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  1. Re:Why do this? on Ripping from Vinyl, Simplified · · Score: 1

    It's not designed to do that. It's designed to have a response up to 20kHz. For that you need to sample at twice the frequency, i.e. 40kHz. Then you need a filter to stop aliasing. No filter has an infinitely steep cutoff, so you need to sample a bit quicker - hence 44.1kHz. Unfortunately because the filter is not perfect, some high frequencies remain, and are reflected back down the spectrum. OK, so CD is not perfect.
    But tell me, what does vinyl do with a 44.1kHz sqare wave?

  2. Re:Good luck Europe! on Mars Express launch today · · Score: 1

    >German fairy tales

    And Danish, and Swedish...

  3. Re:We are getting so much closer now... on Mars Express launch today · · Score: 1

    Also we put the accent on the first syllable, not the second.

  4. Re:This isn't usable for humans on Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the article says 1kg per square centimetre. Let's say your average geek is about 100kg ;) So to support yourself on one hand, your hand would need to be 100cm^2, or about 10x10 cm. It's not that far out. Maybe you would need to lose some of that belly, or use two hands.

  5. Re:The search on Mars Express launch today · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's hope the aliens are not cucumber-like.

  6. Re:They are soooo busted. on NVidia Accused of Inflating Benchmarks · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well you clearly didn't, because it explicitly says that they don't know how much the errors affected the result. You must feel pretty stupid right now.

  7. Re:Giveing them self a bad name on NVidia Accused of Inflating Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say they know nothing, but they're certainly self-important and somehow manage to be intensely condescending too.

  8. Re:AL Going Nowhere? on AI Going Nowhere? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear you, brother. I gave up a week ago. Right now I think I'm gonna take up shooting all the stupid people who are pissing me off. It's like, "hey, that dude just gave up smoking, let's bug him until he snaps"

  9. Re:How hard is helicopter AI control? on Micro-Helicopter Fun · · Score: 2, Informative

    autopilot.
    You're welcome.

  10. Don't make me angry... on New Trailer for The Hulk · · Score: 1, Funny

    You wouldn't like me when I'm angry...

  11. Re:Disadvantages... on Using Visible Light for Data Transfer · · Score: 1

    Yes, if anyone's eyes can read signals at 400Mbps.
    Er, in other words, no.

  12. Re:Let the MS bashing begin! on Microsoft Quits OpenGL ARB · · Score: 1

    I'm genuinely interested... What, precisely, is confusing about DirectX? I find it quite simple, but then, I have been using it for many years.

  13. Re:No DirectX 4? Heee, hee, hee.... on Microsoft Quits OpenGL ARB · · Score: 1

    That *is* odd, because there wasn't a DirectX 4. Trust me. I have been using DirectX since it came out. Before that there was the WinG library.

  14. Re:OpenGL vs DirectX on Microsoft Quits OpenGL ARB · · Score: 1

    Direct3D doesn't require you to use vertex buffers, but they are the way to get maximum performance. OpenGL has a similar system, but you knew that, right?
    How is COM heavyweight? The overhead is a virtual function call.
    As I pointed out, you don't have to manage your own vertex buffers, you don't even need to use vertex buffers.
    DirectX does not "impose a programming style".
    DirectX does not provide low-level graphics and a scene graph in the same API. Don't know where you got that from.
    You do know what you are talking about, right?

  15. Re:Since the link doesn't work on World of Spectrum gets a Visit from the IDSA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So your desire to have a "useful resource" is more important than observing copyright law?
    If you couldn't contact the copyright holders, then they clearly *did not* give express permission for you to freely distribute their stuff. You can't just assume that their silence means their agreement.
    Imagine the fuss if I "tried" (not very hard) to contact the author of some GPL'd stuff, and after a week with no reply decided that they had agreed to my putting it all out as public domain, sans copying.txt!

  16. Re:Since the link doesn't work on World of Spectrum gets a Visit from the IDSA · · Score: 1

    Why don't you start with an empty site, then add stuff when the copyright holders give their express consent? Wouldn't that save a lot of silly bother?

  17. Re:No! on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 0, Troll

    The difference between the US and Iraq is... we know the US has weapons of mass destruction...

  18. Re:MIT on Arrested for Planting Spyware on College Compus · · Score: 1

    Well, finding the root password might be quite easy if the root user happens to log into one of the public computers... Keylogged... Job done.

  19. My dad worked for Philips... on Why VHS Was Better · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... So we had a V2000 system. Actually it was a Grundig machine. But anyway, V2000 was better than VHS/Betamax technically. It soon became pretty hard to find prerecorded tapes for it, though.

  20. Re:This will answer the age old question... on RFID: The New Big Brother ? · · Score: 2

    I'm not too bad with socks, but as for ball point pens and cigarette lighters, god damn, I'm gonna get me some RFID together. I mean, so what if I can buy ten lighters for a quid? I wanna know where they are all going. Ball point pens are even worse. Have you ever had one actually run out of ink? It's statistically impossible for it to happen before the pen disappears.

  21. Re:If you can't beat 'em on Has the RIAA Wormed 95% of P2P Networks? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. instill is the US spelling of instil. Are you busted?

  22. Re:Lets think about this for a second. on Appropriate Punishment For Crackers? · · Score: 2

    I'd never seen that site before...
    Angry Flower is schweeet!
    You made me stop working... D'oh!

  23. Re:Please, think better analogies on Appropriate Punishment For Crackers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Incompetent admins should be fired."

    Would it not be a little more imaginative to offer them some sort of training?

  24. Re:On XBOX Emulation on X-Box Private Key Challenge Ended · · Score: 2

    That's retarded. If my car is nicked am I gonna be chuckling, "hehehe, it's immobilised, stupid thief can't use it" or am I gonna be pissed off that I don't have my car any more?
    "Most likely ..." you have no idea and are just guessing.
    And as for your call of "bullshit", well, they *are* 230V (DC) bulbs and they *do* have different threads. In the UK, we use 220-240V for everything, not 110-120, so why would we have two different threads? Anyway we mostly use bayonet fittings.

  25. Re:On XBOX Emulation on X-Box Private Key Challenge Ended · · Score: 2

    Sounds a bit ULish to me... Are America's criminals so dumb as to not try unscrewing them the other way? And is the cost of such an exercise covered by any decrease in theft?
    From what I could find on the 'net it seems that some of the bulbs are threaded backwards, but it's because they're 230V.