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  1. Re:No, they aren't on Intel Skulltrail Benchmark and Analysis · · Score: 1

    Flight Simulator X is one of those games that actually likes more cores, IIRC, because it's more limited by CPU than by the GPU. It's also very much parallel.

  2. Re:Speaking of caches... on W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic · · Score: 1
    They could move it to the URL http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd.physical

    This is perfectly in line with the standard, as the identifier would still be the same (without .physical). That would cause all software that is erroneously donwloading it to fail, as well as future badly written software that rely on it to exist at the URI-as-URL, teaching the devs a lesson.

  3. Re:IE Made Me Do It on W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic · · Score: 1

    That's entirely ok. The problem is badly written software that would look at the URI as an URL and attempt to fetch it e.g. on startup.

  4. Re:The EU can go to hell on Microsoft Under Third EU Investigation for OOXML · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Relax, it's just the Microsoft trolls coming out of the woodwork. Every time there's a story on the EU versus Microsoft, they come out with the same lines: "MS getting picked on", "EU grabbing for pocket money", "EU is a sheeple/socialist/communist [expletive]-place". It's really getting old by now.

  5. Re:This just in... on Hostile ta Vista, Baby · · Score: 1

    I mean you could enter ^CGCG_ in the search box, but you'd have to hit f3 a bunch of times and manually copy and paste every result into a new notepad. Ugh. With grep it just works. And I think you'll find that a whole lot of people would do just that instead of finding a faster way. Yes, ugh indeed.
  6. Re:This just in... on Hostile ta Vista, Baby · · Score: 1

    The examples you give can be done in Notepad with search and replace. I imagine it would even make more sense to the user, actually.

  7. Re:Linux will NEVER have a killer app on Hostile ta Vista, Baby · · Score: 1

    When I can run Cakewalk Sonar and Adobe Premiere in Linux, I'll never buy another Microsoft product. I've been saying the same thing about Renoise and Adobe Photoshop. And lo and behold, a linux version of Renoise was just released a few weeks ago. There is still hope for us all!
  8. People don't like change on Torvalds On Desktop Linux's Slow Uptake · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Meh, people don't like chance, so change will happen slowly. That's all.

  9. Re:Missing tag. on Birds Give a Lesson to Plane Designers · · Score: 1

    Why even bother with the swallow? Strap a fuel tank to the jet engine and you're done. It'll work as a primitive scud as a bonus, with similar accuracy to boot.

  10. Re:9% cpopy speed-up noticable? on PC World Tests Final Version of Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    "Instant", that's when the computer reacts and updates the display before the key you pressed has fully travelled to the bottom. I once experienced it with some random app on my Gameboy Advance. It consistently felt like it was reading my mind and doing it before I had pressed the button, truly disconcerting!

  11. Re:Please explain why that's flamebait? on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 1
    When I was younger, I wanted to travel to the United States, because I thought it'd be fun and cool.


    But later, I started to hesitate, because of an increasing unease with how things turn out over there.

    Now I don't want to go at all, because the place is just too scary.

  12. Re:Seriously.. on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 1

    Also, full-disk encryption with the recent Truecrypt 5.0 might be of use.

  13. Re:One OS to rule them all on One Computer to Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    Try removing non-hex chars.

  14. Re:Novelty Act on Dutch Unveil Robot Gas Station Attendant · · Score: 1

    If you do mean however, no attendants on duty at all (which is the case with most gas stations here in Idaho during the night). I would be somewhat reluctant to support it... I can't tell you how many people fuel with engines running, on cell phones, fueling old school metal canisters in there pick up beds. I've even seen people with custom built fuel tanks trying to fill. I've never been to Europe, and I realize that chances of an explosion or fire are slim and remote. But it does seem, at least here in the Northwest people are really doing all they can to increase the odds of an accident happening. But if there's no attendant, there will be one less casualty for the next Darwin award, so it's actually a good thing. No?
  15. Re:Oregon on Dutch Unveil Robot Gas Station Attendant · · Score: 1

    Do you really sit on the bike while pumping? Sounds smarter and safer to just get off, to me.

  16. Re:IPv6 -- Innovative Suicide on One Step Closer to IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Since when does IPv6 disallow NAT? Use it if you want to!

  17. Re:Even though Obama is Black and did drugs, on Best Presidential Candidate, Democrats · · Score: 1

    I sense a pigeonhole principle being violated here. She changed opinion in the middle of a speech?

  18. Re:How much did it cost? on Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Yes, it didn't cost HIM a penny. I'm glad to let some of my money go to the welfare and health of others. You make it sound like a bad thing. Why is that?
  19. Re:How much did it cost? on Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It still costs money, regardless of who pays for it.

  20. Re:How much did it cost? on Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    How much did it cost him/her? $500k? $1M? In a newspaper article I read, it said it was more expensive than a transplant from hip bone or other traditional operation, but on the other hand the hospital bed time and recovery was drastically reduced. Not sure how much the total cost panned out because of that.
  21. Re:There are a couple reasons. on Bionic Arm Might Go Into Clinical Trials · · Score: 1

    Yet to equal? I'd say we can build things much stronger than the waterbags we operate in. What we cannot match, however, is self-maintenance and repair.

  22. Re:No, he just wants to conquer a new market on Bill Gates Calls for a 'Kinder Capitalism' · · Score: 1

    I'm all for the idea of a kinder capitalism, however that might look. I fully understand the 'irony' tag as well, but I wouldn't say that the market wants to change into a kinder form easily, hence it takes considerable power to effect that change, hence Gates' exploitations may not be irony, but rather a necessity.

  23. Re: News Of SETI Signal Just Bad Reporting... on News Of SETI Signal Just Bad Reporting · · Score: 1
    Also, what the hell is it with Americans and the "news would be covered up by the government". Which of the world's governments? All of them? All radio telescopes around the world would be told to be quiet about it?


    This stuff is in probably every hollywood UFO film, and it just doesn't make any sense.

  24. Re:apple slot loader on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    Slot loaders should handle mini-sized discs just fine. The Wii, for example, accepts Gamecube discs without problem.

  25. Re:The future is here... on Hitachi Does Microsoft Surface Without the Table · · Score: 1

    Speaking of ass, these tables are a definitive upgrade from photocopiers at office christmas parties. Just imagine the possibilities ...