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  1. Re:... okay. on Memory Card Torture Tests · · Score: 1

    Guys, how the heck is that a troll? Mod up funny!

  2. Re:Bittorrent makes you upload too on DOOM 3 Final Video Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Yea, 400KB/s seems to use about 15-18k/s in ACK packets.

  3. Re:Ugh thats slow! on Sony's "iPod killer" Fails to Draw Blood · · Score: 1

    Exactly, I have somewhere around 5,000 Mp3s. (16GB) 20+ hours anyone?

  4. Re:Mach 10? - OT on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    Yea, chevys dont start after sitting in a driveway for 2 days, much less floating in space for centuries.

  5. Re:Cats landing on their feet on Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean the negative acceleration?

  6. Re:Forget that...When do they open "Battle School" on Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet · · Score: 1

    I was kind of jealous of that voice actually. Rather lame that she stopped loving him.

  7. Re:You missed the point completely on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    I recently bought a Canon A80 and have been loving it to death. When I'm not in the mood, I just set it to "auto" and it takes great photos under most conditions. Oh my, is it dark out? Thats fine because with a simple twist of the knob on top, I have complete control over ISO settings, aperature size, exposure legnth, focus, and flash brightness. If I had to set each of those before taking every picture, well lord help me. Most electronics are the same way, you'll often get what you put into them. Sometimes its nice to point and click, but it'll never be perfect unless you spend some time with them.
    Learn what your buttons do. Spend some time tweaking image settings. Learn to adjust your complicated HD set and 64.1 audio system, you'll enjoy it a whole lot more once you do.

  8. Re:Video on demand needs faster broadband. on Gates Predicts DVD Obsolete In 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Well, it should still be doable. On my 3.3 megabit comcast line I can pull 1400MB/hr. Thats way more then enough for some nice video. I think the problem lies in delivery systems. Nodes are restricted by current modulation technqiues to just about 50 megabit total, meaning you couldn't even serve up video to a dozen people on the same node.

  9. Re:Of course if he fails. on DIY Cruise Missile Designer Turns Freelance · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you just didn't realize it, but
    "On the up-side, the missile has been completed (apart from some minor work that is relatively inconsequential) and, to ensure that the testing will proceed at sometime in the New Year, it is no longer in my possession -- but it is in safe hands.

  10. Re:Could someone explain what the hell this means? on PS3 Production Starts In 2005 With XDR DRAM · · Score: 1

    Ray Tracing is absolutly impossible in realtime without a cluster. Without ray tracing, a prerendered video sequence will ALWAYS look 5x as good as on rendered in realtime.

  11. Re:Kill all the crew... on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 1

    Must...resist...urge...to...hang...out...with...
    geeks...watching...geeky...movie.

  12. Re:CDRoms shatter and 'explode' - be careful on Homemade CD Shooter? · · Score: 1

    I have a netgear router. Will it do that?
    So I don't get too offtopic, a 16X DVD (or 40x CD) (by comparison) is 10,000rpms

  13. Re:The UN?!? on UN Takes Aim At Spam Epidemic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My best friend's Laptop was acting as a spam zombie for the the last month. I finally was able to clean it up when he got back home for the summer. Tell bush to hit Tau Kappa Epsilon at U.C.B. in the fall, that should get rid of some spam.

  14. Re:Horizons on Ultima X Odyssey - Wisdom In Cancellation? · · Score: 1

    You're absolutly right, the horizons dev never listened to the players. They should never have released the game when they did. Every beta tester (myself included) knew that the game wasn't ready, yet it was released anyway. They tried to make statements like "We don't want you to see all the content in the beta" but what they meant was "We'll start making content sometime soon hopefully."
    The result was a game that was wholely uninteresting at launch, save for the mildly amusing dragon class, which quickly got old.

  15. Re:Hard disks on Bulk Data Storage For The Common Man? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you're absolutly right.
    Tapes or cheap.

  16. Re:use more power on Pushing Wi-Fi's Limits: Problems and Solutions · · Score: 1

    No, I think the solution is manufacturing more electromagnetic spectrum!

  17. Damn you 8bit ISA! on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    I had an old MFN harddrive that I wanted to pull some documents off (20MB) a few years back. Unfortunatly the ISA MFN controller card was an 8bit card and was missing the metal plate used to attach it to the back of the case. I took a guess at rightside up and the motherboard never powered on again.

  18. Re:Quick... on Are iTMS's 128kbps Songs Worth Collecting? · · Score: 1

    If I could mod you above 5, I would. I'm a brande new mozilla user and practically creamed my pants when I started playing with ADblock and now BugMeNot.

  19. Re:There are other ways of getting the money... on WA Bans Gift-Card Expirations, Fees · · Score: 1

    In California both service fees and experation dates are outlawed. I think the rationale is that by adding a service fee you're causing some of the money to expire. I just recently used a 4 year old gift certificate that claimed to have a service fee "where not prohibited by law."

  20. Re:How would this affect the economics? on Scientist Sees Space Elevator in 15 Years · · Score: 1

    I guess once you have a space elevator in place, the amount of energy required to lift a mass would be P.E.=mass(height). Thats a whole lot less then a rocket uses.

  21. Re:Drop the legacy? on Civilization IV Discussed As GDC Slides Released · · Score: 1

    Except you couldn't really manage them. No matter what you did, cities on the other side of the world were so corrupt and wasteful that they were almost totally useless.

  22. Re:It must be good stuff, it was on the Billboard! on RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 4, Informative

    Somewhere on MTV's website they have a realonevideo of the actual clip. I was only able to find an mp3 of the interview and have mirrored it here: Be kind to my webspace

  23. Re:New pins on Intel 3.40EE & 3.60E - LGA Arrives · · Score: 1

    I would think that an array of pins in on a given area on the underside of a chip would have more electrical contact surface area then flat contacts in that same area.

  24. Re:New pins on Intel 3.40EE & 3.60E - LGA Arrives · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most home motherboards are cheaper then the processor. Motherboards run around $150 while newer processers run above $200

  25. Re:a lot of spyware already 'informs you'... on U.S. To Impose Spyware Control Laws · · Score: 1

    I was attempting to clean up a friends computer a few days ago when I noticed that spyware was coming back within minutes of uninstallation. After a bit of snooping I found that I had missed one program which set the default activeX download option to "enable" so it could download and run new spyware. The first thing I did was permenantly disable activeX downloading on the computer.