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  1. Re:I'll stick with my Compass, thank you. on Galileo System To Include Jamming Capability · · Score: 1

    If you realize that gps is used in many situations you dont even know, like in majon harbors to track the positions of the single containers, than it becames clear that its something you dont want someone on another continent have control over.
    At least if he is to dumb to know on which continent your contry is...

  2. Re:Overclocking the XSCALE on Commodore 64 Emulator For Your Palm Pilot · · Score: 1

    in fact the OMAP Processor includes not only an ARM core, but a DSP, too.
    So overclockability (is that a word?) would be limited by the slowest of both cores...
    On the other hand, the OMAP is running at 400 MHz in the T3, and it would be VERY unusual to have a binsplit that is that "broad", so its possible than most omaps would run at 400Mhz...

  3. Re:Emulators all around... on Commodore 64 Emulator For Your Palm Pilot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, if there are a lot of emulators for WinCE, and a few for Palm, this would make a c64 emulator for Palm more newsworthy than another one for wince.

    And following your argumentation: Im really sick about all those apache, samba, linux kernel new posts, too. Been there done that. Who cares?
    Dont agree?
    But its the same reasoning...

  4. Re:Sad... on Maine to Launch Internet Sex-Offender Registry · · Score: 1

    but he might steal your car.
    The ex-murderer might kill you.
    the ex-robber might rob you.
    the ex-mugger might beat you up.
    the ex-kazaa user might steal your music.
    .
    .
    .
    where to draw the line?
    I for my part would be much more interested in knowing if there is someone in my street who has killed someone than a sex offender.
    But on the other hand, i dont really care about any of them.

  5. Re:On the other hand... on WVG : The New Scalable Vector Graphics · · Score: 1

    yes, but vector formats and xml formats are 2 different worlds.
    You could also represent a square by:
    byte: shape
    byte[3]:fillcolor
    byte[3]:linecolor
    word[ 2]:corner 1
    word[2]:corner 2

    for example.
    for that much data, in xml you would only get your {'s and }'s....

  6. Re:Damn Microsoft! on WVG : The New Scalable Vector Graphics · · Score: 1

    well vectors make it large, xml increases the size by the factor of 10-50 again.
    But on the bright side, you can really rar them down to nothing, the xml-files i mean....

  7. a Better headline would be on Expose Metacity With Expocity · · Score: 4, Funny


    We have cloned MacOsX 10.3 expose feature.
    Then people would know what to expect without clicking on the screenshot

  8. Re:Efficiency is only half the problem on The Amazing Shrinking Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    So you say people who dont need a supercomputer dont need a faster supercomputer. You are really bright :)

    Buisnesses dont have computing bottlenecks, they only have IO and Disc bottlenecks. Even the 700k tpm manchines with 70+ raid channels dont have 100% cpu load...

  9. Re:Snail mail is much more impressive than EMail.. on Snail Mail Tech · · Score: 1

    I have recieved letters that had no zip-code at all, the city name where i lived back with my parents and the street name and number of my current address...
    The system is REALLY impressive, in a way.

    (my grandfather makes willow baskets, and he once recieved a postcard addressed only with "to the basketmaker in townname". No idea how they found him...)

  10. Snail mail is much more impressive than EMail... on Snail Mail Tech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At least if you look at the technology involved.
    Getting information around isnt much of a problem, but getting a PHYSICAL object from any point in the contry to any other point over night while costing less than 1 (here in germany) is really impressive.
    And even before finereader and omipage were really usable, the addresses on snail mail were identified via OCR and automatically sorted. Even the handwritten... (ok, if the ocr failed, a terminal monitor showed a worker the image of the letter and the most likely choices to decide...)

  11. Re:Just so people know ... on AMD Breaks Ground on New Chip Facility · · Score: 1

    you can forget GaAs as silicon replacement because the low hole mobility prohibits fast CMOS logic.
    And ECL would really define "a new kind of hot"

  12. Re:Just so people know ... on AMD Breaks Ground on New Chip Facility · · Score: 2, Interesting

    they cant produce square wafers.
    This kind of cleaning works that way:
    you have a silicion rod and move is SLOWLY through a heating device that heats it up enough to let non-silicon atoms migrate.
    The end that leaves the heated area slowly cools, and (if all goes right) silicon atoms create a monocrystal. The wrong atoms stay in the heated area and wander to the end which is cut off.
    in reallity, you often need many passes...
    now, if you would use a square rod, the corners are HIGHLY sensitive and very likely to cause defects in the crystal...

  13. Re:Just so people know ... on AMD Breaks Ground on New Chip Facility · · Score: 1

    its off by an factor of around 100.
    with you forumula, the silicon of an opteron would cost 2000$ alone....

  14. Re:./dnetc on Teraflop In A Box At SC2003 · · Score: 1

    Its not a server rack for webhosting, its a HPC system. Anything else than 24/7 at full load and it would be able to do its job.

    btw: it doesnt matter if you have all systems running at full load for a day or a year, after 15 minutes the rack has reached full temperature, and if its not to hot then, it wont be a few weeks later...

  15. Re:./dnetc on Teraflop In A Box At SC2003 · · Score: 1

    1. There are much more important things to do with a computer. And there are very little things less usefull than distributed.net...
    2. What do you really think is the point to create a >100nodes cluster? A tip: It's not running idle.

  16. Re:The philosphy of Science: how we know what we k on New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered · · Score: 1

    Religous leader told shit since the dawn of time. Thats their job.
    And I dont think you really believe the myth that before kolumbus they thought the earth was flat?
    In fact he was rediculed for his underestimation of the diameter of earth, and if he hadnt been lucky hitting america he would have died without foot on his way to much-further-than-he-thought-away india...

  17. Re:This is why I love physics on New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered · · Score: 1

    I wish be had the control :)
    That would be the end of budget problems, and as villains we could create doomsday machines camoflaged as particle accelerators....

  18. Re:Ballmer as Neo? on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 1

    of course i mean the DEVELOPERS... video, not the matrix spoof. Revolutions spoofed it enough for me...

  19. Re:Ballmer as Neo? on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 1

    Just saw the video for the first time.
    I as a student would rather die than make myself an idiot like that in front of my friends...
    I guess it takes quite a "special" state of mind to do that:
    1) With noone forcing you
    2) infront of press, tv, ect
    3) as a very damn rich and important guy in the industry....

  20. Re:Hubble's successor will be much improved on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 1

    and that way you can get solar energy 24/7 without problems like earths shadow, unlimited exposure times and better results from the cooler camera chips....

  21. Re:Whew! on Kasparov Wins Game 3 Against X3D Fritz · · Score: 1

    i dont know any reason why you should feel better when a man wins agains a computer in a search tree dominated game.

    ITs like getting a depression about cars being faster then beautiful horses or planes flying faster than birds...

  22. Re:Social trap. on Broadcom Accuses Atheros Of WiFi Pollution · · Score: 1

    no, its not. Its a limit on what total power equivalent is distributed in any direction.

  23. Re:Social trap. on Broadcom Accuses Atheros Of WiFi Pollution · · Score: 1

    put the magnetron out of the microwave (thats the thing located near the opening in the inside). Use a sattelite dish of at least 75 cm ( 1m is better), put the magneton in the place of the reviever, opening facing the dish.

    And then just power up and aim.

    have fun... (a 1000W magneton should be able to kill a high gain antenna of an acess point from at least 50m distance....

  24. Re:System effects on Earth's Asteroid Risk Downgraded · · Score: 1

    an half kilometer asteroid would do much more damage on impact than every nuclear war he could provoke. People messure the energy of such imapct with Gigatons TNT... and mostly hundreds of them...

  25. Re:"anonymous usage statistics?" on Belkin To Offer Firmware Fix For Router Hijacking · · Score: 1

    I guess the moderations of the parent shows against which value the IQ of the mods is asymptotic to...
    (erg. damn. sounds like yoda...)