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  1. Re:AMD64 on Vista Eating Battery Life · · Score: 4, Informative

    I run Vista on my MacBook Pro. It eats battery life about twice as quickly as Mac OS when Aero Glass is running. That said, it has much better results on friends' computers, which are designed to run Windows.

  2. Re:Entrance Exam Comparison Highly Flawed on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    I live in England, and went to an English school. I could do both questions by the time I hit 16. My university required me to achieve an A (80%+) at A-Level Mathematics in order to gain acceptance to my course - Computing - and does the same for all science subjects. For those of you who don't know, this consists of six modules containing fairly advanced calculus, geometry, vectors, mechanics, statistics and more. Many of those on my course took Further Mathematics too - essentially another six, harder modules (or three if you only take it for one year). We have no idea what courses the given questions came from, let alone what universities... without more information, I'd be hard-pressed to give this any sort of credibility.

  3. Re:Actually it is that old. on China's Earliest Modern Human Found · · Score: 1

    You're right about the --> operator. However, to put it in programming terms, the <--> operator takes two booleans, A and B, and returns (A == B). It's essentially the first-order logic equivalent of the == operator.

  4. Re:You must be mistaken... on Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, I see... I was wondering why everyone started talking German in England a couple weeks ago. Thanks for clarifying.

  5. Re:Not an issue for some on Microsoft Patches VML Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    You'll be happy to know Vista uses a standalone app to manage Windows Updates.

  6. Re:Not true on Wal-Mart Leaks Zune Price · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the same reason the iTunes Store doesn't really make much profit: the recording industry takes too much out of the revenue. the iTunes Store only exists to sell iPods, and I can't see Microsoft's store being any different.

  7. Re:Work.. on Major Retailer Chooses Linux for its Tills · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the cost of living doubles too. Best not get too over-excited.

  8. Re:It won't effect the average user on GPL 3 May Require Websites to Relinquish Code · · Score: 1

    Just a quick reminder: Quake III uses OpenGL.