Comment Re:games? (Score 1) 201
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/28/29-of-windows-vista-crashes-caused-by-nvidia-drivers/
Yeah, and being one of the main reasons for vista instability is a great feather in Nvidia's cap.
Comment Re:games? (Score 1) 201
Are you using the ATI drivers, or the windows update drivers? Windows update drivers don't always offer all the performance of your card. Get the latest drivers for your chip from either ati or your laptop manufacturer and try it out.
Comment Re:Sums. (Score 1) 442
One fish, two fishes? No.
One money, two moneys? No.
One information, two informations? No.
Mathematics is an uncoutable noun. It does not change depending on number counted.
You do not say "I solved it using Mathematic" when you use only one field of Mathematics.
You do not say "Math(s) WERE my worst subject", you say WAS.
Saying you need an s on Maths because there is an s on Mathematics is like saying you should spell the short form of Biology with a y as in "Bioy"
Comment Re:metamaterials are just periodic structures (Score 1) 113
Thats just your mind filtering all other distractions and focusing on as much detail of the current situation as possible, and is a trick caused by your memory. For more info: http://www.livescience.com/health/071211-time-slow.html
Comment If you find a singularity "pretty loose" (Score 2, Funny) 432
having effectively zero size, your girlfriend must wish you were throwing a hotdog through the halway
Comment Re:Why is it a bad thing? (Score 1) 324
Agreed, everyone should stop now and actualy read the book (I know, I know this is slashdot, RTFA is a 4 letter swear, but its almost all pictures and only uses small words!). It has very little to do with 9/11 other than the cover (which may have been a bad choice, seeing as how anyone old enough to remember it is too old to be using colouring books) the rest of the book being about fires and floods. At most they should redo the cover to something less controversial and more generaly applicable (flood, fire, earthquake, tornado).
Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive 465
Sportsqs points out a story at Coding Horror which begins:
"Given the rapid advance of Moore's Law, when does it make sense to throw hardware at a programming problem? As a general rule, I'd say almost always. Consider the average programmer salary here in the US. You probably have several of these programmer guys or gals on staff. I can't speak to how much your servers may cost, or how many of them you may need. Or, maybe you don't need any — perhaps all your code executes on your users' hardware, which is an entirely different scenario. Obviously, situations vary. But even the most rudimentary math will tell you that it'd take a massive hardware outlay to equal the yearly costs of even a modest five person programming team."
Comment Re:Was not the Blue Ray capacity enough?? (Score 1) 283
It's not that the video didn't fit
The disk gives you the option to download or not, and my PS3 allows me to disable the BD-live downloads entirely, so it's not exactly a problem with Sony, its the implementation of some of the Blueray players out there that have too long of a timeout before they give up on servers that don't answer.
