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  1. Re:Mixed units on Pentium 4 631 Overclocked to 8 GHz · · Score: 1

    2 (ns / foot) = 5.456 * 10e-14 weeks / rod
    1 fortnight is 2 weeks so the answer is 2.728 * 10e-13 fortnights per rod or 0.002728 nano-fortnights per rod.

    I think, anyway. This is just 5 minutes of Google bashing.

  2. Re:Misleading Headline & Summary on BBC Episodes Legally Available Via Peer To Peer · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure they have adverts on the BBC site if you look at it with a non-UK IP address.
    Or they might just be planning to.

  3. Re:King vs Pratchett on Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want · · Score: 1

    I went to bookshop in India about a year and a half ago* and they had two shelves devoted to the latest best-sellers. One of them was full of the new Harry Potter book and the other was given over to Mein Kampf. That was pretty fucking weird.

    *I was working there. It's not like I'm so rich that I'll travel 4500 miles to buy a book. I'm not even rich enough to go 4 miles at the moment.

  4. Re:Skip them both. on A Master's In CS or a Master's In Game Programming? · · Score: 1
    Ever see an OS written in Java?

    Kinda.
  5. Re:Snakes on a plane? on iPod Seat-Back Video Coming To Flights · · Score: 1

    Last time I took a flight (end of 2005) I noticed that they were showing the opening episodes of Lost on a different route.

  6. Re:Going back to the old days? on Scientists Find New Painkiller From Saliva · · Score: 1

    If your dog is willing to eat two whole onions then you're probably not feeding it enough.

  7. Re:I for one will not be ordering one.. on Nintendo Promises 4 Million Shipped Wiis By Year-End · · Score: 1

    Nintendo's Wii games will have online connectivity, with 3rd party sometime next year. Maybe even retroactively through WiiConnect24.

  8. Re:Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines on Games and Fear · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's so much attention to detail and care put in to that level. It's excellent.
    The whole game is.
    Terrible shame about what happened to Troika, really.

  9. Re:Silent Hill 2 on Games and Fear · · Score: 1

    YES! I thought I was imagining the footsteps.

    The Otherworld creeps me right out too.

  10. Re:Windows on How Many Windows? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pah. I just buy a wider monitor :P

  11. Re:Good business on Microsoft Gives MVP Award to Adware Pusher · · Score: 1

    I imagine Messenger Plus runs quite well on Vista.
    Adware probabaly not so much. Yet.

    As a side note, Microsoft Antispyware used to flag Messenger Plus because of this sponsor program. Not just the separate sponsor, but the files that were just for Plus. I'm not using either anymore, so I don't know if it still does.

  12. Re:Can someone explain Steam to me? on Assassins, Bullies, and Messiahs · · Score: 1
    What if you don't have net access when you want to play?

    Provided you've logged in once and set Steam to log you in automatically, you can play single player games (and maybe LAN, I'm not sure) offline.
  13. Re:Bogus Crash Reports on Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System · · Score: 1

    I read in an MSDN blog quite a while ago that a significant proportion of crashes were reported by people who were overclocking so it looks like they can tell that from the information sent in the report.

    If it's a memory (or even general hardware) failure then it's going to be different for each person (more or less) and shouldn't skew the results much.

  14. Re:Quick Question on Microsoft Stops Supporting Win98 Early · · Score: 1
  15. Re: High Definition Radio? on High Definition Radio and New Content Alternatives · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oooh! Hi-fi radio...waitaminute!

  16. Re:Yay! on Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tag the immigrant - win an iPod!

  17. Re:malware safeguards on Details on Refining Vista's User Control · · Score: 1

    That's why he says to have an option for using Window's own narrator for when the UAC dialog pops up.
    Wait a minute. UAC?

  18. Re:Dapper on MS to Launch Paid Security Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    The 9800 Pro is also ATI.
    nVidia's latest graphics card is the 7800 something or other.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_9800

  19. Re:Next generation? on Biggest Obstacle of Nuclear Fusion Overcome? · · Score: 2

    Yes. There have been Tokamak reactors for over 40 years. It's just that they require more energy to run than they release from nuclear fusion.

  20. Re:... Yes and no on Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE? · · Score: 1

    O/T, but I really love your website.
    Loading up your resume made me think of the Alien films.

  21. Re:Controller... on PS3 Launch Details Announced · · Score: 1

    MGS3:Subsistance for the PS2 can use a USB keyboard and the PS3 will have USB ports so it seems likely.
    The Xbox 360 has USB ports and the Final Fantasy Online beta for it can use a USB keyboard.

    If the developer wants to add support for keyboard/mice then they can but it's unlikely they'd bother because the demand for it is low and it would unbalance some multiplayer games (such as FPS and RTS titles).

  22. Re:Wow on More Than 20 Years of the Web on the Big Screen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Independence Day is on the list. That very scene too. But in the film Area 51 had 50 years to reverse engineer the computer systems on the crashed alien ship, so it's not entirely unrealistic.
    Disclaimer: I've not seen the film in years and my memory of it is a little patchy.

  23. Re:try not to laugh on Nokia's New All-In-One Phone · · Score: 1

    It opens to the right or to the top. It's a two way hinge.
    Look closely at the numbers on the keys.
    http://img.engadget.com/common/images/306000000005 4405.JPG?0.2856900814862148

  24. Re:Mr. Thurrott forgives Microsoft on How Vista Disappoints · · Score: 1

    User numbers?
    Exploit volumes?
    Microsoft cliche 57b?

  25. Re:Hmmm, interesting on GDC - Physics in Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    If you own Half-Life 2 then you can download the SDK. It comes with quite a few example maps and also the code for the game logic.
    There's lots more information at the developer wiki.

    You can also get a free version of the modeling/animating software they used, which is called XSI.
    http://www.softimage.com/community/xsi_mod_tool/de fault.aspx