Posts by andreyvul

Stardock revises 'Gamer Bill of Rights'

And EA ...

... will ignore it,

Apple reneges on Black Hat security talk

Since when

is Apple run by its marketing department?

Mine's the one with the flame-proof lining.

EU abolishes the acre

@Steve Evans

C = ( F - 32 ) / 2

not

C = ( F - 30 ) / 2

UK's future super-stealth jumpjet 'rock solid' - Brit test pilot

no catapult

Maybe they're making a top-secret dogapult?

Microsoft pledges to fight Vista 'myths'

Mac vs Vista. ROFLOL

The only *real* competition that Mac has is Linux. OSX isn't very hacker friendly. You just can't download and recompile the libc or kernel to your liking. Still, I'm installing Linux before Hackint0sh.

DreamWorks switches to Intel for stereoscopic 3-D high

Tsk, tsk

If only Sparc's 256 threads had good double-precision floating point, then it would've been Dreamworks-Sun. Oh wait, mabye the deal is Itanium processors. I just skimmed the article ^_^

Lesbians like straight men, researchers find

Re: Re: Re: @Sarah Bee

http://xkcd.com/436/

Sun's Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core

The PS3

has just been 1-upped.

Hefty black hole weighs in at 33 Suns

@Christopher E. Stith

You forgot 33 Beowulf clusters of 33 ENIACS of 33 Crays of 33 Suns.

Which equals to 1185291 Beowulf Cray ENIAC Suns.

Ubuntu chief ushers in the age of Intrepid Ibex

Which horns

"impressive male horns"

upper or lower horn(s)?

Quantum computing firm D-Wave bags $17m more in funding

@Lou Gosselin

The correct values are:

1 qubit = 4 states

2 qubits = 16 states

4 qubits = 256 states

6 qubits = 4096 states

...

n qubits = 4^n states

Though I'm definitely not arguing that the author has mistaken exponential growth with linear growth.

Amateur code breaker honoured for defeating Colossus

Real programmers...

...program stuff like this in ANSI C (with inline ASM).

Orders of magnitude faster.

Dallas man accidentally shoots self in head

Russian roulette...

...2.0

I'll be getting my coat.

Veggies a 'perversion of nature': Official

Tasty and healty

If scientists could mix pork and fish together, we would have ribs that are as healthy as salmon. Tasty and healty.

Jackass 2.5 to premiere online

Piratebay

Methinks it will be on piratebay about an hour or less after the movie is made publically available.