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  1. Re:ffmpeg on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 3, Informative

    And it may or may not be useful to actually rune more than one thread per kernel. It depends on the encoder and application how many threads you shall run, so the best is to test with 1, 2 and 4 threads per kernel.

    Isn't that per-core, not per-kernel?

  2. Re:Defeat the purpose? on MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition · · Score: 1

    You are, in fact, completely wrong. OpenID does *only* identification, *not* authentication. Hence the name, OpenID instead of OpenAuthentication.

  3. Re:Apparently not on What Would It Take To Have Open CA Authorities? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is a convicted monopolist in the USA and in the EU.

    Google is your friend.

  4. Re:Tricky Geniuses at Maxis/EA on Spore Creatures Now Outnumber Known Earth Species · · Score: 1

    True, but don't discount the cost of building the software. It's over-budget, behind schedule, and from what I've seen so far, totally kicks ass!

  5. Re:Sounds like Uplink on Cybercrime Organizational Structures Evolve · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the tip - the mods were the best part!

  6. Sounds like Uplink on Cybercrime Organizational Structures Evolve · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone remember Introversion's little hacker game, Uplink?

    You worked as a (mostly malicious) contract hacker for a corp called Uplink, creating and editing identities for clients, stealing and deleting data, and transferring large sums of money in exchange for a bounty proportional to the difficulty/danger of being caught.

    Looks very similar to this situation.

    Just checked - you can still buy Uplink on Steam for $10.

  7. Re:Untrusted Apps on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 1

    Vista already has this (though it could be more visible). A few days back, Vista told me my antivirus was slowing down my computer's boot times. I disabled my antivirus and got ~15 secs off my boot (timed w/stopwatch). I was quite surprised at Vista, but I have to say this is really a nice feature.

  8. Re:Singlemindedness on Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson · · Score: 1

    Just going by content, it seems more likely that a right-winger would dislike this stuff than a left-winger. Says nothing about the character of the two sides.

  9. Re:1000 years? on Ask Aubrey de Grey About Longevity Research · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Here's a better convention on Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy · · Score: 1

    How would we say "libre" in (USian) English? When I try to say it, it comes out the same as libra, rhymes with zebra.

  11. Re:There is substance to the disagreement. on Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy · · Score: 1

    Bull. GPL is about giving to the world, and expecting the people in the world not to screw each other over with your code. It's a morally defensive license: making sure no one's frredom can be taken using your code.

  12. Re:1 link? on Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'? · · Score: 1

    of course it's still the internet, the question is whether it's still the web.

  13. Re:Bias lighting? on Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? · · Score: 1

    that's what ambX is for: http://www.ambx.com/site/consumer/peripherals Freaking awesome!

  14. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    OK, replying to my own post, but I forgot to mention that a useful, readable continuum of arbitrary precision can be held in an analog system. Unfortunately, most practical computers these days are digital.

  15. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    the qbit can be in a continuum of states, each a combination of "0" and "1" in various probabilities. It's still just 0's and 1's, though, and when you read the data out, you'll still just get a 0 or a 1.

  16. Re:There are so many things I want on What Do You Want On Future Browsers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    HTML already gives the web page designer the ability to specify width and height of parts of the page. Many simply do not. This is not so much a browser issue as a web design issue.

  17. Re:I must say... on FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows · · Score: 2, Funny

    ugh, eye hate these puns...

  18. Re:Wine vs. ReactOS? on Ask Jeremy White and Alexandre Julliard About the Future of WINE · · Score: 1

    In that case, why not just run XP or Vista?

    Licensing issues.
  19. Re:10 years from now? on Ask Jeremy White and Alexandre Julliard About the Future of WINE · · Score: 1

    That would only make sense if the windows APIs were nicer than, or at least equal to, the Linux or Mac APIs. In parctice, no one in their right minds would write for windows (or wine) when they could have something sane.

  20. Re:Darwin says... BZZZT! on Northrop Grumman To Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars · · Score: 1

    Look, it's already been verified that this happens, the only question is whether it can be usefully harnessed.

    The facts don't fit your theory. Therefore, your theory is wrong.

    (Note to mods: I'm not bashing evolutionary theory, I'm bashing parent's completely half-assed, uninformed, knee-jerk criticism.)

  21. Re:Um... What? on Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave · · Score: 1

    In the article (and I'm not claiming to understand this completely), they send the photon pulse into a cloud of neon atoms, and image the electrical burst resulting from a completely ionized neon atom.

  22. Re:Wayback on Inside the Internet Archives · · Score: 2

    If you put it on the internet, it is expected that you want people to see it. I usually prefer opt-in to opt-out, but this is a case where the content is ALREADY PUBLIC. In this case, any opt-out is being generous.

  23. This is not like Memex on Even Before Memex, a Plan For a Networked World · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Memex was (or would have been) a personal workstation, not a networked device. True, it had hyperlinking, but only among documents on the same device. This Mundaneum seems to be entirely network-centric.

  24. Washington Post bans the AP on AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort · · Score: 3, Interesting
  25. Re:A simple answer on Anomalous Pulsar In Binary System Stymies Theorists · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here, I know this is a little backward, but it's cool and it illustrates what is conserved. Try it yourself: http://isthis4real.com/orbit.xml