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  1. Re:Faked death on Steve Fossett Declared Dead · · Score: 1

    Why So Serious?

  2. Re:Practical value? on TV White Space & The Future of Wireless Broadband · · Score: 1

    Wrong.. It's just digital broadcasting. You need a new tuner and nothing else; Nothing to do with satellite or cable.

  3. Re:Here's an FAQ from Blizzard on Blizzard and Activision Announce $18.8bn Merger · · Score: 1

    They are good at letting established studios do their thing (unlike EA, who ruined westwood and countless others): Look at Infinity Ward and Call of Duty 4, for example.

  4. Re:So long GPA.... on EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday · · Score: 1

    They've paid transgaming to work with them and make sure it runs well under Cedega and Cine, they've made engine adjustments for that fact, they officially support said clients with patches if bugs are found in em. Why do you care it's not a native compilation?

  5. Re:Disk-on-Chip Linux on Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS · · Score: 1

    Isn't this pretty much exactly what the Asus Eee PC is?

  6. Re:Me'thinks on Vista SP1 Coming In Q1 2008 · · Score: 1

    I'm not a mac user, but my understanding is that as soon as a new OS X is released they completely stop selling the old one? Is this not the case?

    If it is, that's certainly a whole lot worse than the situation with Microsoft.

    Like I said though, I'm not a mac user and I do hope I'm wrong on this.

  7. Re:Parent is trolling on The Future of C++ As Seen By Its Creator · · Score: 1

    Or.. You could just use boost which includes (most of) TR1 in 1.34.

  8. Re:Uh, yeah. on Pro Gaming Network Television Coverage Begins Sunday · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Korea disagrees.

  9. Re:What's the point ? on GPLv2 and GPLv3 Coexisting In the Same Project? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Also, I like birds?

    What the hell?

  10. Re:Stop testing the Humans, test the Robots on Evolution of the 'Captcha' · · Score: 1

    I did exactly this on my own site a couple days ago. Have an 'email' field and hide it on the outer element using css. Simple and effective, right?

    It didn't have any effect at all. The bots must've gotten smarter, or they have people examine the sites in case of errors, and then writing special case handling.

    One thing I've heard is supposedly effective is not having an action on your form; Instead, use an onclick on your submit button, have the js set the action and submit the form. I've yet to try it out though.

  11. Re:MS is on a roll... on Microsoft Slaps Its Most Valuable Professional · · Score: 1

    So, less value at a premium?

  12. Re:want performance from php? on Optimize PHP and Accelerate Apache · · Score: 1

    This is of course true to an extent, but to say that lighttpd is only good at static content serving is flat out false; Look at reddit for example.

    Furthermore, I never argued whether or not ligthy is better than apache in my post, I just wanted to make clear that lighttpd certainly has a use for busy dynamic sites as well. The post I replied to seemed to imply this is not the case.

  13. Re:want performance from php? on Optimize PHP and Accelerate Apache · · Score: 1

    YouTube, reddit, parts of wikipedia, imageshack, sourceforge all use lighttpd.. Are those small sites?

    More here: http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2006/12/28/light tpd-powers-5-alexa-top-250-sites

  14. Re:Lemme get this straight... on MySpace Begins Rollout of Video Monitoring Tech · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because obviously they'll be running the hashing on the same servers serving the website. Oh, wait...

  15. Re:Doesn't mention the little problem of broken DR on Disney - Blu-ray's Fair Weather Friend · · Score: 1

    Not to nitpick but commercially produced DVD's are dual layer, and have about double that capacity, roughly 8.5GB. It's not anywhere close to HD-DVD / BluRay, but I doubt that game makers have problems with these constraints for this generation. Gears of War certainly doesn't, and it looks better than anything on the PS3 as yet.

  16. Re:ALL? on iPod/iPhone Nano With Touch Panel? · · Score: 1

    High-end digital graphics artists have been using stuff like this for years already. For example: http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/index.cfm (just the first one I could find on google).

  17. Re:"Cross platform" on Microsoft Common Language Runtime To Be Cross-Platform · · Score: 1

    Silverlight is completely seperate from your .NET framework installation, it does not know of it. If you want to use silverlight you have to target it specifically (in this way it's similar to the .NET Compact Framework, which is another .NET subset), and include anything it doesn't have in your application. The moment your app works in silverlight however, it will work whether it's on mac or windows.

  18. Re:"Cross platform" on Microsoft Common Language Runtime To Be Cross-Platform · · Score: 3, Informative

    FUD more?

    The CLR shipped with silverlight runtime is supported in IE, Firefox and Safari on windows and mac. It contains all CLR 2.0 features, and has all of the silverlight libraries. It does however only contain a subset of the BCL (Base Class Libraries), but that is the same for all the users without .NET that downloads the silverlight runtime, be it on mac or windows. You are a fool if you believe that the majority of windows users have any version of .NET installed, let alone 2.0, even today.

  19. Re:Prior art; who cares? on Mouse Brain Simulated Via Computer · · Score: 1

    One could say that you only have half a brain.

  20. Re:Slashdot to Dvorak: Stop the Apple Trolling! on Dvorak to Apple - Stop The iPhone · · Score: 1

    With all the FUD he puts out, you'd think he was bidding for FOX News anchor.

  21. Re:Intellectually, Intel is playing catchup here. on Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU · · Score: 1

    Look at the performance of the core 2 duo. There's no memory controller integrated because it hasn't been needed tet - YAGNI. As for AMD integrating GPU's, it's not exactly a new idea, and has been done before.

  22. Re:What??? on TV Airwaves To Deliver Internet? · · Score: 1

    That tinfoil hat must be outright painful to wear.

  23. Re:Reentrant? on Auto-Parallelizing Compiler From Codeplay · · Score: 3, Informative
  24. Re:DRM failed? Say it ain't so! on BitTorrent Video Download Store Falls Flat · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, it's a dell?

  25. Re:Damn DirectX... on Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games · · Score: 1

    DirectSound and DirectInput were both deprecated with DirectX 10 in favour of XACT and XInput, so that may change. Also the lack of DirectSound HW acceleration in vista might stir things up a bit.