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  1. Re:Reiser4 on Gates Explains Longhorn Delay, Diet · · Score: 1

    I think Bill never heard of reiser4.

  2. Re:what really killed VRML on Universal3D vs. Real Open Standards · · Score: 1

    Think - you could see the other virtual people buying in the store!

  3. Two Words Resident Evil on Video Games Hit The Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that enough, bringing the resident evil game to the big screen?

  4. Re:Atkins on SF Author Robert J. Sawyer Looks at 2014 · · Score: 1

    The heart malfunction was invented, at best.
    The cause of death was "blunt impact injury of head with epidural hematoma".

    See this site for some interesting details on who invented this "heart malfunction" (which Atkins never had!). You can also see the death certificate itself.

  5. Re:Atkins on SF Author Robert J. Sawyer Looks at 2014 · · Score: 1

    2014: A new report from the Health Department which studied 6000 individuals conclusively proves the dangers of low-fat diets and trans-fats. Low-fat diets and eating of transfats like margarine and hydrogenated vegetable oils resulted in many individuals dying from diabetes, cancer, heart disease, strokes, gallstones, kidney and liver diseases. The Diabetics Association has been recommending the Atkins and Bernstein diets since almost a decade ago. The myth that eating fat makes you fat, just like eating tomatoes makes you red, has now been completely eradicated. The only diets which are healthy are the low-carb ones. The Department issued warning labels on foods with carbohydrate values>=25 and a prohibitions on foods with carbohydrate values >= 70 like classical pasta (low fat foods were banned too). Golden Harvest issued a new type of low-carb bread which does not contain any wheat or other complex carbohydrate and is suitable for diabetics too, similar to their low-carb pasta made from a Japanese vegetable.

  6. Re:Atkins on SF Author Robert J. Sawyer Looks at 2014 · · Score: 1

    There's a lot of scientific papers in favour of Atkins, if one reads up on it.

  7. Re:POV-RAY is not open source on POV-Ray 10th Anniversary Contest · · Score: 1

    I began writing one. However Raggier is still very much in the early stages.

  8. Re:Why use NS instead of Mozilla? on Netscape 7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually Thunderbird allows you to import netscape communicator 4.7 mail without problems.

  9. They Should Call it Lindows on XP Starter Edition Examined · · Score: 1

    Since they won the use of that name...
    I'm joking, ok...

  10. Re:I had an idea like this a while back. on Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers Instead? · · Score: 1

    Evolution isn't that type of "blind" random machine you think it is. Emergence theory suggests it's "directed" (for lack of a better word). Read Stuart Kauffman's at home in the universe, for instance.

  11. Re:10,000 times outshine the sun? Yeah right. on Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers Instead? · · Score: 1

    I don't know how realsightings.com found that laser like streakt then. Perhaps going frame by frame in video footage?

  12. Is this a laser signal, or something else? on Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers Instead? · · Score: 1

    I saw this here.
    Looked like a laser to me. (Or is it Star Wars?)

  13. MegaTrek crossover on More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek · · Score: 1

    We need crossovers like this every now and then, with good stories.

  14. Re:Malta has been thinking of this too apparently on Estonia Tests "Contactless" ID-Cards · · Score: 1

    Oops. I meant similar rather than the same thing. e-ID is online only for the time being. If I'm not mistaken it is windows-only since Microsoft is involved.

  15. Malta has been thinking of this too apparently on Estonia Tests "Contactless" ID-Cards · · Score: 1

    See CIMU
    which says A potential solution in this regard is that of merging the smart card with the National ID Card - thereby providing the citizen with an integrated card based on a medium which in our culture is used continually. This approach has been adopted successfully in Finland and Malaysia. The major stumbling block in this regard could be the Electoral Commission - and its buy-in should be sought in this regard.

    Also it says: It is interesting to note that in late 1999, in New Zealand, news of a national smart card for health and welfare caused an uproar that eventually forced the Prime Minster to publicly dissociate his Government from the technology.

    A report by the CCTA in the UK had identified driving licences as ideal for first cards.


    Meanwhile the e-ID has been introduced which is I believe the same thing, but produced by Microsoft according to local news. Here's a link about it.

  16. Re:Amazon.Com Review 'Shifting' on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    I agree.
    Remember to view all reviews, so you can find the reviews mentioning Katie Jones too and you can vote favourably for those and vote down the others.

  17. Re:Maybe the intention was to cause damage on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    Then Katie Jones should sue for defamation.

  18. Space is part of our Common Heritage on Lawyers In Space... · · Score: 1

    I recalled that space was part of our "common heritage" (as defined by Malta's ambassador Arvid Pardo).
    I googled a bit and found:
    Outer Space Treaty (OST) of 1967 requires that its use and exploration have to be in the "interest of all states" and "for the benefit of all mankind" (Article I OST). The mankind clause in Article I OST and the principle of cooperation and due account of the interests of all states in Articles IX and X OST are the structural elements of the status of outer space as a "common heritage of mankind" form the legal basis for setting up a regime of "cooperative/common security" in outer space. (see this site).
    But apparently this 'usage' of space is not defined in the treaty. But if it is part of the common heritage of mankind, no individual can have any right to ownership!

  19. Re:Why would you WANT to bring the Daleks back? on Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up · · Score: 1

    Like I mentioned. I think that was Remembrance with the 7th Doc. Sylvester McCoy... great.

  20. Re:Animated Dr. Who series on Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Master took a new body in the tv movie (Doctor Who: The Movie) with McGann as the 8th Doctor Who. At the end of the movie, the Master is sucked into the Eye of Harmony (the TARDIS' power source). We don't know if he is still alive, or dead, so that's the state of the Master. Of course, the Master appeared very much alive in the BBC Novels with the 8th Doctor, but I don't whether the new tv show producers will take the books as canon. I'd rather they wouldn't, since Gallifrey was destroyed by the Doctor himself in the books (and he doesn't remember it to make it worse!).

  21. Re:Better F/X? But wouldn't that ... on Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up · · Score: 1

    I think they had better see the best of Stargate sg-1 such as the writing, etc. It is a great model for the new Doctor Who IMHO...

  22. Re:Why would you WANT to bring the Daleks back? on Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up · · Score: 1

    The last time they came back they could go up and down stairs, however. So they won't be limited by stairs!

  23. Re:Why would you WANT to bring the Daleks back? on Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up · · Score: 1

    Mind you, WHO doesn't reimage. It goes on and regenerates!

  24. Re:Animated Dr. Who series on Dr Who, Daleks Kiss And Make Up · · Score: 1

    I checked it out.

    And that animation isn't going to be canon as it's going to be a different 9th doctor completely. I didn't like that animation/story anyway.

  25. Re:Even Tolkien Was Apprehensive on Tolkien Vs. The Critics In 1954 · · Score: 1

    I do think he knew some words from other european languages, including Maltese. Some words are very similar. Even Rohan was a grandmaster of the Knights. I don't think it is just coincidence.