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  1. Re:Has Mozilla managed to fix PDF yet? on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    Obviously the fault lies with Adobe, not with Mozilla. Starting Adobe Reader on its own, there's a setting that will stop AR from opening inside Firefox. That alone fixed 95% of the crashes I had with FF2.

  2. Re:Time Zones on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    Why not? It doesn't hinder me in typing in an address, how does it hinder you?

  3. Re:The article sucks on A 30-Picowatt Processor For Sensors · · Score: 4, Interesting
    That's how Roland Piquepaille understood it. Stuff like this is why I despise his blag.

    From TFA:

    The timer "isn't an atomic clock," Hanson said. "We keep time to 10 minutes plus or minus a few tenths of a second. For the applications this is designed for, that's okay. You don't need absolute accuracy in a sensor. We've traded that for enormous power savings."

    ...

    Phoenix engineers used much narrower power gates that restrict the flow of electric current. That strategy, coupled with the deliberate use of an older process technology, cut down on energy leaks.

  4. Re:awesomebar on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Awesomebar can't hear you over the sound of how awesome it is.

  5. Re:Is RC updateable to Release? on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 1

    From beta 5 to RC, Firefox upgraded automatically, so I'm guessing it will.

  6. Re:What broken software were you using? on Use BitTorrent To Verify, Clean Up Files · · Score: 1

    One problem I ran into once with a certain Intel NIC was that a certain data pattern was always being corrupted. TCP always caught it and dropped the packet. There was no progress beyond that point because of the hardware defect always corrupted that data pattern.

    I'm pretty sure I had this exact bug with World of Warcraft. The game would get stuck retransmitting the same packet over and over again. It could be fixed by turning off hardware checksumming on the NIC.
  7. Re:It's all academic anyway on Performance Comparison of Current Intel Core 2 CPUs · · Score: 1

    Supreme Commander doesn't work like that. Either, you were playing with someone who had a shit pc, or you were playing with AIs.

    The game is simulated on each peer, and the only thing exchanged over the network is the commands that each player gives to his units, and a check sum of the sim state to make sure it's synchronous.

  8. Re:But can I afford them yet? on Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you're on a workstation, plugging in a few 8 or 16 GB ram modules might be better than using a photoshop scratch disk.

    /not affiliated with metaram btw.

  9. Re:But can I afford them yet? on Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    But he wasn't saying that about current SSD drives, he was talking about the SSD drives that intel is releasing in Q2.

  10. Re:SVN branching a daunting task? on SVN's svn:externals To GIT's Submodule · · Score: 4, Informative

    Merge tracking is the main feature of 1.5, which, according to this guy, is in beta right now. He does a demo of it too.

  11. Re:Luxuries Versus Necessities on Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco' · · Score: 1

    The OLPC helps a multitude of problems. You see, with Internet access comes education, mind-numbing entertainment such as youtube, fark and porn. That would keep generations away from civil war, crime and rape. They may forget they are hungry, too ;)

  12. My first grief with javascript on MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update · · Score: 1

    was that it used the same operator for concatenation and addition. That's just all kinds of stupid for a loosely typed language.

  13. Re:Why not charge by the GB delivered? on Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    I don't think there's a single ISP that doesn't have that type of product. Some customers want flat rate, so they also provide that.

  14. Re:Query on Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 - A Mother Of A Motherboard · · Score: 1

    It's not possible to use two video cards at the same time, correct?
    Wrong. You can use as many video cards as you have space for. It was the intention that PCI Express replaced both AGP and PCI. Some SATA/SCSI controllers, NICs and sound cards are available with PCIe.
  15. Re:Hey, wait a second... on Liquid Lens Can Magnify at the Flick of a Switch · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are referring to the two levels of zoom as the new feature.

  16. Won't work for me... on When the Alarm Clock Runs and Hides · · Score: 1

    I usually dream about hitting the snooze button. It's quite a frustrating dream, and it takes about an hour before it goes away. How would i ever find such an alarm clock again?

  17. Re:Magnets versus Wheels on French Train Breaks Speed Record · · Score: 1

    One little detail has me curious: TGVs, though electric, still use locomotives to push and/or pull the train, a design feature that's been around since the first steam trains in 1833. I seem to recall "futurists" like Arthur Clarke claiming that the train of the future would use lots of small motors connected to each wheel instead of one big one in a locomotive. Not practical?
    They're called Multiple Unit, and are widely used.
  18. For those of us that aren't metrically challenged on French Train Breaks Speed Record · · Score: 4, Informative

    that's 574.8 km/h

  19. Summary and links are not very useful on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    A link to the WEF would help a lot. They published it, after all.

  20. Ehm... it's how much faster? on Toward a 3D Search Engine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So the summary says it's 1500 times faster. OK then, if i double the number of items in the database and compare again, is it still 1500 times faster? What if we do a million times the number of items?

  21. Re:Autism rates on Possible Cure For Autism · · Score: 1

    Plus, vaccinations produce immunity that is not passed on to your offspring (by mothers), so vaccinations eff with nature's own process of protecting our offspring.
    Immunities aren't passed on to your offspring. If that was the case, we wouldn't have to vaccinate in the first place. The initial load of breastmilk is full of antibodies, but that's hardly the same. Let your kids eat some dirt and get them vaccinated.

    But why am i even replying? You are obviously trolling.
  22. Re:Too many ambiguous standard names on The State of Video Connections · · Score: 1

    Disregarded, but very enlightening nonetheless :)

  23. Re:Too many ambiguous standard names on The State of Video Connections · · Score: 1

    This reminds me once again... Whoever thought of SXGA and QSXGA needs a severe beating. Why 5:4 all of a sudden?

  24. Yes, it's true on Global Warming May Have Killed the Dinosaurs · · Score: 0

    The dinosaurs were responsible for their own extinction. /dnrtfs

  25. Re:then make them out of plastic or such... on US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents? · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what has been done in Denmark, where øre (equivalent to cents) now only exists in a 25(~4 cents) and a 50. Any cash transaction is rounded to the nearest 25 øre. Electronic transactions are not rounded. Our largest coin is now 20 kroner (~3.5 dollars). The US should have done this at least 10 years ago.