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  1. Re:They forget to mention projectors on Display Format Technologies Comparison · · Score: 1

    But you only get 3000h if you have it burn continuously. If you switch it every hour say good bye after a few hundred hours...

  2. Re:bloody geeks on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 1

    If they dont have the mental flexebility to associate "right click" with "options", they dont seem to be able to do any work that cant be replaced by machines.

    Well, next thing is you defend someone who is even dumber and cant associate "left click " with "open/start" stuff.
    OH. Left clicks seems to be more complicated than rightclick. oh well. Bad for all those braindamaged workdrones.

  3. They did it... on Apollo 11 Launch Tower Rescue Effort · · Score: 1

    everybody and their dog was running around with berlin wall parts back 90/91. Of course all those were from the surface (with grafitti parts).
    Many people believe the whole wall didnt have as much grafitti as the stones they sold each month....

  4. Re:bloody geeks on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 1

    even my father (computer ultra illiterate) can understand right clicks.
    If the emplyees are that dumb, fire them and hire new ones. It would be better for the company.

  5. Re:6 points on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Skip the media player with nice features.
    Its just that hardware overlay isnt working :)

  6. Dupe on 'Mouse-Tronaughts' to Test Low-Gravity in Space · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well, neither are these the first mammals to be in space nor is this the first time slashdot has a story about that mission.
    oh well..

  7. Mod down on AMD Receives $683M for Dresden Plant · · Score: 4, Informative

    The parent just pulled "facts" out of his ass.
    Opteron X -> isnt planed
    5Ghz Fsb -> Opteron has no fsb
    500mm -> even intel says that the next 5 years they wont TRY creating bigger than 300mm wafers,
    65nm -> 2008 65nm will be old stuff...

  8. NO :) on How Google Can Make or Break A Small Business · · Score: 1

    There was a discussion a few weeks ago here where the consens was: "Lets push SCO up in google"
    Seems like they were successful :)

  9. Re:Unfortunate name, Prescott on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 1

    And in german prescott can be pronounced as "compacted excrements"

  10. Re:analog is our friend. on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    One storage server (3-4U in a rack) nowadays can keep more audio than room can keep tapes. Now that room has to be build, and has no use but storing tapes. What will be cheaper? Even if you replace the disc every year and keep dual redundance, you will come cheaper. And dont forget: Progress. after the second disc replacement, you will only need half as many servers for the data than before, because the discs will have become larger.
    While tapes only become worse and worse over time. More so if they are actually accessed, and what is the use if they arent?

  11. Re:Next Xbox Thoughts... on Leaked X-Box 2 Specs Include PPC CPU · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Modern emulators are WAY better than they used to be . You can get 10% of the native speed without big problems with a hotspot recompiler (like FX!32 or intels new itanium emulation software) All you need is more RAM. And if your new XBOX has 256MB, you got 192MB for hashtables, recompiled code, ect.

    2005, it should be no problem emulating the CPU. (and GPU shouldnt be a big problem because they use DirectX and can eventually insert some code to trap and recompile propritary shader code/ect)

  12. Re:Trying to understand what occurs... on Scientists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    they dont compensate each other because of the higher proton mass. The magnetic moment produced by the electron spin is >1000 times bigger than the one by the proton spin. (if im not seriously missing something)

  13. Re:Marketing on Virginia Tech Upgrade: PowerMac G5 to Xserve G5 · · Score: 1

    1). 1100 dual mac with educational rabatt +3GB money extra ok. But what about the network infrastructure? Support and building? The xeon cluster everybody smashed had all this included in the price.

    2). Could be or could not be....
    3). Yes, their software "could do it". But as soon as possible they upgrade to ecc-ram systems. There IS NO possibility to be 100% sure your result is correct if you dont have ecc without running everything twice.
    There were estimations that in the big-mac cluster, based on altitude, number of ram-chips, ram process,ect every 17h one softerror occurs. It could be everywhere. If it changes a pointer, you could trap it. What if it changes a mantissa bit of a floating point number? How would you check that? (answer is: calculate again and look if the result is different=>not good)

  14. Marketing on Virginia Tech Upgrade: PowerMac G5 to Xserve G5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can bet that the VT is HEAVILY supported by mac marketing devicion. Even the original prices look suspeciosly cheap, and the machine was just ready at the right time to enter top500.
    And questions about missing ecc ect were evaded,ect...
    I suspect that the machine until now was nothing more than a apple marketing stunt and has not done any real computational work besides network/topology testing an a top500 linpack run.

  15. Re:The source of the problem on Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem · · Score: 1

    No, the wavelenght of krypton is used to define the second combined with the speed of light and the meter.

  16. LKML? Bad name... on Announcing Cooperative Linux · · Score: 0

    Lets call it beer, as in opposite of wine :)

  17. Boot times... on Boot Windows Faster, Using Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, linux may be good for many things, but my notebooks with its slow 4500rpm disk boots Windows xp 10 seconds faster than my main pc Linux->Kde from a raid with 128MB hardware cache. (and no, there arent tons of unused services running, both are the standart instalations (suse 9.0 ftp install, windows xp home).
    (counting only after bios, because the raid controller adds 10-15 secs which the OS cant change).

  18. Re:WW II technology ? on Wal*Mart continues push for RFID adoption · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are right. The statement like that is utter bullshit.

    You need active transmitters to reach a usefull resonse distance, and of course a code, so that a correct response is responded(or the first down aircraft would spoil the secret).

    IMHO, such system were not in use before the korea war, i have NEVER hear of any system like that in WW2.

  19. Re: Silver is better than copper or aluminum on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 1

    The problem with diamond is that the heat transmission is nealy 100% done by phonons, so if you have a paste of very little crystals, is would DRAMATICALLY limit the cunductivity.

    But in the age of CVD Diamons, i dont think we have to wait too long until some high end chips will have diamond heatspreaders.
    Imagine:Heatspreaders that actually LOWER the thermal resistance of the cooling solution, plus it would take more than a geeks might to chip one of those things, for sure :)

  20. Re:The Open Source Problem on SUSE Linux Receives EAL3 Certification · · Score: 2, Insightful

    anyone who is able to support an installation that needs such a certificates should be able to spend that few tousand $.

  21. Re:my god... on The Amazing Properties of Aerogel · · Score: 1

    I dont know the english word, but ventilation using the "gegenstromprinzip", meaning you have 2 ventilating tubes in thermal contact (ideally shaped like a 2way-radiator), with on bringing cool air in and one blowing hot air out could be 95% effective.
    As the hot air goes out, it cools while heating the cool air in the intake, with perfect heat conductivity there wouldnt be any losses.

  22. Re:mmmm...breast implants on The Amazing Properties of Aerogel · · Score: 1

    and shatter if under too much pressure.
    Yeah. that seems REALLY useful...

  23. no on The Amazing Properties of Aerogel · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the aerogel LOOKs like it was created in photoshop or 3d studio. Soft, blurred edges, low contrast, strange colors, ect.

    But it looks as strange in real life.

  24. Re:It will come back? on Mice In Space · · Score: 1

    Yeah, then you could never see what happened to the mice and you could just scrap the whole thing....

  25. doesnt matter... on 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    3DRealms has officially written off any money invested in Duke NUkem forever.