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  1. Re:a whole 1.544? on Sun President Says PCs Are Relics · · Score: 1

    So you use a compression scheme like DivX or Xvid and then it takes more CPU time on the client side to decode the stream. I don't know exactly how much, but we're probably heading back to where we started on CPU power.

  2. Groovy on Clever Artificial Hand Developed · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else think of the part in Army of Darkness with the mechanical hand when he smashes the goblet?

  3. Re:You KNEW this was coming on Space Penguin Could Hop Around The Moon · · Score: 1

    Nope, In space Linux runs on you.

  4. Re:negligible on Vista Launch Good for Desktop Linux? · · Score: 1

    I think it's not going to matter because the people that know enough to care that Vista is lacking promised features would already have the knowledge on linux and may already be using it. Whereas the people with the spyware infected XP box that are sick of it and kick it to the curb and buy a new box that comes with Vista already arn't going to care.

  5. Agfa works the same way. on Making Lab Quality Digital Photos? · · Score: 1

    I work at a Photo Lab at a grocery store chain in MN. (Cash Wise/Coborns) We use AGFA equipment in all of our stores. We've had good luck with the quality and occasionally even do some 6x45 or 6x7 medium format negs for local pro photographers. The place I work has a D.lab 3. It has a dry-to-dry print time of 2.5 minutes and will turn out an advertised maximum of 1700 prints per hour. It uses a laser just like the Fuji and Noritsu labs and the standard RA-4 paper process. We charge $.24 per digital print everyday except wednesday when they're on special for $.20. It doesn't have to be a Fuji or Noritsu to get good prints, it has to be maintained. The K-Mart next door has an older Noritsu and their quality is horrible, I don't know what they do. We run tests on our papers at least once a day, sometimes a couple times a day.

  6. Re:Good job on Japan to Deploy Massive Broadband Satellite · · Score: 1

    Your Road Runner must suck. If I can find a good server with a few states of me (I'm in Minnesota so MN, MI, WI, IL) I can get nice consistent 25-35 ms pings.

  7. Re:Monopoly on Windows Vista May Degrade OpenGL · · Score: 1

    Monopoly's just a game. I'm trying to control the fucking world.

  8. Re:No Services on Boot? on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 1

    More or less. I have a Duron machine with 256 mb of ram for my parents set up (that I'm actually typing this on) that's been totally stable for a month now. (Actually 29 days 10 hours) The last reboot was a day or two after I put it together and ran windows update. Even with the low amount of ram it's a very well running machine. As much as I hate to admit it, the joke is dying.

  9. Change the jokes on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Now we need to go and change all the jokes saying will it run Longhorn to will it run Vista.

  10. actually put to use? on 13.1 Surround Sound Coming to a Home near you? · · Score: 1

    Right now you can buy receivers with 10.1 surround sound, but nothing actually uses it. 6.1 and 7.1 are rare themselves. Fading between front to rear speakers gives a good effect on where something's coming from or going, having like 3 side speakers can't be that much better.

  11. Re:Haha on Download Your Brain · · Score: 1

    But if it is 1 percent as powerful, a beowulf cluster of 100 PS3's would equal one human. Human's only use 10 percent of their potential brain power so we'd need 10 PS3's to replicate the brain of some dumbass. I think I'd rather use it to play video games than make a copy of a friend that's now stuck in a box.

  12. Re:See, it's that 'should' on Software Glitches Stall Toyota Prius · · Score: 1

    Well, with most automatic trans cars, you can't turn the key to the lock position without having the car in park. With most manual trans cars (and some automatics)there's a switch/lever on the column that you have to push to get the key to the lock position. So for the most part it's hard to lock your wheel while moving.

  13. Re:The RIAA Will Never Quit on RIAA File-Sharing Lawsuits Top 10,000 People Sued · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's one for him, I just pulled a paper out of my ass on this topic and this[LAWeekly.com] was one of my sources.

  14. Firefox eased my pain on Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I used to run adaware with IE, I've run it once and a while since I switched to firefox and it'll occasionally find a cookie or two that doesn't bother me. With IE it'd find a couple hundred problems.
    Security vulnerabilites my ass.
    (yes I know spyware and security is different, but firefox sure is a lot less of a pain in the ass)

  15. Re:food.... on loband - Killer App for Developing World? · · Score: 1

    I believe it's give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you'll feed him for life. sooooo.... close enough.

  16. Re:You know.... on What Kind Of Software RAID Are You Running? · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean, because that's what I thought too.

  17. Ignorance is bliss on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 1

    Users are happy in their little world of the little blue 'e' taking them to the interweb. Why would they want anything to change and have to actually care what goes on?

  18. statistics on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 1

    75% of statistics are made up on the spot