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  1. Re:Why? on Linking Hardware To Wetware · · Score: 2

    Hate to say it, but SDRam has the same problem. Whenever you read the stuff, you have to write it back again ;)

    Not to mention refreshes...

  2. Re:LCD Tangent on Nvidia Geforce 4 (NV25) Information · · Score: 2

    Not entirely sure about LG's LCDs, but if they're anything like the CRTs they sell then it's probably some of the best around.

  3. Re:Quality testing on Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0 · · Score: 2

    There is a big difference between this and iTunes. iTunes affected ONLY those with spaces in their Disk Labels. This affects everyone on linux with moderate disk writes (probably won't damage an idle computer).

    Similar response times. I'd classify this issue way worse ESPECIALLY since it should have gone through standard testing.

  4. Re:What I want for Andromeda on Andromeda To Become Less Complex? · · Score: 2

    No better way to show her that than to buy one, plug it in and record all her favorite shows for her.

  5. Re:Will it run Linux? on The Real Mission to Mars · · Score: 2

    My matrox isn't great, but still gets well over 200fps in that GLGears thing under FreeBSD :)

    Most ATI cards are also supported. Rumour has it there is a group attempting to write NVidia drivers as well -- but I can imagine it'll prove to be a daunting task.

  6. Re:Wonderful on Return to Castle Wolfenstein Ships · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh buzz off. Give it a year and few will even remember about the act but historians. Get on with life already. There have been acts committed in the past, and there will be in the future. Some by people outside the US, some by those inside the US. Heck, the US might 'accidentally' bomb another Chinese embassy -- but I'm sure you got over that one in a big hurry.

  7. Re:Will it run Linux? on The Real Mission to Mars · · Score: 2

    Umm... Why can't you just plug in quake3 for FreeBSD? It's in the ports tree afterall...

  8. Re:Mod parent down! on Major Meteor Shower Next Weekend · · Score: 2

    Hey.. a new trick.

    Setup 2 accounts, wait for story duplicate -- and post really great comments from the last round. Then post a comment (second account) about how the parent was a ripoff.

    Now both get modded up and you have 2 high karma accounts :)

  9. Re:Consumes heat... new angle on AMD Roadmap for Coming Year and Beyond · · Score: 2

    Think of how fast harddrives could spin with a copper bar connecting them to this kind of CPU.

  10. Re:This got me! on Businesses Slow to Adopt Linux · · Score: 2

    Trust me, switching from Windows to Linux doesn't increase corporate stabilty -- strictly that of the machine. There may be down time, configuration issues, something new to learn, etc. The cost of 4000 people sitting around waiting for email during that 10 minute switchover period is still more than the cost of a WinXP license.

  11. Re:Very Useful on One-Machine Linux Cluster · · Score: 2

    Yes, but you still need 2 of them because when those things go down they go down hard. Always seems to take days to get it back up again when theres a catestrophic failure.

  12. Re:Very Useful on One-Machine Linux Cluster · · Score: 2

    Didn't you configure login.conf settings to keep those apps from running stray?

    Limit all clients to a max 10% CPU and 10% of the ram (depending on configuration). Most are manageable like this -- and nobody notices when someone has a script with a tiny loop that just pulls cpu time till it dies :)

  13. Re:Smallpox schmalpox on Comdex Bans Bags From Show Floor · · Score: 2

    Hmm.. so it would have to be a suicide mission huh? I've heard of them doing those before.

  14. Re:NASA on NASA Task Force Recommends Radical Changes · · Score: 2

    Worse than that. Think about how much money the US spends every year bombing the people you just spoke of. You know, like the ones in a certain Af.... country.

  15. Re:These have been out for a while. on Low-cost Reconfigurable Computing (FPGA's) · · Score: 2

    For all intent and purpose new graphics and sounds cards are programmable to do specific operations. The gate logic doesn't change -- it's a microcode fix. Ends up being basically the same thing in the end for them as long as you don't try to coax them to do other things (like analog logic) they'll be just as good.

  16. Re:You've Got To Be Kidding on The Dangers of Nanotech · · Score: 2

    I'd consider Jets to be mid-tech actually -- considering most of them have been in service for atleast 20 years, some quite a bit longer than that.

    There certainly isn't anything new about them, and they are certainly taken for granted.

  17. Re:smart fabrics... on Smart Yarn and E-Textiles · · Score: 2

    Then they shoot at the head rather than the chest. Smaller area, but much more effective.

  18. Re:Article mentions Bandwidth issues on Peer-to-Peer for Academia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps the reason we only use 10% of our brains capacity is due to the bandwidth constraints it currently has...

  19. Re:Correct me if Im wrong... on The Report of My Thermal Death Have Been... · · Score: 2

    The thermal shutdown sensor in internal to the CPU for both AMD and Intel (now anyway) -- but most motherboards (BIOS) don't implement the shutdown procedure for AMD.

  20. Re:Finally! on Mozilla.org Announces Open Source Calendar · · Score: 2

    heh.. Course not. Gates was born on Gatemas the holeyest day of the year.

    Anyone know why they use Windows 3000 as a prison guard? It always locks up -- heh..

  21. Re:To be released... on Army Funds Game Development · · Score: 2

    Somehow I doubt Sony will be writing title exclusively for the XBox anytime soon. You know, that whole playstation thing they have going for them.

  22. Re:Applications on More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer · · Score: 2

    All of teh above run perfectly fine in 64bit compiles. KDE has issues when using the cc included with Solaris, but gcc does the job well enough.

  23. Re:What I wanna know on More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer · · Score: 2

    Exactly.. If they have, then I'll probably get it just for that feature.

    Dual 1600 * 1200 displays would be quite nice -- so I can play Quake 3 in one and a Divx movie in the other...

  24. Re:It IS wrong... on ATI Drivers Geared For Quake 3? · · Score: 2

    If Nike discovered that people who bought running shoes and would buy them only with good ancle support for runners -- would you honestly complain when you bought the shoe and it hurts while walking?

    People who buy fast videocards usually do so because they want high FPS in Id games -- Quake 3 more recently (god only knows why). So they're giving the people what they want. If only the music industry worked like this...

  25. Re:what... on Sony Announces Superslim T415 · · Score: 2

    If you only expect to be able to hold a few thousand bytes of information a single sheet of paper is useful. Fact of the matter is I need more than that. Carrying around notepads, books or other. 8MBs of information printed off into a book is a shitload of paper with excessive weight -- assumming its of an easily readable size.

    Paper lacks grep, ease in editing, simple deletion (gotta find a recycling bin), and doesn't hold up well when wet... well, neither do palms for that last point.

    I can assure you, my Thinkpad is much thinner than the stack of paper it replaced. Those 500 page Requirement Docs get damn heavy if you need more than a few at a time and I can fit them on a palm (in text) quite easily. But yes, I'll stick with my Thinkpad for the readable screen.