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  1. Re:but I thought terrorists can only be caught wit on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 1

    I guess we can be fairly sure that IRAQ currently is not building a
    nuke, or any other weapon of mass destruction.

    I think you meant IRAN. Don't worry Bush made the same mistake.

  2. Re:So... on Faulty Microsoft Driver Saps Intel Core Duo power · · Score: 2, Informative

    "pre-production sample of MSI's Megabook S270. This is an ultra-portable notebook system with an AMD Sempron 3000+ CPU"

    This ultra-portable has a much smaller battery (25Wh vs 50Wh), no wonder it gets half the battery life....

  3. Ahum on Classic TV for Free Download · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be 'subjected', well what do I know, english is not my best language. Anyway, I'm pretty sure you were using way too many capitals.

  4. Re:UK buyers screwed again? on Xbox360 Pricing, 2 Models at Launch · · Score: 1

    > The shipping distance is greater to Europe than to the US, and that adds to the cost.

    Shipping costs from China to Europe for a pair of sneakers is far than $1 .....

  5. Bike with engine on Modded Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 MPG · · Score: 1

    http://www.brittijn.nl/

    Saxonette Luxus: A normal bike with a small 30cc engine (2 ci). Up to 200 mpg. A bit slow though, only 24 kph (15 mph). But still faster than most cars in city driving.

    Or http://www.madass.nl/

    MaddAss 125cc: Scary, fast, fun

  6. Re:Has anyone seen an engine alternative? on Modded Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 MPG · · Score: 1

    At http://www.fordcobraengines.com/EFI_Engines.htm, they build some pretty nice ford engines....

  7. Re:Even more undocumented features on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 1

    Hmm, undocumented?

    The game says: "ESC to quit, F1 for help"

  8. Re:And I quote on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 1

    I thought you were joking. Until I reloaded drivey.com ....

  9. Downloads on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 1

    Thursday, February 10, 2005

    1300 downloads, averaging around 30 per day right now.

    ---

    Wednesday, August 10, 2005?

  10. Re:That's unbelievable! on KDE's future: Plasma & SimpleKDE · · Score: 1

    Others have already told replied to you, telling you what you're saying about Gnome/KDE is not quite true.

    Let me be the one telling you, that what saying about windows is not quite true either. I can only comment about Windows 2000, but I guess most is true for 95, 98, ME and XP as well.

    >Fonts are readable and well aligned inside widgets

    Fonts are readable, but butt-ugly because they lack anti-aliasing. With anti-aliasing turned on in win2000, my eyes get tired real quick (dunno why).

    On win2000, on a high res screen, the fonts get really small. So you set the system font to 'large', suddenly a lot of dialogs are too small to hold the text.

    > Widgets, colors, fonts, decorations, etc. all look the "same", without major discrepancies in style or form

    Have you ever installed win2000 yourself? I just did, during the install (and the subsequent updates) I must have seen about half a dozen different progress bars (I lost count).

  11. Re:Hardware is More than the CPU on Linux For Losers According To De Raadt · · Score: 1

    Strange.

    You know a *lot more* about unix/linux/freebsd (you mention ncurses) than my mom (she has trouble operating the new vcr).

    You used the far superior freebsd install and apparently needed the help from the freebsd-questions list, while my mom managed to install linux all by herself after I reassured her that she couldn't 'break' anything: next, next, next, next, wait, everything works.

  12. Re:OpenBSD, of course! on What is the Best Firewall for Servers? · · Score: 1

    > Inside the subnet there is a lot more access

    Ahum

  13. Re:OS X on a PC... on First Look at Apple's Intel Developer Macs · · Score: 1

    Ok, let's start here:

    It should be quadruple-boot :)

  14. Re:Why the second bomb? on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To know why Japan surrendered to the US, you have to know the following things:

    - How many Japanse soldier were situated in China: hundreds of thousends.
    - How many Russian divisions were about to engage the Japanse army in China: 3
    - Was the *smallest* russian division bigger or smaller than the complete Japanese presence in China: Bigger
    - Didn't the Russian have far better equipment than the Japanese: Yes, the Russians had just fought a war against Germany, the Japanese had fought against peasants.
    - What would Russia have done after they would have annihilated the Japanese forces in China: Figure that one out for yourself.

  15. Re:cell chips on Linux For Cell Processor Workstation · · Score: 1

    From the funny article, first paragraph: "Built around a 64 bit PowerPC core,"

  16. Re:No point, it won't work. Leakage kills you. on AMD Athlon64 4000+ Underclocking · · Score: 1

    And how would you explain the fact that at low utilization an 90nm processor is using a *lot* less power than at full throttle? AMD is crazy to implement this useless the cool-'n-quiet stuff, right?

  17. Re:CPUFreq? on AMD Athlon64 4000+ Underclocking · · Score: 1

    Because they are completely clueless.

    Unknown core (Clawhammer / San Diego). Do they even know that the venice-core is a much 'cooler' cpu.
    Unknown ambient temperature. Do they even know the temperature drop is relative to ambient temperature.

  18. Re:What will be the impact on Desktop Linux? on AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Chips Released · · Score: 1

    I have an Duron 800 with 256mb. I'm running:

    - Fecora Core 3 with KDE
    - Some multimedia extra's
    - FireFox
    - KDevelop

    The system is pretty responsive and snappy. I can only imagine how fast this system would be with an Athlon 1800+. There's no need (for me at least) to run XFCE instead of a full blown Desktop Environment.

  19. Re:An acceptable alternative. on Your Hard Drive Lies to You · · Score: 1

    If harddrives are advertised in megabytes, it stand to reason that you ask for a harddisk in megabytes. Just like you do not pull up to a gas station and ask them to fill up the tank with a certain number of megajoules.

  20. Re:An acceptable alternative. on Your Hard Drive Lies to You · · Score: 2, Informative

    kilo = 10^3 = 1,000
    mega = 10^6 = 1,000,000
    giga = 10^9 = 1,000,000,000

    kibi = 2^10 = 1,024
    mebi = 2^20 = 1,048,576
    gibi = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824

    So it's not the harddrive manufacturers that are wrong. You get 1 gigabyte harddisk space for every gigabyte advertised. When you're buying 1 gigabyte of memory you get 74 megabytes for free (because you actually get 1 gibibyte).

  21. Companies shouldn't make political statements on Microsoft Reverses Stand on Discrimination Bill · · Score: 1

    wtf, can anybody explain. Is this considered 'normal' in the US?

  22. Still The Wrong term on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called a follow-up:

    "In October, you'll be able to choose between"

    "is shipping the first 96-node desktop cluster. '"

  23. Well if you bought all that music legally on Dutch Pass iPod Tax · · Score: 1, Troll

    you've spend more than 25.000 euros om music, the extra 200 euros won't matter all that much. Seems to me that the people who need 60 gb for 'their' music and whine about 200 euros, are a bunch of freeloaders.

    That said I really hate those kinds of taxes (I live in the Netherlands). For every (DV/C)D+-R(W) I buy, I have to pay taxes that go directly to the BUMA/STEMRA (dutch RIAA equivalent) even if I never use those blancs for music. They are almost forcing me to download music from the internet to get my moneys worth.

  24. Re:for once... on French Courts Ban DRM on DVDs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But noone can force them to sell the DVD's with frence voice-over/subtitles....

  25. Re:Software solution for dupes? on Hibernation on Demand · · Score: 1

    A.L.I.C.E.: Do you think this would probably not eliminate all dupes, but should help mitigate the issue?