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Contrary to the fear of grey goo, the main danger of nanotech comes from the fact that particles are smaller than the natural filters that organisms have evolved to protect sensitive cells. According to the article, the nanopant tech is just buzzword hype since the stain protection material is just another chemical. However, the article does mention the studies showing that carbon nanotubes and buckyballs do cause damage to cell membranes in humans and in other parts of the food chain.
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Well since this is fairly on-topic, anyone want to sign up for a Free Flat Screen under my account?
**ducks head**

Lacking mod points, I'll simply add a Me Too
Back when gmail was difficult to get, I gave gmail invites in exchange for completed referrals. I never promised that my referrals would get an iPod, just that I'd give them gmail if they helped me get mine.
For the iPod, I signed up for an offer (Netscape ISP) which I cancelled with no charges. I used a mail.com address, which hasn't been hit with any more spam than usual, and I haven't received any postal junk mail or phone solicitations.
I also did the same deal to get referrals on the freeDesktopPC site, and I got a decent Dell (2.8Ghz P4, works much better with an addtional $40 worth of RAM)
For that, I signed up with an offer that I find valuable -- inPhone directory assistance -- so I continue to use that service.
Again, no spam, no phone solicitations, no junk mail, no hassles.

It's a Ponzi scheme if you consider your time and signup fees to be a "cost of participating" in the program. It's a referral based program (multilevel for multi == 2) and so it'll tank eventually, leaving tons and tons of people without enough referrals to get the prize -- far more people will be disappointed than will ever get an iPod -- but I did my best to be honest with my referrals.


There are a bunch of knock-off sites, of course, but the gratis internet sites are exactly what they claim to be.
If it sounds reasonable to you and you want to give it a try, there are freeiPod links all over the place. Personally, I'd kind of like to get a free flat-panel monitor next.

Can anyone help me out with my Free Flatscreen attempt? Thanks.

I believe it matters if the entry revealed any company data or if it was done via the company network. If neither of these two terms are satisified, there is NO good reason to terminate the employee! The only other reason that a company should go after an individual under for a blog post should be because of a clause in a contract (which anyone CAN refue).

Help me please:
http://www.freeflatscreens.com/?r=15854479/

...personally, I'm saving for a portable Famicom from lik-sang. I don't even have a PS2... there's nothing that really draws me to it...cept that new Contra game. Mike Tyson's Punch Out fo' evah!!!!!!

I don't believe that Microsoft ever intended to push OS/2 even if apps couldn't run in protected mode. Microsoft was going to push Windows no matter how crappie or inferior it was to OS/2. Their flirtation with OS/2 (telling people that it was the future and that they should support it) only made other large developers of the time, namely Wordperfect, spend their time on creating OS/2 versions of their software instead of Windows versions.

When Microsoft put their full push into Windows they were able to put MS Word (along with their other apps) out ahead of everyone else and drive Wordperfect into obscurity. That's not to say that Wordperfect didn't expect this. I used to work with a former Wordperfect executive and they knew full well what Microsoft was up to but they thought that the combination of Wordperfect and IBM would be able to beat Microsoft and so they put pretty much everything into OS/2. By the time they realized that OS/2 wasn't going to catch on it was too late, and the rest is history.

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So will Yahoo! use this "service" to track what web pages you view and what you're interested in when you view them? A quick preview of their terms of service links to their privacy policy which states:

Yahoo! collects personal information when you register with Yahoo!, when you use Yahoo! products or services, when you visit Yahoo! pages or the pages of certain Yahoo! partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Yahoo! may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

So Yahoo! will be tracking what you view and what you search for when you view it.

Downloader beware.

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...movie/music/game video sampler UMD disc including multiple non-interactive game demos...

So for $250 you get a portable game system with game demos that you can't even play. It seems like you should at least bundle something that people can play with. What good is a game demo that you can't play?

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Following my own link and reading a bit more it seems that Apple has already addressed issues like Web Services and even Patent litigation against the licensor (Apple).

Regarding Services (Major Changes in Apple Public Source License 2.0):

1. Licensees will only be required to release source code of Modifications they "Externally Deploy" (new Section 1.4, and Sections 2.1, 2.2). "External Deployment" is defined to cover the external distribution of APSL'ed code or use of APSL'ed code to provide a service (including content delivery) to a third party through electronic communication with that party.

Regarding Patent Litigation:

5. The Termination clause relating to patent suits (Section 12.1(c)) has been narrowed such that the license will terminate only if a licensee _initiates_ an action for patent infringement against Apple. It will not terminate in cases where Apple first sues the licensee and they file a countersuit.

So #5 seems to cover litigious bastards such as the SCO Group, except only for patent litigation. It'd be interesting if at some point this was updated to include copyright infringement litigation as well. And #1 seems to cover Web Services. Maybe Mr. Moglen will reference the APSL in revising the GPL.

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The issue of Web services has to be considered, he said. Some in the community are calling for a strong copyleft license with code that is used and changed to be returned to all. Others want the opposite.

"I do not believe that we will be reach consensus on this front, so I believe the license will have to accommodate options as to the question of Web services, but this must be squared with the ideological pursuit of freedom," he said.

I thought that this was interesting. So if a change like this were made it would make the GPL similar to the initial versions of Apple's Public Source License. In the first versions of that license you were required to submit any source code changes you made even if you didn't redistribute the software and only used it internally. My understanding is that if you're a Web Services company and you use modified GPL software, you don't need to contribute back the modifications you've made as long as you don't redistribute your modified software to anyone.

I doubt that the GPL will ever adopt this requirement, but it's interesting that some in the community want this.

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Actually the Cube has proven to be pretty good at cooling judging by the number of processor, video and hard drive/CD/DVD upgrades for it.

You can get up to a 1.7 GHz G4 processor upgrade and there was even a Dual 800 MHz G4 upgrade offered at one point. Some people have been able to put in nVidia GeForce 3 and ATI Radeon 8500, 9000 Pro and 9200 graphics cards in these things. Not to mention you can put a full-size hard drive into it.

The Cube will probably end up being a lot more upgradable than the Mini, but the Mini sure has a better price.

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The headline seems a bit misleading to me since there's only a few quotes from Linus in there:

"Software patents are clearly a problem, and I think it's a problem that the open source community has been pretty aware of for the last five years," said Torvalds. "The good news is that a lot of proprietary vendors are starting to see it as a problem as well."

The last one is pretty good though:

Torvalds was reluctant to make predictions though. "I'm the anti-visionary. I distrust people with visions," he said. "You don't see what's right in front of your face and you don't see the technical issues that face everyday users."

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I forgot to add that the Mac platform is probably the best place to have a dual core CPU or even a dual CPU machine. Mac OS X already has excellent dual CPU support and already balances the workload very well among available CPUs. And since Apple has been shipping Dual CPU machines for years application developers have already done a lot to take advantage of Dual CPUs. As a result we, the users, benefit.

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Since the dual core freescale supposedly outperforms a G5 at same clock speed, I really would have liked to see the freescale in the new specs.

Not to flame, but I'm interested in where you're getting your information from (benchmarks, reviews, etc). I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a Dual Core G4 outperform a single core/CPU G5 when it comes to apps that are fully MP-aware (threaded properly). But I would be surprised to see a Dual Core G4 outperform a single core G5 on apps that are not threaded. I'd love to see some real world comparisons.

Remember just because it has 2 cores doesn't mean that it's twice as fast. It only means that there's the potential to do more at once if the software can take advantage of it through threading. Here's a great article that explains the problems/challenges software developers are going to face with multi-core CPUs.

Now I'd love to have a dual core CPU in my laptop and I'd love to program for it, but I image Apple would face some of the same challenges trying to get the dual core Freescale CPU into a laptop as they would in getting a G5 into a laptop, namely heat. A dual core G4 is going to be hotter and more power hungry than what they've got now. I'd love to see either the dual core G4 or a G5 in a laptop.

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An earlier post proved the following link:

Best Resolution for Images and Words

The quality of the pixels you see impacts how you use your computer. After years of experience, Apple engineers have discovered the ideal resolution to display both sharp text and graphics -- a pixel density of about 100 pixels per inch (ppi). Other vendors may offer a larger monitor, but with less resolution, so you end up with fewer pixels, or a smaller monitor with a high resolution that causes eyestrain and headaches. Apple's balanced 100 pixels per inch format is optimized for images, yet allows you to easily work with text in email, Safari and sophisticated type treatments in layouts.

So that would be the reason why they don't make higher resolution displays.

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Another advantage that Time Warner's DVRs have over Tivo is the option of viewing/recording HDTV. Tivo's current plans for HDTV are to get something out by 2006! Now, you probably can't record very much HDTV content (20 hours is what they say) but at least they give you the option of having it.

We just got a projector to serve as part of our home theater and I'm not sure how long I'll be able to live with Tivo and standard television when I know that HDTV content is available.

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At any rate, theft is not the answer, no matter what you think of the people owning the goods.

And no matter what the RIAA/MPAA think of the people downloading their products, they are not thieves and are not stealing anything. Nothing has been stolen. People are making unauthorized copies, but that is not stealing, it is copyright infringement.

In fact I believe a Judge chided some of the **AA's lawyers for referring to downloaders as thieves. I tried to look up the article, but I couldn't find it. Anyone else know where it is?

Of course this doesn't excuse their behavior, but we should at least understand what it is when we talk about it.

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USB powered??? Drink warmer???

The heatsink for a G5 laptop could power your XBox and double as a grill. Rather than resting your hands below the keyboard you can grill up steak and eggs.

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OpenDoc was initially released to run under Mac OS System 7.5 to provide a document-based, rather than application-based, computing experience. Documents were made of modular parts, which could contain different types of content, such as pictures, spreadsheet information, text or even Quicktime multimedia elements.

OpenDoc's primary distinction from other compound document architectures lay in the depth of its support for dynamic media. OpenDoc containers could include embedded live content, and could perform arbitrary real-time composition of the content. The architecture used a design pattern which insulated container from embedded content using intermediate objects, greatly enhancing interoperability and simplifying testing of part handlers.

As you know, I believe strongly that we must set aside every penny of any budget surplus until we have saved Social Security first.

Fiscal responsibility gave us our strong economy. Fiscal irresponsibility would put it at risk. And whether we save Social Security first I will not be moved, but on how we save Social Security -- that will require us to have open minds and generous spirits. It will require listening and learning and looking for the best ideas wherever they may be. We simply must put progress ahead of partisanship.

The stakes couldn't be higher. For 60 years, Social Security has reflected our deepest values -- the duties we owe to our parents, to each other and to our children. Today, 44 million Americans depend upon Social Security. For two-thirds of our seniors it is the main source of income. And nearly one in three beneficiaries are not retirees, for Social Security is also a life insurance policy and a disability policy, along with being a rock-solid guarantee of support in old age.

Today, Social Security is sound, but a demographic crisis is looming. By 2030, there will be twice as many elderly as there are today, with only two people working for every person drawing Social Security. After 2032, contributions from payroll taxes will only cover 75 cents on the dollar of current benefits. So we must act, and act now, to save Social Security.

I've probably been reading ThinkSecret since he was 13 and it's been consistently the most accurate of all the other rumor sites that I know of.

Way to go kid!

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Yep

Here's the WoW system requirements:

Mac® System OS X 10.3.5 OS:
933 MHz or higher G4 or G5 processor
512 MB RAM or higher; DDR RAM recommended
ATI or NVIDIA video hardware with 32 MB VRAM or more
4 GB or more of available hard drive space
MacOS X 10.3.5 or newer
56k or higher modem with an Internet connection

Since the cheapest Mac Mini has a 1.25 GHz processor and ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of VRAM then you should be set. Though since it only comes with 256 MB of RAM you'll probably need to upgrade to 512 MB, but you were going to do that anyway, right? Actually, you were going to max it out at 1 GB of RAM, right? ;)
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MirrorDot.org has a mirror up, but it's pretty slow right now. Get it while you can.
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http://www.FreeDesktopPC.com
http://www.freeiPods.com
http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com

What about the SCO Group's evidence that Linux contains Unix source code?

After nearly two years and Darl McBride's claims of "mountains of code" you'd think they'd have shown something by now.
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I seriously got mine from freeipods.com. I documented the entire thing (play by play) on my blog:

Free iPod Posts

That query will display just my free iPod posts. I posted as quick as I can, so the dates are very accurate to the actual events. Even a few photos posted at the end.

I did sign up for a freeflatscreen, though haven't completed the requirements for that one (if you want to see blog posts for free flat screens... help out :-D ).

All I can say is: I got mine. I have no idea about everyone else who participated, but mine came to my door. So for me, it worked.

Just my $0.02

In other news... Another anal cyst... err, umm I mean analyst at Frost & Sullivan discovered that the centralized data stored in a PC user's address book can be exploited by virus and Trojan writers. The anal cyst... err, analyst, stated that "This data provides a list of valid email addresses that could be exploited to spread a virus or worm. It's just a matter of time."

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there are several things that server-based aggregators can do that desktop based aggregators can't do

I assume you're speaking of server-vs-desktop in the same relationship as webmail-vs-pop3. Yes, server-based aggregators can probably do a whole lot more because of the ability to network people together with common interests and watch usage statistics, etc.

That said, there's a reason I use RSS feeds (and preferably Atom, if available) over visiting my friends' Xangas (ugh) and Livejournals. Most of my friends have an inability to color-coordinate their blogs. One person I know has an awful background image that repeats poorly, and consistently has varying colors from yellow-on-white to purple-on-black. Thanks to my desktop aggregator, I'm able to view the content in a readable color scheme. I would assume that a server-side aggregator would impose its own color scheme on me.

Just some thoughts from a POP3 user. *grin*

And as a suggestion: please make sure Bloglines validates properly against validator.w3.org.

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Sign up for a free flatscreen or LCD monitor

Interesting. On an unrelated note, did you know that the Slammer virus that crippled the internet exploited a flaw for which a patch had been available for nearly 6 months?

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Not everyone agrees. Kaitlin Duck Sherwood of San Francisco, author of a popular how-to manual on effective e-mail, argued in an interview that exclamation points could help convey intonation, thereby avoiding confusion in some e-mail.

"If you want to indicate stronger emphasis, use all capital letters and toss in some extra exclamation points," Sherwood advises in her guide...

Personally I like the other person's suggestion that you should be allowed only two exclamation points in [your] whole life. I've seen SO MANY DAMN CAPS and exclamation points!!! that I WANT TO SHOOT SOMEONE!!!!!

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I thought that was supposed to be "if-you-find-it,-they-will-block-it". *ducks*

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I'm getting an LCD monitor...what about you?

I know that at Northwestern, students don't have admin privileges to install software. However, we're able to download programs in zip format, so long as they don't have to be installed. Whenever I go to my school's computer labs I download a Firefox zip and run it from there. I assume it's a similar restriction that prevents just installing the full version of OO.o.

Sign up and help me get an LCD monitor!

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Adblock won't kill the money for the sites. Did you see the percentage of click-throughs? Only 5 in 1,000 IE users actually clicks on an ad. They don't have Adblock, but that's an extraordinarily low number. Meanwhile, in the Firefox camp, just a little over 10 in 10,000. I think it's clear that using Adblock won't have a significant impact for Firefox users -- they're not going to be clicking on the ads anyway, so why bother loading them?

dont be so selfish and shortsighted and switch Ablock off and click on a few ads from time to time and buy stuff

You know, you're right. Capitalist America wouldn't be where it is today if people like you and I hadn't patted it on the head and given it some cash because "they're trying so hard!" Meanwhile, I certainly hope you don't filter your spam. Or throw away junk mail without reading through it. Or use commerical breaks to raid the fridge.

But I'm not totally heartless. I'm participating in an offer, with the promise of a free LCD monitor. You can get a free LCD monitor too! Just complete an offer, and save Corporate America from certain doom.

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Photographers who lack the inclination or the clout to persuade Adobe to publish Photoshop for the Linux platform, but care enough to take a hostile attitude when GIMP is mentioned as a potentially useful tool.

I was not trying to take a hostile attitude, if my posts came off as such then I appologize. I was just trying to point out one of the reasons why professional photographers would not be likely to use the GIMP.

That doesn't mean that the GIMP doesn't have other great uses outside of professional photography. From what I've seen it's good at what it does and you can't beat the price.

Since I'm a Mac user I'm not very likely to use the GIMP because it runs in a non-native X-Windows environment. But, being that I'm also a developer, porting the GIMP to a native Mac OS X Cocoa environment is something that interests me and someday I might want to sratch that itch. If I ever decide to sratch that itch then I might also help add support for 16-bit images (unless someone else has beaten me to the punch).

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But I missed the part where anyone, ever, asserted that GIMP was created as a tool for professional photographers to use.

Since the topic is Professional Photographers Using Linux? I assumed that we were talking about professional tools. The GIMP is a great tool at a great price, but it's just not there yet for the professional photographer. It'll probably get there some day though.

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> Currently the gimp is only 8 bit color.

I agree that GIMP isn't the tool for a professional photographer (and I'd argue that a Beseler and a Swiss 4x5 are the main tools, still), but my understanding is that GIMP has been 24-bit in RGB and 32-bit in RGBA for quite some time, and that the coming version will be 48-bit Float in RGB, and 128-bit Float in RGBA.

What he means is that the GIMP is 8-bits per component == RGB8 == 3 Components * 8-bits == 24-bits per pixel. Or RGBA8 == 4 Components * 8-bits == 32-bits per pixel. One of the bigger gripes among professional users is that the GIMP doesn't support 16-bits per component (RGB16) which is more common when converting RAW images to TIFF. Since professional photographers are probably shooting exclusively in the RAW formats for anything that they would sell then the GIMP is a tool that they cannot use.

As to the "48-bit Float" comment I assume you mean 96-bit Float for RGB (3 components * 32-bits = 96-bit) since the "float" type is 32-bits.
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As was demonstrated in Dan Rather's Memo flap, bloggers can sometimes be good fact checkers. In that instance people from all over the Internet scoured over what turned out to be fake documents. One person would offer his expertise and another would do the same. Eventually some people were able to contact real experts in the field and get them to verify that the documents were fake. Eventually the mainstream media took notice and the rest is history.

But bloggers are definitely not journalists. At best they offer their opinions on the news of the day, correct factual problems in news that was reported, and they also serve as a rallying point for other like-minded individuals. At worst though, blogs can be full of rumormongoring, hate and just noise. They won't be replacing any journalists any time soon, though their diligence may get one fired every now and then.

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We've got plenty of statistical data over the elections of the last 30-40 years (or even over the last century) that we don't even need to have elections anymore. I mean, elections are so expensive and time consuming. Not to mention all the time and money spent campaigning before the election. We can get rid of all of that and just project the winners based on past voting data!

Well, sure people will complain that their votes aren't being counted, but since no one's vote is being counted it is completely fair. The candidates will just tell us what their party is, what their positions are (assuming they can nail them down themselves), and the computers will do the rest.

OK, enough of that. C'mon people get over this. People vote differently all the time. Trying to analyze election results based on past elections is just stupid. Count the damn votes already and let them speak for themselves!

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In other news... (From an old Onion article)

REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.

With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.

"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."


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If ever there were an example of how completely broken and useless the current patent system is then this is it. This makes you think, what other obvious and trivial functions have been granted patents? Can I get a patent on strcmp? I'll just apply for a patent on my new, special function that I just recently came up with. It's called StringCompare!

As I right this my colleagues are writing up patent applications for the !=, ==, &&, ||, &, and | operators. I expect these applications to be granted shortly, after which we'll own all your code and Microsoft will be my bitch.

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Well, it looks like the Japanese price is 19,800 Yen which turns out to be about $190. I don't know if that's what Sony will sell it for here and I expect they might sell it for lower considering the Nintendo DS will be selling for $150. But who knows.

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Then I might be able to learn a bit more about it on its official website. Does anyone have a translation that isn't taken from BabelFish or some other lame auto translation site? I'd like to know all the official specs and stuff.

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There is no excuse for this kind of behavior in the gaming industry, or any other industry for that matter. If I recall, the gaming industry is expected to make more money than Hollywood this year. An industry with these huge revenues can afford to treat their workers humanely. In fact, I believe that it is the developers and artists that make a game successful, that these are the people that should be getting the biggest share of the profits. Not some nitwit CEO or other executive.

There are those that say that working in the gaming industry is a privilege, that there are tons of people out there that would die for your job, that these programmers shouldn't complain. Well, frankly there are tons of people out there that want my job or that want your job. That doesn't mean that they will do it better than you or I do our jobs. And that sure as hell doesn't give my (or your) employer the right to treat me like an animal and work me until I'm burned out.

Employers like EA need to change and they'll eventually be forced to if they keep burning through their talent.

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Ah yes, silly me. I was googling for '"gba sp" "line out"', and '"gba sp" headphones.' It wan't until later that I thought of googling for "adapters."

I'll go back to my hole now. Please ignore the grandparent.

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To get the sound out of a standard GBA all you need to do is plug it into your stereo using a standard stereo mini-jack to RCA type cable, but what about the GBA SP? I've seen custom headphones that you can buy that will plug into the SP's custom port, but where would you get something to convert that to a stereo line out? I haven't seen any of those anywhere.

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iPods sell like hotcakes despite being not free.

Actually, you can get an iPod for free. Well, it isn't free as in time or effort, but it is free as in cost.

Sound too good to be true? Wired has covered it as well as the New York Sun (Using Google cache because Slashdot doesn't like the NY Sun's URL) and Geek.com.

So step right up and get your free iPod right here.

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So when are we going to start seeing news sites pop up that do nothing but cover the news that happens in an online world. Imagine digital reporters and journalists that have characters within the game world that do nothing but observe the events. Reporters that follow the top players and take "pictures" of events, sort of like the Paparazzi . They then report to the "news" sites their coverage.

Note that this would be different from someone who plays the game and then does a write-up of their experiences (1st person). A site like this would have other people, reporters (3rd person), that observe the events and then write about them. This type of alternate-universe news coverage may be a little ways off, but I'm sure we'll see it someday.

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As soon as I finish StarCraft I'll give something else a try. I suppose my natural evolution will lean towards Warcraft III or WoW since I'm a Blizzard fan. But really, I just don't have much time for games right now, let alone taking up a new game or spending all the time required to attain Level 60!

Sigh. For now I'll just stick to quick, 20 min. StarCraft multiplayer battles.

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I don'think so. Given that av-firms currently reverse engineer most of the viruses they scan for.

Well, yes, and that's sot of my point. We can all agree that viruses are evil and that they need to be stopped an taken care of as quickly and fully as possible. So it is OK for Anti-virus companies to reverse engineer the viruses (for financial gain) to provide a fix for them.

By the same logic, some people (but not all) can agree that Microsoft is evil and should be stopped as quickly and fully as possible. So by their logic it is OK to reverse engineer Microsoft products for financial gain.

The former is clearly acceptable and a viable and legitimate business model while the latter would get you taken to court by Microsoft's lawyers faster than you could get a virus running an unpatched install of Windows on the Internet. Oh and you'd also lose to Microsoft.

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