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  1. Re:Yoper looks a bit dull? on Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wrong. Yoper is essentially the latest CVS version of LFS with an installer.

  2. Re:Curious on China Wants To Establish Moon Mining · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't affect the earth's orbit around the sun since it is not so much earth orbiting, as it is the earth-moon center of gravity that revolves around the sun. I suppose the center of gravity would probably move a little closer to the earth, but that wouldn't really have any climatic effects.

  3. Re:What? on ISS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail · · Score: 1

    the web != the internet you buffoon.

  4. Re:Linux is next evolutionary phase of *nix on Dell CIO Says "Unix is Dead" · · Score: 1

    Except that archaic Homo sapiens (Cro Magnon) was a contemporary of Neanderthal, while Home neanderthalensis may or may not have been a dead-end. So while I agree with you, Homo sapiens did indeed render Neanderthal obsolete :)

  5. Re:Call Guiness on North America's Largest LAN Party · · Score: 1

    Thats different. Religions exclude women. Women exclude geeks.

  6. Re:"Grantsdale"? Jesus H. Christ on Intel To Redesign PC With "Grantsdale" Chip · · Score: 1

    I personally like Redhat's naming scheme, where each name has something to do with the one before and after it... shoot i can't find the link explaining the connections.. anyone?

  7. Re:apocalypse with the Beatles on New Computer Program Determines "Hitability" · · Score: 1

    Maybe he has integrity.

  8. Re:Linkee no workee on Examining Microsoft Update · · Score: 1

    It's cause its an activeX control I believe. Good luck running those on Opera/Moz/etc. And to be honest I hope those browsers never allow them. Holy security issue batman!

  9. Re:Drinking games on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 2, Funny

    Women as stress RELIEF?? Lord, they are the cause of it most of the time...

  10. Re:AMD on Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium · · Score: 1

    No they weren't.

    AMD recently stated that they were no longer going to try to compete with Intel on even ground. This means they will be moving to high and low end chips AFAICT, as well as embedded memory and such. Lots of people misread that though so don't feel bad.

  11. Re:$40k.... so what? on A Music Industry Case Study · · Score: 1

    Wow, you invented something that made your company millions and were subsequently laid off? Shitty. Either that or we're talking about two different scenarios.

  12. Re:$40k.... so what? on A Music Industry Case Study · · Score: 1

    think you're going to make $40,000 the next year? I expect you'd be pretty comfortable, as any engineering firm out there would love to have you and compensate accordingly. Only in the music industry are you a slave to your current label.

  13. Re:Finally I Can Hear the Bar Chord in Digital !!! on Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released · · Score: 1

    geez people i hit the "o" key twice. Would you like my address so you can come over and lynch me?

  14. Re:Finally I Can Hear the Bar Chord in Digital !!! on Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Analog pickups get a lot of unwanted noise and hum, and analog cables loose signal quality over distance. Neither is a problem with digital. Also if you would care to read, the sample rates involved are many orders of magnitude better than will ever make it onto the actual recording. In addition, the ability to mix and alter each string independently is a huge benefit.
    The reason its taken this long to implement is because they predicted zealots like you will never accept it just because "digital sux". A shame really.

  15. Re:Finally I Can Hear the Bar Chord in Digital !!! on Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Here it is folks - people saying the digital solution is inferiour BEFORE IT EVEN COMES OUT!
    You sir I am sure still listen to vinyl as well, no? At least this time we've caught you're misplaced logic before you can even pretend to know what you're talking about.

  16. Re:Does this mean.... on Gibson's Digital Guitar Finally Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not familiar with this particular implementation, but fender has one coming out too, and it is fully ethernet compliant. The layer 3 protocol is proprietary though and I don't think gibson's is compatible.

  17. Re:A bit short on the info, long on the ass kissin on PCMCIA Announces NEWCARD Format · · Score: 1

    Phrases that should set off mental alarm bells in a press release:

    1) Leveraging our unparalleled...
    2) Through the power of synergy... (or worse yet, something made-up like "synergism").
    3) Embraced and extended!
    4) Not an evolution, but a revolution!
    5) ...utilizing amazing 3DFX technology...

  18. Re:Q: Where do you begin? on Microsoft: Because Bugs are Cool · · Score: 1

    Actually I agree with a lot of that. My parents both hate MS because it "sucks" cause of "bugs". 9/10 times the "bugs" consist of them typing in an email address wrong, unplugging a keyboard, etc. But it IS the "in" thing to blame everything on "microsoft bugs" because thats what they hear us tech-heads doing. The difference is that we are complaining about actual glitches not perceived ones.

    Wow, see? normal people really want to fit in with the geeks!

  19. Re:the dumb answer... on Buying a Small, Light Linux Notebook Computer? · · Score: 1

    You can install linux on an ibook, after all. Are you adverse to an Apple tax as well though?

  20. Re:Okay on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    My guess is you have to put a weight on the end out just far enough away from geostationary orbit to counteract the downward forces.

  21. Re:Oh boy... on Goodbye, Dolly · · Score: 1

    AFAIK "Hard Sciences" is just another way of saying "Natural Sciences", the study of natural phenomena. This is in contrast of course to the social sciences which study human behaviour.

    The characteristics you listed above are inherent in ALL sciences, though they probably are easiest to follow in Physics and hardest to follow in the social disciplens.

  22. Re:"bout time... on Intel Announces New, Slower, Chip · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually i believe a Pentium-4 decays naturally into an Athlon, a Duron, and an anti-centrino.

  23. Re:Limits to human perception. on Rumors of a GeForceFX 5800 Ultra Cancelation? · · Score: 1

    Actually 44khz was chosen for more practical reasons. Since audio signals at 44khz were originally designed for recording TV video to tape. To squeeze audio into a video stream:

    3 samples * 490/2 lines (interlaced) * 60hz = 44100
    Hz.

    How is that for arbitrary?

  24. Re:Important? on Rumors of a GeForceFX 5800 Ultra Cancelation? · · Score: 1

    If you enable vsync (all MS certified drives do by default btw) then the system only draws frames in sync with the monitor, so tearing isn't apparent. So the best idea is to set your monitor at the highest refresh it will do and then let the vsync make things look pretty.

  25. Re:Important? on Rumors of a GeForceFX 5800 Ultra Cancelation? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually the reason 60hz is hard to view on a monitor while 24fps on a movie screen is fine, is that the entire movie frame is drawn at once, while each of those 60hz consist of a tiny dot drawing the whole screen. Flicker is therefore much more pronounced on a TV or monitor. LCDs by contrast do not do line-drawing and therefore look smashing at 60hz.