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  1. Re:He did not experience 40g's on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    You continue moving forward at your current rate of speed until something stops you (You start at 0G's). When the car hits something, it slows down very quickly. You experience a few G's from the friction of your seat, maybe. The bulk of the force comes when your body hits the airbag. But the airbag is deflating, so it isn't pushing against you at the same speed that the car is decelerating.

  2. Re:Engineering on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those crumple zones protect the other driver too. There's a reason they don't make cars like they used to. And that regulation protects ME from YOU.

  3. Re:The POS conundrum... again on Diebold Marries VMs with ATMs to Secure Banking Data · · Score: 1

    Last I knew, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express all require you to have a manual imprinter for when your machines or network are down. Don't know how this changes with the new unembossed cards that are now coming out.

  4. Re:Erm... on Diebold Marries VMs with ATMs to Secure Banking Data · · Score: 1

    Sorry you have to hear it from me, but your PIN is stored on the card. That's why you can't call and change your PIN - you have to put the card in the ATM to do it, and rewrite the mag strip.

  5. Re:Excellent excuse on Leap Second Coming In June, 2012 · · Score: 1

    But if you go around the earth fast enough BACKWARDS, time reverses - and you can reconcile that leap second with your watch.

  6. Re:Potential for FreeDOS.... on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    And what would the point be if there's no executables to run under it?

  7. Re:FreeDOS is in frequent use on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I just used FreeDOS last night to run SeaTools on my main hard drive. Whole computer froze when trying to launch FreeDOS. It still doesn't support AHCI mode on SATA drives. I had to go into my BIOS settings and roll that setting back to IDE compatibility mode to get FreeDOS to load.
     
    I do wonder if 1.1 adds support for AHCI.

  8. Re:Christianity and broadcast rights on Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Well obviously his death and resurrection were to ensure the bible's public domain status.

  9. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    And the room was half empty.

  10. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    Hey, they're the ones that threw out the 12,000 number. Take it up with them. Either way, it's louder than I can do at home - I live in an apartment and share my walls with neighbors.

  11. Re:Bing demoting Firefox? on Google Punishing Chrome Results For 60 Days · · Score: 1

    No, it would still be correct, since Netscape is only on dogpile due to it being an aggregate search engine and including Bing results.

  12. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    If you haven't noticed, real life is the same way. That's also why the screens are curved, to more naturally simulate peripheral vision. On the other hand, the director doesn't usually intend for part of the screen to not be visible - movies aren't usually shot for IMAX. My local IMAX screen is way too small for that to be a problem, though.

  13. Re:Unique Product on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    It's not like the movie studio takes the same script and hires Bollywood actors to produce a less expensive version.

    I would pay extra for that. I'd love to see Star Wars done like this - and don't forget the big Storm Trooper dance scene. After all, it's a Bollywood film.

  14. Re:Would you see YA instead of MI were it cheaper? on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    If it isn't worth paying full price for, it isn't worth going to a theater for - especially when you can't rent a blu-ray at a corner Redbox for $1.50.

  15. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 2

    The IMAX I went to used some kind of tinted anaglyph 3D instead of the polarized RealD method. Most of the 3D was inward past the screen instead of sticking out toward you. A lot less likely to cause a headache than most 3D films I've seen, since you're looking far away instead of up close. I've had mild headaches from 3D, but only when things are so close to you that you have to cross your eyes to view it properly. A lot of trailers for kids movies are the worst at this. Surprisingly, the IMAX 3D didn't have any color fringing problems, but some things were a bit blurry.

  16. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    I have once paid a premium price for live satellite event at a low-quality format. The live event was shown on their "pre-show" LCD projector off a Dish Network brand receiver. I can't even be sure they used an HD satellite receiver. What - do their premium digital projectors not take standard video inputs at all?? In case you're curious, it was for a Rifftrax live event (which I guess you could argue doesn't demand a high quality video feed at all).

  17. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the 12,000 Watts of sound that I can't replicate too easily.

  18. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 2

    I do. I just went to see a movie in IMAX 3D. Try reproducing that cheaply in your living room without a 3D TV or binoculars.

  19. Re:Haven't replaced the whole computer yet on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    Many people have more than one home system. You can buy a single-computer upgrade for around $120 - but what's the point when 3 computers is under $150. It's Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade. You get a 32-bit and 64-bit disc, and can upgrade to any combination of the two among your 3 computers. Although violating the spirit (and probably the letter) of the license, you could split the cost 3 ways with a couple friends and share the license.

    It's what finally convinced me to get my wife an upgrade from Vista to 7. That and with the sale price it was only $10 difference instead of nearly $30. With Vista, the upgrade is far more necessary, though. At least XP runs well.

  20. Re:Win7...protecting me from myself... on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    I found my solution somewhere on this site:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/

    I believe on one of the pages, there's a tool this user wrote that does a more complete uninstall. I have no idea what post - it's been too long.

  21. Re:Win7...protecting me from myself... on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    Except for when the uninstalls fail too. I have spent multiple hours in a row on this, though just doing the uninstall and reinstall with no errors take long enough.

  22. Re:Lack of proper support for older... on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    What about my win16 games? Just kidding. I have some old 256-color games that don't do the palette correctly on Windows 7's compatibility modes. Colors are all way off. The game The Neverhood is one of them.

  23. Re:Win7...protecting me from myself... on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you've never been in .NET framework hell on XP. It happens more than you'd think. Usually involves removing them all, and re-installing them all in a particular order.

  24. Re:upgrade tools on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    Windows Easy Transfer is great, but doesn't transfer apps. I say you should clone your XP partition over to the new drive, and install Windows 7 under a new partition. Dual boot between the two until you no longer need the XP partition. With Windows 7's ability to map certain user folders manually, you could probably point Windows 7's documents folder to your XP drive and so on.

  25. Re:I work at a community college... on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend IETester to them. It's buggy and crashes often, but lets you test in IE6-IE9 on Windows 7, as long as you're on IE8. Updating to IE9 breaks compatibility on a couple of versions. You have to block that update as it's now an automatic update to IE9.