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  1. Re:Poor Colbert? on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 1

    Certainly not self-pithy.

  2. Re:Dock connector, eh? on 3 High-End iPod Speaker Systems Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No need to make up reasons. The audio pins on the docking port are as analog as the headphone jack. The only thing digital transmitted over the port is artist/album/song information.

  3. Re:I buy a lot of older/refurb equipment online. on Tech on the Cheap? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the follow-up.

  4. Re:I buy a lot of older/refurb equipment online. on Tech on the Cheap? · · Score: 1

    Your equipment sounds cheap enough but what does running 8-16 computers cost in electricity?

  5. Re:"Looks first" -- even on slashdot on The Real Purpose of DRM · · Score: 1
    "doesn't fit their idea of 'gorgeous'"
    I think you misspelled "mental".
  6. Re:Dotcom is back baby! on Facebook On The Block · · Score: 1
    You missed the point of what he was saying.

    Users may be loyal (fiercely loyal?) to facebook, but that says nothing about their loyalty to brands advertised to them on facebook.

    If I were loyal to all the brands pushed in my face in college, I'd be dining at Taco Bell 3 times a day, drinking a whole lot of Zima and Bud Ice, and vacationing with my family in Panama City and Cancun.

    So the bet is that facebook enables long-term marketing relationships with a demographic but not with specific individuals in that demographic.

  7. Re:untapped market on Where is the Real Ajax/Flex Revolution Happening? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's nothing wrong with being a professional consumer. Where I'm from we call them "customers".

  8. Re:the theory on The Most Dangerous Bacteria · · Score: 1

    You might have meant purulent.

  9. Re:Ok this guy is doing more than just a little BS on Why 7.1 Surround Sound is Overkill For Most Homes · · Score: 2, Informative
    Also, more channels wouldn't give a reciever any more reason to clip. Each channel is a seperate amp.
    A receiver's amplified channels still share a single power supply. This is kind of the defining trait of a receiver, actually (and, along with pre-amp stage purity, the source of all the receiver vs. separates debates of the ages). If the power supply (with support from capacitors) cannot maintain rail voltage for the load across the channels at a given instant, all channels are generally going to clip, go into "protection" mode, etc.
  10. Re:Paycut for a more intelligent Mgr on Would You Take A Paycut for More Interesting Work? · · Score: 1
    Your boss SHOULD KNOW MORE than you do!!! Otherwise he is not competent. I've had more than my share of total dolty bosses we could run around by the nose
    By your logic, the CEO of every Fortune 500 company should be an uber-janitor.

    fuck, once, we even delayed a research project by stalling it for 6 months, and the happy-go-lucky boss didn't notice anything.
    There is a grid of possibilities. Either your boss was totally ignorant, or your project was totally unimportant, or some combination of both.
  11. Re:Always six degrees? on Graphing Thirty Years of Gaming Collaborations · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They mean six degrees of arc. The article is presented in XGAML as a game with a circular playing board with a diameter of 10,000 miles. There are 60 people on the board, each of whom is six degrees apart, literally. Each game's purveyor subtends a right angle.

    I hope that clears things up.

  12. Be realistic on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 1
    Do your best to code correctly, write ample unit and integration tests for each component.

    But at the end of the day, you have to assume your program is going to crash, either because of intrinsic uncaught bugs, or more likely, unexpected system problems (power outages, network wires accidentally unplugged, etc.).

    What to do? Concentrate as much on recovery mechanisms as you do on code correctness, in case your program (or an entire node) does crash.

    This has less to do with C++ (or any language) and more to do with thinking through how to journal your program's state (perhaps you are running on top of a file system or database that has transactional semantics and can help you here) and how to have the nodes coordinate after a failure.

  13. Re:Qué? on .Net Programmers Fall in CNN's Top 5 In-Demand · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Goes to show what you know.

    "Donut fetcher" is a .NET design pattern - you can read about in my forthcoming book on the subject.

  14. Re:Amigas did this at the same time and better :) on First IBM PC Plays Full Motion Sound and Video · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The Amiga did this at the same time and better :).
    Nobody doubts the Amiga could do this better. The PC XT was introduced in 1983, based largely on a 1981 product. The first Amiga was introduced in 1985 and had purpose-built chipsets for multimedia.

    Given the pace of graphics innovation in the 80's, it is unexpected (to say the least) that anything remotely resembling what the Amiga was capable of, could have been done on a 4.77MHz 8088 with CGA graphics.

    That's the point :-)

  15. Re:Fuck US Students on College Students Lack Literacy · · Score: 1

    Yes, fuck us students, not those other ones! Seriously, can a sophomore get a little trim up in this piece?

  16. Re:This is hard on Cryptology Research for High School Student? · · Score: 1
    Ain't abstraction grand?

    There's nothing too formal needed to experiment with nondeterministic models of computation.

  17. Re:Captain Obvious Raises His Hand on Are Hotlinked Images Now a Liability? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work because existing hotlinked image URL's can still be compromised.

  18. Re:1and1 on Worst Web Hosting experience? · · Score: 1
    It would not help their pagerank because the anchors are tagged rel=nofollow.

    I know because I work at Google (in the cafeteria).

  19. Re:Reality.. on Fakes, Coming to a Store Near You · · Score: 1
    You're too young to be so jaded and cynical. Who hurt you, son?

    Heh, I'm just kidding, I don't really give a fuck about you. Carry on then.

  20. Re:Suspected/Alleged? on Fakes, Coming to a Store Near You · · Score: 1

    It just means the cases mentioned are still pending, but the court of public opinion has already ruled.

  21. Re:Windows on Fakes, Coming to a Store Near You · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nope, that is the Windows Genuine Advantage.

  22. Re:I don't get it on Fakes, Coming to a Store Near You · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that the secret of NiMH?

  23. Smells like opportunity on 2005 a Bad Year For Security · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Smells like opportunity, either in consulting for security-related services, or training in security-related certifications.

    And of course, for developers with proven records in secure systems design and implementation.

  24. Re:That's nothing... on A Kilowatt of Power · · Score: 1

    I don't know any Twin Pines mall, but I know a Lone Pine mall.

  25. my vote on The World's Most Beautiful Equations? · · Score: 1

    Sum(n=1..Infinity, 1/n^2) = Pi^2/6