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  1. 4 cores for me 4 cores for my viruses on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    If I have more cores I can worry less about all the viruses running on my box stealing my speed right?

  2. Re:More Cores, More Power on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you made the wrong analogy.

    Do you want 1 big penis or 6 to 8 tiny ones?

  3. One Core at 24GHZ on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    I use AROS (Amiga X86 OS) as a hobby. It doesn't support SMP. There are various other apps I use that don't support SMP.

    So while 8 cores at 3GHZ each is ~24GHZ. I wish the speed wars hadn't stalled as I'd personally have more use for a single core running 20+GHZ.

    We do seemed to have sort of stopped at the 3GHZ mark and just gone to adding cores.

  4. 1100% more dropped calls. on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 1

    Why the 100? It drops 1 more per 100. What if the 3GS only drops 1 call per 1000?

    That means the 3GS on average drops 0.1 calls per 100.

    Then the iPhone 4G drops 1.1 calls per 100 or 1100% more dropped calls.

  5. Re:Still missing the point. on H.264 and VP8 Compared · · Score: 1

    +1

    For me it's all the above you said... oh and I can watch Youtube using html5 in Firefox and Opera out of the box.

    So h.264 maybe be uber awesome, but it's useless.

  6. Is this illegal? on LimeWire Likely To Shut Down Soon · · Score: 1

    http://www.video2mp3.net/

    Works great for me.

  7. No respect. on Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Circa 1985 people! Come one. ;-)

  8. Re:I've been contemplating this myself... on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Opera Unite that is what I was thinking. But then people complain about how it's SO unsafe to share information from your own computer and they would never open up access like that. So which do they want? Share data from their PC and be paranoid people are going to hack their system or share their data through the evil 'facebooks' and 'googles' out there?

  9. Re:Oracle of Bacon Says... on James Cameron To Develop 3-D Camera For Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    Ha! I did misspell it. Turth is I used Google. Copy Arnold Swarchenegger and paste it into Google. It doesn't tell you it's spelled wrong. I'm guessing it gets misspelled more often then it gets spelled correctly.

  10. Oracle of Bacon Says... on James Cameron To Develop 3-D Camera For Mars Rover · · Score: 5, Funny

    James Cameron -> The Terminator -> Arnold Swarchenegger -> Total Recall -> Get Your Ass to Mars!!!

  11. Re:footbal-field sized on Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon · · Score: 1

    >>is this an imperial unit or what?

    You mean soccer?

  12. Shape traffic to reduce jobs on The Truth About Net Neutrality Job Loss · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I haven't done a study but this seems backwards to me.

    I mean don't they shape traffic to save money? You can appear to have more bandwidth than you do if you shape it, but you don't have to pay keep growing you network ie. jobs.

    If they are not able to shape traffic then they need to spend money expanding their network, which would mean MORE jobs not less.

  13. You were all wrong!! on Android Ported To iPhone · · Score: 1

    See the iPhone CAN multitask.

  14. Mac Upgrade just a dropin replacement... on Next Gen Intel CPUs Move To Yet Another Socket · · Score: 1

    >>No more CPU upgrades problems! /duck

    Upgrading the CPU in Mac: (Also, applies to HD, Video card, Monitor, etc...)

    Step 1. Throw old Mac in the trash.
    Step 2. Buy a new Mac.

    (wish I was only half-kidding ;-) )

  15. Re:Is it me or is he sounding more desperate? on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 2, Informative
  16. Which hand? on Research Suggests Brain Has a 2-Task Limit for Multitasking · · Score: 1

    >>I'm doing that and eating a bowl of cheetos!

    Are you going to need to clean the keyboard or take a shower when done?

  17. By that logic we are only single tasking, ever. on Research Suggests Brain Has a 2-Task Limit for Multitasking · · Score: 1

    Using your drum analogy then people can only do 1 task.

    And if I add a 2nd task of "chewing gum" to the singular task of playing multiple drums? Then you can say, well, with practice chewing gum and playing drums becomes a new single task.

    Then if I say, well, he is doing the single task of chewing gum and playing multiple drums and then added the 2nd task of singing (Phil Collins for example)

    The you'd say well, with practice that becomes a single task, playing multiple drums, chewing gum, and singing is really only one task.

    So now we have the single task of singing, chewing gum, and playing multiple drums and then we add the 2nd task of thinking what song to perform next based on the crowds reaction to what you are currently playing.

    So now, with practice, you can say we are single tasking when playing multiple drums, chewing gum, singing, judging the crowds mood, and planning what song to play next.

  18. Doing 4 tasks right now? Can you beat it? on Research Suggests Brain Has a 2-Task Limit for Multitasking · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is bogus. Watching porn, masturbating, a cigarette in my mouth, and I'm still able to type this message with my other hand.

    That's 4. Can anyone beat that?

  19. Confusing VR and 3D I think. on Do You Have a Secret Immunity To 3D Movies? · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of people are confusing 3-D with Virtual reality. If you watch a 3-D movie you shouldn't feel immersed. Things are just in 3D.

    A bookshelf is like 3D. A room is like virtual reality.


    A room however I feel immersed in. When I move I my view changes, etc. This is like VR.

    3D movies != VR

  20. Ooops!! I crapped my pants! on Twins' DNA Foils Police · · Score: 1

    Unless they are like my grandpa. Farts? Hell he craps his pants sometimes and is completely oblivious to it.

  21. Re:Really? on YouTube, Now In Text Mode! · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's april fools joke, but it makes you kinda wonder why they don't take a few hours and add Theora support.

  22. Martian Mutant City on NASA Mars Satellite Snaps 1st Public-Picked Photos · · Score: 1

    >>And the mostly naked martian girls.

    Or really any chick with 3 boobs will do.

  23. Re:But Facebook lets you block App stories on Facebook Goes After Greasemonkey Script Developer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, or you can also just use:

    http://lite.facebook.com/

    I don't get why they care if THEY themselves offer so many ways to avoid all that crap.

  24. Oblig on Best Buy Offers Bogus "3D Sync" Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    "24K gold-plated connectors help protect the cable's optical lens to ensure consistent signal transfer"

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Rocketfish%26%23153%3B+-+8'+Digital+Optical+Cable/8315147.p?id=1174694191675&skuId=8315147&st=optical


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  25. Best Secure SSID on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got rid of of passwords, WPA,WPA2,WEP or whatever crap and just changed my SSID to "$5.99 per minute".

    I check the logs and have never seen a single person connect to my router.