Blue Shift? on New Interactive Black Hole Simulation Published · · Score: 1

    When I run the simulation under windows, I just get this blue screen? Does this mean there is a small black hole in my PC?