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  1. Re:Dr. Brown on Making Ice Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    They were in the train that was going over the cliff I think?

    I always assumed that due to some wierd touching the Delorian tphenomonon the train that zipped somewhere random in the future. Then they could due as needed.

  2. Re:Tetris Attack on Playing all that Bejeweled Pays Off · · Score: 1

    Interesting that you quote cult even thought the GP didn't use the word.

    Anyway, I would think the segment of puzzle gamers "worth there salt" is certainly smal enough to call it a cult, expecially since it is a SNES game.

  3. Re:Wow! on Titan Occupies A Solar System Sweet Spot · · Score: 1

    Not true at all, something could be almost exactly like Titan, but slightly less lik Earth than Titan is.

    P=>Q != Q=>P

  4. Re:Neat! --- Great on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 1

    I swear to you the the tone and the intent was to point out the obvious, our output dwarfs the soils.

    I got the feeling from reading the post I replied to that the implication was this supports the rapid and arguably dramatic climate change was just as likly caused by natural seepage of CO2 as by human outout,

    I was pointing out that 8% of 1990 levels of output is not going to have neer as much of an impact as 92% of it (which England still produces) .

    The statement was to try and help readers realize that gee, it is less than a tenth of what the people are producing, lets work on small changes there to bring down output.

    The article itself paints a more not less dire picture of global warming, and does nothing to even imply it is not caused by humans, maybe I falsly asumed people read it though.

  5. Re:Neat! --- Great on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 1

    No, I am saying that if we want to reduce CO2 output, a hell of a lot of it can be reduced by curtailing our output, not so much by worrying about the soil.

    The soil releases about as much teh the reduction, and is releasing not absorbing due to already record high tempuratures.

    a slight reduction in output from people is the same result as a 100% reduction by the soil, but the only way to reduce the C in the soil is to reduce tempurature anyway, and to due that reduce greenhouse gasses.

  6. Re:Neat! --- Great on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Soil released 8%

    that is really not all that much.

  7. Re:Almost admissable proof of monopoly. on Bulky System Requirements for Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    The photo printing in XP is quite nice.

    There were a couple of other little nice touches too, but I forget them. What I really want though is "network Neighborhood" back.

    ahh, grouping tasks is nice too, but theres is far inferior to KDE and weeker than BeOS too. Good Wireless browser in SP2. I am sure there are some other non eye-candy improvements too, but I can't think of them when so drunk.

  8. Re:Almost admissable proof of monopoly. on Bulky System Requirements for Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Good thing AMD thought of that and kept the old deafault (I really think I read this, but could be wrong).

  9. Re:It's remarkable how wrong this is on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    That is a false statement.

    The poorest and least educated reproduce like mad, as is human nature (genetics). When things are bleak pop out babies.

    Yes, rich people could be smarter (since a liniage of smart people is probably an indicator of a liniage of success), but even in the impoverished classes there are some smart people (I work with people from the area of the US with the least income) these people still do not know much, because school doesn't teach anything in this area, and they have more important things to worry about than self education (like making sure their children don't end up shot/shooting someone).

    Even in the bad areas where the "dumbest people" "bread out of control" there is a selection for intelligence over idiocy.

    An example of a smart person without an education:
    We were talking about AIDS, and a guy was like "a dude cannot get AIDS from strait sex because the penis doesn't suck anything in". He was the only person in the room who believed this, but he believed due to a thought prossess, not because he was told it, you need to take my word that in talking to him you could tell he was intelligent. With some basic biology education he could have been tought about semi-permiable membranes and understood how he was wrong, but without any education there was a apparrent idiocy.

  10. Re:Obviously on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    I would gladly pay for Gmail accounts.

    2+GB, webmail as fast as a local app(on broadband), good searching, POP/SMTP acess.

    worth at least a few dollors a month per an account if there are no adds in the POP messages (I don't know if there are anyway).

  11. Re:If you can automate, should you be grading? on Tools for Automated Grading? · · Score: 1

    Daily homework should be gone over during class anyway (math problem type stuff anyway). My teachers would glance at everyones notebook and if you did it you got a check. Then we would go over it. Made sense to me.

    I had a nother teacher that would twice a month give a quiz that was just page and problem numbers, if we did the homework we could anwser them, but it didn't make sense to do homework and then not go over it.

  12. Re:Service Provider Quality? on Smartphone Suggestions for Text SSH Use? · · Score: 1

    I live in PA (philadelphia) and there coverage is really good (compared to Cingular and Verizon), the problem is they do not have enough circuits and I get all circuits are busy messages about 30% of the time during the evening commute, quite annoying. They have done a huge job improving their coverage in the last 2 years though, and they are way way way cheaper.

  13. Re:Double standards on GTA: San Andreas to be Re-Released Next Week · · Score: 1

    The difference FWIW between M and AO (besides a single year) is this:

    AO content is not supposed to be for minors under any circumstances (like X or NC-17 movies) and is supposed to be reserved for truly pornographic things (which the power to be include, graphic simulated sex (Auto Focus), Puppetts having really hard core sex with no naughty bits (Team America World Police), a male errection (I think that is what got Desperate Living one), and dryhumping (GTA:SA)).

    M rated content is "safe" for people over 17, but under 17 it is a judgement call for the parents (like our R rating). The point is to give a guidline to parents, your 15 year old wants to play GTA better check it out first, the same way one might do the same thing with Kill Bill or the The Passion of Christ.

    The idea is that something can be non pornographic and non obsene, but still probably not a good thing for minors, but we are not going to force the issue.

    As for the violence vs sex thing I don't have an explanation but a couple other posters made some good points. Such as seeing sex increases a natural urge that in todays society should be repressed to a point, while violence is far less likly a reality for most of the people raising these concerns, and therefor it is less of a fear.

    I know from personal expierience I had sex before I murdered a cop (which I probably never ever will do). I am not saying it is a good thing that we split things like that, but at least there is some possible reasoning.

    I personally am waiting for the masses to backlash when they try to take away our cable, but only time will tell.

  14. Re:Highly recommended game on No Publisher Love For Darwinia · · Score: 1

    The Isetta is a terrible car.

  15. Re:you know... on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    I agree with you on the Acid 2 test entirly. The DoJ should fine MS for not making there browser work propperly with broken code.

  16. Re:WINE on Best Way to Port a Windows Game to Linux? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is clearly working too fast to be a political simlator.

    Must be a problem with WINE.

  17. Re:Another AI test on How I Failed the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can tie them already.

    I know I learned to tie my shoes, but hated doing it (this was over a summer). When I got to school I saw other children getting their shoes tied by the teachers I quickly "forgot" how to tie my shoes.

    PS. I am lazier now than then.

  18. Re:Power Consumption on S3 Graphics Comes out of Hiding with Chrome20 · · Score: 1

    I am in your boat too.

    I purchases a Zalman GPU cooler. It is copper and has a huge slow fan and huge fins.

    In low noils mode it keeps the card way cooler than the stock, and is silent. I had to cut a hole in the case though, it slides over to avoid the fan which stickes out the side now.

    Still though, the 6600GT is a strain on the power supply, so that fan is working far harder than when I had my GeForce 2 in there, but it is a lot better and worth the hole in the case, FWIW.

  19. Re:I don't gamble on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    And slot parlors in a few more (Delaware, soon to be Pennsylvania (legal, but not built)).

    And horse tracks all over the place.

  20. Re:They forgot the most important feature of all on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    And gets outstanding frame rates on Duke Nukem Forever.

    Yeah, but so will your GeForce 4

  21. Re:using other containers have same 'crime'? on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    Only if the bottle had soemthing patented.

    so it would have to be a fancy sports type bottle.

  22. Re:We can't even agree on global warming on Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate? · · Score: 1

    Your idea of a "typical" liberal protest is just wrong.

    And fascist communist is not liberalism in any sense nor was Sudam's Iraq conservative.

    As for the deathrate in Iraq, the only satistical look at overall death rate that I saw published put the number at between 20,000 and some huge number, with 80,000 being the most likly. They calculated it by figureing out how many people died in a year by statistical sampleing and then did that for a year in the war. This would take into account variations in desiese rates, hunger etc. I have not read or heard anywhere that the death rate has been reduced by the war. It is worth pointing out that the study did not use Faluga at all when they did the sampleing.

  23. Re:We can't even agree on global warming on Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate? · · Score: 1

    When is the last time you saw Liberals kill large amounts of people?

    Are abortion clinic bombings not counting as a form of protest?

    Is invading a country without the support of the world humble or putting yourself above them?

    I find the claim that conservatives are more humble and less violent than liberals as rediculous as making the opposite claim.

  24. Re:Nintendo Revolution Rumor on Yet More 360 Details · · Score: 1

    With higher prices, and more a years of time since the launch of the last generation I expect more than double power in the new systems.

    Not 10x the power, but 3-6x the power sounds reasonable to me.

    10x does not sound unreasonable for the PS3 vs the PS2 though.

  25. Re:That's a lot on Nintendogs Sells Quarter of a Millions Units · · Score: 0

    What about one and a millionth millions?

    I think that is propper grammer.

    I know I would say one and a half dollors not one and a half dollor, extending that logic 1.00000000000000000000000000000000001 of something is plural?