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  1. Re:5 hour battery life!??!?! on Nintendo Announces DSi XL · · Score: 1

    I remember the good ol' days when the gameboy color could entertain you for days and days without the need to replace (or recharge) your batteries. The battery life alone would make me not buy this.

    As it happens, this device has some of the best battery life of any device you're likely to find.

    I never use anything more than minimum brightness indoors. You won't need max brightness except in sunlight. Although, my DS lite goes so long between charges (on minimum), I couldn't really say how long it lasts exactly.

  2. Re:Hoax on Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia · · Score: 1

    Hey, mammography is a perfectly normal medical procedure!

  3. Re:N900 on Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone · · Score: 1

    They don't make the hardware themselves and the manufacturers of the hardware are already paying Nokia for the technology. If this is actually true...

    It may be that Nokia doesn't require royalties from chip manufacturers, but only end product manufacturers. After all, it's the end product manufacturers that are their competitors.

  4. Re:Mojave Experiment 2.0 on Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    a lot of these issues can be fixed by simply rebuilding from a non-administrator account and watching what happens.

    What... I hope you don't mean the build process changes depending on the developer's user privileges?

  5. Re:Measurement from the NVIDIA site? on NVIDIA Driver Developer Discusses Linux Graphics · · Score: 1

    You hear "Macs make movies" so often and if anyone who doesn't work in the industry could see the state of things they would find the quote funny.

    It's funny because it's true these days, even if grammatically flawed: Macs make it in the movies. Blatant product placement.

  6. Re:(Un)Surprising on China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day · · Score: 1

    Your arguments are equally one-sided. Fail.

  7. Re:Could happen on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 3, Funny
    Neat! Thus, Goat C++ is an Orifice-oriented superset of Goat C, with iffy streams.

    Some might say that makes sense without the "Goat", too.

  8. Re:It's 1996 again? on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you're not using the phone line, but rather the cable that the phone line also happens to use. Ordinary phone lines max out at 56k, because the whole infrastructure of voice calls is designed with that limitation in mind.

  9. Re:Excellent! on Universe Has 100x More Entropy Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Don't all cannons do that, even the ones that fire?

  10. Re:Why on earth would a Java developer want a shel on Best Developer's Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Re: ant, try Netbeans.

  11. Re:I'd *love* to be a tourist in the States on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Nevermind tourism. I recently had to transfer via Detroit (first time in US) when going from Vancouver to Europe. I had to fill out all customs forms, and have my photo and all fingerprints taken, even before I had left Vancouver, even though I was just transiting.

    Unless something spectacular happens, the US is now on my permaban list.

  12. Re:Small briefcase is more like it on Ben Heck's PS3 Slim Laptop · · Score: 1

    Plugging in to what, though? Having the screen combined still seems like a win to me.

  13. Re:He never seems to learn... on Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M · · Score: 1

    if we ignored him, he'd probably go away only to be replaced by an anti-gaming figurehead that wasn't batshit fucking insane

    I've never quite understood this argument. Can there be only one?

  14. Re:What's the point. on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there any actual benefit to be gained from removing "cruft", other than saving a smidgen of memory?

  15. Re:For those SI unit addicts. on New Motorcycle World Speed Record, 367.382 mph · · Score: 1

    No, a beard second is a distance of one second of growth.

  16. Re:Kudos to him! on Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing · · Score: 1

    You mean they would actively make it difficult for people to do whatever they want in their systems? Hardly a likely outcome, despite the fringe opinions.

  17. Re:eSATA, Weakest Link, etc on First-Ever USB 3.0 Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Now hold your horses, what's the latency on USB3? If it's anything significant at all, it won't be suitable for replacing HDMI. Transferring live video is a low-latency application.

  18. Re:Kudos to him! on Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing · · Score: 1

    Where's the compromise?

  19. Re:Least of our problems on Cops Play Wii During Undercover Drug Raid · · Score: 1

    The police.

  20. Re:doesnt matter to me on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    , still vulnerable.

  21. Re:Mental maps... on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    Each house in a block has a number, each block in an area has a number, each area has a name.

  22. Re:Viruses don't live on Creating a Quantum Superposition of Living Things · · Score: 1

    The whole "problem" of viruses being alive or not comes from the mistaken presumption that life/non-life is a binary proposition.

  23. Re:I honestly don't care much whether I'm getting on Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear · · Score: 1

    What you really mean is that, after installing it, you realized that 1.5TB = 1.36TiB. The drive didn't shrink, and nobody lied to you.

  24. Re:Schedules are important. on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    Each and everyone makes that decision for themselves, obviously. But again, if someone chooses to get unnecessary treatment in the way Luyseyal indicated, what is the cost? Health care is not an unlimited resource.

  25. Re:Schedules are important. on Bug Means High School Students' Schedule Errors May Last Days · · Score: 1

    The issue is who pays for it. Feel free to do whatever you like and try to extend your life by a few days, but don't expect the rest of society to fund it.