wrap it with magnesium or white phosphorous, then insulate it from the atmosphere. once the cable is cut, the oxygen/moisture would ignite the primary and produce heat enough to trigger the termite.

that's a small part of the software industry in terms of numbers of jobs. the few remaining player on those areas are raking the billions, of course, but how many people they actually employ writing code ?

i bet for each programer working for those big players, there are ten working for small companies or as independent programers, writing custom code tied to the business models of their employers.

multiboxing means having two (or more) WoW accounts playing simultaneously on different computers (or in the same computer if it's powerful enough).

i just checked, apparently it's not against blizzard's EULA to do that.

most sane parents ?

we're wired to care a whole lot more for our next of kin than for complete strangers. so, i one government have a fucked up health care system, a sane nuclear scientist living there who's in need of care for his child _WILL_ sell his knowlege. his instincts will kick in and drive the decisions.

you'd know that if you were a parent.

what the parent meant is that instead of using the same standard plug everybody else was using, sony developed their own connector for firewire. so if you had a sony device and a non-sony computer, you'd need an adapter.

basicaly sony reinvented the firewire "wheel" by making it square.

then try this in your windows box, shutdown all redundant services, including themes, netbios (seriously, this is 20 year old shit, why it's still there ?), server, computer browser, indexing service, etc. then compare the gaming performance to what it was before.

getting performance out of a machine by tweaking the system is not just for linux.

i'm just glad linux gives me more and better options to tune my machine.

yes i am.

and i'll do it better. i'm back to college, on a digital games major. this kind of benchmarks yould make for a great paper to show at college. thanks for the idea man.

maybe i'll pitch it showing how much OS optimizations affect older and newer hardware in diferent ways.

some 10 years ago, when even the slightest hiccup could make a game running in linux slow to a crawl (not linux's fault. more like greedy games on average hardware), i ran several tests to find the best settings for performance. here's what i found:

- even a lightwheight window manager like windowmaker, fluxbox or xfce impacts negatively (specially if you're short on RAM)
- any cute widget, dockapp or systray app can take a hit. a simple opengl cpu meter, displaynig a spinning cube, running inside a 64x64 dockapp had a 10% hit on glxgears' frame rate
- daemons started from init.d scripts steal memory, and if they trigger a backgroud process, bye-bye performance. so make sure anything than trigger lots of disk I/O operations are off. specially if they run from cron
- get used to the command line. shut down GDM/KDM/XDM or any other graphical login. log on the console, quickly create an .Xsession file with nothing more than "xterm" on it. as soon as X starts with a windowless xterm, run the game from the CLI.

now, optimize BOTh PC-BSD and linux this way, THEN run a benchmark. otherwise, is the same as trying to compare a default ubuntu with openBSD on which one is more secure. or the other way on which is more usefull as a desktop. it's not right to ebnchmark different OSes by leaving the defaults just like that.

the LG prada phone was anounced before the iphone, LG even acused apple of stealing it's design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_(KE850)

read the "iphone controversy" section.

easy to defeat on *NIX. set ownership of ~/.adobe and/or ~/.macromedia with permission 000. presto, no flash crap stored on your computer, unless you're stupid enough to browse the web as root.

also, Samy Kamkar's "super cookie" is easy to avoid/defeat with firefox. click on the icon to the left of the URL, click "more info" then go to permissions. on "set cookies", uncheck "use default", then block. do the same for "offline storage".

leave the site (close the tab to be sure), then clean everything from the last hour on "tools/clear recent history".

i don't have a problem with shorter games, as long as there's replayability.

example: metal gear solid IV.

there's even an achievement for fonishing it in 5 hours or less. the faster that i finished it was 10 hours, but i replayed it some 10 times before selling the PS3 to a friend.

so bring the short games, but make them so there's enough variation to ensure that i'll want to play it over and over again.

i agree about treating everyone with respect, the part about being backed in a corner is mostly because IT is not the core competency of most company (IT companies like google, MS, oracle, etc. excluded), so manager don't understand computers as well as they understand their product and its market, and humans tends to be suspicious of things we don't understand, this makes it easy to put them in the corner and get concessions from them

pure water don't retain radiation, you know ?

a thorium reactor for cars (with risk of collision) would forcibly be of the pressurized water, where pure, de-ionized water is heated by the radiactive element, then this water heats regular tap water to generate steam.

the pure water in the primary circuit only gets dumped when the reactor is decomissioned at the end of it's usefull life, in a proper recycling facility that's able to filter any radioactive ions and seal them before dumping the water.

before reaching a coclusion, read a better researched article, written by someone who really knows macs firts: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars (warning, 14 pages article)

lion can be burned to a DVD after download, also, in the near future, apple will ofer lion on thumb drives for $69.

the EULA also mentions virtualisation. the hypervisor probably needs to run on a mac OS host, but it is supported as guest, if the EULA is true.

they did. it's called "dalvik". the problem is, oracle thinks dalvik infringes on patents used by java's hotspot(tm) runtime.