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  1. Re:DOOM? Wrong decade! on Technology That You Loved from the 70/80/90's? · · Score: 1

    And how much waste oil is there?

    Is there even enough for 1% of our fuel needs?

    If demand goes up (due to it being provided as a fuel) waste oil will be expensive, probably the same price of fuel, which would go down ever so slightly by the increased supply.

    Even at $20 dollors a barrel by the time the distributers get paid and the filterers get paid and the retailer gets paid it will cost more that a dollor.

  2. Re:DOOM? Wrong decade! on Technology That You Loved from the 70/80/90's? · · Score: 1

    Gas was less than a dollor around when I got my car (late '97 early '98). In inflation adjusted it kicks your .88 ass.

    What plant product do you currently buy at less than a dollor a gallon that you are using as an estimate for biofuel costs by the way?

  3. Re:I'd get into making SWF games, but.. on Making A Fortune From Casual Games · · Score: 1

    I'd leave the GPA off if it is less that 3.5.

    I know that at least with many public schools 3.0 is the minimum GPA they accept for teachers, so it isn't something I would advertise.

    Maybe in the CS field they are more generous in their acceptance though.

  4. Re:Whatever happened to Looking glass? on The State of Linux Graphics · · Score: 1

    WOW, what was I thinking.

    I re-read the post and I couldn't fallow it either, sorry forthe spam.

  5. Re:Bzzzttt!!!!! on Five Reasons Not to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    No, I was reffering the the continually updating folder order.

    So I create a new Folder, it goes under "U" I call it apple Now it goes under "A". So to get into the folder I need to scroll up to "A" and then open it. I would say that once or twice a day I am caused frustration by stuff moving around in real time as I am looking at it, it is not intuitive. Sometimes when doing thing in the background and sorting by date it will move as I am trying to click.

    the File diolog is non-intuitive too. Every time I upgrade someone from OS 9 to OS X it takes some time before they can remember to click the arrow to get a real save diolog.

  6. Re:Whatever happened to Looking glass? on The State of Linux Graphics · · Score: 1

    Actually my understanding is that means you cannot distribute Looking Glass without being in violation of the GPL (including Sun).

    I say this based on a plethera of responses I got asking about running the dynamically linked version of Opera against my GPL'd QT library.

    The response was as follows (paraphrased).

    You idiot, the GPL is only about distribution, not about running it, how is /. so dumb. Since Opera linked against a proprietary liscense then distributed it it's all good.

    I thought it was a llittle harsh, but I took it to mean that as long as I didn't redistribute dynamically linked Opera (with permission) with the GPL'd QT to run it I was fine. And that anybody can run GPL software however they please.

  7. Re:Bzzzttt!!!!! on Five Reasons Not to Use Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah,when you create a new folder and give it a name it suddenly dissapears, that is real easy.

    That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head, but there are dozens oflittle make things easier mechanisms that really make it harder.

  8. Re:Fantastic! on Apple To Unveil iPod Cellphone Next Week? · · Score: 1

    Nokia 6800.

    The only phone I could find with email access and a keyboard but no camera for under many hundreds of dollors.

    The Blackberries are too expensive and the sidekicks have cameras.

    The web-browsing sucks though but I can get directions, look up numbers check and send email all for free.

  9. Collapsable Bik on Forms of Alternative Transportation to Work? · · Score: 1

    Puma makes a collapsable bike here

    Maybe too big still.

  10. Re:This bill is too long on The Player's Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    What if every copy of a game has defects such as the character falls through the floor at threshold or sidewalk cracks and gets trapped.

    Or what if the flaw is that the game won't run for more than a minute without crashing? I would think these are both implied to not happed weather explicitly stated on the box or not.

  11. Re:Automated on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 1

    In your head that is.

  12. Re:Automated on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Try doing it in your effectivly and see what happens.

  13. Re:Only problem... on How Can Tech Help Fight Education Costs? · · Score: 1

    I think it is also worth pointing out that they probably don't fit in due to the better education as much as the home schooling. Kids who excel in public school can be treated pretty horibly in general too.

    Also summer camp from an early age is a good way to get friends and social skills because nobody knows anyone anyway. I think the worse thing a parent can do is send there child to school one day a week to help them socialize, those kids I knew had a terrible expieriance.

  14. Costs Apple Money? on Judge Approves Settlement in iPod Suit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would think giving iPod hungry people $25-$50 credit will actually make Apple money.

  15. Re:Criminal on Graphics Programs Uncover Secret PINs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because window envelopes and printers to print on them are so hard to find.

    I mean to go to the store and buy a security window envelope would be impossible.

    More importantly I think the PIN is stored encrypted on the card, so you would need to swipe the card to get a working debit card anyway.

  16. Re:Still no answer to my suggestion on Penny Arcade Expo Kickoff · · Score: 1

    This is a far more realistic interpretation of tube warfare.

    But car can be taken to pick a tube of propper strength. You than score it on style and/or a fencing type system, and a broken tube is a loss.

  17. Re:what's that word again? on Adult Site Sues Google, Google Compared To MS Again · · Score: 1

    Socially conservative liberals and/or feminists may do so.

    I personally think fear of sexuality and nakedness crosses political beliefs but is certainly a part of social conservatism. And many feminists are in general what would be considered socially conservative on many issues.

    I would like to end this post saying that I am not saying any of this is good or bad so don't retort this with a liberals/conservatives are bad accusation.

    P.S. Just as many feminists that I know think that people should be alloud to choose to have sex for whatever reason they want as think that people should not be alloud to.

  18. Re:issues on Intel and Laptop RAID? · · Score: 1

    I do work where I would love a RAID 1 setup (presentation). I really only need a portable computer, but a Laptop has built in UPS, built in RAID would be great too.

    I do of course use redundant Laptops and an AB switch, but sometime space does not allow the second laptop to be opened, so you need to find your place in the case of a crash. Also I make changes right up until I need it sometimes, so I would lose stuff (either content or at least orginizational) in the event of a crash.

    Currently I use 2 laptops, each gets a local backup at the end of the day and each plugged into a raid 1 snap server that is live, but the snap server has a few points of failure (power drop without UPS, small cord into the machine easy to kick out har to tape in, Ntwork hub is a point of failure, power to the network hub has problems).

    A laptop is unplugging immune (With the UPS built in) and if it could be raided as the primary with an external HD as the backup along with a small light laptop as a backup life would be real good for me.

    I can't be the only person where the risk of losing half a days work once over the course of three years at a critical time would be willing to spend $500-$1000 and a few pounds of weight.

  19. Re:Movie Theaters are Obsolete on Piracy Not To Blame In Decline of Moviegoers · · Score: 1

    I think most theatres charge $9/ticket now, and not many matinees even in less urban type areas. Also if you want to split a large soday and popcorn it can be as much as $6.50 each.

    2 tickets is 24
    1 large soda 5
    1 large popcorn 5
    thats $34 total for 2 people and getting tickets online and more expensive food it can break $40.

    I would like to know why everyone thinks that movies are sucking this year. I really liked Crash, Happy Endings, Wedding Crashers, and Batman. Also 40 Year Old Vergin was pretty good too. None of these movies (except Batman) really benifitted from the big screen, but they were all worth the money still.

    PS: Where is the new IMAX, because KoP is devoid of good food, and I would love to catch an IMAX in the city rather than going to hell for it.

  20. Re:The Tragic History of "me too!!!!" on AOL Fined for Making it Hard to Cancel Service · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those were the good old days.

    Now it's the whole internet.

  21. Re:So What's Next After Multi-Cores and Low Power? on Intel Reveals Next-Gen CPUs · · Score: 1

    A few nits.

    First is your statement that unreliable software costs money and kills people. In reality unreliable software saves billions of dollors and many lives.

    Second, I don't know enough to really understand what "non-algorithmic, signal-based synchronous software model" is but forgoing a 150 year old techknowlogy for one that would "require a radical change in both processor architecture and software construction methodology" does not seem like the path to reliability.

  22. Re:VOIP dialing from buddy list on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 1

    SoIP?

    is that Services over IP?

    like http?

  23. Re:No, only what he THINKS Apple will do on HighDef Content to Require New Monitors · · Score: 1

    Did not happen that way.

    Not even a plurality of the population elected him the first time. And I am not crying fraud or stolen election, I am stating facts.

  24. Re:Thank you on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 1

    Except what they released does not let you play Quake III.

  25. Re:I wonder, though on Warren Spector on Licensing · · Score: 1

    I feel a shift of smaller budget movies coming up (or mayb e I am noticing).

    But the big theatres where I am all carried "Happy Endings", "Crash", "Sideways", "Motorcycle Diaries" and "Kinsey". They are all movies that Iw ould have expected to go out of my way to an indie theatre for a year ago. All of these were movies I would rate from good to great. Even Wedding crashers had more of an indie feel (though maybe Swingers and Made gave it that).

    These are good movies though that don't need to do great to make a good profit and I would be shocked if they didn't.

    Even "Sin City" and "Spider-man" were fairly cheap movies to make compared to the the big movies of the past (I guess Sin City wasn't so big though).

    Hollywood can make more money with less ticket sales if they keep putting out decent movies.

    PS, with the exclusion of the mice getting smooshed I could not imagine HGTTG being adapted to screen much better.