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  1. Obligatory quote on Gene Therapy Turns Slackers Into Workaholics · · Score: 1
    I for one welcome our hard working simian masters.

    Storm

  2. Now people can finally pin down their tech-support on You've Got PC · · Score: 1
    This keeps the techies from saying that it's a hardware issue. I bet all their tech got the procedure change form, that lets them say its a microsoft issue, or a wall power irregularity. Damn I can wait to see what happens once all these AOL-pc's get bonzai buddy et all on them

    Storm

  3. Synthetic muscle on More on Next-Generation Army Gear · · Score: 1
    Heck, sign me up, this'll help me move that overweight sofa.

    Storm

  4. Sc2003 had one that was comprable on 140" Monitor Demonstration At Purdue · · Score: 1
    The supercomputing Conference in Phoenix had a Weather simulation running on a huge projection system ar so sick and wrong resolution. Because It's not just about being able to make a slide show for powerpoint. Doing realtime fluid dynamics at that scale was just insane..

    for what its worth, the AC setup was also insane for the conference, a huge room of supercomputers, and everyone comfortable.. thats tricky.

    Storm

  5. Re:Hah! on Windows Accelerators - Do They Really Work? · · Score: 1
    Nope, it's just the number of keys on a piano. besides it's 2.75 instructions. I figure it is something like this 1. (instructuion to act like a kernel listed in address 2) (bits 0-31) 2. The code for the fast kernel. (bits 32-63) 3. the system code instruction to run MSOFFICE(bits 64-87), but they couldnt be bothered to finish out the last 8 bits, those are just for the language and font packs. They use a special bit mangler that uses nanobits to pack more informaation per bit. but it processes at the same bit-rate as normal.

    If I could only code so well Storm

    Who keeps the metric system down? we do! we do!!

  6. Beowulf baby or yea., or Dude Wheres my bus? on Ethernet at 10 Gbps · · Score: 1
    This would rock for some supercomputing apps. If they manage to crank the latency down to something reasonable I'd be trying to steal a few hundred from the future.

    Free the Bandwith..

    Honestly some simulations really need the bandwith. One of the big supercomputers uses 6 gig-e lines in a torus formation. to get better bandwith.

    Heres the other side.. 10 Gigs per second will take 1.25 gigabytes/sec per direction.. PCI64 is almost maxed ~70% by a full gig-E.

    (350 MB/Sec *8bits /2direction= 1.4 gigabits max for channel) PCI X is only twice as fast.

    (800 MB *8bits / 2 directions=3.2 gigabits max per channel)

    So someone needs a be building a faster/fatter bus

    In America we ask for faster, but settle for fatter :)

  7. Dude, I give them a spammer address. on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    auto.d20me@specialdeals4you.net I figure the spam bots will auto-reply till the heat death of the universe. Heck, the names get sold to each other, and new emails are made. Eventually this has to raise their bills by a buck. I figure once everyone starts doing it the spammers will have to deal with some heavy chat flow. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!! Storm

  8. 4 hard drives, when attempting to backup on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    I was hooking up my 3 hard drives 120MB, 320MB and 420MB to my brand spaniking new 1.2 gigabye drive..(circa mid-1995. A steal at $340) I had to buy a new motherboard just to recognize the huge beasty. Anyway my critical files were backed up between the 3 drives.. I couldnt forsee a hardware failure on 3 drives.. Anyway I grabbed 3 power splitters 2 IDE cables and from my kitchen. don't ask. Hooked all 4 drives up to the new MOBO. Turned on the pc.. The hard drive were all pouring out smoke.. The powersupply had a red-yellow mis-wiring. It was to the root splitter to my drives. I was making under $6/hour with an unhealthy hardware obsession. It was pretty bad. I saved up enough cash to get an Identical 340MB drive to get my data back. But I was a wreck there for a while. On the up side.. It did manage to break my obsessive level of hardware lust to something a bit more managable.. no more fasting for hardware.

  9. Re:Great on Brain's Cache Memory Found · · Score: 1

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  10. Ur, Um come on JonKatz be HELPFULL! on Disconnecting · · Score: 1

    You spent a good deal of time looking for the cancellation line for America Online. You spent a fair amount of words saying how exasperating it was. Could you have spared a couple seconds to cut-past the page that offers an 888 number for cancellation of membership as a full blown 888-555-1234. I mean link to that page or anything other than a 1 in 9960000 chance of just stumbling on it. flameoff