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  1. Re:One sad part about it : on Why the BBC's iPlayer is a Multi-Million Pound Disaster · · Score: -1

    Are you talking about BFBS? Becuase you should be able to get access to that system for free.

  2. Re:Seems Silly to me on Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives · · Score: -1, Troll

    You seem stuck in a right or wrong mentality. No-one is wrong, the only that that is wrong is the prefixes, which can be fixed in the OS.

  3. Re:Similarly as Beagle.... on Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update · · Score: -1, Troll

    Try killing the kernel on Linux and seeing how long your computer remains working. That's a poor example and you know it.

  4. Re:Fuel economy increases with empty tank? on New Hydrogen Engine Test Shows Future of Aviation · · Score: -1

    Yes it does, there's less weight, it's why F1 drivers drive their fastest with low fuel.

  5. Re:Another one on Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't worry, I'm sure we'll get plenty more Compare shitty Windows install by a shoddy minimum wage tech to a souped up customised speedy Gentoo install with all hardware hand picked so it works articles.

  6. Nice on Standard Web Fonts 'Updated' In Vista · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Say what you will about Microsoft but these fonts looks better than anything on Linux and Mac.

  7. Re:What are the benefits to consumers? on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if it's actually being subsidised by the licence fee itself but I know the government is subsiding them and so can safely assume it's the licence fee that's going towards it. It's irrelevant really.

  8. Re:What are the benefits to consumers? on Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam · · Score: 2, Informative

    With the analogue over here you only get BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and C5. Maybe one local tv station too. With Digital you get about 70 channels plus interactive plus better picture quality. It's all free but you have to get a set top box (which are subsidised by the licence fee we pay).

  9. Re:Plasteel on Super-Light Plastic As Strong as Steel · · Score: 1

    It was Star Wars/Kotor. Never read Dune.

  10. Plasteel on Super-Light Plastic As Strong as Steel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Plasteel, anyone?

  11. Re:"Here's your problem" on Science In Islamic Countries · · Score: 1

    "...and his stooges get to use religion as an excuse to be really crappy to everyone else."

    In other news water is wet and the sky is blue. More at 11.
  12. Re:Hmmmm on Bungie Explains Halo 3's Resolution · · Score: 1

    The two frames are not interlaced. You're just assuming the output of the framebuffer is added together to give some kind of large resolution. It's not, the game plays at the res stated in the article, all the time.

  13. Re:Why bother keeping corporate policies up to dat on When Ethics and IT Collide · · Score: 1

    If faced with a tough situation I'd be pretty stuck, however if faced with a tough situation and policy I wouldn't. Personally, if I worked in IT then anything dangerous or in gross violation of policy would be reported (child porn, etc.). Anything personal I would not (e.g. affair, health problems, etc.).

  14. Re:Damnit... on Toshiba Boosts Hard Drive Density By 50% · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Possibly they'll win one day but at the moment (and this will be true for some time) there is no clear advantage to SSDs. Rubbish storage capacity, similar throughput and expensive as hell. Latency is one of the only things they have going for them.

  15. Re:I don't agree to pay for research through my ta on Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper · · Score: 0

    Ground based GPS falls down as soon as you go out of range of the station, satellites don't have this problem. Also, GPS was originally a US military only thing, something that you paid for out of your tax dollars. I don't doubt that some discoveries would have been made if only the market contolled science (not as many most likely) but I don't feel comfortable with one super corporation holding all scientific patents. Obviously you have no understanding of how research works.

  16. Re:I don't agree to pay for research through my ta on Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper · · Score: 0

    Without state funded research into relativity (something that appears uselss to the market) we wouldn't have accurate GPS and other accurate measuring systems. Science cannot be judged by the market becuase the market cannot predict what is useful in the realm of the unknown.

  17. Re:Great! on Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer · · Score: 0

    Actually by the time the next version of Office comes out I wouldn't be suprised at all to find machines similar or far better than this one.

  18. Re:it seems that the standalone image is going to on Vista SP1 Coming In Q1 2008 · · Score: 0

    The 1GB is for the redistributable version. The actual service pack on Windows Update will be about 50MB.

  19. Re:Internet Connection on Solar Powered Wi-Fi · · Score: 0

    I did consider that possibility, but for a remote area tens of miles away from the nearest exchange it would be prohibitely expensive to buy all those routers and the solar equipment just to provide internet access to a small community, not to mention the awful lag and speed you'd get after going through all those routers, plus they only have a few hundred yards of range. It's probably cheaper just to lay a normal line.

  20. Internet Connection on Solar Powered Wi-Fi · · Score: 0

    I may be missing what's revolutionary about this, but wouldn't the router need an ethernet cable to access the internet in the first place? Wouldn't it just be more prudent to create a router than powers itself from the ethernet cable?

  21. Speaking Clock on AT&T Stops 'Time', Ends An Era · · Score: 0

    We still have the speaking clock in the UK, and have for as long as I can remember.

  22. Re:In all their glorious wisdom... on Valve Says Choice to Make DX10 Vista-Only Hurt PC Gaming · · Score: 0

    Could you give some evidence to support your claims? I've been running Vista and Gentoo for probably a year now, and since I'm not a shameless FOSS hack I can admit that Aero is better than Beryl/Compiz-Fusion. I can't believe you'd be so close minded that you think a GUI takes up all my video memory. People are running Aero on a Geforce 4 MX, it's far from heavy (And it's disabled in full screen apps).

  23. Re:DRM strikes again? on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 0

    Actually more likely is the services which handles media getting more cpu time is doing just that, prioritising the audio over the network. Or, it could be HD sound they're playing which is clogging up the limited bandwidth on the PCI bus.

  24. Re:Choo! Choo! on US Army Unveils Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System · · Score: 0

    Is there any information if this is powered by an internal combustion engine? Tanks for a while now have been using gas turbine engines for propulsion and a generator coupled with a gas turbine allows for some great efficiency considering that turbine engines are generally only good at staying at one speed, unlike the ICE.

  25. Re:Organic does not mean "alive" on Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive" · · Score: 0

    Did you even read the summary? It states that these molecules form structures close to other biological structures like DNA, and that they exibit some behavours of life, such as replication. It never said they were mearly simple organic molecules, of which we already know exist in intersteller dust.