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  1. Re:SATA performance on Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End · · Score: 1

    That's a feature. SCSI is cheap to implement and superior in performance. The only reason alternatives exists, is to be crappier and thereby raise the margins on SCSI hardware.

  2. Re:Good on Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End · · Score: 1

    No. DDR2 is cheaper than DDR because it is slower and cheaper product. Unlike SATA which is a more convient and potentially faster product.

    The producers of harddrives will naturally atempt to abuse the transition from one technology to the next to raise their profit margins. Since the number of harddrive manufactors has dropped sharply, I think they will succede.

  3. Re:victory! on PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents · · Score: 1

    You mean cancer? Notice I wrote "in rats"

    It still increases your hunger and thereby increases you chances of growing fat

  4. Re:A great step, but only a small battle won.... on PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents · · Score: 1

    The people who are using the regular crops are traditionalist or people who see a use/market for the crops.

    Or people who wish to export their crops outside north america.
  5. Re:victory! on PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents · · Score: 1, Funny

    VICTORY IS (nutra)SWEET.


    So what you are saying is that victory is proven to cause cancer in rats, is semi-toxic and make you fat?
  6. Re:Password on Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So someone, somewhere is telling people that passwords that contain upper and lower-case and numbers are good passwords?? They _just_ forget to tell you that if the upper-letter is the first letter of a word, and the number is an easily predictable substitute, when you gain ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

    Yes, this password would be cracked in 5-20 seconds by an average password cracker.

  7. Re:I'm pretty happy with it on Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion · · Score: 1

    So, given that premise, why is black magic so tolerated?

    To drive the story. Most of the Harry Potter universe doesn't make any sense, and everything is either created to be funny, or to get the story to the next chapter. The world is heavily internally inconsistant, but only experienced fantasy readers notice that, and when you point it out, you are called an elitist asshole. This is a childrens book, and some non-children seems to like it, and seriously; most Hollywood movies makes even less sense, so it's probably only us old-time Fantasy fans that cares about logic consistency.

  8. Re:Homing squirrels? Is it Iranian April Fools day on High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage · · Score: 1

    Just what are the chances of a squirrel surviving in the middle of the desert?

    Iran is no desert. It's a very fertile and beautyfull land, that just happens have been brainwashed by nearby Arabs some 1000 years ago.

  9. Re:There used to be a domestic industry. on European Commission To Raise Camera Costs in Europe · · Score: 1

    Actually most of north-west europe lost our manufacting to low-wage countries 30-40 years ago. Back then the low-wage country of choice was called the US.

  10. Re:The world's going to end over a 4.9% tax? on European Commission To Raise Camera Costs in Europe · · Score: 1

    And on top of that the people selling the camera is paying 30% income tax.. OMG! 30%! Where will it end!!

  11. Re: Citations on U.S. Science and Engineering Research Flattens · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe in a perfect world. In the real world you know who is going to review it, simply because there is a limited number of people capable of reviewing your article, and the journals reuse the same reviewers all the time.

  12. Re:Inflation of specs for student tasks on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    In Austria or Germany

    and the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switcherland, etc.

    Basically in all germanic countries except the UK and Ireland.
  13. Re:Has VIA improved? on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    Since nVidia joined the chipset game, and started making chipsets with more flaws than VIA, VIA has been considered pretty good. And with the basic training from the old VIA days, both Linux and Windows has become very adapt at supporting chipsets that break every bus-standard in the system.

  14. Re:One Question on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware · · Score: 1

    I have bought pleanty of flourescent light bulbs for exactly that reason, but they sit in a box in the closet, because the light they produce is crappy. I might put them in a garage if I one day own one, but they are getting no where near my living room or bed room, until the light quality improves (actually I use two with natural light filters, they are weak, but excelent for plants).

  15. Re:Historically spoken on Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment · · Score: 1

    If you look on world stage, the countries that has or have had very succesfull businessmen as presidents, are also standing out as countries with the highest amount of corruption and most fascist new laws. Italy is a clear example, Russia is special, but follows the same principle, the US is a classic, and France under the new president will be the next. The UK is the only outsider, the corruption has been low (relatively), but they are still leading the race towards a autocratic bigbrother society.

  16. Re:The short version... on Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment · · Score: 1

    So if that is the definition of an assault. What is then the purpose of an assault rifle?

    --
    I appologize for being a smart ass

  17. Re:MOD THIS UP, kdawson MUST GO!! on Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment · · Score: 1

    So you have to be really pissed off to run for office in the US?

    That explains so much.

  18. Re:Is gmail any better? on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 1

    Yes, or they simply lose the email, or refuses to POP it. For me it has happened most with zip-files. GMail is really crappy when it comes to attachment, that alone means that I can't take it serious as an email-host.

  19. Re:Spam filter? on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 1

    Oh. Like GMail?

    GMail lose around 50% of emails with zip-files attached. If you are lucky, they will even tell you they have lost it, because they thought it contained viruses. I had 4 PDFs I generated myself, that I just couldn't send through GMail, until I re-packed them using RAR.

  20. Re:Amazing on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1

    how does the interference look?

    I don't know.. I seem to have disproven quantum theory. No matter how "hard" I try, I can only hit one slit or the other, not both at the same time. So no inference.
  21. Re:Please explain on First Robotic Drone Squadron Deployed · · Score: 1

    The Korean war was before Vietnam, so right there your logic fails; and putting WW2 into the comparison makes the answer easy: Because you haven't fought any major wars since WW2.

  22. Hey guys! on Microsoft Patents the Mother of All Adware · · Score: 1

    He is being sarcastic..

    Damn those pro-apple moderators are daft.

  23. Re:Payola killed the radio star on Web Radio Negotiations Carry Poison Pill · · Score: 2, Informative

    Danish Radio P3 has a "song of the week" too, called "the unavoidable of the week", but that's is usually new upcomming music noone has heard off, and completely outside what the mafiaa is pushing. This creates hits for new independent artists all the time. So the concept isn't necessarily bad.

  24. Re:No, it's M$. on OOXML Denied INCITS V1 Approval · · Score: 1

    PDF is not that.

    It is. It's perfect for all of that. It's just that Adobe would rather have that you have to pay them for the advanced features, but it still works fine in Linux. You can read all text in it, index it, etc, etc.
  25. Re:I don't know about Galileo, but GPS needs help on US GPS, EU Galileo to Work Together · · Score: 1

    More satelites means that he might recieve more from the narrow angle he is at, and enough to get an accurate reading. That is infact exactly what more sattelites would do, make it GPS better in currently crappy spots. It won't do anything else, because in the good areas the current lack of accuracy is intentional.