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  1. Kids toy of the future on Displays That Harvest Light Instead Of Creating It · · Score: 1
    Can anyone say "Light Brite"? I'd sure buy one that didn't take a light bulb.

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  2. Brainstorm on 20 Ways The World Could End · · Score: 1
    I can't believe someone would brainstorm this. At least it shows other hazards, such as the accelerator mishaps. I can see all the scientists pulling at thier collars saying "Nyyaaahh."

    Someone had a lot of time on their hands.

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  3. Quantum vs Classical physics on Moore's Law set to continue · · Score: 1
    Now, new research (Jonathan Dowling, JPL/Caltech, 818-393-5343, Jonathan.P.Dowling@jpl.nasa.gov) illustrates that the Rayleigh criterion is a limit of classical, pre-20th century physics--and not of the "quantum" physics discovered and explored since the 20th century.

    I particularily like this comment as it shows that the mysterious nature of quantum physics can be intriging. Most of the time quantum physics is looked on as a hinderence of sorts for developing technology. Now with this innovation of silicon lithography and the advent of quantum computer research it looks as if the tables have turned. The strange nature of quantum physics is being harnessed to technology's advantage. Man has found ways to adapt. Soon it will be energy harnassing or communications. The quantum world is endless.

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  4. Paintbrush on Mozilla.org Posts New Roadmap · · Score: 1
    You have gotta love the full graphics capabilities used to make the visual roadmap. Paintbrush is such a fantastic program. They must've done it in their sleep.

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  5. Smaller design on Inexpensive Do It Yourself MP3 Players · · Score: 1
    There were a bunch of guys at my University that made an mp3 player using the new IBM microdrives. They made it with low power consumption and playlist support. It was really interesting to see the small design. When is there going to be kits that employ the smaller drives?

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  6. Talk about adapatation on Coffee's Caffeine-Producing Gene Isolated · · Score: 1
    If we did all this stuff to our bodies, something will adapt and we will still get sick. Nothing is infalible when it comes to biological organisms.

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  7. Here's my two cents on Kenny Baker Will Be In Ep2 · · Score: 1
    I bet Lucas just puts Baker in the R2D2 to not have him hanging around:

    Lucas: "Get in the robot"
    Baker: "Inside the robot?"
    Lucas: Gives Baker a glare
    Baker: "Yes sir..."

    Lucas also couldn't separate Daniels and Baker. It wouldn't be the same. Like Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara in the Hidden Fortress. It had to be them.

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  8. The networked vision on New Sony Palm, With Removable Memory Stick · · Score: 2
    "Sony has big plans for the Clie as one of the four gateways to the networked home,..."
    The four gateways are the PC, the PlayStation2 game console, the television and Clie, which is expected to eventually feature wireless Internet access.

    It is great to see that Sony has a vision to put the Clie into the mix of all their other products and bring about a unified solution for consumers. Shows that Sony has great initiative for the Clie product and its place in the networked home. As opposed to Palm, which focuses primarily on the PDAs themself, Sony is looking at the big picture. It always seems to be Sony that brings about a revolution in electronics, be it the Walkman, or the DVD. Can't wait to see this product take off.

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  9. Re:George Lucas to replace staff with CGI characte on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2 · · Score: 1
    How do we know Lucas isn't a CGI himself? One moment we see him in an interview talking and the next he's a Blue Screen of Death.

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  10. Re:Artoo - and Star Wars - you will be missed. on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2 · · Score: 1
    Lucas should go back to watching the Akira Kurosawa films that defined his style and gave him inspiration. Hidden Fortress (which Lucas based some of the Star Wars story and characters on) is still fantastic, and is coming out on Criterion DVD soon. Lucas needs to sit down and watch some flicks to get a good idea of how a real film is made.

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  11. Re:smoking crack on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2 · · Score: 1
    More evidence:

    * Christopher Lee (Campy 70's Dracula)
    * Jimmy Smits (NYPD Blue ass whippin with aliens)

    Thank god he still has Anthony Daniels.

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  12. Doesn't make sense on Apple Sues Employee Over Cube Leaks · · Score: 2
    I can't find out who leaked important documents at a reputable, international company like Apple, but I can find out who was picked up in St. Paul for engaging in prostitution . What's with that?

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  13. Do companies have eyes? on Ex-Microsoft Employee On Unix Within The Empire · · Score: 1
    Why don't companies see this at all? I couldn't believe it when I heard that Hotmail was FreeBSD. Every bit of my intuition pointed to a Micro$oft product. I can't see how companies, with this new information, can trust Micro$soft at all. I certainly wouldn't trust them at all with the handling of my data on their system if they can't even trust their own product.

    Also, if Micro$oft can devote time and effort to learning and using UNIX type systems, why can't they devote some time and effort to getting their own systems to run better and use them instead?

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  14. Who cares if it was done before on Pickling Australia's Online Past, Present, Future · · Score: 1
    Why are people saying that it has been "done before?" What one country does is completely different from another. If Sweden has done it and Australia wants to do it now, all the power. All the sites out there that list the archived sites have everything, not just Australia. The Internet is a global community without many walls, and most seem to have this mindset when it comes to the sites contained within. Australia on the other hand want to catalogue these sites. I don't want to get into the nitty-gritty of the fine print (as many have), but from a heritage point of view, if they want to do it, then do it. Good for them. At least they can have a piece of their Internet history, as Sweden does now.

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  15. Sun and Apple on Sun Gagging Customers Damaged By Memory Problems? · · Score: 1
    Since when has Sun turned into Apple?

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  16. My eyes are huring on The Right To Read: Time Limited Textbooks · · Score: 1
    I don't know about anybody else, but I would hate to have a textbook on computer. Firstly, I would never want to read any textbook on a computer screen (maybe on the electronic paper). Secondly, who wants to find a record with a DVD. I love flipping through the book. It makes finding a reference easy. Most quotes and footnotes don't require long passages, so copy and pasting information is no problem.

    Already I'm blasted for $600 (CAN $) worth of books each SEMESTER. I wouldn't need an electronic pain of a book to put more money in the publishers pockets.

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  17. Re:One word answer, no on Has Linux Lapped Apple As Competition For Redmond? · · Score: 1
    Good point. I wasn't refering to the underlying structure of the os though. The average user will see the os as the window manager, and not the console stuff. I didn't mean it as a FreeBSD vs Linux, but a MacOS (based on BSD) vs Linux (with GNOME window manager). It's like an analogy of having the olympics with person-to-person competition (mac os vs linux with GNOME) and then seeing the countries of the people involved as a battle (BSD underlying mac osx vs linux individualy). It's more the numbers, not the structure and technical aspect.

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    and even the teddy bears

  18. Re:Flawed on "Fingerprinting" of Audio Files? · · Score: 1
    Also, I wonder if this could tell if there was a problem with mp3 you downloaded. It would be a reverse process. You put in the details of the mp3 and it compares an archived digital signiture to the one you've got. It could all be transparent as well, and automate my downloading process to get the best mp3 out of the bunch on napster.

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    and even the teddy bears

  19. BSD vs Linux? on Has Linux Lapped Apple As Competition For Redmond? · · Score: 1
    With the advent of Mac OSX, isn't this now a challenge between Linux and BSD? Both will use window managers to hide most of the low level portions (I can say for a fact most users won't use it), so it will be interesting to see what will come out of all this.

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    and even the teddy bears

  20. Re:What it in the orignal contract? on Australia Orders Olympic Web Site Accessible to Blind · · Score: 1
    Every website like this is first brainstormed upon and worked on before hand. You can't just jump into a website like this and hope that in a year it will be completed. It was not the website designers responsibility to put the content in if it wasn't first noted. Once the project is underway, there is no turning back, without a heavy cost. Setting up a site for blind access is as easy as following a set list of criteria, and if requested it would have been implemented.

    As a side note, there are ALT tags, but not very desciptive ones. They did put them in, just not as descriptive as needed for blind access.

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  21. Look at the current state on You Say Tomato, I say Fan Jia Qie? · · Score: 1
    The internet started out with english as the primary language of choice. Judging from the number of english sites out there, this is still the case. It's not the idea that another language will take over, it's more, "Will people learn a new language to suit the state of the internet at present?" If the trend goes towards another language, we will deal with it as it comes, as the Mandarin speaking people, or for that matter any language other than english, are having to deal with now.

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    have teddy bears,
    and even the teddy bears

  22. Re:Movie on Video Games and ADD · · Score: 1
    The movie was Project X.

    Another movie that comes to mind about the training of people with video games (namely kids) was Toys.

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  23. Re:Radio waves for sight? on Green Bank Telescope Goes Live · · Score: 3
    An interesting effect of radio waves from space is that they cause interference on tvs and radios. If you take an old tv, raise the antennas and turn down the brightness, most of the white noise seen is actually of astronomical origin. Scientists just use the telescopes to focus this background noise to allow for accuracy in seeing the source (in this case one arcsecond) and interpreting the data.

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  24. I wonder... on Google, History, Profitability · · Score: 1
    Google is particularly popular among computer-savvy males, though the company says its demographics are slowly shifting to more mainstream users.

    I mean CmdrTaco is a real "guru," but does he really live up to "savvy?"

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  25. Crusoe stands out on Does Transmeta Live Up To The Hype? · · Score: 2
    What Transmeta wanted to do was create a low power consumption chip, which they have. I know they claimed that it would work for 8 hours, but not all claims are valid. It doesn't mean it doesn't work for 8, just not on the Toshiba notebooks. All I hear is numbers being thrown around and a lot of speculation. What this battle needs is true standardised testing; then this whole fiasco of standard battery life and rumors may be quelled.

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