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  1. Re:Lennart is right - the kernel patch is the hack on Alternative To the 200-Line Linux Kernel Patch · · Score: 0

    WTF is systemd?

  2. Re:funny, haha on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    why upgrade the kernel with gentoo any more often than with any other distro? all portage does, is install sources for the kernel; you are left to do the configure and compile yourself.

    As for the "overhead" sleep or go to work during it. I've spent way more time doing video encodes on my desktop than I have doing compiles. Granted I don't have KDE4 installed, or source openoffice, but i like xfce better anyways.

  3. Re:Permanently modified? on Windows Phone Permanently Modifies MicroSD Cards, Warns Samsung · · Score: 1

    read != reformat. I would expect to be able to reformat the card even with the info you linked. "fdisk /dev/sdcard && mkfs -t vfat -F 32 /dev/sdcard1 && mount /dev/sdcard1 /mnt/sdcard" for example.

  4. Re:Why Rugged? on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    so you'd go from a temp range of 260F to -40F, to a range of 200F to -60F. Same power, and vibration requirements as well as reliability. 10-15 years.

  5. Re:Time to burn some karma on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    A old style carb? or a new style "injected mixing box"? Very few new US cars are really direct into the cylinder injection.

  6. Re:Not true on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    8k is insanely high? I thought 10K would be there, and there are racing engines that go to 18.5k formula 1 for example. MotoGP bikes do around that as well. I have heard of consumer diesels getting up to 6k-8k and produce insane amounts of torque... And the R10 and R15 from audi are Common rail injection twin turbo diesels and likely reach 8k RPM.

    I'm not saying that you are wrong in your assessment about not reaching 8k rpm. Just that a gear box will let you go 30mph at 8k rpm with all the torque you need. I'm still wondering why we don't use high rpm small displacement engines in cars these days., apart from noise concerns.

  7. Re:Worried? on 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges · · Score: 1

    Mission critical will always ave spares. A normal sized wrench like the author mentioned will take hours to print. You would probably have enough time in that case for you to get a currier to bring you the real replacement part. If the part is load bearing, the current plastic rapid prototypers just won't cut it.

  8. Re:Worried? on 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges · · Score: 1

    man you people are fancy.... We used buttons(like clothes ones), coins, cheerios, a grid printed on size C paper and laminated, with dry erase markers, and we liked it.

    "The blue button with 5 holes appears to be a lizard man holding a javelin. He looks unhappy with your presence here. he's about 20 feet away. What do you do?" was fairly common.

  9. Re:Worried? on 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges · · Score: 1

    True, but if i can make your widget at home for $0.15, why pay you $5 for it at the store? especially when I could just to to "things.thepiratebay.org" and download a file to make just about any common part. Laser 3d scanning is doable at home today with a prisim, a laser pointer, a video camera, a spinning plate, a spinning plate and a servo+controller.

  10. Re:Worried? on 3D Printing May Face Legal Challenges · · Score: 1

    Shining lights? you seem to be a bit out of date on 3d printer tech. the good ones these days can print in multiple materials and can even do circuit traces within the printed item. You can print a toy car today, and 95% of a cassette tape(everything but the ribbon). most of a computer mouse could be printed, not the electronic components, but the case, the board and traces.

    Give it a few more years, it will get there.

  11. Re:Think carefully. Do you want to be close to MS? on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    Do you really want people easily de-compiling your code?

    NO!, thats why i use python!

  12. Re:Really? on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    did you apply? you can teach Highschool math, so should be over qualified for wendy's.

  13. Re:If You're Late to the Party on Did the Windows Phone 7 Bomb In the US? · · Score: 1

    Do pandora, an Instant messaging/twitter/facebookchat/etc app, and opera all work at the same time on iOS4? By "work at the same time" I mean pandora playing music 100% of the time, while i browse the web, and when i get a notification that i got an tweet, i swap over to that while opera continues to load my page in the background, so that when i swap back to it, my page is done loading. If iOS4 works like that, then i have no problems with how it works.

    As for "errant app" thing, doesn't android have something like "powertop"? if so it is easy for a user to manage battery life as they want. Same goes for iOS or WP7. I haven't figured this "issue" out, either you run the app and you know it consumes battery, or you only run it when you need to, or you don't run it at all. Your choice.

  14. Re:If You're Late to the Party on Did the Windows Phone 7 Bomb In the US? · · Score: 1

    esoteric, like multi-tasking, cut and paste, and exchange access... Well I expect they got 1 of 3 of those. Other things like device encryption, a "cameraless" option and such as well.

  15. Re:Yeah right. on Why Unlocked Phones Don't Work In the US · · Score: 1

    sort of, lots of devices have a usb plug, my tv, my ps3, I'm sort of willing to bet my next toaster will as well... So somewhat yes, but not all that much.

  16. Re:No, Samsung uses them on Why Unlocked Phones Don't Work In the US · · Score: 1

    there are 2 mini usb standards, and 3 micro, and 2 of those micro can use the same plug. See the USB wiki page...

  17. Re:I don't care so much on Gran Turismo 5 To Be Released November 24th · · Score: 1

    A rewind would be ok. I've found those to be hard to use, as it's hard to get steering angles and throttle positions to match where you were once you rewind. Not to mention that in prologue, you might as well get a small bit of cash out of the event, since you always get some cash.

  18. Re:I'll pass on Gran Turismo 5 To Be Released November 24th · · Score: 1

    They didn't have then penalty system on? There is one in GT%: Prologue.. It would have stopped that as it won't let you apply power past 30MPH if you "tap" a wall. The time trial mode will not count your time for wall sliding either. I'm not sure what was going on with that then.

    I think you are referring to "High Speed Ring: Reverse" and I've never had a reason to break, or even let off on that corner in either the GT by Citron or the 2007 F1 car, both can do it on line at flat out, with the physics set to "normal" not "professional". The ford GT you have to let off in a little but thats it. I wonder what Sebastian Vettel thought of the physics when he broke the lap record at suzuka, by ~30 seconds in a concept car.

    I'd like the "add down force" in quick tune, to not be free, not in terms of the number of points you can have per race, but more down force should mean less top end speed, and more isn't always better.

  19. Re:I'll pass on Gran Turismo 5 To Be Released November 24th · · Score: 1

    I agree, to silence all this BS, they need a mode 'An impact or a contact will cause your race to be over', make it an option, and if you want the car to break when it hits a guard rail then good. Also the time trials do just that in prologue. Tapping a wall or a car in the class 'S' events will cause loss of power in your car for 5-10 seconds, depending on what you did, as do shortcuts(which includes using the run-offs to take corners at much much higher speeds.

    My complaint, I can put a new custom ratio gearbox every race for free, but I can't repaint a car even for a fee...

  20. Re:I'll pass on Gran Turismo 5 To Be Released November 24th · · Score: 1

    Support for linux needed to have a GPU in it to make it useful, I would have used it as a media center if it could actully play 1080P h264 in mkv's(my ripped dvd collection).

    The most recent linux dev on it was ring0 of the HV, letting linux have access to the GPU and thats when sony pulled support for linux on it...

  21. Re:Next gen? on NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested · · Score: 1

    the 5770 is "one gen back" the gts450 isn't (not that the FOSS drivers for nvidia work well enough yet*). I'll give you the gts450 isn't but it works with nvidia drivers, and none for the FOSS drivers support using the gpu to do video decodes.

    * Doubly so on 64bit gentoo, as I have to wait for them to be packaged, no not an ebuild, I can only build 64 bit libs on gentoo for some dumb reason...

  22. Re:I'll pass on Gran Turismo 5 To Be Released November 24th · · Score: 1

    My box lists "OtherOS" on it as a feature, as does my manual. Now I have little interest of running linux on it, mastly because even something like boxee wouldn't work without some gpu support. *shrug* *goes off to stand in line for GT5*

  23. Re:anti-overclocking technology on NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested · · Score: 1

    could you even cool a OC'ed gtx580 considering the stock card is a 250W monster....

  24. Re:Next gen? on NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested · · Score: 1

    All go 100% AMD when they get the newest GPU working same day, with drivers that play nice with WINE on linux, and never look back. Until then I'm "stuck" with nvidia. Which is a same because for the same size and power draw the 5770 is better than the gts450. When doing SFF computers physical dimensions are an issue.

  25. Re:Competition is good. on NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested · · Score: 1

    try the 260.xx drivers that are out?
    258.xx are old now.