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  1. Re:What they should do on Ubisoft Officially Drops Starforce · · Score: 1

    note though... memtest errors DO NOT mean that your memory is bad. When diagnosing my last comp problem I of course went straight for memtest... sure enough error error error. However the problem was actually my motherboard. I determined this without actually testing other ram or anything but rather by the fact that the comp would not boot if i changed the bios settings for the processor at all... and it was recognizing the processor as something it wasn't... Best bet is to run memtest on your ram on a seperate known working comp.

  2. Re:Data Rate? on Holographic Storage Crams in 0.5TB Per Square Inch · · Score: 1
    From the InPhase white paper:
    ...user transfer rates of 235MBit/s for writing and 117MBit/s for reading.
    Though two notes. One, this whitepaper was on their holographic storage with density 100GB/in^2. Second the whitepaper is a year old so understand that even those numbers are a bit dated. I expect that their is significant room for improvement on that stated "20MB/s".
  3. Re:Don't believe the hype on Elder Scrolls Oblivion Gold · · Score: 1

    Actually the exploit that I used went a little different. Now, there was a couple steps to it. First, in morrowind some shopkeepers had items that they were set to always have, so if you bought the 2 healing potions that the alchemist has, she'll have 2 more when you come back. However a bug with this was that for any of these items that a shopkeeper gets refilled, they'll be refilled by the amount that you bought from them. So if you first sell them an item so then buy all the items, they'll refill one extra item. Now, the next thing thing was that in morrowind you could get people to like you enough and have a high enough barter skill, to buy things from shopkeepers and then sell them back for more than you paid. So, the point is there was a shopkeeper in one of the first big towns you get to (balmora, i believe?) who had 3000 gold (which was more gold than almost any other shopkeeper in the game) and also was set to always have like 1 or 2 diamonds. Well... I would buy her diamonds for a couple days then sell them all back to her. So after one cycle she would go from 1 diamond to 4 diamonds then to 16 then like 64, etc... I was eventually just breaking even with the trades, but she would continue to have more and more diamonds... well, eventually, when she had about 30k diamonds, I decided to open up her cabinet and steal them all (a nice thing about morrowind was that shopkeepers actually had their inventories in their shops). I actually had to use the mark and recall spells to teleport away with the diamonds as I couldn't carry nearly that much weight...

  4. Re:It's funny that they're up in arms on Da Vinci Code Author Sued · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...some pretty scandalous and usually demonstrably false claims...

    Kinda like the claim that christ existed?... Ya know, that guy who did all these miraculous things but who not a word was written about until nearly 70 years after his death...?

  5. Re:He doesn't really seem to get the "point" of on World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things? · · Score: 1

    methinks that phrase doesn't mean what you think it does...

  6. Re:Oh - My - God on How Do You Store Your Previously-Written Code? · · Score: 0, Troll
    How about one I can attribute...

    It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. -Mark Twain

  7. Solid state hard drive on Build a Homemade Media Center PC · · Score: 1

    Their PC is way more powerful than it needs to be. Should have saved some money on cpu/graphics/memory. Those savings then could be used to make that thing so much quieter. Number one change in my opinion would be to use a sp;od state storage, such as http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/gigabyte- iram/index.x?pg=1(possibly the only use I would have for one of these currently). Also I'd use a near-silent psu and water cooling...

  8. Re:And so that stops us how? on Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18 · · Score: 3, Funny
    plus the using of "should of" when it should of been "should have"

    irony.

  9. Re:Amazing on Bush Signs Law Targeting P2P Pirates · · Score: 1
    One part of this is that it isn't that the punishment is meant to fit the crime but rather that the "expected punishment" fits the crime.

    If Person A walks into a physical record store and almost wipes the store clean via theft, in the amount of about $50,000, I would estimate that he has about a %50 chance of being caught. His expected punishment is then about 18 months. Now Person B shares one copyrighted song online prior to its release. Let's assume that this only causes $500 in damages (a low estimate, in my opinion), and let's also say that the chance of them being caught is about 1 in 250 (a high estimate, I'd guess closer to about 1 in 1000, but regardless). Then, Person B's expected punishment becomes about 4 days in prison, about 1/125 of B's expected punishment while causing 1/100 of the damage.

  10. Re:ethics on Navy Commissions Open Source R&D · · Score: 1
    Oddly the stats you have linked to seem to disagree with those here. In fact, in a period of nearly twice as many years johnstonsarchive counts barely more than half as many abortions as your sources.

    Which source is correct? Who knows?... the bias of your source is painstakingly clear. My source's only reference that I am aware of is it's google PageRank.

  11. Re:PGP: A Dangerous Program for a Dangerous Time on Preview of New Block Cipher · · Score: 1
    "...your teachings & parenting.
    But, how you could be so naive as to be willing to give ..."
    </irony>
  12. Re:Well on Wish Cancelled · · Score: 1
    "those trees are much better than anything you'll see in World of Warcraft"

    yeah?

    I agree, those trees look a lot better than the ones in this screenshot from WoW...