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  1. Be sure to pick the right tree on Back to the Trees · · Score: 1

    This huge elm across the street, been there over a hundred years... split in half and destroyed four cars in the process. Glad I wasn't up there reading or on the computer at the time.

  2. call it the petafile on An IMDb for Books · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea how verbose the 'bookies' , to coin a phrase to replace literati, can become? How many petabytes do you have available if this catches on?

  3. Classic commercial open source on Film Gimp Chalks Up Another Studio · · Score: 5, Informative

    FilmGimp started as a hacked up version of Gimp to solve a particular problem that had no solution. Instead of making that a propriatary product R&H went open source. FilmGimp is more specialized buy very handy for some extgreme image processing. very cool

  4. Of all the "comming in 2 years" vapor on iTV Standard v1.1 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Interactive Television is the granddaddy of vapor. It has been in the works in one form or another since long before the internet. Before computers probably. It just is never going to happen.

  5. Re:Very readable.. on The Crypto Gardening Guide and Planting Tips · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q= MAC+cryptography

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient& q= HMAC

    yadda yadda, get with the google

  6. Will your on The Crypto Gardening Guide and Planting Tips · · Score: 1

    ...design run afoul of a law passed ten years after the paper is published?

  7. Wrong domain on Rick Berman Doesn't Know Why Nemesis Tanked · · Score: 1
    This is show business, the movie business. Lots of know it alls, but if you get to the real savy old timers, or savy new timers, honest opinon: in Hollywood *Nobody Knows*.

    In engineering, finance or medicine for example, the 'why' something works can be known, not always, but often. Not in ShowBiz. That's why the business is what it is, big money commited to a pure crap shoot.

  8. A true sesquipedalian on A Word a Day · · Score: 1

    Yada yada, look it up. Word a day is a great site, i'd expect the book to be funny++

    Eschu obfustication.

  9. More than words on Why Project Gutenberg Isn't There Yet · · Score: 1

    Look in the back of a good book, the credits for the font, the mark up design, the basic look. Formating an ascii book to something that is a pleasure to read is a lot of work. A book is more than just words. But Go Gut! We love ya.

  10. Dark side or lighter side or darker light side? on Google vs. Boilerplate Activism · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about a filter that adds a bit of lexical noise to each email to the congressman or editor? A proxy service? Hmm, lobbying and such are big business, market opportunity anyone?

  11. 3D cultists on Metaverse Launched? · · Score: 1

    The WEB3D cultists just won't give up. I guess that's a good thing. Don't get too excited until there is a great porn 3d site, metaverse is a few years after that...

  12. The control system needs to be fully autonomous on The End of Solotrek · · Score: 1

    Fully autonomous models have flown, these things could be safer than cars but you would have to give up control to the computer. A fully self flying/onboard controlled with video. It's expensive and a ways out, but we will probably fly in one. Well, not the model. Does leave the hands free to drop things, un-tethered cell phones would be very illegal.

  13. Good example? on Web Profits in the Gutter · · Score: 1

    No affiliation than I just tried them but snapfish.com may be viable. This is an example, it's a discount photo processing plus online digitizing. But perhaps it doesn't count due to actually providing a service? There are many useful services using the internet HTTP protocol as an addition to the business. I just downloaded the user manual to a fax machine, but Sharp is not a dotcom, so it doesn't count?

  14. One secret - persistance on Starting a Software Business in Today's Economy? · · Score: 1

    Lot's of good advice in these posting, even the naysayers. If you listen to them they will fortell the future. Many paths...oh gawd how that sounds, but it's true, many companys are started many ways, it's the folks that don't give up and keep trying that get there. Go for it.

  15. Contract Law on Beta-Testers and Intellectual Property? · · Score: 1

    No one should have access to beta software without some type of contract. A click to ok seems to be valid contractually but for a closer relationship should have binding signatures. I have had to pass on some interesting stuff when the legal dept. voted no.

    If no contract was made this has the potential for a very interesting not to mention expensive law suit.

  16. People Magazine? Oh no, EEtimes, huh? on UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers · · Score: 1

    What's amazing is an article this bad from a respected technical magazine. EE's can't handle the concept of FEC? Well maybe, anyway, most of the readers here have probably spent double the time on this than writer.

  17. Email to legislators on Ask A Tech-Savvy Lobbyist About The Politics Of Computing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does an email carry the same weight as a paper letter?

  18. Variety says it best on The Reviewer Who Wasn't · · Score: 1
    I get Varietys email blurbs, if you haven't red that mag you haven't seen nerdspeak taken to a truely sofisticated(sic) level:

    4. RIPE HYPE LANDS SONY IN PUB FLUB Inhouse ad employee creates raving journalist Given blurbmeisters' penchant for hyperbole, it begs the question: Why bother? But Sony Pictures Entertainment has launched an internal investigation focusing on an inhouse advertising department employee who used blurbs in studio advertisements from a fictitious journalist. http://www.variety.com/story.asp?l=story&a=VR11178 00548&c=10

  19. Don't take programming classes anyway on Techies Saying No To College · · Score: 1

    I have just a few college hours but the math, stats, econ concepts, bits of history would be tough to get a handle on with just web browsing. I've wondered if an analysis of algorithms class might be handy. Go if you can, go part time and have the company pay for it if you have the discipline. But if unless you're on a highly defined track like pre-med use it to cram in all the stuff you will never have time to get around to later.

  20. Re:Needs a name change on The Hunkapiller Syndrome · · Score: 1
    > But another syndrome in the ascendancy of trendy diseases is Sensory Integration Dysfunction!

    SI is a good demonstration that genes are not the only issue, my wife does that stuff and I've seen some amazing changes in kids that would be considered non-functioning.