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  1. Re:Cattle...? Thanks! on YouTube Breeding Harmful Scientific Misinformation · · Score: 1

    Exactly what do you think a clinical trial is?

  2. Re:Teaching Graphic Design on Old Software or Open Source? · · Score: 1

    If they are completely different, why can I read out the same labels? The Photoshop 7 image is in a file browser mode with no active layers, but all basic UI elements are still present. Specific keyboard or mouse movements need retraining, but these interfaces are very similar.

  3. Re:Why AMD Released Faulty CPUs: Possible Theory on Erratum Plagues Quad-Core Opterons, Phenoms · · Score: 1

    A big recall program is more expensive than just pissing customers off and taking additional costs for shipping and handling. The OEMs, distributors and retailers are the ones that will get really pissed.

  4. Re:Bummer on Erratum Plagues Quad-Core Opterons, Phenoms · · Score: 1

    Well, as AMD was already overall not on par with Intel per clock, a 20 % decrease, if that's the general result, would indeed hurt them. It would basically make even the (just about) cheapest Intel offering competitive with the top-notch AMD CPU.

  5. Re:Shocked on Wireless Keyboard "Encryption" Cracked · · Score: 1

    But, obviously, you should have two packets (down and up) for every keypress. If that means padding, then so be it. 8 million keypresses is quite reassuring anyway.

  6. Re:Not for Win32 compatibility on Native Windows PE File Loading on OS X? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    UI includes showing the actual images. Sending them over IPC is certainly not wise from a performance standpoint.

  7. Re:Well MS got a point on Vista Branding Confusing Even To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Do the PowerPC Macs have a VESA (x86...) BIOS for their graphics? If not, you fail Super VGA...

  8. Re:"Capable" is a good word on Vista Branding Confusing Even To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You confuse stability and security. Shared 16-bit GDI, anyone? 49.7 day bug? NT 3.x was real stable and had the era-advantages you mention.

  9. Re:Number of maintainers falls as project ages on More MS, Less Talent In Open Source's Future · · Score: 1

    A "product" like Tomcat is useful by being a platform. As such, new standards and other developments outside of the product makes a greater implact relative to, say, a game. Many Java-related projects (i.e. projects that not only are written in Java, but support other stuff in Java) went through significant changes for the 1.5 release, for example. Just keeping a project of this type and quality alive requires quite a bit of work.

  10. Re:Remind me again on Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock · · Score: 4, Informative

    That number of 3 atoms per cubic meter is the average density of the complete universe, inluding stars, planets and black holes, but also including the vast void between galaxies. Any place in the Milky Way, and especially in the relative vicinity of the Sun, is "much" denser.

  11. Re:How quickly we forget... on Vista Makes CNET UK's List of "Worst Consumer Tech" · · Score: 1
    Many apps for Win95 work fine. Apps for Win 3.1 does't work, kind of comparable to the fact that 68k is DOA on an Intel Mac. Does Rosetta handle hardware drivers? I've been bitten hard enough by the fact that it doesn't manage Java thunks (or is there some way to get Matlab 6.5 going on an x86 Intel Mac - an honest question as that's the only version I have access to when I'm offline relative to the license server?).

    NT itself is driving the XBox, it wasn't the reason that IA64 flopped and the x64 port was really smooth. Mac does it smoother, by not having a 64-bit kernel.

  12. Re:Vista is #10? on Vista Makes CNET UK's List of "Worst Consumer Tech" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What codecs do you use on each machine? An AVI is just a container and I somehow think you didn't rip into a Windows Media codec, hence the WMP version is (almost) irrelevant.

  13. Re:Remember the benefit of the doubt on Stalwarts Claim Asus eeePC Violates GPL · · Score: 1

    In fact, I think there have been quite a bit of violations regarding proper redistribution of the DirectX runtime, and using MS icons within other products, for example. I'm not specifically pointing at Asus now, just pointing out that total compliance is not the norm. On the other hand, the "redistribute the source" part of the GPL is the whole point of it, not some half-assed extra requirement.

  14. Re:330 teragrams emitted annually by people on Methane-Eating Bacteria Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    1000 kilograms just happen to be a megagram. You're off by 3 orders of magnitude.

  15. Re:here's a shocker on Methane-Eating Bacteria Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    If they don't get enough light, they will emit more carbon dioxide, but they will also be strictly unable to gain any mass. It's not like it's a very simple scenario. Compared to a completely barren land, a forest in the same place will always absorb more CO2, by its very existence.

  16. Re:My fear on 6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared · · Score: 1
    I just wish batteries had shorter/less memory.

    (Ok, ok, I know that they might not technically have memory effects anymore, but they still wear out...)

  17. Re:Amazing on Man Sized Sea Scorpion Fossil Found · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While this is true of the horse (and current equine are probably the largest ones ever), there are many almost-current-size horse-relatives in the fossil records. They just didn't survive, and the ancestors to the current species of horse did. The "gradually larger" trend is visible only with hindsight.

  18. Re:A 'leap-hour' in about 600 years on Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Yep, as long as we can expect timezone changes many times over during this period. (That is, insert no leap hour in UTC, but let everyone in the world change their local offset by another hour, if they feel like it, in 600 years.)

  19. Re:Is it me on The Fastest Processor You Can't Run · · Score: 1

    If Anandtech didn't get a really bad chip, the power usage numbers are quite disappointing. On the other hand, for the same microarchitecture, there is no MHz myth. A quad-core Core 2 at 3.2 GHz will beat every other x86 CPU in existence. With a 1600 MHz FSB, there is even no reason to call it seriously unbalanced.

  20. Re:C# Garbage... on C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances · · Score: 1

    They did no such thing, because there is no such thing in C#. They might have implemented IDisposable and called Dispose, but then they had done it incorrectly if the event handlers still worked...

  21. Re:Stupid Slashdot headline on C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is no explicit delete in C#. They may have added something in their framework, or they're just saying that they called delete on the collection where they thought they stored all objects. The GC isn't psychic. (It could be a good thing to ask the GC to delete an object explicitly and get an exception if it's indeed still referenced elsewhere, but that's not possible in C#, or Java for that matter.)

  22. Re:Um... so? on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think quite a few have done interviews or even declined interview offers. I know that I have, as I want to complete my PhD. That didn't stop them (Google) from flying me to Dublin and Zürich. A friend took up the offer of an internship, for a start.

  23. Re:why didn't they use the lunar retro-reflector? on Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible? · · Score: 1

    It would also give the complete atmosphere, twice, along the way. I could see how data modulation schemes and optics that would handle 1.5E6 m in space could still have problems with that.

  24. Re:SETI, and contact them? on Astronomers Announce 5-Planet System · · Score: 1

    Worst, they already know about the carbomite maneuver.

  25. Re:Wierd on Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard · · Score: 4, Funny

    All fanboys were just happy with how blazing fast file copy was compared to Vista. The non-fanboys tried to check the real size of the dir by copying it to a Vista machine afterwards, but the progress bar got stuck on 413 hours left and counting, so they couldn't file the bug in time.