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  1. insulation on Lightning Rods for Nanoelectronics · · Score: 5, Insightful
    being able to build a 100GHz chip is useless if merely breathing on it will fry its circuitry.


    Why? Couldn't you put it in a glass ball or something rather than a standard PGA type chip? A non-conductive oil bath maybe?

  2. Re:Zelda on Nintendo Embedding Classic Games on Trading Cards · · Score: 2
    Funny you should mention that...

    I just found this yesterday, actually. pocketNES, an NES emulator for PocketPC systems. Zelda 1 and FF1 both run at full framerate on my iPAQ 3835 (sound is kinda crappy though). There's also an SNES emulator, but I haven't tried it yet.

  3. I've very sorry, inblosam on When to Buy Technology Goods? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Inblosam, I really hate to have to be the one to tell you this.

    But, since you asked...

    The entire technology industry monitors your activities. As soon as you purchase a product, we lower the price. Dramatically.

    Again, I'm very sorry.

  4. I nominate KaZaa on FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've downloaded more free software from kazaa than I ever have from any other source.

  5. Re:I'm just waiting... on Linuxworld Fun · · Score: 1

    "Stunts"? What the fuck are you talking about, Stunts? MS has a booth at a software trade show. MS makes software. That isn't really a stunt.

  6. Re:Which Zim rumor? on Slashback: Futurama, Shattering, Footage · · Score: 1
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/17/221241 &mode=nested&tid=167

    One of the last stories.

  7. Re:ACK! Glad I don't do napster (et al)... on Slashback: Futurama, Shattering, Footage · · Score: 1

    I don't think that it's quite the same. Since the user isn't charging anything for the songs, he'll never actually sell $1,000 worth of songs.

  8. Futurama rumors on Slashback: Futurama, Shattering, Footage · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Not a chance... in TV guide a while ago it said that the cartoon costs Fox around $1,000,000 an episode. And Cartoon Network recently shitcanned Mission Hill due to $400,000 an ep figures. They like cheap shows like Sealab and Aqua Teen Hunger Force (two of the best shows on TV right now IMHO) better.


    Rumors are usually just that, rumors... remember that Invader Zim/Hot Topic thing a while back? More bullshit. Why does /. even publish this stuff, I'm thinking that a single email would clear it up.

  9. Re:How do they do it now? on IMAX Develops Movie Transfer Technology · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might have seen a 70mm print (as opposed to a 35mm print) of Spiderman on the imax screen. It wouldn't be full Imax size, but it's a lot bigger.

  10. Cupholders on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    I got bought a 42 oz coke from McDonalds the other day (for $0.69) and it wouldn't fit in my car's cupholder. I had to hold it between my legs as I drove. We need bigger cupholders now, too.

  11. Re:comes with the territory on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex · · Score: 2
    Did you even go to the website? the source is availible. Last time I checked, the GPL allows anyone to reuse the source for any reason, even for profit. The only stipulation is that the release must include a copy of the GPL and the source. This program includes both.

    I'm not defending NeoNapster, I think it's pretty lame, but you've got to admit that if CDex wasn't GPL'd this wouldn't happen. There is no way you can be upset about this, the license specifically allows it.

  12. comes with the territory on NeoNapster's NeoAudio Rips Off CDex · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you release stuff with the GPL license, this is going to happen. If this is a problem, don't use the GPL license.

  13. Re:What nintendo etc needs to do to END illegal ro on Borrowing ROMs · · Score: 1

    I hadn't even thought of the Gamecube angle- that's a great idea. I'm sure that there are a lot of people at Nintendo who'd love to do this, but it's almost certainly the lawyers who won't let them.

  14. What nintendo etc needs to do to END illegal roms: on Borrowing ROMs · · Score: 5, Informative
    If anyone from Nintendo, Sega, etc are listening, here is how you can either end or severly limit rom trading:

    License a user-built emulator, re-rip every cart for your system, and offer them for sale. Make it cheap- maybe $1 per Rom, or maybe charge per megabyte, or release compilation CDs, or whatever. Don't make it too expensive. Then, advertise it a LOT. Make the emulator easy to use, maybe even have it integrated with the buying system so you can play a demo of the game before you buy it, then you can just enter your CC# into the program and you've got the whole thing.

    I like my Roms, and I could get them free by lurking around a dozen shady P2P networks or download sites with gay porn banners for hours, or I could just pay a few dollars to get the same without any work on my part.

    Sega actually does something close to this already, they've licensed the KGen emulator and sell a couple of the Sonic games for PCs in stores. I know this because I own them all.

    They don't sell any carts anymore, so they've stopped making money from them. With this system, they'll start making money from them again, as well as get an ASSLOAD of publicity.

  15. Re:Dreamcast, PS2 and Xbox ports ??? on Open Source, Real Media Mega-player? · · Score: 2

    If you set everything up right, RM can be as good or even better than DivX with a smaller filesize.

  16. Re:Shutting the stable door after the horse bolted on RIAA to Sue You Now · · Score: 2

    You're wrong. KaZaa does searches through the server, but actual transfers are done through HTTP port 80 which doesn't set off any firewall alarms.

  17. Friends on Ask 'Rocket Guy' Brian Walker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What do your friends/family think? If you don't have any friends, then what about co-workers?

  18. Re:One silly patent we won't have to worry about.. on Wi-Fi Communicators For the Real World · · Score: 1

    Of course, the Star Trek communicators won't exist until the 2400s or whenever...

  19. Re:Great. on Like a Moth to a ... Piece of Plastic · · Score: 1

    15 grams/acre isn't pollution, dipshit.

  20. Re:How does this work? on Satellite Back From The Dead · · Score: 1
    There are different sections in slashdot. Off the top of my head:

    The different sections offer more coverage of specific topics that not everyone is interested in. For instance, most people here don't care about the newest BSD updates, since this site is really more linux-centric; so /. confines everything but the biggest BSD news to bsd.slashdot.org.
  21. Re:Diffraction grating stuff? Quasi-holography? on Yamaha CD-RW Drive Writes Images In Substrate · · Score: 1

    Wow! Sounds fascinating... write the code and get back to us!

  22. Re:Megapixels on Logitech Pocket Digital Review · · Score: 2

    You are correct. "Megapixel" means millions of pixels... in this case, it's .3 megapixel or so; if it were 3040x2016, it would be 6.1 megapixel.

  23. Re:Woohoo! on Flipster Portable Plays MPEG-4 · · Score: 1

    Actually, a poll a year or two ago revealed that Slashdot's readership is something like 80% male, 4% female, and 16% Cowboyneal.

  24. Re:The Moon: A Liberal Myth on Slashback: Norwegian, Nader, Handheld · · Score: 2, Funny
    I simply refuse to put up with limp, Satanic, fellow-travelling shit like this piece of sub-human garbage in your pewling, idiotic post:

    "Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) "

    Let's count the errors, shall we?
    1. The Earth does not "rotate". If it did, we would all be blown around ten ways to Tuesday by the winds created.
    2. If the Earth did rotate, then one would expect to see tornadoes in the area at the centre of rotation. This would imply that Kansas is the centre of the Earth, a thought pleasing to my personal sympathies, but contradicted by scripture. There has never been a tornado in Jerusalem
    3. Joshua asked Our Lord to stop the Sun, you ignorant asshole, not the Earth. What possible good would it have done to stop the Earth from moving?
    4. Your blasphemous statement that the Moon "reflects" light from the Sun directly contradicts Genesis 3:16, in which it is made perfectly clear that "he created the moon, that the slimy crawling things by night might see". Which part of "he created", don't you understand? Your pathetic advocacy of the fraudulent theory (and it IS a THEORY, not some bourgeois, East-Coast elitist idea of a "fact") is sickening
    Your evil whinings are, quite frankly, tantamount to liberalism.

    Yeah, I didn't write this, but you didn't write that.

  25. Re:so.. how are we supposed to store passwords? on Crack a Password, Save Norwegian History · · Score: 2

    Retina Scans work by detecting blood vessels in the eye. If the eye has been removed, there will be no blood in the eye and the vessels will be invisible.