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  1. Incorrect units on Giant Ocean Vortex Discovered · · Score: 1, Interesting
    spinning at speeds up to 5kph


    What's that in radians per second?
  2. Re:Free? on HowTo Build a Quality DDR Deck · · Score: 1
    a skill for life


    Can I be the first to say:

    Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
  3. Re:question on Time for a Linux Bug-Fixing Cycle · · Score: 1
    bug-fixing is not fun


    Some people find bug-fixing fun. Well, not the fuxung so much as the hunt. You need to stalk your bug through the dense undergrowth of your source tree until you find its lair. Then you excise it with surgical precision.

    At its best, bug-stalking can be more fun than development.
  4. Re:I preferred the old odd/even split on Time for a Linux Bug-Fixing Cycle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The main difference was that if 2.4.x was good for you there was a very good chance that 2.4.(++x) would be good for you as well. Now, however, nothing is off-limits; so that is less true.

    (Yes, I recall some times in the 2.4.x era when this wasn't true either.)

  5. I preferred the old odd/even split on Time for a Linux Bug-Fixing Cycle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a user, I preferred the old odd/even unstable/stable code split; I'd run .even at work and .odd at home.

    I suppose if you buy your linux off the shelf you can complain to your vendor, but for home users looking to do some DIY kernel building the new way is a bit worse. However, I suspect we're a dying breed...

  6. Re:Yeah yeah, very clever... on Da Vinci Code Message Revealed · · Score: 1

    I ma ydaerla ta emoh.

  7. The Geordies will love it on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 1

    Nintendo why-aye!

  8. Re:Well on Burst.com Sues Apple Over Patent Infringement · · Score: 1
    Someone kill me.


    On my way...
  9. Re:Is this a surprise??? on Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating · · Score: 1

    Given F1-quality engines usually explode after about 620km that seems like a self-defeating plan.

  10. Re:Unsafe Languages? on Secure Programming in GNU/Linux Systems: Part I · · Score: 1
    Are C and C++ safer because most of the bad programmers are now working in "safe" languages like Java


    Yes. I think that's a lot of the reason.

    Anyone who's still writing C probably has enough experience to know the pitfalls. All the johnny-come-latelies are writing Java, C# or scripts.
  11. Correction: Fewer challenges on the moon? on US Plans Lunar Motel · · Score: 1

    First pedant post.

  12. Re: Bad Engineers on Microsoft's Not So Happy Family · · Score: 1

    And your name is actually Rebecca? Wow, I'm in love...

    It's a trick!

  13. Re:The Parliament Act. on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the biggest cock-up in american legal history; just as the first Parliament Act is the biggest cock-up in ours.

  14. Most obvious question: on Self Contained Water Cooled Radeon X1900, Retail · · Score: 1, Informative

    What keeps the graphics RAM chips cool? Usually air is blown down onto the processor whence it goes across the RAM chip coolers.

    In the photos, the RAM chips still have cooling fins, and they're still aligned radially around the core; however, since there is no airflow there they're surely going to overheat...

  15. Re:Well DUH on Analysis of .NET Use in Longhorn and Vista · · Score: 1

    Your VM-code is not equivalent to your C code. The C code attempts to make a copy of one string into another buffer, while your VM code copies a pointer.

    The closest equivalent C to your VM examples is probably:

    {
        void *tmpptr = smallbuffer;
        smallbuffer = bigstring;
        free (smallbuffer);
    }

    Although if *smallbuffer is statically allocated or other components have references to it the equivalent is:

        smallbuffer = bigstring;

    Don't dis. what you don't understand.

  16. Re:Strange definition... on In Praise of Constant Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Cycling to university in London a few years ago this was a constant problem.

    One morning, I was going through the green lights at the bottom of Putney hill when some moron talking on their 'phone stepped out in front of me (despite the red standing dude sign). I had to brake harshly and steer to avoid him, but since I was going to almost hit the dozy fucker and he still hadn't noticed I decided to make sure he did -- as I passed, I patted him on top of his head and yelled "Pay attention to traffic you stupid bastard" before cycling off.

    I don't know whether it helped him, but it made me feel better...

  17. Re:Only one problem... on Help Break Original Enigma Messages · · Score: 1

    No funny points for either of us.

    Mods can be so cruel....

  18. Re:Only one problem... on Help Break Original Enigma Messages · · Score: 1

    Sie konnen nicht Deutsch sprechen? Was fu ein lamer...

  19. Re:Fine for simple games but... on Developing Games with Perl and SDL · · Score: 1

    There are no programs that play Go at a master player level. I can beat most of them most of the time in ieven games, and I'm only 11 kyu.

  20. Re:What about EFI? on Rootkits Head for Your BIOS · · Score: 1

    These are small. The ones out there are far away.

    Small.

    Far away.

  21. Re:It doesn't matter how much Global Warming evide on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record · · Score: 1

    1: I never said it could never be proved. You will never prove them wrong, because by the time one of their predicted cycles has come around you'll be dead (and so will they, and I).
    2: Science is not, never has been, and never will be about proving anything. You need mathematics for that.

    Science is a process which tests the predictions of a hyopthesis and discards it if those predictions are erroneous. If its predictions are not erroneous in a sufficient number of cases it starts to be called a theory. After it's been a theory for a good while it becomes a "Scientifically proven fact" in the minds of morons who don't know what they're talking about. Then, more often than not, someone smart will realise it's all a load of crap and formulate a hypothesis which makes more accurate predictions and the cycle begins again.

  22. Re:It doesn't matter how much Global Warming evide on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record · · Score: 1

    And they might well be right. You can never conclusively prove otherwise.

  23. Re:AMD errata on 34 Design Flaws in 20 Days of Intel Core Duo · · Score: 1

    Which won't do you any good if you have one of the buggy chips, as you'll still need to purchase the replacement. By which time, the socket will probably have changed and you'll want faster RAM, so you might as well switch vendors.

  24. Re:x86: Intel's biggest mistake on Intel Dumps Iitanium's x86 Hardware Compatibility · · Score: 1

    The novel "Sense and Sensibility" is a little more than that.

  25. Re:Shouldn't matter with modern software. on Intel Dumps Iitanium's x86 Hardware Compatibility · · Score: 1

    I don't see a Java-based processor anywhere.

    Here you go: http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/jop/over view