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  1. Re:You're not a musician are you? by Crazy+Eight · · Score: 1 · on Linux PCs Drive 74-Channel Pipe Organ

    Damn straight buddy. Mathematically speaking they're all there. Of course, what makes it work in the real world is that we can't hear them above a certain frequency anyway and they have a 1/n amplitude where n is the harmonic in question. So even if the component isn't something only dogs can hear chances are it's relatively quiet anyway. This page has a cool animated gif showing the superposition of odd harmonics making a sine go square.

  2. New Hairdos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Enterprise Getting New Aliens, Hairdos, Weapons

    Oh wow, that makes all the difference. I am so there already.

    Mind you.. there is only one acceptable hairdo for daring space adventurers.
    Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you:
    Arnold J Rimmer!

  3. Re:What I'd like to know by divide+overflow · · Score: 4, Informative · on Honeymoon Over For Google?

    [What I'd like to know is] whatever happened to Alta Vista. Remember when they ruled the search engine universe?

    The relevant history can be found here. AltaVista was probably the single biggest casualty of Google...prior to Google it had the largest index of webpages. But Google did a better job of indexing and presenting the content for people's needs, then the index became the largest on the web. AltaVista lost the race, so much so that most people nowadays have never even heard of AltaVista.

  4. Re:What I'd like to see... by richie2000 · · Score: 2 · on The Future of PC Gaming
    Just like that game Better Than Life in Red Dwarf. You would play the game, live out all your dreams and die from dehydration.

    It's the perfect game! No customers left alive to bother the developers for upgrades!

  5. Spelled it wrong? by Stonent1 · · Score: 1 · on New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto

    Anyone else immediately think of the Quagaars? Red Dwarf Season 4: Wating for God

  6. Turn it off, Grommit! by Jeremi · · Score: 3, Funny · on Powered Exoskeletons In The Near Future?
    It's the wrong trousers, Grommit! And they've gone wrong!


    ;^)

  7. Re:I gotta get me one of those by ptbrown · · Score: 1 · on Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation

    And can you imagine what would happen if you put on the wrong exoskeleton. ( or.. )

    aren't you glad this isn't another anime/alien/heinlein comment?

  8. Avantgo *is* Linux-compatible by Robotech_Master · · Score: 2 · on Are Computer Magazines Dead?

    Croaker says of AvantGo (italicized text):

    'course, it's Windows only.

    Actually...no, it's not. There's a program called malsync that will suck down AvantGo pages from a Linux shell prompt pretty as you please. This was the last of the utilities I needed that allowed me to use my Palm completely in Linux without ever having to reboot into Windows.

    I suspect that there's a similar thing out that will download websites and translate them into doc format. If not... there should be. Hmm... sounds like a job for Perl :)

    There's one of those, too. It's called SiteScooper and you can either run it yourself or download the fruits of its labors from this webpage in Doc or iSilo format.

  9. Re:magazine by Robotech_Master · · Score: 2 · on Are Computer Magazines Dead?

    I actually read online magazines in the bathroom all the time. (And on the bus, and in spare moments at work at K-Mart, as long as the bosses don't catch me.) And e-books and things. I just suck 'em down to my trusty Palm IIIe using AvantGo and SiteScooper, and off I go!

    No, I'm not online at the time...but why would I need to be? Content's content, no matter if I'm actually online while I'm reading it or if I just suck it down and read it later.