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  1. Honeycomb for Tablets only on Google Says Honeycomb Will Not Come To Smartphones · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess that is because
    Honeycomb is Big!
    Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
    It's not small!
    No, No, No!

  2. Re:FileShack will have HD videos on Finding High Quality Videos from E3? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, they will have 2 HD cameras there this year.
    http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=42006
    http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12092759

    Their pre-E3 coverage page is already up:
    http://www.shacknews.com/extras/e3_2006/

  3. How does it compare? on Microsoft Releases Game Advisor For Windows · · Score: 1

    How does it compare to http://www.srtest.com/referrer/srtest which seems to run on any browser with activex or java (assuming a windows os is required)?

  4. Browser History as a Tree on IE7 Bugs and Reviews · · Score: 1

    I would like to see some browser implement the history as a tree. Urls you type in or open from a bookmark or the link bar would appear as the first level of nodes in the tree. Pages you get to by links from other pages would show up as a node under the page that linked to it. This way you would see every page you went to and how you got there.

    I think this would be more intuative for the users and more informative as the current history as list views give you no information about how got to a page. If you visited a few hundred pages last week and are trying to find a particular on that was linked from slashdot, using the list approach you would have to search the whole list, but with the tree approach, you would just have to open the slashdot node, and search the nodes below it.

  5. Re:I found a few spots on Unfinished Area Exploration in WoW · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are two small Islands off of Tananis to the south east. If you have 4 people (horde), you can get to the island, and then bring as many people as you want.

    3 people, (one warlock, 2 other), need to get mounted on the coast of Tanaris at LandsEnd Beach, close to the Islands, see http://www.worldofwar.net/cartography/worldmap/kal imdorcont.php
    Have a Shaman cast Water Walking on you. If you stay mounted, it effect your mount, but the spell will break if you get off your mount. Head toward the islands being carefull not to take damage, which will also break the spell. The shaman gets left behind as they can't cast water walking on themselves while mounted.
    You should be able to see the islands in the distance, head slightly east of them, as there is an area of the higher ocean floor that prevents fatigue that juts out further, a little east of the direct course.
    As soon as the fatigue bar appears, head directly toward the islands.
    You can make it there on a normal mount just as the fatigue bar is running out. It should be no problem with any speed enhancments such as carrot on a stick or with an epic mount.
    The center of the northern island has the message in a bottle.
    Use the warlock to summon the shaman who cast water walking on all of you. Also summon any guild mates :)

    Mal'Ganis has a bunch of dead lvl 1 corpses on the island from my guild.

  6. Something like these? on "Dream Team" to Create Gigapixel Photo System · · Score: 5, Informative
  7. Not Digital, but 4 Gigapixel on Largest Digital Photograph in the World · · Score: 1

    These guys http://www.gigapxl.org/project.htm are using a specially designed camera and 9 inch by 18 inch file and a high resolution digital scanner to get 4 gigapixel images that they then print out at 5 feet by 10 feet.

  8. Re:Minimum Specs on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    Someone did this for the first level of Quake:
    http://loonyboi.com/if/quake/

  9. Dreamcast's first mover advantage didn't help it on Microsoft's Rush To Xbox 2 A Danger? · · Score: 1

    The Dreamcast came out before the PS2, but that hurt it more than helped. By the time the PS2 came out, it was obvious that the Dreamcast was underpowered campared to the PS2.
    I think something similar may happen if the XBox2 comes out early with hardware that isn't as powerful as the eventual PS3. XBox Live may help early XBox2 game's popularity, but if the PS3 can run circles arround the Xbox2 with graphics and interactivity, then the XBox2 won't last long.

  10. Re:Here's a link to the on Half Life 2 Source Code Leaked · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't want the GeForce 7MX, you want the GeForce 7 Uber!
    The GeForce 7MX is the value priced borad and is only equivelant to a GeForce 5 Super.

  11. Re:It's commonly assumed that people are base-10.. on Beyond Binary Computing? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I like to use base 6 when counting on my hands. This lets me count to 35 on my hands without any uncomfortable finger positions.

    I use the right had as the 'ones' hand and the left has as the 'sixes' hand. Each hand had six states (no fingers out, 1 finger out, 2 fingers out, ... , 5 fingers out).

    Counting to 5 is the same as normal (using base 1), Just put out one finger at a time or your right hand. To count six, just close your right hand and put out one finger or your left hand. Since the left hand is representing the 'sixes' place, your hands are representing 10 base 6 or 6!
    Continue putting our fingers on your right hand until it is full, and then close it and put out another finger on your left hand. Continue until you reach 55 base 6 (35 base 10), at which point you run out of fingers and hands.

  12. Re:Let me get this straght... on Cringely Proposes a Music Sharing Alternative · · Score: 1
    As a publicly traded company, they'd always be subject to a hostile takeover by the pro-RIAA interests...

    Except that he said that the IPO would only be 10% of the stock and further shares comming from splits, the RIAA could only ever get 10% of the company.

  13. The System is down. on Strong Bad Creators Interviewed · · Score: 2, Funny
  14. on FOX? oh no on Firefly Premieres Tonight · · Score: 1

    This better be worth losing Futurama and Family Guy.
    If it is THAT good, it won't last long on FOX.

  15. BAWLS! on Gaming Fuel: 4-way Shootout · · Score: 1

    Number 1 drink at QuakeCon: BAWLS
    http://www.bawls.com/

  16. Re:I gotta agree with Blizzard... on EFF Takes Bnetd Case · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, it's not the same thing!

    It is like creating an AIM server and telling all your friends to log the AIM client into it insted of the actual AOL server bucause you do want to be spammed by unknown people or because of firewall / network issues you keep getting disconnect from AOL.
    However, the server you create will also let Trillian or whatever other client connect because you have no help from AOL

  17. cbsnews.com webcast on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    www.cbsnews.com has a real video webcast that seems to be working.