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  1. Re:A week's a short time in software development on 'Weekly Episodes' Coming To Star Trek Online · · Score: 1

    Bullcrap. Pressed the wrong button on the preview after I realised which site I was on.
    Should have looked like this:

    They could take a leaf from a Japanese anime show called "Naruto". It's been airing new episodes every week since 2002. In that time there have also been 6 movies, with a 7th due shortly.

    Just to show that it can be done.

  2. Re:A week's a short time in software development on 'Weekly Episodes' Coming To Star Trek Online · · Score: 1

    They could take a leaf from a Japanese anime show called "Naruto". It's been airing new episodes [i]every week[/i] since [i]2002[/i]. In that time there have [i]also[/i] been 6 movies, with a 7th due shortly.

    Just to show that it can be done.

  3. Re:Note on Windows XP SP2 Support Ends Tomorrow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used it for years (from pretty much as soon as it was released) without driver trouble, so your assertion that device makers largely skipped XP x64 is incorrect. There were drivers for my Logitek USB microphone, creative "extreme" soundcard (just as stable as under x86, unfortunately), nVidia graphics, AMD cpu, all onboard motherboard devices (sound, raid, ethernet), Samsung printer, even my no-name Chinese webcam came with XP x64 drivers. Only one device I owned wouldn't work, and that was a Belkin bluetooth module whose drivers were never updated to support XP SP2, let alone XP x64.

    I did have a game or two that needed cracking because its DRM wouldn't work, but as I cracked games anyway to remove the "find the cd" requirement I didn't consider that a massive problem. Those games probably don't work without cracking on Vista/7 x64 either.

  4. Re:"masses of bandwidth"? on OnLive Latency Tested · · Score: 1

    The tests Eurogamer did were in the US, over Verizon FiOS (to give "OnLive the best possible ISP service we could find"). OnLive's not yet available in the UK.

    It still sucked.

  5. Re:Am I the only one? on 'Forest Bathing' Considered Healthful · · Score: 1

    He didn't say it wasn't UK English, only that it wasn't a word he recognised as UK English. Which would be because everyone uses "healthy" or "good for you" instead.

  6. Re:good. on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    I was talking about putting an adapter on an output socket. The socket on a monitor is not an output socket...

  7. Re:good. on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 2

    Find me something that can only do DVI-D output...

    Adaptering doesn't count.

  8. Re:good. on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 2, Informative

    DVI can be adaptered to VGA, so there really is no reason for a pc to have a VGA port on it.

  9. Re:The grail of energy storage... on New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy · · Score: 1

    Or a match.

    (it probably won't explode, just burn vigorously, but it will release the energy)

  10. Re:My guess is their licensees yelled at them on Is PC Gaming Set For a Comeback? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's the UDK, not UE3. UE3 also works on consoles, and comes with full source.

  11. Mod parent up on The Curious Case of SSD Performance In OS X · · Score: 1

    There's a lot of misinformation in these comments, and parent actually seems to know what they're talking about...

  12. Re:Why should they care now? on Microsoft Busting Its Own Browser+OS Myth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually on a current system the first 4 hex chars of a 64-bit pointer have to be 0s (or Fs in system space). The current generation of cpus only support 48-bits of actual address.

  13. Re:Hands Up on 36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    Obvious to you too huh?

  14. Re:I think I know why it's external. on Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250 · · Score: 1

    Also it's possibly not standard height, so while technically 3.5" may not fit in a normal PC.

  15. Re:Neither funny nor accurate on Supreme Court Throws Out Bilski Patent · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that's how klingon was invented...

  16. Re:Fantastic display on A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1

    I've tried it (normal-handed person holding it left-handed), and dropped the signal from 4/5 to no connection at all, followed by the phone taking a couple of minutes to reconnect to the mobile network after I'd let go of it and handed it back to its owner.

    It didn't happen for him, we think due to difference in skin conductivity.

  17. Re:Slashvertisement on WiBE Shared Hotspot Pitched For Rural Broadband in UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try this: http://www.gsmworld.com/cgi-bin/ni_map.pl?x=0&y=0&z=0&cc=gb&net=hu
    That's the map for "3 mobile", IIRC the first to roll out 3G in the UK, and advertise the best 3G coverage.
    See also: Orange, T-Mobile, Vodaphone and O2 (haha).

  18. Re:Whats the replacement on Intel Says Farewell To PCI Bus · · Score: 1

    PCI Express, just the smaller x4 or x1 sockets.

    Though those boards with 7 PCI-e 16x sockets would do nicely.

  19. Re:Stuck on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 1

    I have 10 Mbps downstream, but still the same 512kbps upstream...

  20. Re: UK hasn't made anything in years... yeah,right on UK Video Game Tax Relief Cancelled · · Score: 1

    A list which doesn't include Pitbull Syndicate (makers of Test Drive 4,5,6,Overdrive and LA:Rush, among others) or Midway Newcastle (who bought them out, made Wheelman, then went bankrupt).

    There are probably a few others missing too.

  21. Re:DO NOT WANT: print server, storage, P2P daemon, on Cheap ADSL Holds Up 802.11n Router Design · · Score: 1

    Oh dear. I have:
    Cable Modem (ISP supplied and solid as a rock)
    Router (self-built, can't remember the last time I had to reboot it)
    AP/Switch (Actually my old router, which would need resetting every day when I used it as a router. The AP side crashes every so often, needing it to be reset to get my laptop back on the network, but the switch part seems to be independent)
    Switch (at my desk)
    File/Print server (currently completely broken).

    That matches your list pretty closely...

  22. Re:How often does debugger speed matter? on New LLVM Debugger Subproject Already Faster Than GDB · · Score: 1

    I assume by watchpoints you mean memory read/write traps. I use them all the time in Visual Studio. Guess it's a faster debugger than gdb.
    Data breakpoints (memory write traps) are an absolute godsend. As far as I can tell they're hardware supported.
    Conditional breakpoints are the slow ones, mostly if used in an inner loop of something that runs too many times to be sensible. But the fact that they can work with almost any c++ (to the point of calling virtual functions on classes) is incredible. The only annoying restriction is that you can't use anything that's been inlined in the actual executable.

  23. Re:That's a hundred petabytes of storage on New Google Search Index 50% Fresher With Caffeine · · Score: 1

    I actually have a copy of that. It's in a hell of a box.

  24. Re:3 people in 2 don't know math. on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Factually inaccurate though, unlike the other versions. There would still be 3 (or 11) elements in that list, even using a zero-based index. They'd just be numbered 0-2 (0-10).

  25. Re:Can You Install Three? on One Video Card, 12 Monitors · · Score: 1

    Two things:
    1: You clearly missed the other guy replying (much earlier) with the 7-slot gigabyte board.
    2: The slots on that 3-way board only have one slot between, so can only take 2-slot cards. This is a 3-slot card, it won't fit.