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  1. TextEdit in OS X on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 1

    ... uses 4MB when loaded without a file opened. At least that's what activity monitor (is that the english name?) tell's me. Uups, now it's gone to 6,17MB without me doing anything! tststs...

    On the other hand: iTunes needs just 26MB, and that's with an opened window, around three thousand (legal :-p) files (searchable without timedelay) on display and playing an mp3.

    Seriously, my Mac has 765MB of RAM. On idle, the largest Memory-eater is the Windowserver (40MB). With seventeen userland-programs running and fifteen windows on display (all active! One exposé-click shows they are alive) I still get like 400MB of free memory. And I haven't booted my little sweety for six weeks of hard work (which builts up reserved memory). I can live with that. Yes, go on, call me a user.

  2. What is it with the US and Hasselhoff? on Bill Gates Interview w/ Spiegel · · Score: 1

    I beg your pardon but I don't understand at all why Americans think that Germans have anything to do with David Hasselhoff. Isn't he American? I mean, I know that he's this guy from the eighties (Knight Rider, Baywatch and all), but what's his connection to Germany? I've heard him being connected to Germany quite a lot but I don't understand at all why.

  3. Re:But, cost is a consideration! on Hondas in Space · · Score: 1
    If it costs $1,000,000 per pound to send somebody to space, virtually nobody goes to space, no matter how "safe".
    I would cut of an order of magnitude from that. More like 100.000$ per pound (or 100.000 EUR per kg :-). Otherwise, sending 7 Astronauts on a Space-Shuttle mission would be priced at around 1.4 billion dollar. That is per flight, not including any payload. That should be too much, even for NASA's bloated budget.

    Apart from that, Space travel is still very dangerous, even for the "professional" astronauts of today (you remember there was this issue with the last space shuttle mission?). Think about how few people actually had the chance to get into orbit and compare this to the losses. I don't think motorcycles come anywhere near that. Todays space travel is quite expensive, but still not safe at any means. Let's see how Virgin Space's profits react to the first crash of one of their ships...
  4. Re:X on windows on Apple Explains How to Run X11 on Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Aww man, I love your .sig, especially in combination with this moderation.

  5. Re:Things To Look Forward on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1
    we can all live long enough so that a 6-digit /. id's will become "rare and wise" when there are 10 million /. members. :)
    Look at your membership number. Oh wait, are you from the future? Am I? Is that the reason why I'm feeling so dizzy today or should I actually stop drinking? By the way: Did I get your joke?
  6. Re:Logic Nazi to the rescue on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    Okay, so I really meant to say that the crucial point is to find a bijection between the elementary words of the formal system and the natural numbers. Better? :-)

  7. Re:More to discuss... on Apple Sues Think Secret · · Score: 1
    MacSlash covered this before, check the comments there where the s/n ratio is lower.
    Sorry, but did you really mean to say that at MacSlash the signal is low and the noise is high? ;-)
  8. Re:Logic works? on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm sorry, but this is not completly correct. Gödel's theorem is only valid for formal systems which can be "Gödelised", i.e. where the written proofs can be translated into long Gödel-Numbers by assigning a cipher to every sign in the proof. Linear Algebra, for example, is complete _and_ consistent, as far as I know. In contrast to number theory, as you probably know.