Comment Re:ISR (Score 1) 138
I thought Fox was the ultimate source of artificial intelligence...
Comment Re:Enhanced Harddrive (Score 1) 268
> A thermite charge big enough to get over the curie point would work just as well.
So would a powerful electromagnet yeah?
Comment New world record? (Score 1) 101
No fair! They changed the outcome by measuring it!
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Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 5, Funny) 267
Reminds me of an old joke:
Q: What's the punishment for polygamy?
A: Multiple wives.
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Comment Re:Seriously don't care... (Score 1) 520
The Woz seems to be doing alright:
He was one of my personal heroes in the ol' GS days.
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Comment Re:We'll Have to Agree to Disagree (Score 1) 1073
Comment Re:Replicator (Score 1) 633
I was thinking along the same lines regarding the transporter.
Wouldn't it be great to transport food, agricultural machinery, etc (that's a BIG etc btw
The mind boggles at how much the world would change. No more need for road/rail/air transport of goods/people, cutting down pollution and transport times significantly. It would also make space exploration a lot simpler: even if the transporter has a limited range (which I'm guessing it does), a series of them on spacecraft along the path to the destination would allow us to beam large groups of people onto other planets.
Beam me up!
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Comment Re:Peeping toms will love this... (Score 1) 122
> As is every single piece of technology that ever has, and ever will be, invented.
Indeed! As Louis CK says, "Even a single-edged sword is a double-edged sword"
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Comment Re:Why? (Score 2, Informative) 295
I can't vouch for the validity of this, but this is a fun read if your appetite was piqued by PopeRazto's post:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/aleister-crowley/
You should find the Charlie Manson easter egg there, and a lot of the other twisted stuff mentioned in PopeRazto's post.
I'd recommend taking it all with a grain of salt, and reading this stuff at home, not at work
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Comment Re:Only 10 types of people. (Score 1) 599
"Don't be a square, be a rhombus." -- Groovy Wordbender
DRM Shuts Down PC Version of Gears of War 598
carlmenezes writes "It seems that the DRM on the PC version of Gears of War came with a built-in shut-off date; the digital certificate for the game was only good until January 28, 2009. Now, the game fails to work unless you adjust your system's clock. What is Epic's response? 'We're working on it.'"
Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit 685
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that new research is suggesting as many as a quarter of all IT staff in small to medium businesses have suffered some sort of abuse and are looking for careers elsewhere (PDF). "The study also found that over a third have suffered from sleepless nights or headaches as a result of IT problems at work, while 59 percent spend between one and 10 hours a week working on IT systems outside normal hours. ... The biggest cause of stress among IT staff is problems arising from operational day-to-day tasks, the survey found. Another major cause came from loss of critical data, according to Connect."
2009, Year of the Linux Delusion 696
gadgetopia writes "An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low-power ARM processors will be in netbooks which won't have enough power to run Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to 'web only' applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too." The article goes on to skewer the year of Linux thing that seems to show up on pretty much every tech news site throughout December and January as lazy editors round out their year with softball trolling stories and "Year End Lists." We should compile a year-end list about this :)
Comment Re:DO NOT (Score 1) 962
Heh, and here I was about to violently disagree with your post. I'm glad it was a joke, and can't believe I missed it. Emulator, tape, sign-off... lol.
I too am scared by the fact it was modded Insightful. Hum.
Although unintentional, it made your
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Comment Re:Mostly pointless (Score 1) 131
> The one exception is Bonnie++, on page 6, which measures raw filesystem performance... and is something that is known to greatly depend on how old and how full a given filesystem is.
The type of I/O scheduler you use, combined with the type of RAID controller can make a significant difference to bonnie++ results/ IO performance too. For certain RAID controllers and workloads, using the NULL or deadline scheduler can increase performance significantly over CFQ or AS.
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