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  1. Re:The thing about these machines is on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    depending on the monitor's refresh rate, 80 fps may be the best a monitor can do: 8 ms response time = 125 fps 12 ms = 83 fps 16 ms = 63 fps And many monitors have response times of 12 ms or more. So if you aren't paying attention, you could build a system that updates faster than the monitor can display.

  2. Re:Platter drives on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: 2, Informative

    But this is a laptop drive, and the largest capacity available for a laptop drive, or 2.5 inch drives in general.

  3. Re:Papers, please. on Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security · · Score: 2

    As for the Madison quote, the Constitution LIMITS the power of the government, it does not GRANT power to the government. But in any case the issue is state vs. federal rights, not the idea that we have a nationwide ID card.

    The constitution is pretty explicit in what powers it grants to the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. You are probably thinking of the bill of rights and other ammendments, many of which place restrictions on government power.

  4. Re:Satellite Images on Google Says Complete Privacy Does Not Exist · · Score: 1

    Urban and city are the same. You are probably thinking of rural.

  5. Re:180 degrees? on Screen With 180 Degree Field of View · · Score: 1

    That's the point, to provide you with peripheral vision. You still use the mouse to look around.

  6. Re:Unclarity on Xiotech Unveils Disruptive Storage Technology · · Score: 1

    First thing I thought of was that when 1 platter in the hard drive fails, it still uses the other platters. But I may be wrong.

  7. Re:"unforseen"? on IBM Using Complex Math To Manage Natural Disasters · · Score: 1

    How about a tornado in Salt Lake City, Utah (way outside the tornado belt)? Happened once a few years ago.

  8. Re:slightly inaccurate summary on Scientists Look at Martian Salt for Ancient Life · · Score: 1

    I've never quite understood how that allowed them to find the age of things. How do you know that is when the rock formed? You know the age of the atoms the rock is made of, not the age of the rock.

  9. Re:But, will it fly? on High Efficiency Hybrid Car Planned For 2009 · · Score: 1

    Flying cars won't become common so long as we keep the pilot's license requirements where they are, even if the cars do become cheap. Your worries will be valid when it no longer costs thousands of dollars to get a pilot's license. P.S. What does mouth breathing have to do with anything else in that post?

  10. Re:More than just ink... on HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink? · · Score: 1

    Old, expensive inkjets can last a long time as well. I had an HP 500 Deskjet printer from the 1990 that ran well for over 10 years, it never broke down but got replaced with a combo printer/scanner.

  11. Re:Lame on Star Trek XI Plot Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the terminator one and two plots.

  12. Re:Does UKUSA expand it? on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 2, Informative

    What about the American Revolution? That was kinda violent.

  13. Re:fat fingers work with buttons on Steve Jobs Hates Buttons · · Score: 1

    I've also seen styluses that have an eraser looking piece on one end that acts as a right click when used.

  14. Re:Almost any company can do this. We do. on eBay Bargains Soon To Be A Thing Of The Past? · · Score: 1

    As long as the products aren't being stolen to sell at a lower price it doesn't matter if you have $60 million to loose. Adapt your business model (what you did) to stay competitive or loose the money.

  15. Re:Good for them on Take Two Vows To Publish Manhunt 2 · · Score: 1

    They could always release drivers for the wiimote for pc, or make it compatible with one of the many open source drivers already out.

  16. Re:Lessons taught through the difficult curve on Redistricting Videogame Shows Problems in the System · · Score: 1

    When I played the last challenge the map had 1 R and 3 D before and after the redistricting.

  17. Re:huh on Major Shakeup in Nintendo of America Brass? · · Score: 1

    Whats the big deal with moving as a kid? I moved a dozen times before I was 18.

  18. Re:DMCA does not apply on New Review Compares MythTV to Vista MCE · · Score: 1

    1. Create and ISO image of the dvd 2. Mount image 3. Play using DVD playing software 4. ??? 5. Profit

  19. Re:umm on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    WTF does breathing through your mouth have to do with anything you just said?

  20. Re:Shield frequency modulation on Star Trek Shields Now a Possibility? · · Score: 1

    Why oh why did no one think of having 2 shields of differing frequencies so that they could not be bypassed simultaneously? (Or did they and I just never heard about it?)

  21. Re:Students Not Second-Class Citizens on MySpace is Free Speech, Case Overturned · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about teachers, principals, and other staff?

  22. Re:"hundreds of cores"? on Multi-Threaded Programming Without the Pain · · Score: 1

    5 processors 128 cores per processor. I wonder if the 8-socket motherboards for AMD processors work with only 5 in there?

  23. Re:Consumer Reports on Strange Bedfellows Fight Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    Then why do so some places only have the 10% ethanol during the winter?

  24. Re:DREAMERS! on New Report On Municipal Wireless · · Score: 1

    not if they want to maintain compatibility to MS Office 2003 or 2007, but that is more an issue with the software than hardware.

  25. Re:Go back to Digg, take your grammar with you! on Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops · · Score: 1

    or
    Al Gore, eat them. (as in telling Al Gore to eat them)