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  1. Re:Hardware damaging virii on Ready For the Big Mac Virus? · · Score: 1

    You could probably write something that would try to run the video subsystem out of spec, but modern monitors do not fry because you send it unsupported values, it just shows an "out of sync" error on screen. An old CRT might fry though.

  2. Re:Are they geographically challenged? on Europe to Join Russia Building Next Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    ESA (European Space Agency) is cooperating with the Russian Space Agency. Russia is part of both Europe and Asia, but from a West-European perspective it doesn't really feel like Russia is "part of Europe".

  3. Re:50 what? on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1

    It did say "degrees" so that rules out Kelvin atleast. :)

  4. Re:Easier... on FreeBSD Based Gaming Router · · Score: 1

    well, or you could just get an AMD Geode or VIA C3 based system :)

  5. Re:Hitatchi Deathstar on Hitachi's 500GB SATA-II Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Actually all IBM Deskstar 75GXP's were affected. The 75 GB's however had a higher failure rate than the 60 GB and 45 GB versions. I had two IBM 75GXP 45 GB's and they're both dead.

  6. Re:Sure, why not on Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally I think of (obligatory dictionary quote): Troll \Troll\, n. [Icel. troll. Cf. Droll, Trull.] (Scand. Myth.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. This usage of the term "troll" predates the internet term "troll" by atleast 200 years, and is still the most common usage of the word in Scandinavia.

  7. Re:Apple will use Pentium M series, not Pentium 4. on Apple May be Intel Show Pony · · Score: 1

    yes, the Pentium M's are very nice. a Pentium M based Apple PowerBook would be worth looking into.

  8. Re:If they wanted cheaper stuff on Apple May be Intel Show Pony · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nice try for a troll, but the truth is high-end Intel P4's these days dissipate more heat than high-end AMD Athlon64's.

  9. Re:LCD? No thanks! on Are CRTs History? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When you select 32-bit color, you are infact only physically displaying 24-bit. The remaining 8 bits are used for transparency. Your eyes can't distinguish between more than 24-bit colors anyway.

  10. Re:PIN compatibility on AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core Chips Released · · Score: 1

    yes, it is compatible with existing equiptment.

  11. Re:So? on ATi's Multi-GPU CrossFire Graphics Card Unveiled · · Score: 1

    The dual nVIDIA GPU cards enormous? You should take a look at some old pictures of 3Dfx Voodoo5 6000 some time :)

  12. Re:Does this mean cheaper Apples? on Intel Preps Mac mini Look-Alike · · Score: 1

    Exchange rate in itself has nothing to do with how you percieve prices. Wages and cost are the only factors to consider. If you earn 1,000 (of some random currency) per hr, the fact that a computer costs 50,000 won't bother you much.

  13. Re:Explanation is bullshit on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm not sure about the medical standpoint in such cases. Technically even though you'll have all the female traits, you'll still medically be male.

  14. Re:Explanation is bullshit on Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters · · Score: 1

    True enough, your gender is determined by the chromosone, however, if you have the chromosome set to become male, but you are immune to testosterone, you'll become female. This is rare, but still worth mentioning.

  15. Re:Breasts... on Netscape 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Shiira, Konqueror etc :)

  16. Re:US Blockade? on Cuba Switching to Linux · · Score: 1

    not sure, but afaik all of AMDs cpus are made in Germany these days.

  17. Re:There still is a target on Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted · · Score: 1

    Well, take Sweden forexample, telling *WHERE* the illegal data is, is not considered illegal. Which means that sites who offer links to torrents are perfectly legal there.

  18. Re:Please Explain on Fortress: The Successor to Fortran? · · Score: 1

    maybe they prefer the syntax, and find that they can solve their computation problems faster with it. Personally I'm pretty good at C/C++, but I still prefer to use BC for simple calculations.

  19. Re:The REAL solution on New Computer Powered By PoE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well, first of all, the loss of power is much greater with voltages like 12 V than 230 V and so on, besides I prefer to have 1-2 amps to my computer instead of 20.

  20. Waiting for the sources on Mac OS X Tiger Released and Analyzed · · Score: 1

    I love Mac OS X 10.4, no complaints about it so far, except that I'd like to recompile my kernel, but I can't as the newest sources released under APSL are 10.3.9. Anyone know when Apple will release the sources?

  21. This trend is seen in Norway too on Interest in CS as a Major Drops · · Score: 1

    Here in Norway, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) had a requirement of 56 studying points to get into the Computer Engineer major back in 2000, but the demand has dropped so much that the requirement for 2004 dropped all the way to 45 points. (the toughest courses in Norway requires something like 65 studyingpoints, 20 points is the lowest possible).

  22. Re:Access times are less than 200 milliseconds... on InPhase Announces 300GB Holographic Discs · · Score: 1

    It is only a problem for small files, it is not a problem for large chunks of data like video, large disk images and so on

  23. Re:Makes perfect business sense on Dell Still Intel Only · · Score: 1

    They really expect the AMD based Dell's to be so much better than the Intel ones that they'd make AMD run out of cpus?

  24. Re:Possible Problem on Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System? · · Score: 1

    ah, seems the issue is only a concern on x86 then, not x86_64.

  25. Re:Possible Problem on Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System? · · Score: 1

    on x86 doing cat /proc/meminfo yields: MemTotal: 1034424 kB HighTotal: 131008 kB LowTotal: 903416 kB Now, obviously if there was no HighMem support, I'd only have 903416 kB of memory available. it'd be interesting to see what you have on that x86_64 system of yours.