Slashdot Mirror


User: cheater512

cheater512's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,400
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,400

  1. Re:Why was the altitude changed? on First Ever Scramjet Reaches Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    Its a American website.

    From my experiences they are very bad at converting anything.
    Timezones, Metric -> Imperial, etc...

  2. Re:Altitude of 330 miles??? on First Ever Scramjet Reaches Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    When you say 'most' your saying that the conventional rocket got it to 51% or higher of its speed?
    A Mach 5 conventional rocket? Cool!

  3. Re:A Week??? on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, Global Warming dries it out. :)

  4. Re:Slight complication on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 1

    Moral of the story: Always wash your brand new laptop throughly before use.

  5. Re:Longevity of whales on Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s · · Score: 1

    Arent the Inuits small fry to the Japanese?

  6. Re:Longevity of whales on Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s · · Score: 1

    Concentrate on the Japanese first before going on about more iffy things like sonar.

  7. Re:Copyright Law on Big Ten Schools Recommit to Google Books Project · · Score: 1

    Not entirely sure about the US but in Australia, the government provides public libraries.
    They buy books then allow you to borrow them for free.

    With Google they just let someone else buy the books but they only provide small portions. Cost of access and ease of access is the same.
    Heck if they wanted to they *could* buy the books them selves. I think they are aiming for the public domain ones though hence the big library deals.

  8. Re:finally on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 1

    Obviously you havent run your own mail server.

    They often just aim for catch all addresses or dictionary attacks searching for valid addresses.
    That would cease.

    Crawling the net for addresses and buying addresses from websites would continue.

  9. Re:finally on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 1

    Fact is that many spammers can afford 1/4 cent per email. They just need to be a bit more selective about their address lists. Yes, but on what basis should they filter their lists? You misunderstood me. I meant the spammers would just send emails to the addresses which look the most promising instead of carpet bombing every one they find.
  10. Re:Breach of contract on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 0, Troll

    When your talking about spam, whats the bet that all the non-bribed judges disappear?

  11. Re:finally on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 1

    Fact is that many spammers can afford 1/4 cent per email. They just need to be a bit more selective about their address lists.

    It also kills too many innocent bystanders. Non-profits, legit mailing lists, etc...

  12. Re:Fighting spam? on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 1

    I'd make a small fortune. Screw the net bill, I'm thinking of what kind of house I'd be able to buy.....

  13. Re:my seemingly eternal question: on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't your way mean multiple instances of Gecko?
    And that would be very very messy.

  14. Re:One word on Six Multi-Service IM Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Its brilliant with dual monitors. The big windows become a feature.

    I usually have chat windows the full height and half width of the screen.
    Important chats go on one side and non-important ones on the other.

  15. Re:Try Debian-derived Linux on Vista Media Center Plus CableCard Equals No TV · · Score: 1

    There is a very very long list of exceptions.

    Its just getting longer too with Vista.

  16. Re:my seemingly eternal question: on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 1

    Why is this whole story so familiar? It's Netscape all over again: What? Does IE really have excellent threading? :S

    Gecko runs very nicely on old single core computers.
    I really dont see why your bitching about it not being able to use 256 cpu cores.
    It simply doesnt need to.
  17. Re:my seemingly eternal question: on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 1

    He could easily put 1 thread per tab and not have any concurrency issues, no race conditions, no deadlocks. ... You don't need to add threading within a javascript script - that'd be overengineering worthy of the FF memory leak. Please dont contradict yourself. It makes yourself look stupid. :P

    Everything using Gecko uses a UI powered by (yep you guessed it) Javascript and XUL.
    Click the Home button? Thats javascript swapping the clicked image in and changing the url.
    Kinda makes you realize what a bloody good job the Mozilla guys have done.

    The javascript engine needs threading because every single thing you see on the screen was created by javascript.

  18. Re: bloat bloat code your bloat... on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 1

    I've never had a problem.

    Seamonkey is at the moment chewing on 113mb of ram and thats with 17 tabs open and 25,000 emails in my Inbox (and much more in other folders).

    I wouldnt go as far as saying its lean but imho thats pretty good.

  19. Re:Finally on Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Your dreaming. Its more along the lines of 'ok whats Linux doing right that we can steal?'
    MS wont be implementing NFS any time soon.

  20. Re:Simple solution. on Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 · · Score: 1

    How would you completely remove (not just disable) IPv6 support from Windows Vista, btw? With a very large hammer?

  21. Re:Simple solution. on Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Possibly a Ubuntu thing. On Gentoo it works fine over both v4 and v6 out of the box.

  22. Re:HP rejected Turbo memory because it didn't work on No Intel Turbo Memory for Desktops Until Next Year · · Score: 1

    Nothing stopping Linux from using it efficiently.

  23. Re:No, probably Vista only on No Intel Turbo Memory for Desktops Until Next Year · · Score: 1

    Making the basic OS smaller than 5gig would work better imho. ;)

  24. Re:I tried to WTFA on Photosynth Demo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which were then manually screened to weed out the crap ones.

  25. Re:I tried to WTFA on Photosynth Demo · · Score: 1

    Video looks cool yes but it will never take off.

    The video only looks cool because their demos are done because their source photos are carefully chosen.
    They didnt send a n00b out to take the photos.