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  1. Re:Fake codecs on Money For Nothing and the Codecs For Free · · Score: 1

    there are some VLC doesn't run - or at least doesn't identify right.. for them i try MediaPlayerClasic.. if it fails both i assume it isn't worth watching or whom ever made it is a complete moron -

    in which.. it isn't worth watching

  2. Re:So? on Microsoft Confirms October 22 Release Date For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    saddly that is what it has turned into..

    i didn't even bother renewing my CCNA 6-8 years ago..

    while the NP's are still worth it and the IE is still a simi exclusive club..

    Certs can only get you so far..

    honestly i think these cram and coaching classes for certs should be banned

  3. Re:marijuana legalization issue was Painful to Wat on Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so where is the field test for pain killers? or viagra?

  4. Re:undersea progress on Research Vehicle Reaches the Bottom of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    oh god i fell asleep on the couch last night and woke up to that..

  5. Re:None! on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? · · Score: 1

    recover it from what? a backup maybe

    again you define the time frame for information to be lost.. ours is 12 hours.. if someone deletes a file we give them the previous version from the last 12 mark (noon/midnight) if they created and deleted it within that mark too bad so sad..

    and what you said is the truth a mirror is real time.. it is not a backup .. backup's can't be real time.

  6. Re:None! on What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use? · · Score: 1

    Backups by definition can't be real time - Mirrors can.. but you wouldn't need to recover data if you have a Mirror.

    Out side of experienceing unknown failure of a backup you shouldn't be trying to recover anything.

    When ever you design your backup strategy you have to define the amount of data that is willing to be lost - then design around that and your budget.

    and i don't care what anyone says.. zero loss is never truly achievable.

  7. Re:I'm confused on Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities · · Score: 1

    my experience with single GPS unit's and multi anttenas is with boats and planes..

    i know it isn't useful on a cell phone - but i was kinda getting sick of people claiming it is imposable to calculate north while stopped using a GPS.. that is only true if you don't have a GPS designed to do that

  8. Re:I'm confused on Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities · · Score: 0

    if the GPS was to use 2 anttenas and compare the positions between them with it's known manufacturing it would be able to tell where north is in relation to it's self which it could then relate to the device..

    but this is a cell phone.. and even by apple's standard that is over kill and too expensive.

    and yes they do make GPS's that do this.

  9. Re:Wait. What? on OLPC Spinoff Pixel Qi Merges E-ink With LCD · · Score: 2, Funny

    i still have one of the crt ones.. nice single color too

  10. Re:Ideas.... on Acoustic "Superlens" Could Make Subs Invisible · · Score: 1

    but if you read they haven't beaten the diffraction limit yet, for light yes for sound no - this is just as close as they have gotten

  11. Re:Ideas.... on Acoustic "Superlens" Could Make Subs Invisible · · Score: 1

    they refer to the cells as "array of narrow-necked resonant cavities"

    while i agree that it more than likely will not "hide the sub" i have no dobut that at some point it can help in the hiding of the object.

    if you can distort the reflection of the sonar you can alter the perception of your placement to the reciver. (unless they know how it has been distorted)

    i see this as just making it harder to identify and pinpoint a sub. Another comment i say makes alot of sence too.. Via time in transit - if it has to wrap the sound around there will be a ever so slight delay - meaning you will see the shape of the sub as a depression in the image from the sea floor reflection,

  12. Re:Ideas.... on Acoustic "Superlens" Could Make Subs Invisible · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i don't think this is nearly as focused as say a lens's ability to focus a nm of light.

    i would think it would work on a wide range of frequencies (some better than others) but all should be better than nothing.

    think of the sound proofing and dampening they use in recording studios.. sure it doesn't stop everything but it works well on a wide range.

    now that said.. this is almost like the radar absorbsion on stealth planes.. - if you have 2 towers shooting back and forth and the plane goes inbetween you can track it based on the lack of reflection.

    It might be possiable to do the same to a sub using this except it might be easier.. as sonar does pickup the reflections from the bottom and also veriations in water preasure (if the gain is high enough).. i would think that something like this would show up as a void in the response - and there for trackable.

  13. Re:x86 on Intel's Nehalem EX To Gain Error Correction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    thats it.. i don't think this is aimed at the "high end" but rather at the middle ground..

    people running farms or VM's or even large DB's but not exactly in need of mainframe or HPC.

    while i agree there are alot of options other than x86.. x86 is growing and isn't going to go away.. and the EMT64 has just solidified it.. adding something like this is a welcomed evolution of the area.

    and they arn't canabilizing the Itanium sales - while yes the Itanium is selling better than before.. there is no where near the market for it as x86 chips.

  14. Re:No Cisco product? on Testing So-Called 'Unified Threat Managers' · · Score: 1

    can i point you to an in-depth review of UTM's - no i'm sorry but i havn't run into nore have i looked for one.

    Other stuff yes.. but i don't focus on UTM's

  15. Re:No Cisco product? on Testing So-Called 'Unified Threat Managers' · · Score: 1

    eh.. it's one of the why bothers?

    when your looking at a purchase price that high.. people arn't exactly looking for 2 page review articals .. for a 200$ graphics card sure.. but dropping 10-30k .. you don't care about the 1-2 page articals..

    they through 600 things at it.. out of how many? how did they pick them? also the "as configured" and the options they had set
    what are they? where is teh indepth..

    if i'm going to send someone a 10-30k peice of equipment to review and put in a head to head.. you better be able to make at least a masters thesis out of reviewing the results

  16. Re:Not quite on Japan Launches 'Buddha Phone' · · Score: 1

    its funny how their followers - the start . the ones others looked up too become drunk with power..

    maybe humanity's greatest flaw is how easy we are blinded buy a sence of power.

  17. Re:More to it than that. on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · · Score: 1

    while that is true.. the SSN was only and example of a possiable aplication.

    what they are trying to patant is the idea of validating input durring input..

    aka you have a number only field and onKeyUp you check that the char is numeric (that is a most basic way of doing it)

    either way the simple or more indept lookup is nothing more than input validation during input..

    everyone here seems to get hooked on the SSN thing..

    but really this is anything..

    which is just fucking stupid..

    while finding prior art for this is simplistic.. finding the first is god knows hard because i can't remember that far back.

  18. Re:Documenting teamwork on Documenting a Network? · · Score: 1

    that's an exceptionaly good idea really.

  19. Re:I know... on Documenting a Network? · · Score: 2, Informative

    do remember that the Directory Restore password is diffrent than the domain admin password..

    from directory restore you can change the domain admin.

  20. Re:Instantly? on First Look At VMware's vSphere "Cloud OS" · · Score: 1

    yes it is instant - i'm not sure exactly how they are doing it at the moment but basicly the boxes work in tandom to sync move on a per cycle basis.. meaning not a single cpu cycle is lost..

  21. Re:Falsifying easy-to-check facts: priceless. on Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees · · Score: 1

    humm - kinda odd maybe it was a diffrent version going though - i was watching it on cspan and it was clearly not a full house or really anyone there.

  22. Re:Mike on MS Suggests Using Shims For XP-To-Win7 Transition · · Score: 1

    "symbolic links (something that Windows lacks)"

    It always pissed me off that MS never bothered to implement a simple way for people to use them.

    Most people don't realize that NTFS has support for Sym links (vista & server08) and and also Junction points (limied Sym links) sence NTFS's first inception in NT

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

    they have it.. it's been there. and you can use it - i've used junction points for a long time..

    people just don't realize they exist in Windows.

  23. Re:Just out of curiosity on Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees · · Score: 1

    meet the boss same as the old boss..

    sure there is change.. we have a new person in the top slot.. but that person doesn't do everything and it would exceptionally naive to believe it would change the ones that are profiting from the current arrangement.

    while sure some top leaders are more blatant about their bias - they are all stuck in the rut.

    these people get elected and then do what they want - they will say anything to get there. and only care about staying there.. once there they are set for life - so why should they care?

    sorry the recent credit card law revamp you hear about in the news?? it went through the senate and passed 4 to 2.. yes 6 people out of 100 there to vote on it.. the others?? who knows.. they aren't exactly required to show the fuck up to work like the rest of us.

  24. Re:Just out of curiosity on Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees · · Score: 1, Insightful

    AC - People with money who back campains and make "donations" to the right places and people - will whisper sweet nothings about how harsh or unproven this is. And the government will some how make it not exactly impossible but just out of reach of being cheaper.

    it's like power plants.. allot of them are built on federal land grants (they rent them).. but if you look it's been almost 10 years since a solar plant was given a land grant.

    He who has the money makes the rules.. Oil will be here till there literly isn't any more of it.

  25. Re:WTF on Sedate Your Kids While They Play · · Score: 2, Informative

    because they put it under games..