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  1. Yes, just what games need... on Transgaming Technologies and Mac Developers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...another layer of indirection. As if they didn't run slow enough on OS X already.

  2. Re:Now... on Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If these Intel chips are any faster than my current GF2, mext time I upgrade neither ATi nor nVidia are getting my money.

  3. Re:Doing It All on NVIDIA Do-It-Yourself Quad SLI Launched · · Score: 1

    They don't do it in even enough proportions.

  4. Re:Umm 91.45 Got Released Today on NVIDIA Do-It-Yourself Quad SLI Launched · · Score: 1

    33MB? Ouch, are all the Windows drivers that bloated?

  5. Re:Could you get around this... on The Keyboard That Could Phone Home · · Score: 1

    Random jitter? What, like an Internet connection?

    Besides that, how are they sending the keypresses back to the server? Is there some unknown exploit in the PS/2 port we haven't found for ~15 years? If they've got the means on the victim's PC to send this information back in the first place they don't need special hardware at all.

  6. Re:IBM is chopped liver? on Dell Reflects on 25 Years of PCs · · Score: 1
    In what alternate universe?

    The... uh... 21st century one?
  7. Re:hmmm, some generic info about CEO Dell's home P on Dell Reflects on 25 Years of PCs · · Score: 1

    IIRC, Home also only supports 1 CPU.

  8. Re:AV synch on The Future of Flash · · Score: 1

    They play fine for me... but maybe that's because I pull them from the browser cache and use mplayer to play them.

  9. Re:Maybe in 10 more years I can watch it on Linux on The Future of Flash · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, open source qt/wmv support isn't "better than theirs", and you have to use windows DLLs to play videos in WMV9/QT7 formats.

  10. Re:The future of flash... on The Future of Flash · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That'll only happen when there's an SVG equivalent of Flash MX. There isn't.

  11. The future of flash... on The Future of Flash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is to be made irrelevant by something else that works on all platforms and is cheaper/free/OSS.

  12. Re:manipulate and/or control the charge? on 18th Century Pigment to Revolutionize Chip Design? · · Score: 1

    What does Sonic The Hedgehog have to do with this article, or physics?

  13. Re:And Linux as root is any more secure? on Vista Hacking Challenge Answered · · Score: 1

    root accounts can be made less privileged than normal users, if you want them to be. In windows Admin is Admin, and the only things with more power are the hidden system accounts.

  14. Re:Is Carmack still relevant? on John Carmack's QuakeCon Keynote Video · · Score: 1

    Firstly, he's not a grammar troll, he's a spelling Nazi.
    Secondly, you misspelled grammar.

  15. Re:Possible legal problems on Bittorrent Implements Cache Discovery Protocol · · Score: 2, Insightful
    On top of that, what torrents are ever so common as to warrant the use of a cache?

    How many people download Linux ISOs using BT? If 30 people on one ISP download a new release, and it's using this, the ISP saves about 20-30GB and the users get the full 300KB/s they pay for instead of 2-3KB/s.
  16. Re:No Discs... on PS3's Smart Back-Compat, PS4 Doesn't Play Discs · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No, you've got it all wrong. What they mean by "no discs" is "tape drives".

  17. Re:Not endeared to ANYBODY on Don't Count Sony Out Yet · · Score: 1

    I'd give them a bit of credit, their headphones are good. But at this point I'd never trust anything from Sony that isn't entirely built from discrete components.

  18. Re:Wow, they're actually _doing_ something on KDE 3.5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    It's kde bug #125388, but nothing's happened on it for 4 months.

  19. Re:Nintendo's Console Strategy Falling Apart? on Nintendo and Microsoft in Suit Over Controller Patents · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call a game with a 4 on the end a must-have title, let alone a Rayman game.

  20. Re:Patent trolls? on Nintendo and Microsoft in Suit Over Controller Patents · · Score: 1

    I haven't looked at a GCN controller, but the N64 controller works almost the same as a ball mouse: it detects direction and speed (using digital sensors), which is why it malfunctions if you turn the console on with the stick off-centre (it doesn't know where it is). They presumably fixed that in the GCN one with some sort of auto calibration.

  21. Re:Prior Art? on Nintendo and Microsoft in Suit Over Controller Patents · · Score: 1

    I wonder if these idiots have ever heard of an analog input device called a "mouse".

  22. What's wrong with them? on What's Wrong with Modern Console Design? · · Score: 1

    40dB fans are what's wrong with them.

  23. Re:Wow, they're actually _doing_ something on KDE 3.5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    The one thing it's missing is this (Google cached since the site isn't loading for me).

    Well that and border-radius, but I can wait for that.

  24. Wow, they're actually _doing_ something on KDE 3.5.4 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Compared to Firefox where users have to wait until next year or put up with half-working CVS builds if they want rendering bugs fixed. If KHTML had better user CSS support I'd switch right now.

  25. Re:Binary == bad on An Early Look at Freespire Linux · · Score: 1

    I'll trade this r9200 for your 7950GX2!