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  1. Re:Let me get this right... on "EverQuest II" to debut in 2003 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Name: Darlnake
    Rank: Prostitute lv 24

    Strenght: 9
    Stamina: 4
    Physical: 5
    Mental: 3

    Skills: seduce, sex, steal
    Sp skills: 69

    Exp points: 4805
    Days in party: 539

  2. Re:Why so few processors ? on Japan Builds World's Fastest Computer · · Score: 1

    For things that operate like bots no cache is really preferrable. Cache means a type of work that:

    1 - Raises latency, this point was already stated here.

    2 - Deals with prediction mechanics, which lowers behavior reliability.

    Other thing, that supercomputer has "only" 5104 NEC processors, but there in /. haven't people asked how many simultaneous threads *each* cpu is capable of? That NEC cpus contain support for a vector-processing instruction set and were *much* more optimized for their work than POWER3's inside ASCI White.

  3. Re:People v Institutions on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 1

    Well, well, so we get into an interesting point: over the past years, the quantity of survey equipments has been diminished or dramatically increased? How many survey apparatus belong to the Institutions? And how many of those tinker toys are belong to us?

  4. Re:It's already being done on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 1

    Sure, there's NO WAY our government, insurance firms, or law enforcement folks would ever dream of using good technology in an intrusive manner. That's just not how things work in the USA!
    Because /. is keeping eyes on them...

  5. Re:Think of the hacking opportunities on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 1

    Most people aren't dumb when it relates to $$$, certainly the insurance companies will survey to find if the black-box has been hacked, at worst, they'll grab the hack author and slam him on Court.

  6. Re:Black Boxes and privacy on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 1

    Neither would I, because I am usually quite drunk at that point. Come to think of it, I wouldn't want the cops knowing either...
    Figure out that would be hard to a cop do accessing of the information inside a black-box due to the fact it needs to be jacked to special equipments to provide the data, which should be handled by professional analyists only.

  7. Wow... on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 1

    What's the next? Will cars fly?

  8. Re:Who would want one? on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 1

    ... in a hard drive you get fragmentation which means the head must spin all over the place gathering all the data into one file...

    Hard disk fragmentation gets even worse with data allocated in FAT-16 or FAT-32 partition boundaries, compared to ext2 or NTFS. The case you told us it's more FAT-32 typical, meaning that another configurations may not have such issues.

  9. Re:There's no centrifugal force: there is centripi on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 1

    There is quite a bit of confusion as to what the force is that is holding the disc in circular motion.

    Maybe it's the airmat made towards the disc, which keeps moving a circular parallax layer, also I'm not sure, but the disc's actual environment must play a role against the gravity.

  10. Re:Who would want one? on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 1

    A far better solution would be to build a CD with a 640 MB Cache, and have it just read the whole thing into RAM.

    However, some no-name crap CD-ROM drives require up to 650 MB of free hard disk space to do data caching so the whole CD-ROM data should be read from the hard disk. Interesting that some manufacturers claim their drives as 50x or 100x, but in reality these drives are mostly stinky 8x or 12x ones, and that claim of 100x speed is false, a tricky specification which relies over the PIO Mode 4 protocol, which every junky HDD has, let alone of course that most hard drives can get up to 16 MB/s read burst.

    Moreover, it's awesome to see how data buffering could be important...

  11. Re:Gates: a clinical paranoid? on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    Well, in fact, you have to accept a EULA before downloading some of the patches.

  12. Re:Gates: a clinical paranoid? on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    He's not weird, he's rich and *does not* have a notion of how is hard to live with limited financial resources. His company charged licenses all the way down since "IBM-PCs" became popular. He didn't charge licenses for patches to his company's flawed OSes, though, should make users to go extremely mad.

  13. Re:*VSB is Dead... on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    Strange that MS "mispells". I though that MS had some mysterious Linux workstations.

  14. Re:Usage of the word ecosystem on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    If MS washes your brain, and so you become to think that MS' system is nice, you'll agree with Gates.

  15. Re:Gates can't be blind on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    I'd like to talk with Mr. Gates. I just imagine how it could be...

    I: Mr. Gates, why you're against the GPL?

    Gates: Are out there many talented software developers whose should charge licenses for their products.

    I: But a lot of people thinks that the way GPL works is "cool".

    Gates: "Cool", this is a good term, you did it, you changed my minds, now I'll begin supporting Open Source.

  16. Re:Ummm... on On Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    "I'm sure most of the world will be Communist (assuming we haven't destroyed it) within the next couple hundred years...It sure won't be capitalist, because the supply/demand/scarcity stuff just isn't going to work"
    Probably when technology reaches its limit in helping the human kind (as well as some asses get tired from being entertained by the latest and greatest apparatus), we'll see some inroads in that direction, everything being Open Source, high-quality public hospitals every place, etc., meanwhile, I'll just keep watching value stocks.

  17. Re:sport huh. on On Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    Yes, hacking is really sportish, it opens your mind, and it opens the content you're working at, in every aspect.

    Not just software is definable as the "content", but anything you like to do that's benefitial for most ppl.

    Repeat, I said "most", because "some M-inoritie-$" (without mentioning names) aren't much of hacktivism fans.

  18. Re:Bad Power Supply on IBM Bails Out of the Hard Drive Market · · Score: 1

    The drive itself should become a problem also, please remind that modern drives do 7200+ rpm and they run hotter than older models.

    Second, high-performance modern cpus and other system components dissipate a lot of heat and it can affect reliability of the drive's components. Some users complain about this issue and they're mostly afraid of purchasing extremely fast hard drives.

    A good recommendation: install HDD coolers wheiter the drive is a IDE or SCSI, especially if you're using RAID arrays with multiple drives.

  19. Re:Competition on A Step Closer (Or Not) To Cable ISP Diversity · · Score: 1

    Make no mistake, guy, you should read this article to enlighten your vision of how broadband is going in U.S. and how this thing is lame in Europe (though wireless and portable devices have a significant growth registered in Europe).

    Exists in U.S. an ideal dome for aggressive competition, actually communications' niche is tightly integrated with digital equipments' market, and U.S. already has dominance over the latter.

    Is a good move for U.S. to stimulate competition over communications, thus when arrives the time consumers of computers & related devices be buying new equipments (believe me, or do you think that a pc lasts during a people's live?), U.S. will be very strong in both communications and equipment ramifications of IT.

  20. Re:Hey timothy.. on Weirdest Case Mod You've Ever Seen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who knows? Initially I hadn't an account there, and later I did this account. Interesting that I've made about 25 posts on Slashdot and I had a total of 5 karma beans, so after this post I made more 30 posts and now I have 4 karma beans. I ended thinking that karma is a measure of despise.

  21. Re:broadband and business on Municipal Net Access: Unfair Competition? · · Score: 1

    I am not saying that the article of Net Economy is "yellow journalism", but the question treated will never finish because of the way industry works.

    In the LA case, have there a compelling structure and a special environment required by the implementation of the design, that also finish benefiting other factors.

    Who remembers the first implementation of cable net when it was given? A similar way: a Californian city, inhabitants with avidess for technology, and an infrastructure. All the possible factors contribute together, not the government support alone.

  22. Re:Insulation on Weirdest Case Mod You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    But I suppose that mod will turn into a little mania. I say... it just rocks! Like I said here.

  23. Re:Hey timothy.. on Weirdest Case Mod You've Ever Seen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Idiot. Timothy can moderate you. Oh, you're a troll. Sorry.

    The material used in that mod is light, shaping that thing would result in marvellous things, and your friends couldn't resist their curiosity if you're walking around with such modded box. Nice.

  24. Re:Color of the Universe on Slashback: Bnetd, Salmon, Towers · · Score: 1

    Talking of colors, OpenGL 2.0 will support 64-bit color data, which traveling through a 3D card's z-buffers, bins, and all sort of things still can result in a really pure picture when filtered to 32-bit color on-screen.

    Will be amazing to see the universe in 3D with the translated "Salmon" color.

  25. Re:Wow on CBDTPA Finds A Champion In the House · · Score: 1

    For a matter of comparison we may actually call Democrats politicians as "Technocrats" and Republicans politicians as "Missile Anarchysts".

    I guess the Warner/Disney studios waited for the blessing of IT financial boom to get weakened and broken, then they undermine their consumers using those dirty tactics of opression.