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Comment Re:Choices (Score 5, Insightful) 702

Unless you're surrounded by a monopoly, or other 'choices' that are vastly substandard. Such as 56k or very-slow adsl, versus high-speed, low-latency cable. 'Choices' -- I'd have to move to get another choice. Hogwash to that point, I say.

Comment Re:Which 90% ? (Score 1) 224

This is database architecture and IS used.

It works like this: You tier where your data is stored based on how often it is read.

Depending on your database load, you could use a tier similar to..
1+ reads per second
1+ reads per day
1+ reads per month
1+ reads per 6 months
1+ reads per year (this is your archive/old data level)

Based on your needs, you make data more available; data that isn't used is eventually shelved further back. Eventually unused data migrates toward 'old data' and takes increasingly more time/energy to read, but is still available when needed. Whereas your frequently accessed data is available immediately.

Comment Re:Which 90% ? (Score 1) 224

This is database architecture and IS used. It works like this: You tier where your data is stored based on how often it is read. Depending on your database load, you could use a tier similar to.. 1+ reads per second 1+ reads per day 1+ reads per month 1+ reads per 6 months 1+ reads per year (this is your archive/old data level) ..Based on your needs, you make data more available; data that isn't used is eventually shelved further back. Eventually unused data migrates toward 'old data' and takes increasingly more time/energy to read, but is still available when needed. Whereas your frequently accessed data is available immediately.

Comment Re:Hmm.... (Score 3, Insightful) 833

I happen to indulge in world of warcraft from time to time, and let me tell you this...

I've posted on the forums a total of maybe 3 times...ever.

If you don't want to show your real name, then just don't use the forums. You can get support in-game or over the phone.

And parents that want to protect their children: Disable realid (forum) access in the parental controls panel.
Canada

Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans 363

John Bayko writes "Mentioned on Slashdot a couple of years ago, the drug dichloroacetate (DCA) has finally finished its first clinical trial against brain tumors in humans. Drug companies weren't willing to test a drug they could not patent, so money was raised in the community through donations, auctions, and finally government support, but the study was still limited to five patients. It showed extremely positive results in four of them. This episode raises the question of what happens to all the money donated to Canadian and other cancer societies, and especially the billions spent buying merchandise with little pink ribbons on it, if not to actual cancer research like this."

Comment Re:Yeah, so why are they better? (Score 2, Interesting) 423

Linq to SQL/Entities(on your entity provider) has it's benefits and downfalls.

But damn, Linq to everything else fucking rocks faces, and anyone who says otherwise seriously needs to buy a linq book and actually use the shit. Linq to XML/collections .. I don't know where I'd be without it. And I don't want to know!

Yeah, linq is handy with Entities, but you run into a whole messuh problems if you don't be careful with it. (And people who don't understand relational databases should stay away from it.)

At least, that is my opinion...but don't take it too seriously

Comment A note on bioshock: (Score 1) 473

You can save the girls! I mean, are you just gonna let them sit in the game and die?

I beat it once by saving them, then out of curiosity I went in and "extracted the worm" from them (AKA KILLED THEM)

I may be desensitized, I couldn't kill them the first time around...but the second time was easy ; )
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Science Unlocks The Mystery Of Belly Button Lint 161

After three years of research, including examining 503 pieces of fluff from his own belly button, Georg Steinhauser has discovered a type of body hair that traps stray pieces of lint and draws them into the navel. Dr Steinhauser's observations showed that "small pieces of fluff first form in the hair and then end up in the navel at the end of the day." Chemical analysis revealed the pieces of fluff were not just made up of cotton from clothing. Wrapped up in the lint were also flecks of dead skin, fat, sweat and dust. Unfortunately, further study has failed to yield a hair or fiber that would give Dr. Steinhauser the last three years of his life back.
Operating Systems

Submission + - 64 bit Menuet 0.59 available

Michael135 writes: Menuet is a fully assembly written OS for x86. Menuet 0.59 beta includes pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading, ring-3 protection, responsive GUI with resolutions up to 1280x1024, Editor/Assembler for applications, TCP/IP stack with Loopback & Ethernet drivers, simple http/ftp clients, free-form application windows and real-time data fetch. Menuet64 is released as freeware and Menuet32 under GPL.
Quickies

Submission + - High School Student Builds Fusion Reactor

deblau writes: "In 2006 Thiago Olson joined the extremely sparse ranks of amateurs worldwide who have achieved nuclear fusion with a home apparatus. In other words, he built the business end of a hydrogen bomb in his basement. A bright plasma "star in a jar" demonstrated his success. "The temperature of the plasma is around 200 million degrees," Olson says modestly, "several times hotter than the core of the sun.""

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