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  1. U of A Prof on Permanently Set Process Priority in Windows? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tom Sugar, a robotics professor at U of Arizona has done a lot of real time stuff, I think his website has something....

  2. I like this book on OpenGL Distilled · · Score: 3, Informative

    My only complaint is that the binding broke in a couple of weeks, and I had lost the receipt. So hold onto it.

  3. Re:Not really on Apple and Windows Will Force Linux Underground · · Score: 0

    I partially agree - but I think your are a little harsh. Let's not bring religion into it.

    I am however a bit disappointed that a comment that I firmly believe to represent reality is modded down.

  4. Not really on Apple and Windows Will Force Linux Underground · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux was designed for the cheapskate, to download as much free porn as possible. Nothing stops porn, and the need for people to have it for free. Not to mention free software - the two are the yin and yang of the internet.

  5. Re:Good News ... but .... on Universal to Offer Music for Free · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When iTunes was young, some guy tried to resell a song on ebay:
    Here is the story .

  6. Re:Good News ... but .... on Universal to Offer Music for Free · · Score: 1

    Maybe they will offer "Double Dutch Bus" for free ! (Remember that debacle on Ebay ?)

  7. Re:don't forget on Happy 15th Birthday Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think zero has come yet. -1 or -2 or less ?

    And while I am here, let me just reiterate that "hurd" is a poor choice of name for a kernel.

  8. Re:What they really need to get this rolling...... on World's Largest Medical Experiment · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think such a study would be seminal work in this area....

  9. Re:I thought on World's Largest Medical Experiment · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is called the HIV virus. AIDS can result from being infected with the HIV virus. And I don't think the military invented it. It's been recently shown to have definitely come from monkeys, probably in the 1930's.

  10. Re:Credible odds? on Microsoft Hoping for Vista in January · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think we should be so hard on Microsoft. Has Hurd been completed yet ? In complex projects, these things happen.

  11. Excessive force on Kent State Banning Athletes from Using Facebook · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apparently, they just didn't learn their lesson!! Now they are just trying to be controlling digitally.

  12. Beat this on Amendment To Kill Broadcast and Audio Flags · · Score: 2, Interesting

    SATOR
    AREPO
    SATOR
    AREPO
    TENET
    OPERA
    ROTAS

    Under palindromes the Encyclopedia Brittanica has the following to say about the above:

    This Latin palindromic square found on a Roman wall in Cirencester Eng., and in Pompeii may be translated: "Arepo the sower holds the wheels with care." As late as the 19th century it was graven on amulets and charms and laid upon pregnant women to ensure safe delivery. Like the sign of the fish (an acrostic: Greek ichthys,"fish," happens to have the first letters of the Greek words for Jesus Christ, God's son, Saviour), the square may have been used to identify fellow Christians in the days of persecution.

  13. I made this up on Amendment To Kill Broadcast and Audio Flags · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wonder if Sununu's fired now ?

    (think about that sentance)

  14. UPenn prof on Liquid Cooling More than One Component? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jean Gallier at UPenn has a lot of stuff about this on his webpage: here

  15. Early stories on MacBook Pro Batteries Swelling and Failing · · Score: 3, Funny

    We here a lot of this kind of thing - faulty Mac products. But they don't usually pan out, so why give it much thought ?

  16. Re:Yeah maybe, on DRM and Democracy · · Score: 1

    It's funny that you should mention it, but I've been trying to think of ways of using free online services for backups. Gmail may work, but it is akward to open a lot of accounts. What you really want is to be able to run a business. I was thinking of taking data and encoding it into jpgs and then uploading them to photo sites.

  17. Yeah maybe, on DRM and Democracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But probably not. The truth of the matter is that there will be a 100 petabyte flashdrive that people hand around that has ALL of music on it and the issue will be moot.

  18. In Soviet Russia... on Keeping an Eye on Government Snooping · · Score: 1

    the snooping problem used to be very pervasive. I am not sure how it is now, but it certainly was a problem for a long time.

  19. I have a recommendation on Google to Distribute Online Video Ads · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They should use the famouse "Dildo song". It's the most popular download.

  20. Re:inflection, emphasis, tone, etc. usually missin on Why Emails Are Misunderstood · · Score: 1

    OK how about this: "Written English is ambigous" ??

  21. Best rule on Why Emails Are Misunderstood · · Score: 0

    AVOID all caps. It is ambiguous.

  22. Re:France backs down? on Apple Defeats RIAA and France In Same Day · · Score: 1

    And how many Jews did they hand over to the Nazis ? Shame on them.

  23. Re:Comparison on OpenDocument Voted In By ISO · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of hype in the news about chaos theory, but as an applied mathematician I don't see many applications of it. There are a lot of theories as to why it fell, but, in my opinion, chaos theory is neither useful in such a case, or even applicable. If you ask people concrete questions like "what would you actually calculate using chaos theory to show this", I never get an answer.

    By definition, chaotic systems are sensitive to initial conditions, so small changes in the intial states make big long term changes. This has been a problem in using the idea of chaos to simulate real systems - noise matters a lot.

  24. What worries me on The Future of the Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is that the tension over US control causes a splintering of the internet. So that you would have to do something weird if you were in the US and wanted to use the "French internet". It would be like the old days, when you had to be on bitnet to send mail to someone on bitnet.

  25. Comparison on OpenDocument Voted In By ISO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you look at the history of standards, such as done at NIST, usually people try to choose the best thing, but it is hard to forsee what is the best. A good example are the standards associated with how to quantify vibrations in static structures, such as bridges. Looked good in 1948, turned out bad (Tacoma bridge).