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  1. Re:Civilization I on World of Warcraft Gold Limit Reached, It's 2^31 · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'm married in real life, so I *can* spend way faster than a measly interrupt handler can handle.

    But in Civilisation, I am single as a proud dictator :)

  2. Re:Civilization I on World of Warcraft Gold Limit Reached, It's 2^31 · · Score: 1

    Most probably you are right. I must have been thinking of Commodore 64, where timing is dependent on the raster frequency, which was 60 (or was it 50 depending on the mains frequency?) scans per second.

  3. Re:Civilization I on World of Warcraft Gold Limit Reached, It's 2^31 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, you could as well write a TSR loader that refreshed the same memory location 60 times a second. I don't think you could spend faster than that.

  4. Re:it's easier than you think: on How to Recognize a Good Programmer · · Score: 1

    Assuming you're really so "good" that you can write inexplicable code that's also so awesome that it's used in the real world with no problems, then why are you applying for a job?
    By this logic, you shouldn't hire anybody who applies for a job.
  5. Re:a magnet? on How To Tell If It's Really Titanium · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've never tried to stick a magnet to a stainless steel fridge, have you?
    That's because they mislead the customer by using titanium instead of steel in fridges.
  6. Re:they make money on the razors on Speculation On a Lossless iTunes Store · · Score: 1

    Here you go: JPG2TIF

  7. Re:OSS is evil. on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    There is a naming convention for Java, published by Sun. In a programming course, teachers should not accept a code that "just works" in an exam, it also has to be maintainable. Naming conventions are part of maintainability.

  8. Re:Adobe on PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · · Score: 1

    Just move everything in the "plug_ins" folder into "Optional" folder. It will greatly speed up the startup.

  9. TFA on Coming Soon, Mobile Torrents · · Score: 3, Informative
  10. Re:What's that in bogomips on Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out · · Score: 2, Funny

    so *I AM THE ANSWER*
    Then who is the question?
  11. Re:200x??? Hardly... on Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster · · Score: 1

    Another upside is that it is now possible to say that "current technology (up to 25 mbit/sec) is an improvement of 25x over the current technology (as low as 1 mbit/sec))"

  12. Re:Why? on Free IMAP On Gmail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Subfolders are *not* the same thing as creating another tag/label. There is a hierarchy and expand/collapse metaphor.

    That said, it is possible to combine both, like in Lotus Notes. It calls them folders, but they are actually nested tags.

  13. 200x??? Hardly... on Aussie Claims Copper Broadband now 200x Faster · · Score: 2, Informative

    (Up to 200 mbit/sec) / (Up to 25 mbit/sec) = 8x improvement...

  14. Re:It's a couple links deep... on AMD Unveils SSE5 Instruction Set · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why? Recovery is 5 times faster now.

  15. Re:RAID1 on Seagate Firmware Performance Differences · · Score: 1

    You are right. I was talking about mirrored writes and interleaved reads; not striping as in RAID-0.

  16. Re:RAID1 on Seagate Firmware Performance Differences · · Score: 1

    This is not RAID, this is called a backup.

    With RAID-1, you have the bonus feature of increasing read performance with striping (not all RAID-1 implementations do this but still).

  17. Re:rsync on Laptop/Server Data Synchronization? · · Score: 1

    Replication is great but you manually have to attach the files to documents.

  18. Re:The Battery Thing on The Desktop -- Time to Start Saying Goodbye? · · Score: 1

    Buy a spare charger or a docking station. When you are at it, buy a large monitor, a keyboard and a mouse too. Still cheaper than owning a desktop and a notebook at the same time and saves the hassle of synchronizing your files between machines.

  19. Re:I wouldn't buy it on $99 HD-DVD Player Coming Soon? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First, it's not like $70 and $75, but rather $99 and $199. Second, the extra feature (1080p) won't do any good for now, and when you are able to use it, there will be $100 players which are better than the ones currently sold for $199.

  20. Re:Great Quote for His Interview on Upcoming Film Based On Arthur C. Clarke Story · · Score: 1

    I don't remember about that quote but in the later Rama books (last one?), aliens admit the existence of a creator, who experiments with several "big bang"s and observes the resulting intelligent species each time.

  21. Re:Java 8 on Draft Review of Java 7 "Measures and Units" · · Score: 1

    You are an authority on "strong typing in Java and C#" because you work in HR?

  22. Re:Security vs. physics 101 on Recovering a Lost or Stolen Gadget · · Score: 1

    If an only if he/she knows that such a software is installed on the phone...

  23. Re:A cunning plan... on Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping · · Score: 1

    I had no idea that Windows Update used Akamai. If AT&T hosts some Akamai servers, updates are already mirrored inside the network.

  24. Re:A cunning plan... on Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping · · Score: 1

    Why don't they (TW) have an agreement with MS and mirror the Windows Update site (and tweak their DNS to redirect update requests to their own servers)? I have a dedicated Linux server and they mirror all the RHEL repositories, hence no bandwidth is used for updates.

  25. Re:Computer controlled LED on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 2, Funny

    Most probably it would be even cheaper to integrate the microprocessor into the LED itself. Just imagine a beowulf cluster of such LEDs...