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  1. Re:Preordering Windows? on Windows 7 Pre-Orders Top Vista's In Just 8 Hours · · Score: 1

    Please explain how you can fully represent a 20khz tone with 40,000 samples/second if the tone is not a perfect sinewave/other perfect waveform. (Which is likely to happen with either processing or multiple sounds involved)

  2. Re:Canada eh! on Incandescent Bulbs Return To the Cutting Edge · · Score: 1

    Any time you are in a climate that uses air conditioning part time that benefit during the winter is negated by the extra cost of cooling in the summer. Unless of course you switch between CFL/incandescent when seasons change

  3. Re:Brings back memories on AOL Shuts Down CompuServe · · Score: 1

    Some people still block AOL from chat servers, etc.

  4. Re:As the great Bartle said on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 1

    Another benefit (although probably not intentional) is if you have more people in the middle of nowhere away from each other you are most likely using less bandwidth, etc. because you don't have to send everyone information about a hundred other individuals (or more in some games in popular locations)

  5. Cable companies on SSN Required To Buy Palm Pre · · Score: 1

    Mediacom required either passing a credit check or giving them a credit/debit card number before they would give me a HD cable box. When they are giving you a piece of equipment they say costs $600-$1000 if I don't return, it is a LITTLE more understandable. For people who don't have a debit/credit card the credit check is a requirement. The only annoyance for me is the fact that if I actually apply for credit there may end up being a ton of credit checks on history because of all the companies that want to check it.

  6. Re:Here are some ideas... on Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the church. There are computer geeks, etc. that go to church. Some churches even have a dedicated IT position (or multiple), people who volunteer/get paid to work the sound equipment, among other things. Depending on the size of the church there may be people that have to run sound/computer equipment during worship services for both the main service and children's service(s). Mostly those people are just doing basic things but some really know what they are doing. Even a lot of smaller churches at least use some computer equipment during their service, larger ones much more.

    I haven't been to them but some even mid sized churches in the area have multiple projection screens in the main sanctuary where they can show things including music lyrics, live video of the performers, or just normal videos. Don't say you aren't going to meet computer geeks at church because I am friends with a few from the one I go to (one is actually a minister).

  7. Re:Just like Mythbusters.... on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    Nah, I think they are going the way of "If all else fails, blow it up to keep people interested"

  8. Re:PS4?! on Sony's Tretton Sounds Off On E3 Leaks · · Score: 1

    Well it wouldn't have been surprising at all for the next console to be a minor update for the new HDMI standard, etc. with possibly faster chips/more memory. Wasn't there an article about that possibility a week or so ago?

  9. Re:Question. Won't this weaken the RF signal? on Nokia Developed Wireless Power-Harvesting Phones · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the point was that it would take half a million cell phones to use up just one radio station's transmitted power.

  10. Re:Crystal radio on Nokia Developed Wireless Power-Harvesting Phones · · Score: 1

    A local computer store told me there were a couple people in there wanting a wireless power adapter for their laptop. There are people that would buy it even if it cost them more than a normal charger.

  11. Re:Yes: Removing it may cut your house resale $ on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Another option to replacing it would be seeing if the wire was at least somewhat centralized anyway. If that is the case make it centralized and then converting back and forth between a PBX and a standard phone system wouldn't be that hard. If anything it would increase resale value.

    I would pay more for a house with centralized, easy to maintain wiring.

  12. Re:My Dad on When Your Backhoe Cuts "Black" Fiber · · Score: 1

    Or it was placed there before he owned the property

  13. Re:let me guess on Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, probably should have been redundant because there is no new information in either his or the parent post.

  14. Re:Can we on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why are you bringing up Windows based computers in a conversation about Ghostbusters?

  15. Re:true story from my brothers office on Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something for mythbusters to test!

  16. Re:Neat on DOJ Nixes Lax Policy, Hardens Antitrust Enforcement · · Score: 1

    The question is if it would actually happen or not.

    What stops the smaller individual companies from keeping everything Windows only? It is harder to say they are a monopoly if it is 10 companies but the only way to get in is by some contractual fees/rules that no one would agree to.

  17. Re:annoying prompts, on all sites soon on Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites · · Score: 1

    or in the ad code instructions

  18. Re:Defective by design...maybe? on Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams · · Score: 1

    That is where testing that can be done in real time during a class session is beneficial. The teacher can ask a question and you respond by pressing a button on a uniquely identified remote control.

    It gives the teacher instant feedback, possibly on what they are teaching at that moment in time.

  19. Re:Is it secure? on Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams · · Score: 1

    What if you get a position at a bank or a military installation because you faked your grades? (Talking about a possibility, not a high probability one though)

  20. Re:I had a friend fail a bar exam because of this. on Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams · · Score: 1

    Other than computer errors caused by human error.... A business teacher/system operator at my highschool filled out the scantron key for a test and had every possible thing they tell you not to do in the instructions.... lightly filled out blocks, marks outside the blocks, etc.

    In the end every single person failed the test and they had to be regraded by hand.

  21. Re:False Client on Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams · · Score: 1

    The client doesn't have to know the answers to ask the questions. So even if you can falsify it you have to know what the answers are in the first place.

  22. Re:Ironic on Norway Trying Out Laptops For High School Exams · · Score: 1

    A wonderful solution to this is to either have multiple basic programs coded from the ground up, supply a 100% functional program that is missing functionality (and tell the students what needs to be added, just not how), or supply a program that has syntax errors in it purposefully.

  23. Re:Great on Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released, Supports ODF Out of the Box · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the side that is tired of getting sued fifty times a day.

  24. Re:Let me guess... on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 0

    Eh, sooner or later there is going to be an IE bug preventing download of .iso files and anything with mozilla or firefox in the name.

  25. Re:what's so critical about a web browser? on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They don't want to maintain more than one operating system version.... You seriously expect them to maintain more than web browser, especially on multiple OS versions?