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Comment Re:I'm a wire guy (Score 3, Insightful) 125

I've had just over 200 Mbit/s with 5 GHz 802.11n, sitting in the next room from the AP, with a wall between us.

And probably noone else using the 5 GHz band in your area - am I right? Because as soon as the signal / noise ratio decreases the high efficiency modulations stop working and you must live with much lower spectral effifciency - that is' much lower usable bandwidth for the same slice of the spectrum.

Unfortunately increasing the transmission power doesn't help a lot - after all, the neighbour wants high bandwidth as well leading to an arms race.

Comment Re:If nothing else..... (Score 1) 1061

I am more than 17 by about 40 years. Laws are one thing I believe in, to a point. But if I was at my daughter/son/niece/nephews funeral, and the surviving family members were being subjected to this form of "free speech" by this group of pariahs, I very well might forget that at heart I am a peace loving man. And I would accept whatever punishment society deemed proper at my trial for assault of any demonstrator. They could sue me for all they want and would never see a dime of any award for their hospital bills and pain and suffering.

Just gun them all down and then clain God judged them for their sins...

Comment Re:national insecurity (Score 1) 180

You just pointed out the mental paradox of many chinese people. They always claim how indignantly they hate imperialism, however at the same time, that's also the goal they dream of.

There's no paradox involved and it's not not chinese specific. They just hate other's people imperialism.

Many of those that raise their voice for democracy and rights would instead demand a monthly tribute in virgins if they were dictators, absolute rulers, etc.

Excuse me, now I have to return to the design of my army of drones to take over the world. With such a large place to rule I think the tribute in virgins will have to be paid daily...

Comment Re:Cloning diplays with different resolutions (Score 1) 144

The scaling of cloned outputs depends mainly on hardware. Cheap laptop cards usually don't incorporate a rescaler.
If you output to VGA you can use the rescaler built into the monitor. Sadly, this doesn't work with most flat panels on digital outputs - they lack a rescaler because they assume the video card will match their resolution.

Comment Re:TwinView (Score 1) 144

Too bad my nvidia can't scale the cloned image therefore making the cloned mode useless...
Many applications are also behaving pretty bad - like displaying a popup on another monitor than the main application window. Surprisingly, Windows applications running in wine deal nicely with multiple monitors.

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