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  1. Re:Uninformed Rant, or Sony Apologist? on Is the Gaming Industry Moving Online Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    Steam lets you install your games on as many computers as you want, the service will only allow you to logon with one system at a time though. It's all in the EULA.

  2. Re:hard to take serious on Titan May Have Water Ocean Under the Surface · · Score: 1

    It is actually considered to be a "planet-like moon", due to it having a dense atmosphere. It is also large enough to be a planet, being larger than Mercury (although having less mass).

  3. Re:I'm tired of Matt Welsh on NASA Gravity Probe Confirms Two Einstein Predictions · · Score: 5, Informative

    The new Slashdot: too buggy to be fit for purpose.

    I have to agree with this, several bugs. The most annoying one is having the comments scroll to the top of the page when I click anything.

  4. Re:Wait for Bulldozer on AMD Launches Fastest Phenom Yet, Phenom II X4 980 · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say the Core 2 Duo is a cool running chip. I can show you a laptop that has extensive warping on the bottom due to the heat produced by a T7400.

  5. Re:stop -- this sounds like investment? on DARPA Building Futuristic Space Exploration Group · · Score: 1

    If Obama ends up losing the Democratic nomination to another Democrat, then we'll know that his backers were just a vocal minority.

    I'm pretty sure a sitting President does not have to be nominated to run for a second term.

  6. Re:Maybe they can call it... on DARPA Building Futuristic Space Exploration Group · · Score: 1

    How about SMEGMA (SpaceMen Exploration Group Mining Asterorids)?

  7. Re:Just paper on DARPA Building Futuristic Space Exploration Group · · Score: 1

    What happens to the tides when you remove a large amount of the Moons mass? Not to mention orbits. I believe it would be wise to not mine the Moon.

  8. Re:stop -- this sounds like investment? on DARPA Building Futuristic Space Exploration Group · · Score: 1

    Did Obama end the wars? The simple fact is that those wars were going to continue no matter who was in office. But it is easier for you people to blame Bush for everything, hell, some of you think he was behind 9/11. The funny thing is that you people also say he is completely incompetent.

  9. Re:stop -- this sounds like investment? on DARPA Building Futuristic Space Exploration Group · · Score: 1

    This is why I don't tell liberals they believe in killing babies. See? If I called a liberal a baby killer, thats ineffective. They don't believe they support that at all.

    You forgot that they are for abortions.

  10. Re:Wait, can they get that? on Your Location 'Extremely Valuable' To Google · · Score: 1

    If you get caught with a firearm in China expect to be on the receiving end of a firing squad.

  11. Re:See ? on US Offered To Draft NZ 3-Strikes Law, Fund Copyright Initiative · · Score: 1

    It is worse than that, this is a blatant violation of national sovereignty.

  12. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Figuring Out Why Android Wins On Phones, But Not Tablets · · Score: 1

    It is my understanding that the Nook Color is in fact shipping with a usable market now, it was added in the last firmware update.

  13. Re:SLI: Sorely Lacking IMO on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "100% scaling", do you mean both card get full performance? Because I can assure you that was not the case with 3DFX, you would only get about 3/4 the full performance the cards were capable of. The SLI being used now also only shares the name, which has a different meaning, Nvidia is not using the same technology.

    Note: It can now be seen that the original 3DFX SLI was very effective, more so than even current implementations by Nvidia & ATI, capable of achieving near 100% performance increase over a single Voodoo2 card. The reason this could not be observed before as the CPU was the limiting factor.[3]

    How much do you want to bet that the CPU is still the limiting factor?

  14. Re:SLI: Sorely Lacking IMO on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 1

    After the DOJ didn't say squat when it came to Intel rigging compilers or bribing OEMs

    DOJ, no, FTC, yes. You should get your facts straight.

    http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/intel.shtm

  15. Re:SLI: Sorely Lacking IMO on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 1

    I'd love to install Windows 7 64-bit, but I don't have $300 AUD laying around

    Ouch, Windows 7 Ultimate can be had for as little as $179 USD over here (system builders OEM), Home Premium is only $100.

  16. Re:Not all that surprising on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 1

    It's a shame that this announcement is most likely going to result in the end of Nforce chipsets. Nvidia hasn't announced a new chipset for either Intel or AMD in years, Intel supports SLi, and now that AMD supports SLi, it just supports the rummors that Nvidia is killing the chipset division..

    Nvidia left the chipset market nearly 3 years ago.

  17. Re:Mix and match? on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say they failed, in fact I know quite a few people who went out and bought one. What happened was that after nVidia bought Aegis they decided to implement PhysX in CUDA, and ditch the dedicated card altogether.

  18. Re:When did they change that? on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 1

    I do not know why this myth keeps getting spread, only the 64 bit versions of Vista and 7 check for signed drivers, and they give you an option to install the driver if it is not signed. In fact, you can disable the driver signing check quite easily, if you wish.

  19. Re:Mix and match? on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 1

    My motherboard (MSI Fuzion 870a) lets me mix CrossFireX and SLI cards.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130297

    Powered by the Fuzion technology that offers Non-Identical & Cross-Vendor Multi-GPU processing, the MSI 870A Fuzion allows you to install two different level and brand graphics cards (even ATI and NVIDIA Hybrid) in a single system, providing flexible upgradability and great 3D performance.

  20. Re:Simple reason really on Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos · · Score: 1

    Your entire rant about Intel has been rectified. First AMD sued Intel, that case was settled over a year ago. Then the FTC gave Intel an anticompetitive smack down on top of that, which was settled nearly a year ago.

    http://download.intel.com/pressroom/legal/AMD_settlement_agreement.pdf

    http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/intel.shtm

    Under the settlement, Intel will be prohibited from:

            conditioning benefits to computer makers in exchange for their promise to buy chips from Intel exclusively or to refuse to buy chips from others; and
            retaliating against computer makers if they do business with non-Intel suppliers by withholding benefits from them.

    In addition, the FTC settlement order will require Intel to:

            modify its intellectual property agreements with AMD, Nvidia, and Via so that those companies have more freedom to consider mergers or joint ventures with other companies, without the threat of being sued by Intel for patent infringement;
            offer to extend Via’s x86 licensing agreement for five years beyond the current agreement, which expires in 2013;
            maintain a key interface, known as the PCI Express Bus, for at least six years in a way that will not limit the performance of graphics processing chips. These assurances will provide incentives to manufacturers of complementary, and potentially competitive, products to Intel’s CPUs to continue to innovate; and
            disclose to software developers that Intel computer compilers discriminate between Intel chips and non-Intel chips, and that they may not register all the features of non-Intel chips. Intel also will have to reimburse all software vendors who want to recompile their software using a non-Intel compiler.

  21. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    H2O and DHMO are the same thing.

  22. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 0
  23. Re:Let me say on Voyager Set To Enter Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    After my 5th blue screen of the day because of some f'n driver I am a bit pissed.

    (hey you started it :))

    Perhaps you should try upgrading to a modern version of Windows? I cannot remember the last time Windows crashed on me.

  24. Re:Poor estimation on New Heat Pump Will Last 10,000 Years · · Score: 0

    Contrary to popular belief the AK-47 does need to be cleaned if you want it to continue to function.

  25. Re:We can do that? on Brainstorming Clever Ways To Detect Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that.