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  1. Shuji at UCSB on Blue LED Inventor Loses Patent Fight · · Score: 4, Informative

    Shuji is now a professor at UCSB and is making wonderful advancements in materials engineering. Here's a quick link to whats he's up to recently.
    http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/Announce/2awards.h tml.

    Just a little more information on this great thinker.

  2. Re:Did anyone else hear Alton in their head? on Alton Brown Answers, At Last · · Score: 1

    I also got the theme song playing in my head while he is speaking :)

  3. Re:Cocoa? on Pepper Author Calls It Quits · · Score: 1

    I'm just learning Cocoa, but I do believe that you can write a majority of your code in C++ if you want to. The interface would have to be written in something else (i assume Obj-C or by using Interface Builder), but you can write core components in C++. And as someone else already pointed out, you would probably need to rewrite the interface code anyways, so its not a big deal to rewrite it for each platform.

  4. Re:^^^ Until the above is done we lose out on New DOOM III Shots · · Score: 1

    Do you remember Xcar? It was too realistic, it just wasn't fun. It was technically amazing, but you had to tweak the hell out of your car before it became interesting. Too much realism can take away from gameplay (which is arguably more important).

  5. Re:My rant. on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Ever since I stopped smoking a couple of years back (1/4 pack a day, nothing too serious), I've constantly had a drink by my side. At work, I always have water; In class something (usually coke but sometimes water); when I go eat dinner, I drink constantly and then after being completely sated (and hydrated) I still need to buy a cup of tea to sip on when I go study (only when its really painful do I ignore the cup of tea).

    I think its totally due to the fact that I miss smoking. And it easier on my jaws then constantly chewing gum.

  6. Re:KISS FM on Satellite Radio - XM vs. Sirius? · · Score: 1

    There is KIIS FM out of LA. KISS FM Radio 1 (or something like that) out of London. Other "Kisses" are KISX, KISQ, etc. Just drop the last letter when pronouncing it etc. The only KISS (with those actual letters) is in San Antonio (country station right?). All these psuedo KISSes are just Top 40 stations IIRC.

  7. C# on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    Well, since a '#' symbol is technically called an "Octothorpe", and C# would then be a Coctothorpe . . . then I guess . . . . <mumbles>

    Well, I guess this joke really tells itself...

  8. Re:Well seriously what were you expecting? on Review: Blade II - Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, Finals are over. Lets see Blade 2. I want to go watch a movie where my brain doesn't have to work to hard"

    "Yeah, no kidding. We can go watch Gossford Park next weekend"

    That conversation sum up my feelings on Blade 2. It was perfect in that sense.

  9. Re:Security through obscurity on Optical Cryptography · · Score: 1

    But if you encrypt it, and send it in a bunch of random data....

  10. Re:Rochambeau ? on Microsoft Kicks Playstation2 out of CeBit. · · Score: 0

    Rochambeau.

    Jan-Ken-Pon = = Rochambeau = = Paper-Rock-Scissors

  11. Re:IT'S 11/9 NOT 9/11 IT'S 11/9 NOT 9/11 IT's 11/9 on Collateral Damage · · Score: 1

    Unless you live in America where we put the month before the date, then its 9/11. Now, you can argue all you want that its more logical to have day/month/year but personally, i prefer month/day/year.

  12. Re:Whore on Escaflowne & Metropolis Hit US Big Screens Friday · · Score: 1

    Ah, my bad. I thought you mistyped "Where" meaning "Where the shows were playing"

    Hell, I'd give you karma for admitting that you are a karma whore. (if I had the points....)

  13. Re:Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door next??? on Escaflowne & Metropolis Hit US Big Screens Friday · · Score: 1

    What? Cowboy Bebop and Lain are leagues ahead of that drivel known as Evangelion.

  14. Re:Whore on Escaflowne & Metropolis Hit US Big Screens Friday · · Score: 1

    Now, is there any reason to call everyone a whore right now? : )

  15. Re:Metropolis? on Escaflowne & Metropolis Hit US Big Screens Friday · · Score: 1

    Ha ha. Try clicking the link you idiot. Personally I was thinking, hmmm... can't be Lang's movie.. and guess what, it wasn't.

    All cheer those who don't know what a link is.

  16. Re:Oh? So then they finished the terrorist problem on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Afganistan doesn't have any oil, but it is always nice to institute friendly governments in parts of the world that are close to countries that are rich in oil.

  17. Re:Oh? So then they finished the terrorist problem on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 0, Troll

    Execpt for the fact that a majority of the Government is in place to protect the profits of American corporations. Don't forget, the real reason we are bombing the hell out of Afganistan is to get another foothold in the region that is so rich with oil. Sure, toppling the Taliban and capturing bin Laden will be icing on the cake, but the oil interests of American Corporations are the real goal.

  18. Magic the Gathering on NiP Wins Counter-Strike CPL · · Score: 1

    Your argument is great, execpt for one thing, I got to see a Magic the Gathering Tournament on ESPN2 a few years back. Never say never. Absolute statements are always wrong.

  19. Re:Salmon of Doubt .... or .. ? on Douglas Adams' Last Book · · Score: 1

    As a student at UCSB, I was lucky enough to hear him speak at (what turned out to be) his final lecture. It was really, really good (obviously) and this interview was done by our school newspaper before the lecture.

    I know that doesn't anwer your question, but its some background material about that article (probably one of the last interviews w/ him)

  20. Re:Bladerunner sequel - nitpick on 'Matrix' Sequels In Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Ha ha, that is exactly why I was incredibilly happy to find a copy of DADOES with that title and no mention of Blade Runner at all (minus one quote like "This is the book that inspired Blade Runner)

    I also don't believe that the movie Blade Runner is based on the book DADOES (merely inspired by it)


    Double J. Strictly for the . . .

  21. Re:Link to main site on More Junkyard Wars · · Score: 1

    I know how to weld. Haven't in a few years though.... I actually really miss my welding days. Welding is some of the most fun I had in High School. (Our "Computer Science" course consisted of two programing languages, Basic and qBasic . . . bleh)


    Double J. Strictly for the . . .

  22. Re:Me! Me! on More Junkyard Wars · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the duct tape. It holds the universe together...


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  23. Re:enough with Napster stories on Napster Usage Quadruples · · Score: 1

    Dont forget

    *Napster is just horribly written software anyways. Why not use something better, like ftp.




    Double J. Strictly for the . . .

  24. Re:Faye? No way on Interview with Creators of Cowboy Bebop · · Score: 1

    Ein kicks ass. So does the Heavy Metal Trucker Lady's cat
    A lot of the animals of the series I seem to really like


    Double J. Strictly for the . . .

  25. Re:Oddly Uninspiring on Star Wars Episode 2 Title Leaked · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I like that one. Or maybe "Restoring the Balance"

    who knows? titles usually suck anyways




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