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  1. Re:Longtime GNOMEr Ready to Try on KDE 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    The waste is not practically big, it just violates my rules.

    Waste is waste, 1 byte or 1 gigabyte.
    I guess you just won't understand.

  2. Re:Longtime GNOMEr Ready to Try on KDE 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Also, I don't like the idea of keeping GDK, GTK, GLIB in memory at the same time as QT. Gross replication, waste of resources.

    That's why when I run QT I try not to start GTK apps (it's hard to do because of Mozilla). And vice-versa.

  3. Re:DON'T REALLY DO THIS on MonsterHut Jammed for Spam · · Score: 1

    What if the address is spoofed to some other person's legitimate email address?

  4. Hm... on Congress To Consider Age Limits On Violent Games · · Score: 1

    >It would become a federal crime to sell or rent
    >a violent video game to anyone under 18

    No thank, I'll GIVE them the games.

  5. Re:Free beer! on FT on Europe's Open Source Option · · Score: 1

    The GPL guarantees the freedom of the software itself by prevent it from being locked up,

    It does not guarantee YOUR freedom.

  6. Credit Card sized 5GB HD... on Credit Card sized 5GB HD to arrive late this year · · Score: 1

    ...is still a frigging HD, much like, "the king of spam is still a spammer".

    Let's abandon the whole small HD idea already and go for solid state.

  7. What if I'm not the customer? on Network Associates Loses Battle to Silence Reviewers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Let a friend publish the review!

  8. If they collect the money on Rosen Floats ISP Fee Idea -- Charge Everybody! · · Score: 4, Informative

    Then it certainly means swapping music will become legal, right?

  9. Re:rename it to: on The End of the Free PCI Device List (Update) · · Score: 1

    Rename it to:

    P*I, aka *CI

  10. RAID 0+1 on Data Mining Used Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    No need to do any shredding at all. Just take the drives apart and mix up all the platters. The more drives the better!

  11. Region Code Bypass for Software DVD Players on Miyazaki Region 1 DVDs at Last? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here:

    http://www.inmatrix.com/genie/

  12. Re:Computers Teaching UI to Humans = Reality on Palm Kills Off Graffiti · · Score: 2

    I forgot how long my Newton last. I sold it 6 years ago and got myself a HP 200 LX. Again I sold it for a Palm IIIx. I still regret having sold the LX to this day....right now...I'm a happy camper with a Blackberry :)

  13. Re:Computers Teaching UI to Humans = Reality on Palm Kills Off Graffiti · · Score: 1

    Hey, my Newton 110 had handwriting recognition! And it was 7 years ago when I had it!

  14. Why do girls do better? Here's the answer on Girls not Going into CS · · Score: 2

    Theorem:
    On average, the more time you spend on doing academic stuffs, the better you'll be at these academic activities.

    Fact:
    Our cultures have produced a LOT more boys than girls who are more active in pursuing sex.

    Implication:
    Given that both boys and girls have 24 hours a day doing all their stuffs, boys spend more time on the pursuit of sex thus less time on academic activities.

    Corollary:
    Girls perform better than boys academically.

  15. Re:.. Don't want a 350z? on Gentlemen, Hack Your Engines! · · Score: 2

    Damn, you still don't get it. It is possible to make a 10x increase for cars with small horsepower. THEY BOTH TOP OUT AT ABOUT THE SAME LEVEL.

    Just because a Vette has 350HP at the start it doesn't mean it will top out significantly higher than what a Civic can do - it's just closer to the limit.

    People put V8 in Focuses.

  16. Re:.. Don't want a 350z? on Gentlemen, Hack Your Engines! · · Score: 2

    A Civic tops out at 350 HP? The fastest Celica (in the same class as a Civic, you can say), runs at 1000 BHP. How does it sound to you - modding a Civic does NOT necessarily mean ugly cosmetic shit.

  17. Re:Oops - there goes your warranty. on Gentlemen, Hack Your Engines! · · Score: 2

    You may know what you do, but you still have to obey marketing decisions, e.g. tuning down stuffs not unlike the PII 450/Celeron 300 or 486DX/486SX sort of sense.

    We tuners, on the other hands, don't have to. Thus can make use of the margin you've left there to merely distinguish cars monetarily.

  18. Re:.. Don't want a 350z? on Gentlemen, Hack Your Engines! · · Score: 2

    >Why wouldn't you want a Nissan 350Z? Seems to me
    >that if you can make a Civic fast, you could make a
    >350Z faster.. Or is there some sort of weird pride
    >involved in having a Civic that is faster than a
    >stock 350Z (but slower than a modified one)?

    Problem is, you have the wrong assumption. A 350Z is only more powerful than a Civic if they're both stock - and a tricked out 350Z is *NOT* necessarily faster than a tricked out Civic - stock 350Z, you can say, is "closer" to the limit of how fast you can get a car go than a Civic - which means you have less room to grow.

    What keeps you from putting a V6 in a Civic and start from there? Sure, it takes more $$$ to mod a Civic to the same performace as a 350Z. But if money is not an issue (or a minor issue), the Civic will be faster most the time, because its chassis is a bit lighter.

  19. Re:ECU hacking alone won't improve performance muc on Gentlemen, Hack Your Engines! · · Score: 2

    Relatively speaking.

    If you can give a car a 33% power increase and almost 100% torque increase by reprogramming the ECU *ALONE* (example: VW/Audi 1.8T), then a 10% is really not that significant.

  20. Re:Sounds familiar. on Scientific Research Encountering More Restrictions · · Score: 2

    You can BECOME an American but not a blonde haired, blue eyed German.

  21. Human meat? on Lab-Grown Steak · · Score: 2

    Restaurant: what do you want sir?

    Me: Myself, medium rare please

  22. The only change I want now on Redesigning The "Back" Button · · Score: 2

    Is to filter what site shows in my back button.

    Am I the only one who's annoyed by a "doubleclick.net" link in my history whereever I go?

  23. Re:ATI on DirectX 9 Finally Out · · Score: 2

    "Uncertified" means MS has not certified it in the WHQL "Windows Hardware Quality Lab?".

    It means you probably can play with clock settings, more monitor frequency settings, and more manual settings. Good stuffs in general.

    I always choose non-WHQL-certified drivers because almost all the time they have more features.

  24. One more on Disruptive Technologies For Next 5 Years · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Slashdotting (tm) 2.

    The original Sladotting, while disrupts the service of a web site with a 60% success rate, often fails to disrupt larger, more powerful sites, like Google, for example.

    Not for a new generation of this technology - based on real-time analysis of how much bandwidth a web server has, Slashdotting 2 will apply an adaptive function the clicks to a site. For example, for a site as powerful as Google, the function will likely be 50^x.

    "Undoubtedly," says user #534452, "This new generation of technology will take the Slashdotting experience to a completely new level. We're all very exited".

    "Better, Stronger, Slower! We can't wait for it!" says another user.

    Sites with high bandwidths such as New York Times, Google, and Yahoo declined to comment.

  25. Re:It's been around quite a while... on Unicode and the Unix Console? · · Score: 1

    What if you want to mix different charsets in one document? locale code pages doesn't work.