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  1. Not ready yet...for games on Optimus Keyboard Pre-Orders In Mere Hours · · Score: 1

    Well, wake me up when it can do 20fps on Unreal/Quake...It would be way too cool to be able to see what's going on behind your back on FPS games by a quick glimpse on the keyboard ;-)

  2. Re:Initial image by agreed experts, not RIAA on Safeguards For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection · · Score: 1

    Umm, you do know that computers can't really tell the time though.

    You set the time in BIOS (say 6 years ago), reinstall your OS. You can have nicely-aged timestamps :-)

    /Alex

  3. Well, I like Ben Stiller... on 2004 MN4 Asteroid Odds Inching Up Again · · Score: 1

    And it seems we might meet the Focker indeed! ;-)

  4. Re:The good news?!?! on Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Well, it's a little more complicated than that on windowsland.

    See the windows problem is a problem in a core library of the system (GDI+)

    It would be an easy thing to patch if that library (dll) was in one place.

    It is not! Every application that felt like it has installed a local copy of it.

    See the application list here http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200409 _jpeg.mspx

    And with major corporate players not into SP2 anyways...this (or the next) looks like is going to be a fun week. ;-)

  5. Let's see the primes thing again :-) on Java Faster Than C++? · · Score: 2

    Ok, here is the java version
    [alex@alkis dev]$ time
    /usr/bin/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin/java -server sieve 10000
    Count: 1028
    1.94user 0.02system 0:02.08elapsed 94%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
    0inputs+0outputs (1major+2392minor)pagefaults 0swaps

    And let's see the g++ ...
    [alex@alkis dev]$ g++ -O2 -o sieve sieve.cpp
    [alex@alkis dev]$ time ./sieve 10000
    Count: 1028
    7.64user 0.02system 0:07.84elapsed 97%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
    0inputs+0outputs (0major+264minor)pagefaults 0swaps

    Should we try intel's c++ compiler?
    [alex@alkis dev]$ icc -O2 -o sieve sieve.cpp
    [alex@alkis dev]$ time ./sieve 10000
    Count: 1028
    0.90user 0.00system 0:00.94elapsed 97%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
    0inputs+0outputs (0major+284minor)pagefaults 0swaps

    Now, can someone compile KDE/Qt with icc and send it to me, please?
    Thank you!

    /Alex

  6. Re:God playing dice. on Current Thoughts in String Theory · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that an all-powerfull being can't 'make' a dice that he can not predict the outcome of?

    But if he can...then the same all-knowing being wouldn't know the outcome?

    Oh well...



    PS: Yes, there is no God...So, what?

  7. Imagine the new games... on Introducing Probability into Chip Design · · Score: 1

    "You are in an abstract state. Both dead and alive. Press any key to open the door and really find out!"

    Bah.
    /Alex

  8. I hope he cut a deal with SCO on A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC · · Score: 1

    He better have cut a deal with SCO before going public. Can you imagine the license that SCO would want for such a thing?

  9. What makes me wonder... on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    Well, if you work up from the radius of the event horizon and the mass that is inside you get something that I tend to call critical density (Haven't seen it mentioned anywhere), which in my mind is the critical density that matter has to reach in order to make a black hole. But, what could be with more density than the elements of matter itself? What can have more density than quarks? So, shouldn't quarks be black holes since they have the highest density possible?