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Comment on Dead Space (2008-11-06 14:45:22)
Game was garbage. Scary? This was about as scary as doing a 180 every time the music changed. Enemies "surprising me" is bullshit-speak for them just spawning behind the player for no good reason. I loled, when I shoulda been scared.
Comment on Asimo 2.0 (2008-10-31 21:26:58)
@reptile, I figured it might be that after I posted, but I didn't know if ASIMO had an antenna there or not.
Comment on Asimo 2.0 (2008-10-29 10:15:35)
All it needs now is a beam saber and head guns!
Comment on 5,000th MCS Member (2008-10-18 11:55:48)
@mgear: ACK! 1835 that's worse than my E-test score!
Comment on 5,000th MCS Member (2008-10-18 11:55:14)
Let's see...
Comment on A Fit PC (2008-10-17 00:35:16)
Correction! That would make a great spyputer! Tuck that sucker in somewhere they'll never find it! Your own personal backdoor, waiting to happen.
Comment on Hard disc drive vs solid state drive (2008-10-14 13:47:28)
Less fragile? I'd like to see you pull data off a ruined SSD. Have fun desoldering chip legs if the PCB is snapped, I'll just pull the platter from my good old HDD. @diabeetus: The comparison is wrong. A 64 gig SSD sets me back 300$, therefore I could also go out and buy over 1.5 TB of HDD space with those funds. @3dge: Nothing's ever useless in the computing world. You think everyone run and jumped for 64-bit tech when it came out? Or SATA? Or even Wireless N? No, adoption takes time, and the horribleness of adherence to stadards so as to ensure compatibility for future-phobic businesses that have the industry's balls in a vice will guaruntee that all the tech we have to day will still be happily spinning in offices, schools, and economy PCs for years to come!
Comment on The Science of Pokemon (2008-10-06 19:59:44)
Oh my god. I know this to be true and 100% in context. Back when I was a kid I knew a guy who took these formulas to the game AND MADE THEM WORK. He made the game his bitch, through these formulas.
Comment on DDR 1X SSD ram drive (2008-09-30 20:38:05)
Funny, because IF YOU READ THE DDR2 SPEC, only two of its highest speeds are faster than DDR1, and those are hella expensive. DDR1 is hands-down more performance per buck, DDR2 cheaper. Yes it runs faster but ALSO takes twice as long to retrieve data, and I personally am a latency man, so that ticks me right off. Also, SSD drives are still 10x slower than this, they are still flash, with lots of cache, hehe.
Comment on DDR 1X SSD ram drive (2008-09-30 15:42:43)
oh and thelotuseater, it's battery-backed by a wee 9v battery that lasts for like a week if your AC fails. Besides, why would you even think about high-performance storage without a backup battery?
Comment on DDR 1X SSD ram drive (2008-09-30 15:40:28)
SO WANT! It would be SO amazing in a boot raid, where one drive is a 10k and the other iRAM. If it ever failed it would rebuild at super speed! Imagine TWO in a raid? It would be epic. These things are SO FAST, faster than SSDs for sure, as DDR is the speed king, the only problem becomes buying all that DDR!
Comment on Mao Bag (2008-09-29 15:11:40)
It comes with a wallet?!?!? SWEET! I would have loved that, but it was sitting next to a hat that looked funny. Thanks for the translation, I was sure it said something along those lines.
Comment on Innnnnn Soviet Russia, born an' raised (2008-09-24 03:47:32)
@pants: Well don't just stand there! First get out the knife, then the suture kit...
Comment on Never Obsolete (2008-09-23 15:31:24)
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks, but it was obsolete before I opened the box!" Technically as long as we're still using the x86 instruction set, it'll never be obsolete, what with virtual memory and clustering, it'll be useful well into the future!
Comment on Condom Head (2008-09-17 15:23:12)
Ohhhh man. Doing this THAT well requires some serious skill. A (female!) friend of mine attempted this awhile ago, and to actually keep it that shape you have to reverse-hold your breath (makes your ears pop sommat fierce), AND it makes a wicked red ring around your face, that your co-workers are sure to make fun of.