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  1. Re:What's a horse? on Draft Horses Used To Lay Fiber-Optic Cable · · Score: 1

    Yes, the automobile was environmentally beneficial over horses in cities. The sheer amount of manure generated by all the horses was a public health problem. http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past-the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894/

  2. Re:Java is crap anyway on C Programming Language Back At Number 1 · · Score: 1

    print "Spoken like someone who ".$string."\n";

    Why don't you let Perl do the interpolation for you? You have an extra ". and ." there.

  3. Re:Use ALL 14 WIFI channels ! on Best WAP For Dense Crowds? · · Score: 1

    While using directional antennas will help to some extent, keep in mind that your clients will NOT have directional antennas, and will interfere with each other. A larger number of access points with lower power will help to some extent, but with this many people using the service concurrently, you may have a problem, regardless of how you do it. Also, make sure you don't use a single /24 subnet for client addresses if you have more than 500 clients; you'll run out of address space.

  4. Re:Still behind id on Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine · · Score: 1

    So Doom IV will be released December 2099 and Doom V will be released right before Duke Nukem Forever. Big deal.

    There, fixed that for you.

  5. Re:How much on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 5, Informative

    From TFA, Tennessee has a shorter wait time than most states: 48 days, instead of 306 nationally. That would be my guess as to why Tennessee.

  6. Re:AM radio! on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Then just transmit the derivative of your signal with an FM transmitter.

    The result will be a phase modulated radio signal.

  7. Re:Mosaic on The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is · · Score: 1

    Actually, you would probably find Mosaic fairly slow these days, on the pages that would render acceptably. Mosaic had a poor threading model for the type of pages that you see today.

  8. Re:Website and Warning on Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know about Ubuntu, but Debian uses GPG to sign all their packages, so I'd guess that Ubuntu does the same.

  9. Re:Game music on The Blending of Music and Games · · Score: 1

    Huh. That's odd. Track 1 sounds just like the others to me... they all seem to be just noise...

    *ducks*

  10. Re:Only works on uncompressed bitmaps on Encrypted Images Vulnerable To New Attack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The attack shown works on an image with a bit depth of 2. Camera RAW files have much higher bit depth, and unless you're saturating the whole sensor, I would imagine the image does not contain significantly large values of the same exact pixel value.

  11. Re:So Do nVidias last 3 months, or ATIs 30-300 yea on AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Typical failure models use an exponential distribution, rather than a Gaussian distribution to model time-to-failure.

  12. Re:Strategy? on If Linux Fails, Blame Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Buddy's Idea on Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    I know. I've built software to emulate a TCP tunnel through a delay/disruption-tolerant network. However, vanilla TCP with no tunnel will not work.

  14. Re:Buddy's Idea on Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I remember correctly, Mars is too far away for TCP --- you'll timeout before you can establish the connection. I don't think anybody bothered to implement HTTP over UDP, though there is a port reserved for it.

  15. Re:Literate programming... on Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More · · Score: 1

    The solution is to use vi. % operation for the win!

  16. Re:Thanks a lot Beeb.. on BBC Creates 'Perl on Rails' · · Score: 1

    Perl is the language. perl is the interpreter.

  17. Re:Holy Crap on BBC Creates 'Perl on Rails' · · Score: 1

    No, it's technically correct, but we like to call those "associative arrays" hashes. Also, the $_ after print is redundant, and the three lines at the end would probably be combined into

    print foreach (@bar);

    But your code is functional.

  18. Re:$200-250 is NOT cheap! on Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards · · Score: 1

    Some developers are very good at running games on lower-end hardware. TF2, for example, runs passably on minimum settings on my ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 with 32 MB of video RAM. That's a four- or five-year-old laptop GPU with an abysmally small amount of memory. It still looks better than any game at maximum settings that came out when the GPU was released. You can assemble a computer (not just the GPU) for $500 today that will run on your 19" LCD display with pretty much everything except anti-aliasing cranked all the way up.

    The higher-end hardware is only helpful these days for the insane resolutions that are on 24" and larger displays.

    If you want to play games at the highest possible settings on huge displays, then yes, you're going to spend a pretty penny. But developers (at least for the most part) have done a good job with scaling the level of detail down to run on lower end hardware.

  19. Re:I let google answer on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps? · · Score: 1

    I used the Yahoo maps API for a project. It works pretty well, and it also integrates with their YUI javascript framework passably. If you're not committed to either Google or Microsoft, I'd give them a chance. They also have a couple different modes---you can choose from either flash or DHTML. We went with the DHTML because we had to interact more closely with the content in the page.

  20. Re:bits or bytes on Wii Uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography For Saves · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing bytes. A 30-bit keyspace is pretty small, definitely within the realm of brute forcing.

  21. Re:Vi on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    Vim tries pretty hard to not conflict with "classic" vi's keys and behavior. There are other vi clones that conflict a bit more. Setting compatibility mode (I think it *is* set by default unless you override it in your .vimrc) with :set cp will put most of the borderline cases back to normal vi behavior. Also, any known cases where vim behaves contrary to vi are documented in the help file.

  22. Re:Er.... still artificial. on Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning · · Score: 1

    Which is why we have these little things called tuning knobs. You turn them, and it changes the tension in the strings. With a good enough ear or a proper tuner, you can make it very close to any pitch you want within a reasonable range, such as 440 Hz.

  23. Re:cue the whiners... on Google Launches First YouTube Ads · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why, may I ask, are you trying to view *VIDEOS* in Lynx, a text based web browser?

  24. Re:RTFA on SimCity 5 Passed Off From Maxis · · Score: 3, Informative

    Remember Streets of Simcity?

    Horrible game, horribly buggy, great music.

  25. Re:quit already with 'optimized' drivers on New DX10 Benchmarks Do More Bad than Good · · Score: 1

    Well, when you optimize operation Y, you may be slowing down operation Z (predicting differently on branches, allocating processing units differently). Or, alternatively, you may break operation W (game X never cares about triangles with these attributes, so we skip them to make operation Y faster, but other games might need those triangles to render properly).