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  1. Re:iPhone as a server on iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python, Vim · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But it has a 600MHz CPU and 128M DDR SRAM, 10 years ago, we ran servers on much worse hardwares.

  2. Re:Applications on Why Linux Has Failed on the Desktop · · Score: 1
    Look what I use everyday:
    • Igor Pro, Mac and windows only, heard rumor that it can run under wine.
    • Photoshop, can be replaced by Gimp.
    • imageJ, Java.
    • jchempaint, Java.
    • Illustrator, IMHO can't really be replaced by Inkscape and openoffice yet.
    • Latex, linux works perfectly on this.
    • PDF viewing and editing with Acrobat. Any replacement on linux? I would like to know.
    • Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OpenOffice works pretty good, but gave me trouble many times too.

    So the application side of linux is not that bad at least for me.

  3. Re:I haven't read SINGLE Harry Potter book on Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion · · Score: 1

    She could write she didn't mean to. Writers write things they don't understand, always.

  4. Re:You are sheeple on Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion · · Score: 1

    1984?

  5. Where are these numbers from... on Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Based on a research conducted by the National Renewable Energy Lab, http://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy98/24190.pdf, a 1000 square meter out door pond at Roswell, New Mexico was used to grow algae with controlled conditions (Ph value, CO2...). Algae could grow at a peak value of 50 gram/m^2/day and average value of 10 gram/m^2/day. Then some people on the good old internet translated (manipulated) this number as algae can grow at 10-50 gram/m^2/day. Then the number was redefined as biofuel can be produced from the pond at a speed of 10-50 gram/m^2/day. An acre is 4047 m^2. So that's 40470-202350 gram/acre/day and 14,771,550-73,857,750 gram/acre/year. Diesel density is 850g/liter, and one gallon is 3.7854 liter, so one gallon of diesel is 3218g. Then the pond production rate become 4,600- 23,000 gallon/acre/year, then some other people at the Wiki thing estimated 10,000-20,000 gallon/acre/year, and then comes the Boeing number.

    I really hope we can fly cleaner, but, man, there is a dead fish smell.

  6. Li ion-Polymer battery on Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend? · · Score: 1

    I don't have an iPhone, but I guess it uses a Li ion-Polymer battery. Otherwise, I would expect to see an explosion.

  7. Re:Apple should have went with Verizon first. on iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs · · Score: 1

    Ever bothered to check talk time of evdo phones? Most of them are around 3-4 hours. And iPhone is 8 hours. It's a phone, it should allow people to talk firstly.

  8. Re:How hard is it to get right? on Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    most of those transistors are used to make cache. Assume there are 4MiB L2 cache, roughly 33.5 million bit, Intel uses 6 transistors per bit design, that's about 200 million transistors. There are also several million transistors used for the L1 cache. I remember there are no more than 300 million transistors on Conroe chip, so we are talking about tens of transistors for code execution now. And there are sill a lot of transistors used to locate the cache, decode...

  9. In iceland, there are hydrogen stations on Google Spends Money to Jump-Start Hybrid Car Development · · Score: 1

    http://www.geothermie.de/egec-geothernet/basic/200 3_05_06first_shell.htm I was told that the hydrogen is sealed so good that you can even smoke when you are refilling hydrogen by a scientist from National Renewable Engergy Lab.

  10. Re:I have a MUCH more important question... on Can Apple Find a European iPhone Partner? · · Score: 1

    Wall street investors, Taiwan manufacturers, Chinese labors.

  11. Re:Discredited on Giant Dinosaur Bird Discovered · · Score: 1

    Inner Mongolia is part of China.

  12. Re:Discredited on Giant Dinosaur Bird Discovered · · Score: 1

    Did you bother to read the white text in the website you referred before you jump to the yellow text? While at least, all Chinese fossil out side of China are illegal, because exporting fossil is forbidden by Chinese law. We can not come to a conclusion that all of Chinese fossils out side of China are fake, but there is a big chance.

    As fossil discovered in China by scientist, your source said "China has an immense scientific wealth of genuine fossil deposits."

  13. Re:"Just a phone"???!!! on No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps · · Score: 1

    And the world only need five of them.

  14. No matter what happened... on Apple Confirms No (Default) ZFS In Leopard · · Score: 1

    "hurrah, bravo, genius..."

  15. One more thing on Apple Safari On Windows Broken On First Day · · Score: 1

    Chinese characters rendered more ugly than Mozilla M18 build, if anybody still remember what Mozilla M18 was, the mozilla before alpha.

  16. Re:Firefox is the most at risk on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Then we can see a healthier firefox.

  17. Admin or the machine, who is the weak link? on Microsoft's IIS is Twice as Likely to Host Malware? · · Score: 1

    I think the research really mean is the administrators behind those softwares are the weak links, not the software. Those bad administrators use pirated windows servers and refuse to update are the most dangerous and damaging guys around.

  18. What's their explaination about Buddhism? on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is there anything about Buddhism? Did they say anything about Dalai Lama?

  19. Re:Intel - The Software Company on Intel Updates Compilers For Multicore CPUs · · Score: 1

    I think you are talking X86 compatible CPUs. When a CPU with a brand new instruction set was born, the developers would make a new compiler together with the CPU.

  20. Re:Intel - The Software Company on Intel Updates Compilers For Multicore CPUs · · Score: 1

    I thought every CPU provider does. Or they make CPUs compatible with existing compilers.

  21. Re:NeoOffice needs X11? on HardOCP Spends 30 Days With MacOSX · · Score: 1

    I stopped reading TFA when I met this sentence.

  22. Re:Painfully cold? on Scientists Identify How the Body Senses Cold · · Score: 1

    Do you mean your body temperature is below -20F? I guess you do feel the same.

  23. My recent experience with Powerpoint and NeoOffice on New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs · · Score: 1

    I was making a big presentation with a lot of figures on my Macbook pro. After several days of working, the Powerpoint became extreme slow. I tried to close the file and reopen it, rename the file and all kinds of things I can imagine, but it doesn't speed up. Then I downloaded a copy of NeoOffice, it worked, way faster than the PowerPoint. However when I finished editing in NeoOffice and reopen the file in Powerpoint, all my vector drawings in windows meta format were corrupted, and the font in the sidebar became very large, (this problem can be fixed easily be changing the font size, but not many people know that the font size in the sidebar is changeable). And the editing speed in Powerpoint became normal.

    Just my 2 cents.

  24. Save them for the reason of CO2 on Bookstore Owner Burns Books · · Score: 1

    Don't burn them, but where is the link to buy?

  25. ping... on China Crafts Cyberweapons · · Score: 1

    Pong...