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  1. Re:Please explain overclocking. on Intel Targets AMD With Affordable Unlocked CPUs · · Score: 1

    Overclocking increases both frequency and heat output. Too much heat == many crashes and/or dead CPU.

    CPUs are generally sold a speed that they are stable at, within the expected normal operating temperature range.

    Overclockers usually replace the stock cooling system with something better before overclocking.

  2. Re:Hatch on Lost Ends · · Score: 3, Funny
  3. Re:Whoa morons. on Facebook, Zynga Sign Long-Term Virtual Currency Deal · · Score: 1

    Stan Marsh? More like Stan Darsh..

  4. Re:Grow some gonads on MythTV 0.23 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bull "mess"? Maybe you should grow some gonads yourself and not be afraid to say "shit".

  5. Re:Horizontal vs. vertical space on Canonical Bringing an Instant-On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    I know we're talking about linux, but Windows 7 actually has a neat feature for this - drag a window to an edge, and it "snaps" to fit half the screen.

    Do it with another window on the other side, and there you go, two windows side by side.

    Demo here.

    It's something I'd like to see gnome copy.

  6. Re:OK. I need a Karma whore. on ChromeOS Zero Released · · Score: 1

    There needs to be a deadline, set features, and programmers getting paid full to time to write code that they don't want to write, for important things to get done in the OS. I hope Google will provide this?

    Google will provide this.

    My understanding is that Chrome OS will be the "official" build of google's Chromium OS open-source project.

    Just like Chrome the browser is the "official" build of google's Chromium open-source project.

  7. Re:NZIS? on New Zealand Cyber Spies Win New Powers · · Score: 1

    I don't get it (kiwi here) - please explain?

  8. Re:Yeah, because your boss knows all about program on Music While Programming? · · Score: 1

    I once worked shortly at a software development company that only had a slow DSL connection and therefore did not allow music steams. Also the boss wanted quiet rooms. So I quit!

    Why didn't you just use headphones and an mp3 player?

    At another employer, we constantly had music playing. Which made the whole job great fun, and motivated us.

    Er, out of speakers? Who chose the music? That sounds like a situation in which *I* would quit. I want to listen to the music I like - I don't want to be subjected to other peoples' music, or subject other people to mine. I wonder if everyone in your group was having fun and motivated by the music.. Maybe they were, but it certainly wouldn't be a fun situation for me.

  9. Re:Programming without music? on Music While Programming? · · Score: 1

    Have you tried listening to different genres? I recommend "minimal" or "drone".

    Try The Field for example.

    I find it makes excellent ignorable but pleasant background music.

    If that fails, there's always white noise.

  10. Re:More science questions on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    The air between you and the mountain also causes Rayleigh scattering, no?

    Light hits air molecules, blue light is scattered into your eye from the direction of the mountains. The more distance, the more air, the more photons scattered.

    Same as the sky.

    That's my theory, anyway.

  11. Re:How about a password to kill the machine on Encryption? What Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Surely the first thing any competent computer forensics analysist (or whatever) would do is make an image of your drive.

  12. Re:Red Title? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    It briefly had a red title. Not sure what that indicated though - perhaps that there were no comments?

  13. Re:Ideally... on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 1

    I use Firefox with IETab for this trick. Firefox has the cookie for my regular login, IE has the admin login cookie. One click on the statusbar to toggle my credentials!

    Of course, it's not as secure as your method, but I mostly only use it for our company's internal bugtracker.

  14. Re:Now if only on Boost 1.36 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's PascalCase. This is camelCase.

  15. Re:Nope on First Real Gameplay Video of New Prince of Persia Game · · Score: 1

    Pff, it looks like crap to me. I'm all for interesting new art styles, but this just doesn't fit the game. And it's overdone.

    Cel-shading is hardly avant-garde these days, anyway.

  16. Re:Not a Brightnet yet on Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems · · Score: 1

    Which is..?

  17. Re:If I were in charge of the networks on George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure · · Score: 1

    No, if they weren't right, they wouldn't be listed at all. Words can and do have more than one meaning, and meanings change. Etymology. English didn't just pop into existence fully formed. It evolved, and continues to do so.

    You poor prescriptivists must realise you can never win.

  18. Re:Printer Friendly Version on Bone-Headed IT Mistakes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, I have something called an "employment contract".

    I didn't agree to view any ads. It's not my fault if their business model sucks (to quote a random slashdot sig I saw).

  19. Re:Why? on Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced · · Score: 1

    Oh, it's been released.

  20. Re:Culture --weird on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Erm, 11% of police shootings are mistaken intent or identity? I can't find this post of yours with more information, but if I read that correctly, that's rather scary.

    Anyway, that doesn't help me if I see someone with a gun coming towards me. Ok, he's unlikely to shoot me because he mistakes my intentions. How likely is he to shoot me for any other reason?

    My original point was that there is (hardly ever) any such thing as a "good guy" or "bad guy". It always disturbs me to hear that phrase on mainstream US media. It belongs in children's cartoons. Not on the news. The world is not that simple.

    In any case, even if someone isn't a criminal, that doesn't mean I trust them with my life, which is what I'm doing if I hang around while they wave a gun around (although I accept there was no actual gun-waving in this instance, but then again neither was there any trespassing).

  21. Re:Culture --weird on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Ok that's great. Now can we get the good guys to all wear green, and the bad guys to wear red or something? Y'know, so we know whether to be reassured or alarmed.
    Because the world IS divided neatly into Good Guys and Bad Guys, after all.

  22. Re:Culture --weird on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Double-talk. Obviously, showing off a killing-utensil is handy for intimidating people, but if its main purpose wasn't killing, that wouldn't work.

  23. Re:What about browser tab restore? on Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued · · Score: 1

    That's built into Firefox.

    Options->Main->Startup->"When firefox starts"-> "Show my windows and tabs from last time"

    Doesn't sync across other machines though, that'd be cool.

  24. Re:It makes a lot of sense... on CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts · · Score: 1

    Hey, internet is serious business!

  25. Re:oh lordy... on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology · · Score: 1

    Wow, there's no need to be such a wanker.