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  1. Re:VW innovation is genuine on How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And how about telling the rest of us what brand of cars you're both referring to?

  2. We know something about Bill Gates too on Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer · · Score: 4, Funny

    He started watching Caprica.

  3. Re:Title Correction: The N.S.A. Knows What You Did on Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he should have shifted the ASCII values by one. Nobody would have been able to decode that!

  4. Re:Hmm on Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be thinking of the current Microsoft CEO. Bill Gates only jumps over chairs.

  5. Re:AMD responds... on Intel Details Upcoming Gulftown Six-Core Processor · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about running Doom on a Core 2 Quad is that all weapons do four times as much damage, all the time.

  6. Re:1 Day Expressed as a Percentage of Your Life on Why Time Flies By As You Get Older · · Score: 2, Funny

    What if you could ride a train that goes at the speed of light, away from that boring movie. Would said movie become even more boring?

  7. Re:Michio Kaku on Why Time Flies By As You Get Older · · Score: 4, Funny

    Trial 1: 3.5 seconds
    Trial 2: 2.7 seconds
    Trial 3: 1.8 seconds

    Frak, I need to switch to decaf!

  8. Re:Monopoly? on Amazon Surrenders To Macmillan On eBook Pricing · · Score: 1

    The guy is talking about loudness, i.e. audio levels compression not audio data compression.

  9. Re:Monopoly? on Amazon Surrenders To Macmillan On eBook Pricing · · Score: 1, Informative

    No mod points at the moment, but can those with some mod this guy up to +5 insightful?

    Also, see loudness war for a better description.

  10. Re:Wrong. on IE 8 Is Top Browser, Google Chrome Is Rising Fast · · Score: 1

    Those are W3Schools stats. The kind of person who visits W3Schools.com isn't your average web user.

  11. Re:32GB MicroSDHC on Intel-Micron Joint Venture Develops 25nm NAND · · Score: 1

    The way I'd do it is as follow: ask the SD card what capacity it has. The SD card returns a string of 0's followed by a 1 to end the string. The number of zeroes equals to the number of bits for addressing. Same goes for sector size (one zero = 256 bytes), etc. That way there's no lower or upper limit, and all SD devices (if programmed correctly) would be able to read all SD cards, even a reader from 2005 would be able to read an SD card from 2050.

  12. Re:The Most Impressive Way to Learn a Language on The Web Way To Learn a Language · · Score: 1

    I tried for hours, but I just can't get my microwave manual to run PowerPC apps.

  13. Re:Lernu.net for esperanto on The Web Way To Learn a Language · · Score: 1

    The goal for Esperanto, if I'm not mistaken, was to be an easy-to-use and worldwide (secondary) language. I think the goal was for you to learn your native language for local/national use and then Esperanto for worldwide use.

    However, it failed because:
    1. english is easy enough to learn, even as a second language.
    2. english is a real language used by people all over the world.
    3. there's a lot of easily accessible medias in english (news, songs, movies, etc).
    4. a lot of people learn english as their secondary language because of the first three points.

    All of this makes Esperanto a non-starter and as much a waste of time, IMHO, as learning Klingon.

  14. Re:Music, comedy and something else of interest on The Web Way To Learn a Language · · Score: 1

    On that topic, don't try to learn Japanese by listening to Hatsune Miku.

  15. Re:Obligatory wikipedia links on Breakthrough Grows Graphene On Silicon Substrate · · Score: 1

    A chocolate stick, of course.

  16. Obligatory wikipedia links on Breakthrough Grows Graphene On Silicon Substrate · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Before the crappy "So it's like a pencil? I guess erasing the RAM will make eraser dust everywhere in the computer" jokes start flowing in, it's graphene not graphite.

  17. Re:32GB MicroSDHC on Intel-Micron Joint Venture Develops 25nm NAND · · Score: 2, Informative

    Probably soon enough. But if I recall correctly, 2GB was the maximum for SD, and 32GB is the maximum for SDHC cards. After that you need SDXC.

  18. Re:Great News on Intel-Micron Joint Venture Develops 25nm NAND · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh, btw - the cache has to be SRAM so that if the power goes out, it can write the files when it comes back on.

    SRAM. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  19. Re:Rall's Law intervenes on Intel-Micron Joint Venture Develops 25nm NAND · · Score: 1

    42.

  20. Re:Rall's Law intervenes on Intel-Micron Joint Venture Develops 25nm NAND · · Score: 2, Funny

    Especially Realplayer streams.

  21. Re:BEAUTIFY SLASHDOT! on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1

    Didn't notice them before either, but yeah they're below the summary now that you mention it.

  22. Re:How are they going to do this? on Japan Will Start 3D TV Programming This Summer · · Score: 1

    Some of them are already in 3D.

  23. Re:BEAUTIFY SLASHDOT! on Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you're talking about, I don't see any facebook or twitter icons/banners anywhere. Just plain text comments.

    It's probably due to my settings, but I haven't changed anything for the last six months or so... It's not because of a plugin either since I'm using Safari.

  24. Re:Useless. on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 3, Funny

    No maxima, but it can do altima and sentra.

  25. Re:fully working Stargate! on Stargate Props Going Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    I was thinking one stargate = you end up at the same place, 360 degres = you just turn around one full rotation so you end up where you started...