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  1. Re:Pretty easy on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd suggest storing a certain clip from Rick Astley on a DVD :)

    http://xkcd.com/573/

  2. The Cardboard Tube I get, on Join the Cardboard Tube Fighting League · · Score: 1

    but what's with the cardboard box on his head? He's supposed to dress like a samurai.

  3. All I want to know is on Laser Ignition May Replace the Spark Plug · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how does this help us transition away from gasoline-based engines?

    I don't know that any combustion system makes sense in a purely electric car, and I am not sure if hydrogen combustion benefits more from laser ignition or a regular old spark plug.

    Other than the LASERS!!! effect, I don't see how this technology actually contributes to the issue currently at hand.

  4. Re:Sixty five megawatts on NSA To Build 20-Acre Data Center In Utah · · Score: 1

    65 megawatts of power -- about the same amount used by every home in Salt Lake City

    Those must be some big houses. I wonder how much they all use in total!

    I'm sure they mean every home in Salt Lake City uses a combined 65Mw (per month?), as opposed to every individual home uses 65Mw.

  5. Re:url? on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 3, Informative

    sitting on a domain name unproductively with the intent to hope someone will come along and pay your ransom is not what most people consider legitimate business. while some URL's sell for high premiums because of the website behind it, or simply the value of the name itself (consider systemax's acquisitions of circuitcity and compusa URL, trademark, logo, etc.), this is not the case of many URL squatters who simply buy up every domain in sight, hoping one will make a payoff when a corporation takes interest.

    If the owner hopes to invest in domain names, they should be expected to work the value of the name. but i disagree completely that a business hopeful with an actual use for a domain name should happily pay the extortion of a common domain thug.

  6. Please don't make tired ol Bill Murray on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 1

    ...wear a proton pack again. You'll break his back.

    Instead of seeing geriatrics trying to act like they're still 30, why not a "re-boot" written by Ramis and Aykroyd and featuring none of the original cast? Well, maybe Rick Moranis can show up as a ghost or something.

    I would be much more excited by this than seeing Bill Murray pass the proverbial torch to a younger generation that he probably spent the entire movie abusing anyhow.

  7. You think COH crawls on a netbook? on Using 1 Gaming Computer For 2 People? · · Score: 1

    Try running multiple instances through a thin-client. Unless you're running some experimental MIT/IBM shit, I guarantee your computer is going to drag. Plus, you just said her character is on your account. I don't play COH, so maybe i'm missing something, but are multiple characters from one account allowed to play simultaneously? If you want to play together, shell out the money for a second PC that can handle the game. Get a nice lcd monitor for yourself so she can use the old one (or vice-versa). And be happy!

  8. Baby steps on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    If it's not ready for the desktop, it's at least ready for the netbook. My wife is a Behavioral Science major and self-proclaimed non-geek. I put ubuntu on her new laptop, a eeepc we got off newegg, and she's in love. With a full suite of open source software she can do more than she ever could with WindowsXP. Linux itself is an extremely viable OS and many of the distributions are already mature enough to make a viable alternative to Windows or MacOS. Whether it should be is a different matter entirely.

  9. Specification does not dictate implementation on Brendan Eich Explains ECMAScript 3.1 To Developers · · Score: 3, Informative

    FTA: A lot of JavaScript is forked. If the DOM is IE, use this version of the code, otherwise use this.

    Until this changes throughout the entire web, ECMAScript will only be that other part of css. It's just too problematic to have to code separate DOM funtionality for every browser on the market.

  10. Re:And what about the embedded version for wii/etc on Linux Now an Equal Flash Player · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My thoughts exactly. I'd really like to turn my Wii into a Hulu box, but the one browser I actually paid for doesn't have flash compatibility. What gives?

  11. Re:Just as an aside on Both Sides of the PS3 Price Cut Rumor · · Score: 1

    2007: Sony and Microsoft cry together as Nintendo kicks everybodys ass.