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Comment Re:My results (Score 1) 325

by edmac3 on Monday June 22, 2009 @06:01PM (#28430779) Attached to: Concrete Comparisons of Theora Vs. Mpeg-4

So to does steel contain iron; but it would be appropriate to compare the two.

Comment Re:An Ethical Quandry without an easy answer (Score 1) 847

by edmac3 on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @03:32PM (#28353143) Attached to: Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening

She hopes her kid will have Downs? That would be very sickening.

Comment Re:Whoa (Score 2, Insightful) 435

by edmac3 on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @08:16AM (#27829457) Attached to: First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook

It takes 450-odd Mb of RAM to just sit at a clean, freshly installed desktop.

FTFA:

While nearly half the RAM being consumed without actually doing anything useful may be concerning it's not actually a big deal. Microsoft claim that Windows 7 (and Vista too, but its success is arguable) pre-loads parts of programs it expects you to use.

Unused RAM is not doing anything for you.

Comment Re:It's a Saturday (Score 1) 321

by edmac3 on Sunday March 15, 2009 @12:25PM (#27200953) Attached to: March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day

I guess 3.14 leaves open the possibility of truncation and the existence of digits after the 4 (especially since that is a common occurrence with decimals) while 22/7 seems unarguably final.

Comment Re:It's a Saturday (Score 1) 321

by edmac3 on Saturday March 14, 2009 @07:07PM (#27196605) Attached to: March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day

Using 22/7 gives the grievously wrong impression that Pi is a rational number.

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