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  1. Re:Cut power in half? on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    He doesn't specify what power consumption he is talking about, so he probably means the power consumption of the old cooling system. Much less impressive than halving total power consumption.

  2. Re:Broadcast resolution on Apple TV "Barely Watchable" · · Score: 1

    DVDs are usually progressive scan, so they'll look better if you can play them without interlacing.

  3. Re:sad on GPL Code Found In OpenBSD Wireless Driver · · Score: 1

    The GPL doesn't prohibit redistribution, copyright law prohibits redistribution. The GPL *allows* redistribution under certain conditions which in this case were not being observed.

  4. Re:Respect and Freedom? on Thailand Bans YouTube · · Score: 1

    You can hold anything scared you like, but if you put others in jail because they don't have the same religious beliefs as you then you are an immoral asshole. This certainly applies to the king of Thailand.

  5. Re:Keyboard/Mouse vs. Controller on Valve Hoping For 360/PC Play, Scared of PS3 Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dreamcast Quake 3 vs PC Quake 3. Keyboard+mouse won so hard it wasn't even funny.

  6. Re:The lowest of the low on Circuit City and the American Dream · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the economics of crack dealing mirrors the economics of legitimate corporations: one very highly paid leader and a shitload of workers getting screwed. You'll probably make less than minimum wage.

  7. Re:There are things scarier on The Coming Uranium Crisis · · Score: 2, Informative

    All fusion bombs use a fission detonator.

  8. Re:Yes! That's a horrible idea! on 'Gates for President' Group Gives Up · · Score: 1

    Combining a national dividend with a flat sales tax has the same effect as a progressive tax but is much easier to implement, and therefore has much less overhead.

  9. Re:Like the GPL? on Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No · · Score: 1

    That right is not taken away by the GPL, it is taken away by copyright law.

  10. Re:The Best FPS was made 10 years ago. Case Closed on Ten Maxims Every FPS Should Follow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Q3 is only pure twitch if you don't know the maps. The strategy is all about predicting the enemy's movements while balancing the need to control as much of the map as possible with remaining unpredictable yourself. When you've played for long enough the "twitch" becomes purely automatic - you see them, you rail them, with no conscious thought in between. For this reason the rocket launcher is the most interesting weapon, as it depends so much on your predictive ability.

  11. Re:The Best FPS was made 10 years ago. Case Closed on Ten Maxims Every FPS Should Follow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was released in 1999, so it's not quite 10 years, but it's still depressing to think that gameplay hasn't advanced at all since then. I can think of two reasons why: the rise of consoles and the rise of LCD monitors. Console controllers aren't precise enough for Q3 speed gameplay, and LCD monitors are capped at 60Hz (even those that sync to 75Hz resample down to 60Hz) and most have perceptible lag. People who say 60Hz is enough obviously never played a fast FPS at high level. I used to play Q3 on a CRT at 180Hz, with the detail turned down to almost minimum. I never got to pro standards, but I'd kick ass on public servers. Another possibility is that pro-level Q3 is the highest possible achievement for human gaming, and the human brain is simply too slow for anything faster or more complicated.

  12. Re:Get Laptops or smaller on The Power Consumption of Modern PCs · · Score: 1

    "UTF-8 for instance is very easy to support since it has ASCII as a SUBSET of the standard."

    By that argument proving complicated theorems is very easy, because simple arithmetic is a subset of the procedure.

  13. FF8 makes up for FF7 on Do You Care About Race in Games? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd agree that Barret of FF7 is a poorly implemented stereotype, but FF8 has one of the best black characters in any game with Kiros. Although he's only playable in the Laguna flashback scenes, he's smart and capable, and most importantly does not "play the race card" or in any way call attention to his race. His scenes were some of the best parts of the game.

  14. Re:More Wii Exercise Is On The Way on The Good Fortune of Wii Exercise · · Score: 1

    With a high quality hard pad (which means either CobaltFlux or DIY home built) and Stepmania, it can be better.

  15. Re:That word. . . on Bruce Schneier Talks Brain Heuristics and Security · · Score: 1

    So if "literal" doesn't mean "literal" anymore, what word should we use instead. I oppose the degradation of language.

  16. Re:God bless this little thief on Teen Accuses Record Companies of Collusion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    God bless this alleged little copyright infringer... Get it right people.

  17. Re:a safer solution on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    Useless for disinfecting sponges because you won't get significant radiation reaching the center.

  18. Re:Non-invasive EEG? on Neural "Extension Cord" Developed · · Score: 1

    If you put the electrodes under the skull you get much better signal quality.

  19. Re:2ch, not 2chan on Japanese Stores Lowering PS3 Prices · · Score: 1

    That should have been http://2ch.net/, not 2-ch

  20. 2ch, not 2chan on Japanese Stores Lowering PS3 Prices · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The article references http://2-ch.net/ but calls it http://2chan.net/. 2ch is text only and more popular, 2chan has images. Often people say 2chan when they mean 2ch, but they are two different websites.

  21. Re:Fake on Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? · · Score: 1

    You could farm them for organs.

  22. Re:Brilliant! on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Try adding a one second delay to your keyboard/mouse. The reason a short delay is so irritating is because delays like that don't exist naturally. Eg. You push the door and it moves immediately, not after 1 second. Even very short delays are noticeable and annoying. A 1 minute delay would be less annoying, because it's long enough that you think of it as a real delay not a mistake.

  23. Re:Yawn on Microsoft Laptop Recipient Auctioning Laptop · · Score: 1

    Effect and affect are each both nouns and verbs. "Affect their opinion", "Flat affect", "Special effect", "Effect a change".

  24. Re:Unethical? on Computer Characters Tortured for Science · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If their worldview is broken enough that they will kill somebody for no good reason, then damaging that worldview is a good thing. I'd argue it's unethical *not* to perform the Milgram experiment on as many people as possible (before they know what it is).

  25. Re:Sega should of made a real sonic pinball game on How Sega Ruined Sonic the Hedgehog · · Score: 1

    That's not real pinball, that's highly inaccurate pinball simulation.