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  1. Re:Electric universe on Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please don't confuse Creationism and ID. Creationism is a spiritual belief. ID is a collection of "scientific evidence" invented to "prove" Creationism, and is therefore neither religion or science.

  2. Re:Ether on Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter · · Score: 1

    IANAPG it was my understanding that a static field consists of virtual photons in much the same way that a moving field consists of 'regular' photons.

    I realize I'm saying that photons are made of EM fields which are made of photons, but well, they sorta are.

  3. Re:Glorified Cattle Prod on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 3, Informative

    A Taser is actually far more violent than a cattle prod. A cattle prod feels like a hard slap. A Taser drops you to the ground in pain.

  4. Re:bad test on Performance Showdown - SSDs vs. HDDs · · Score: 1

    Right, except that HDD's already have caches and they manage okay. So why not SSD's? You would only need to cache 2 or 4 blocks to eliminate most of the redundant writing.

  5. Re:bad test on Performance Showdown - SSDs vs. HDDs · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a 64kb hardware cache solve this problem?

  6. Re:Smart move on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Duh on Larrabee Team Is Focused On Rasterization · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Creating a GPU that won't run existing games well (or at all) never made sense. Not to Intel, they've been doing exactly that for years!
  8. Re:3 cores sounds "wrong", but... on AMD's Triple-Core Phenom X3 Processor Launched · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of die photos showing that Celerons are Pentiums with disabled cache. And Sony openly admits that every Playstation 3 comes with one disabled SPE core.

  9. Re:3 cores sounds "wrong", but... on AMD's Triple-Core Phenom X3 Processor Launched · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then you'll be disappointed to find out you've been buying chips with disabled pieces of cache for years.

    What's going on is out of 500 million transistors, perhaps ONE of them is defective. Whatever cache/core/etc that one transistor is in, is therefore useless. But in no way does this make the rest of the chip 'dodgy'.

  10. Re:this will benefit lower freq apps too on Record Setting Silicon Resonator Reaches 4.51 GHz · · Score: 1

    A counter is child's play compared to a whole ALU. And most asic fabs are only 1 or 2 generations behind Intel.

  11. Re:obsolete on A Fond Look at Some Obsolete Ports · · Score: 1

    Right, so he is of the opinion that modems are old-fashioned. What's wrong with that?

  12. Re:Its a bomb on Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor · · Score: 1

    Just because the first high pressure superconductor happenst to be explosive doesn't mean they all will be. Besides, transmission wires aren't the only things superconductors are useful for. IANAP but wouldnt a coil of this be a great way to store energy?

  13. Re:More Integrated Garbage? on Intel Details Nehalem CPU and Larrabee GPU · · Score: 1

    Intel GMA950 does compositing just fine in Leopard. Compiz works plenty fast on it too, though it's buggy as hell.

  14. Re:So,when will we have the night they shut off IP on The Night the IETF Shut Off IPv4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IPv6 has around 10^23 addresses per square meter of Earth. The only reason I can think of that we would want to replace it would be if we found a superior replacement for the entire concept of packet switching.

  15. Re:From the patent..."audio" signal. on Gibson Accuses Guitar Hero of Patent Violation · · Score: 1

    MIDI instruments make music. Guitar hero plays a pre-recorded track and you get points if you can keep time with it. That's not making music.

  16. Re:probabilities of being silenced on Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline · · Score: 1
  17. Re:19 Watts on Wii Homebrew Takes Several Leaps Forward · · Score: 1

    Granted that doesn't include the other hardware you include Right, and when you add all that in you get 60 to 80 watts, just like I said. Bust out a kill-a-watt (or an ammeter and Ohm's law) if you don't believe me.
  18. 19 Watts on Wii Homebrew Takes Several Leaps Forward · · Score: 1

    As I recall the P3's weighed in at around 60-80 watts at the wall. The Wii uses 19 watts at full load.

  19. Re:Geosynchronous Latency on Japan Launches "Super-Speed" Internet Satellite · · Score: 1

    Well, since data rate is proportional to SNR you need a dish to accomplish any sort of decent speeds. Which would mean having to track the sat in real time. Armchair astronomers out there - would it be feasable to make a satellite-tracking consumer product?

  20. Re:HD DVD joins Betamax in tech hell! on Toshiba Making Funeral Plans for HD DVD · · Score: 1

    When will tech companies learn that everyone wants one standard ... You would think that by now they would learn to all cooperate and back one product. So we should ditch OS X and Linux? I'm not trolling, it just seems like a monopoly on standards royalties is just as bad as any other kind of monopoly. People bought in too early and got burned, sux to be them, but that's capitalism!

  21. Re:Where is Anonymous when you need them? on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 1

    SCO doesn't kill people with negligent pseudo-medicine or stuff all its BPR's into a filthy basement and forbid them to go outside, all the while convincing them that it's their own fault that it's happening to them. ..at least not that we know of?

  22. Re:Soo ... on Tolkien Trust Sues New Line, May Kill "Hobbit" · · Score: 1

    It's still outrageously hypocritical of them. Remember those commercials about "when you pirate a movie it hurts the little guys"? Well apparently it doesn't, because they don't get paid anyway.

  23. Re:Why can live sports events be copyrighted? on Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or in the case of a Patriots game, the whole thing is fixed! /cheap shot

  24. Re:Why are we running out? on TV White Space & The Future of Wireless Broadband · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope. You're counting everything from 0 to 3.5gHz as your "3.5gHz band". That's a 3.5 gHz channel, not a 100mHz channel.

    When you want to send a signal on a 100 mHz wide channel, you would first construct a signal that uses frequencies between 0 and 100 mhz. Then you can shift it up by 450 mHz and get a 100mHz channel centered at 500 mHz, or shift it up by 100 gHz to each frequency and get a 100 mhz channel centered at 100.05 gigahertz. But it's still the same bandwidth and capacity.

  25. Re:What I don't understand... on Microsoft Insider Details Xbox 360 Red Ring Problems · · Score: 1

    Common misconception. That roar is mostly the DVD drive, not the fans.