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Que? The 2.512 value comes from Apparant Magnitudes and not from Orders of Magnitude. An order of magnitude is base 10 which means that two orders of magnitude is 100x and three is 1000x.
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I'm with the people that wants it like it was done in AmigaOS. Why should a games resoultion have any impact on the desktop at all? If a game was to open a 640x480 fullscreen then a alt-tab to the...

Well what you kind of miss here is that even though binary data has finite states, the real world difference between these states are magnitudes lower than what you can create an analogue circuit...

SHA-1 and the various hash based algorithms will give you a much higher error detection rate than a simple crc-32, a crc-32 can only detect certain types of errors and certain degrees of errors...

Heres hoping for Steel Storm III instead, just a bummer that Kot-in-Aktion stopped providing updates for us who bought the game from their own store and simply refeers us to Steam (which I cannot use...

BTRFS has never been about speed, it's more about durability (data integrity), snapshotting and the capability to handle very large data sets. So IMHO it's not that much of a client FS and more of a...

You cannot blame the whole company for what a few greedy employees did, I mean Burke tried to con both Wayland-Yutani and the Colonial Administration. And Smithers is Waylon and not Wayland if I'm...

Never heard of Weyland-Yutany?

There is no difference in the on-disk-format of NTFS in XP and NTFS in Win7. And why are you storing all your data on NTFS, it's prone to the very errors that you list (case insensitive filesystem,...

On my system (fglrx, AMD4870) there where a big performance regression in 1.3.23 in the Call of Duty games. It has since then slowly getting a bit better but still not close to the performance of...

FPS indicates throughput not latency. Latency is how fast the system reacts to change, which basically is the opposite of throughput. An extremely low latency desktop would have very low throughput...

You mean that small icon they display under "It works will all your favorite apps" ? That is hardly any advertising, that is telling people that their favorite software (lot's of people know of and...

Hehe, actually First-To-File is not a US Gov invented word, it's the international term for the system.

The problem is of course that the name is only valid in a thin context, i.e who have the...

Hmm, strange that you guys see so large ads, I have never seen ads the size of that screenshot at Phoronix. Anyways, I think that I fell in love with my HD4870 after going through the charts and...

Actually no! What the new law does is to bring USA into how patents work in the rest of the world so for once this is actually the USA learning from other countries!

First to file does not...

It shouldn't but it has plagued the Linux desktop for years (not that Windows fares much better though) even though it has been highly improved over the years, or I have simply bought better hw over...

It could mean one of many things. But most often it means one of two things. 1) The patented solution existed before the patent application was filed (and was invented by some one else than the...

And to add to that, few desktop users run PostgreSQL :)

Yes Power is important for server farms, but usually this means that one uses virtualization techniques to pack each server more resource wise so that you can completely shut the idle ones down (and...

AFAIK the PA team has gone down that very road, but sometimes it's not possible to accomodate 100% of the old applications/usage scenarios without some breakage. The main problem was that the old...