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  1. Re:A tallent for understatment. on Iceland Volcano's Ash Grounds European Air Travel · · Score: 1

    one missed approach and you're a goner

  2. Re:Nothing unusual on Iceland Volcano's Ash Grounds European Air Travel · · Score: 1

    It's a big ass cloud. Wind blows to the south-east, so Scandinavia and parts of central Europe is covered by the cloud. If I recall correctly, the little Chernobyl explosion's cloud had the most of Europe covered as well.

  3. Re:XNA on Xbox Live Class Action Being Investigated · · Score: 1

    Hardware failure, bad DVD-Drives that ruin DVDs, expensive games (105$ for a newcomer where I live), because they can?
    Sorted by priority from low to high.
    I always find modding fascinating because you learn something about the console.

  4. Re:There isn't really any homebrew on the 360 on Xbox Live Class Action Being Investigated · · Score: 1

    Flashing firmware for DVD-drive allows you bypass the dvd-check which confirms that dvd is printed in a factory and not burned. There is still no hack to sign code with microsoft signature, therefore no possibility to run homebrew applications

  5. Re:"100,000 times as much as your computer has" on IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines · · Score: 1

    too bad it can't do this:
    144 terabytes / 1 library of congress

  6. Re:news for nerds on IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines · · Score: 1

    SMP by definition is "computer architecture where two or more identical processors can connect to a single shared main memory." So again firstly not all multiprocessors are symmetric (cores identical) and secondly as Mr. Adonoman has noted (in case of cat brain emulator) connecting that number of processors to shared memory is not a very smart thing to do. And I'm not even talking about data cache coherence...

  7. Re:news for nerds on IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines · · Score: 1

    Firstly, yes they are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing#SMP-capable_processors Secondly, what does SMP has to do with anything?

  8. Re:WTH on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    I have to agree on the subject of the enormously large buttons, text and spaces in general. Make things smaller and more compact! I don't need to hit button from mile away. All it takes a lot of unnecessary space

  9. Re:Please fix the window manager on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    I don't have this bug, you must have an old version

  10. Re:fmt on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    That doesn't bother me much, what does is that some lines have semicolon and some don't.

  11. Re:I understand these modern times and all... on 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland · · Score: 1

    I always thought that the rights were free, it's like I have a right to have big ass house, doesn't really mean that I get it for free. I didn't read the FA, but I'm guessing it just says, the the customer can't be denied internet access within this limit

  12. Re:I understand these modern times and all... on 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland · · Score: 1

    Tell that to my medical bills :P But generally -- yes, they don't leave people to die on the street.... I think.... About paying for the lazy ones is also true in some part, but I wonder if it's going to stop soon, since there are many people who are exploiting this

  13. Re:Good point on Command & Conquer MMO a Possibility? · · Score: 1

    Done doesn't mean done well. Star Wars has lot of potential, and look how star wars galaxies turned out

  14. Re:Why not a PC on Parallel Processing For Cardiac Simulations Using an Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Sure if the problem is embarrassingly parallel or not real-time, otherwise, latency for message transfer would probably kill it.

  15. Re:Nokia on Apple Blames 'External Forces' For Exploding iPhones · · Score: 1

    As a paperweight?

  16. You lack any imagination on Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    I say no more

  17. Re:StarCraft II - LAN PLAY on Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net · · Score: 1

    Personally I think the amount of pirating depends solely on the game popularity. Try to find some game on the pirates sites with top ratings from game critics, or the ones you hear most about. And then try to find something unknown and forgotten. I believe all those Blizzard games will be pirated to hell, LAN or not.

  18. Re:Oh good, on Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? · · Score: 1

    oh, sure, if you like lifeless deserts filled with only humans to eat

  19. Re:This is actually better news... on Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? · · Score: 2, Informative

    eh, no. It will certainly help humans, but dirty bomb will still radiate soil, and everything that grows there.

  20. Re:That's not the only value of learning assembly on Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    1st and 2nd examples are the same, but the third is another program, since you moved evaluation of "i" to the end of the block, the first iteration will be executed even if i is zero, meaning it will change j and i

  21. Re:+1 troll on Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads · · Score: 1

    Well, programs like Spotify actually caches all the music you listen to. It won't download it twice if you won't delete your cache.

  22. Re:Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 1

    Ok, probably wasn't gratis, but it was really hard to tell since I was in Russia at that time. Although judging by your skillz of Zen and decimals in you UID I do assume that you are older then me.

  23. Re:Who remembers it? on L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again · · Score: 1

    I remember, and I remember using it, however I think I remember it was gratis before.

  24. Re:GPS speeds are inaccurate on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    ...jumps from 0 to 10MPH while I drive, and I'm not in a particularly fast car (hyundai elantra).

    Indeed, I can run faster

  25. Re:Cash Cow on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    I did, the funny thing was that drivers that I wasn't able to find for Windows XP 64, I couldn't find them for Vista 64 neither.