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  1. Re:It is glass, however. on Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass' · · Score: 1

    Lexan.

  2. Re:The price is actually pretty nice on Gigabit Speeds At Home In the US · · Score: 3, Funny

    You save over $30/mo by adding a basic phone.

  3. Re:What good is... on IE9 Team Says "Our GPU Acceleration Is Better Than Yours" · · Score: 1

    Because all software writers should work to make things work on old versions of drivers that don't support needed features, instead of expecting people to take care of their machines and run occasional updates on drivers. Gotcha.

  4. Re:What good is... on IE9 Team Says "Our GPU Acceleration Is Better Than Yours" · · Score: 1

    emerge mozilla-firefox

    Not *that* complicated...

  5. Re:I want google TV in my TV on Google TV Next Month, Boxee In November · · Score: 1
  6. Re:IDK on T-Mobile To Begin HTC G2 Preorders · · Score: 1

    Each core of the new architectures outperforms the 3.5 P4. They are designed to more efficiently perform more work per cycle. More, better integer units, and a wider float unit make the processor able to handle more work per cycle. In addition, you have multiple of them.

  7. Re:RETARD MODERATION on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Virtualbox is platform independent, and he also mentioned using a VM. Once all the email is on the IMAP server in the VM, you could easily attach to it with a client that runs on any platform.

    Also, IMAP servers are platform independent, as they can run on OSX, Windows, Linux, BSD, and almost any other popular OS I can think of. It's just that Linux distros are common, easy to set up, and light enough on resources that they would be easy to set up in a VM, and without the licensing costs of OSX or Windows, it becomes price comparable to lesser solutions.

    I know it's a lot to ask these days to get people to read the comments that they are replying to, but maybe, just maybe, someone complaining about a lack of reading comprehension should take more time to read.

  8. Re:Efficient? Better in any way? on Wireless Power Group Has 'Qi' Prototypes · · Score: 1

    I've had one CFL die on me since I swapped them all out about 4 years ago. It was the one in the room with the kids staying with me for a couple months. I suspect it was more of the usage pattern of the light being used for slow-mo dancing than the CFL. I just always buy from a respected name, instead of grabbing the cheapest one on the shelf. I try not to support the race for the bottom.

  9. Re:Tabs on the left make sense on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Get a video card that supports different orientations. My ATI seems to without issue. Also, use the NEMA mounts on the back of most monitors. Mount the monitor on the wall. For videos, either rotate it back, or watch it in smaller format.

  10. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the lack of suspense, and lack of surprise should so something about our society, such as the destruction of an entire culture and alien race for pure profit doesn't surprise us at all. Perhaps we should reconsider this.

    IMO, this is what they were aiming for.

  11. Re:woot on UK ISP To Prioritize Gaming Traffic · · Score: 1

    According to TFS: "Demon says it has enough capacity for its own customers and that's who it's looking out for."

    While we know that no company would ever lie about something, I have no problem with companies giving precedence to real-time communications, from voice, to video, to gaming, in order to facilitate an improved experience for the users. After all, your browser doesn't care that the next three packets get to it at the same time, instead of in order, but that jitter in a video game or voice conversation could be annoying.

    In addition, if they're paying extra for the upgrades needed to carry their real-time traffic, doesn't that benefit the rest of the customers who don't need real-time as much right now?

  12. Re:"significantly affected"? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    One data point is an anecdote. A thousand is a study.

  13. Re:Sneaky, yes. Lies, not quite. on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    I do. Try letting off the loud pedal every once in a while, sparky. For the record, I'm a 26 year old male, who likes to drive fast and corner hard, and I still manage to get the suggested mileage out of my car.

  14. Re:The expense of the interlock... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they need to let bars be built in the suburbs, then.

  15. Re:Wait... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 2, Informative

    BAC calculators aren't that hard to find.

    http://www.ou.edu/oupd/bac.htm
    http://www.drunkdrivingdefense.com/general/bac.htm
    http://www.bestduidefense.com/BACCHART.htm

    Those are three of the first responses on google. And according to those, 3 drinks in an hour will put you at about a .05, if you're 200 lbs. As opposed to 4 for a .08. Also, look at the effects at even .06. On the first of those links, if you scroll down you see that at .04 driving skills are "significantly affected". Come off it. If you've been drinking more than a beer or two with dinner, let the wife drive home. Or if you want to let her have wine with dinner, then stay off the booze yourself. It's not a complex proposition.

  16. Re:Any update in terms of long run use? on Leaked Intel Roadmap Shows 600GB SSD · · Score: 1

    Rsync run by crontab to a backup drive.

  17. Re:no exceptions for wireless! on Google & Verizon's Real Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 1

    They may also not want people using SIP to avoid using minutes.

  18. Re:After almost 20 years on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Doom 3 and Quake 4 were pretty good, IMO, and they were supported out of the box.

  19. Re:good tech is available, money is not on Stanford's New Solar Tech Harnesses Heat, Light · · Score: 1

    You mean like credit unions?

    Or that the government should runt he banks?

  20. Re:uhhh on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps the device supports SNMP, and they changed the setting that way, without needing access to a web GUI. Honestly, if they're going to be doing this thousands of times, a simple perl script with SNMP would be way better than a couple hundred support agents clicking around changing things.

  21. Re:And? on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 1

    Nissan is American?

  22. Re:My only question is... on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 1

    And with that update, you got the New Super-Happy-Fun-Time DRM 1.4(R), now with extra sticky bits(TM)!

  23. Re:why not REALLY simple? on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bought the cheapest cables that Best Buy offered and haven't had any problems.

    You spent $60 on an HDMI cable?

  24. Re:My only question is... on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Once the Blu-Ray player auto-updates itself to support the New Super-Happy-Fun-Time DRM 1.4(R), now with extra sticky bits(TM)! it might just...

  25. Re:Not a surprise on PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? · · Score: 1

    DRM notwithstanding, the statement that such games are not made for the PC are false, and I chose an example of how. If you're going to call DRM into account, then a lot of FPS's aren't playable either, Operating Systems are unusable, etc.

    Granted, I don't care for the DRM, but the game was still there. See also: Diablo, Prototype, Hellgate: London, Fable.