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  1. i almost dont care... on Explaining Disappointing XScale Performance In Pocket PCs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    now that i can buy a pentium 4 laptop with a nice video card for a fairly reasonable price...

  2. Re:Pointing your finger? on Making Computing More Human-Centered · · Score: 1

    if your getting tired on 1600x1200 than maybe youn should turn up the mouse sensativity... either that or there are setting where the mouse moves slow for precise clicking if you move it less than 2 mm or something (user configurable) otherwise it speeds up... so an inch of movement on the mouse = 2 inches on the screen but 2 inches of movment on the mouse = 5 inches on the screen... depending on speed... this i show i do it

  3. Re:Ahhh the California seatbelt law! on Spielberg on Privacy, Minority Report · · Score: 1

    same situation in Washington too... and unfortunatly laws tend to start in california and are quickly picked up by your neighbors here in washington where they drift onto the books of the rest of the nation...

  4. Re:Spielberg's 180 on Spielberg on Privacy, Minority Report · · Score: 1

    PLEASE dont EVER attach Kubrick's name to that movie... its Spielburg all the way and its nothing like what a REAL Kubrick movie is...

  5. Re:Speed? on Philips Blue Laser Itty Bitty Disc Drive · · Score: 1

    this should not be a major concern because blue lasers use less energy so the heat dissipation of the disc goes down but so does the heat required to dissipate...

  6. Re:why linux should be on everything on Security Concerns When Consoles Go Online? · · Score: 1

    a common misconception about linux is that you must recompile your kernel... many windows users see it as someting like an update... its not... recompiling the kernel is for a situation where a new kernel has something you need but dont have... you dont ever need to recompile your kernl if everything works ok... i have many machines running old 2.2 and even 2.0 kernels with no problem because i dont care for things such as hot swap pci and NTFS compatability...

  7. dont worry DOJ on DOJ Wants ISPs to Log User Traffic UPDATED · · Score: 1

    we got a head start on the EU punks with our DMCA...

  8. Re:how is anything "worth" censorship on Australia's Censored URL List Remains Hidden · · Score: 1

    my sig is not the exact script you see... what it IS is an english translation of bash commands... like i dont type "unzip" but thats what its doing...

  9. Re:how is anything "worth" censorship on Australia's Censored URL List Remains Hidden · · Score: 1

    yes i just wrote a bash shell script... why do you think i was doing anything else???

  10. how is anything "worth" censorship on Australia's Censored URL List Remains Hidden · · Score: 1, Insightful

    here in the US we have the first amendment which enables us to not be censored in any way on the internet... oh wait...

  11. Re:Gene Patents? on New Technique Makes Most Gene Patents Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    well we need to jump on our congress critters and wuickyl make sure they dont let someone come in and patent out genes AGAIN covering this process...

  12. Re:only 128 ram? on Final Fantasy XI PC Requirements Announced · · Score: 1

    the ps2 has 32 megs of rdram which is a majpor problem because there is lots of bandwidth but not much actual storage space... this leads to problems because textures must be switched in and out constantly... this ends up not slowing it down because it is able to swap out and effectivly double the space that is usable... the problem is that this creates a lot of code overhead and when coders are too busy working on their texture swapping to work on gameplay we get horrible gameplay...

  13. only 128 ram? on Final Fantasy XI PC Requirements Announced · · Score: 1

    i would not advise running the game on a 128 meg ram box because with that little ram there is now way you would not thrash through some swap space when the rest of the program requires such power...

  14. Re:How is he surviving? on Fake Light Sabers Making Real Cash · · Score: 1

    actually all of his ideas are borrowed... thats what makes it so great... just look at all the similarities between SW and typical myth... tis goes on and on + there is the whole anti-nazi sentiment and whatnot along with some other more contemporary underlying hatred sewn into SW to make it hit home just like we want it to... Lucas did a great job of binding every part of typical story he could intpo one movie... hes a genious

  15. Re:cool on Is RPM Doomed? · · Score: 1

    although this is a simple idea which would solve the problem it would create its own problems...

    see the new issue would be dependancies... a program would have to copy every livrary into its own directory to work proporly which would cause all sorta of problems when you have 50 copies of a display library on your hard drive each one taking another chunk of disk space...

    back in the dos days programs were much simpler so they were mostly coded entirely by scratch or they woudl include and libraries with the program... this no longer works as libraries can be quite large...

    on a windows system this works still but only becuase standardized dll's are placed in a stardard directory in the windows folder such as internet access dll's

  16. Re:Not Visible, microwaves on Terahertz Imaging:Another Way to See Through Walls · · Score: 1

    what do you knopw about afghanistan??? ok first of all i know a bit about its weather and it is a mostly arid climate, so it is good conditions for satallite imagery... in fact i live in seattle where it is cloudy all the time so afghanistan is much better to spy on then me... but even then a satallite can see through clouds with out much problem... my point was not really specific to afghanistan anyway... the military operates all over the world and it has muchy difficulty keeping tabs on many of its tragets so i dont beleive that they are able to secretly track very many people domestically...

  17. Re:With only 1.5h battery time on 885g Pentium Sub-Notebook · · Score: 1

    sony is broken down into many smaller companies some of which do a nice job in fact... so really the laptop section of sony should not be held responsible for the parent company's actions... if you really want to do something buy a laptop and NOT but music cd's... this way sony will notice that it makes money on cd's and not laptops so it will get out of messing around with music... top change the system you must not only boycott the bad but support the good... encourage sony to keep putting out high quality hardware

  18. Re:Eclipse pictures on Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse · · Score: 1

    actually your wrong... the rods and cones do not come back... to understnad you must understnad the eye... ok so the rodes and cones have a chemical in them which breaks down in the presence of light and the detection of this break down is how you see... when you look into a flash really quickly the chemicals are gone and must be replentished before you can see again... same thing with when your in a dark room and you go outside into the sun... it hurts because your eye is letting too mugh light in... so the rods and cones being damaged is forever...

  19. Re:Not Visible, microwaves on Terahertz Imaging:Another Way to See Through Walls · · Score: 1

    ok if the military can spot anything anywhere why the FUCK cant they find some people in afghanistan... if they can easily sly on everyone at once why cant they seme to locate criminals... come on please take your paranoid hat off and realise that the military does indeed have some nice things but its not some incredibly overwhelming bank of nearly alien technology...

  20. Re:The Force violates conservation of momentum on Physics in the Movies · · Score: 1

    that us simply how the force works... as a jedi pushes on one side of the universe one must therefore be pulling onthe other side... the mometum gained or lost by a force movement trick can be equalled out by another...

  21. Re:Even if the physics are out of this world... on Physics in the Movies · · Score: 1

    a perfect example of where this is good is in "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"... that was smooth... bad physics would be... well thats what this site is about...

  22. Re:Won't happen on Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales · · Score: 1

    if they are licencing us to simply play a disc why cant we make copies of it and still only have just us listen to the disc... this is the greatest hipocracy i have ever seen anywhere

  23. Re:ELLA on Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales · · Score: 1

    +5 scarey... NOT funny... i hope this isn't where we are going... btw nice sig ;)

  24. Re:Error checking by compiler on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 1

    first of all your teacher does not want a compiler to check your work.. you are supposed to do it yourself... and second, you should not be looking up stuff with man if you ever get a job... just wait untill the boss finds out that your spending your payed hours learning how to code when school should have taght it to you...

  25. Re:time to ditch Microserf XP? on Gnome 2.0 RC1 · · Score: 1

    if your happy with what you have now and suddenly IE gets tabs you would CHANGE?... is there something else about IE u like?