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  1. Hmm, damaged when slammed on floor maybe? on More Exploding Cellphones In The News · · Score: 1



    Michael Sathre, who is expected to fully recover from his wounds, was picking his fully charged Verizon LG cell phone off the floor when it exploded by his side.

  2. Re:Miami, FL on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    I can say you are correct in some ways, I would mod you up if I could but I have no mod points left. After all we make nothing over here, and our programming requirements and tech support are moving to india. We pretty much have nothing more to offer the world at larges since we make nothing but building products and toliet paper in this country. The sad thing is most of our deficit goes toward helping 3rd world countries and rebuilding what we destroy.

  3. Re:Miami, FL on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    I agree, there does have to be a job available or no amount of effort will be of value. I agree that the markets flooded, I just hope the government here is smart enough to stop renewing the work visas all together until the current population has a chance at being employed.

  4. 20" deep is what they are referring to as thin... on Thin CRTs to Challenge LCDs in 2005 · · Score: 1

    517mm for a 32" display is not all that thin, I am betting a 19" display would be about 307mm or 12" deep, its not going to compete with lcd. At best they will kill off the last remaining rear projector tvs (dlp and micro resolution standard), they wont effect plasma and lcd displays much.

  5. Re:Miami, FL on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    I say, let someone else write the resume that has a talent for just that. I used to write resumes for friends because I found that they did not have the talent to put together a good resume. I good resume will speak for itself, no need for a cover letter if your resume is up to snuff. They would give me pages and pages of "capabilities" that they had, whether it be my friends in the food distribution business or programming world I would throw away about 90% of their information and then write them into the job. A rule of thumb is to have a well balanced single page snapshot of who you are and what you can do for their company, and do it on nice paper (heavy weight and watermarked with a slight color, a subtley shaded white or gray is pretty good). They will pick up your resume more than once because of the fact that you have taste, so chances are they will read it since its somewhat concise.

  6. Cheap and slow no doubt on Taipei to Cloak City in World's Largest Wi-Fi Grid · · Score: 1

    I would expect it to be cheaper than wired lines, since it will be much slower and congested once all those people get on the shared 2-54mb (depending on your area) wireless network

  7. Re:Speaking of Chippewa, on Humans in America 25,000 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    Nope:

    INDIAN OUTLAW LYRICS
    (tommy barnes/gene simmons/john d. loudermilk)

    I'm an indian outlaw
    Half cherokee and choctaw
    My baby she's a chippewa
    She's one of a kind

    All my friends call me bear claw
    The village cheaftin' is my paw-paw
    He gets his orders from my maw-maw
    She makes him walk the line

    You can find me in my wigwam
    I'll be beatin' on my tom-tom
    Pull out the pipe and smoke you some
    Hey and pass it around

    'cause I'm an indian outlaw
    Half cherokee and choctaw
    My baby she's a chippewa
    She's one of a kind

    I ain't lookin' for trouble
    We can ride my pony double
    Make your little heart bubble
    Lord like a glass of wine

    I remember the medicine man
    He caught runnin' water in my hands
    Drug me around by my headband
    Said I wasn't her kind

    'cause I'm an indian outlaw
    Half cherokee and choctaw
    My baby she's a chippewa
    She's one of a kind

    I can kill a deer or buffalo
    With just my arrow and my hickory bow
    From a hundred yards don't you know
    I do it all the time

    They all gather 'round my teepee
    Late at night tryin' to catch a peek at me
    In nothin' but my buffalo briefs
    I got 'em standin' in line

    'cause I'm an indian outlaw
    Half cherokee and choctaw
    My baby she's a chippewa
    She's one of a kind

    Cherokee people
    Cherokee tribe
    So proud to live
    So proud to die

  8. Re:Speaking of Chippewa, on Humans in America 25,000 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    Actually 3 people wrote it, and links to bios are below so the few remaining american indians can see the enemy is indeed not the singer, its the record label and the three guys below :P

    Indian Outlaw
    (Tommy Barnes/Gene Simmons/John D. Loudermilk)

    http://www.alamhof.org/barnest.htm
    http://www.r ockabillyhall.com/GeneSimmons1.html
    http://member s.chello.nl/~k.vanderhoeven/Lied.html

  9. Not impressed here on Google Keyhole, Google Scholar · · Score: 1

    I came, I saw, I played with it. In most cases the 2 feet resolution (in a few cases as low as 3 inches, sometimes 1 feet and many times a meter or two) was blurry and at best a toy I tired of after 15 minutes. Even the places that were 3 inch resolution (think of it as a 3 inch wide pixel) were not that impressive unless you were just looking for the overall layout (which you can pretty much get from a map). On the other hand if you like looking out the window on a plan flight at the ground, this is a safe home experience of something quite similar.

  10. Anyone sueing BSD? on Ballmer Threatens Linux Patent Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Before the companies I admin for would go to paying for windows servers, we would just switch from linux to bsd, I use slackware which is bsd-ish linux anyway and my databases and applications area usable on either platform so I could switch at night without skipping a bea. I would be somewhat of a pain in the ass however probably have to make a flight across the country unless I could get someone to install bsd on those servers for me.

    One question to the bsders out there
    for future reference which variant is best in your opinion for each of these tasks:

    firewall
    sql database (firebird/interbase)
    mail server
    www server

    file server (for images mostly for rendition billing, at this point I actually use windows and netware but at some point I will phase out windows if they piss me off).

    PS: Are there drivers for a bsd for an hp optical jukebox

  11. Re:What do you use with a GBA SP? on Nanoloop: GameBoy Advance Hard Disk Recording · · Score: 1

    . php/cPath/29/products_id/73>

  12. Oh my gosh on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 1

    I have the same thing. I have been on cipro several times, then the little funky balls of yellow crap I cough up every once in a while, and hurting comes back. My local doctor never tried penicillin as a long term treatment. Thanks slashdot for calling it to my attention, thanks patrick for doing the research. I am off to see my doctor, no this is not a joke.

  13. Re:Forgeting something... on Battle Roomba Tractor · · Score: 1

    I don't normally get into religious conversations, but to be on topic, according to the bible it was apparent to God that we could not adhere to the absolute profection required to follow the 10 commandments. That is why the Messiah was brought into the picture, to give us a chance at heaven reguardless of the fact that we would never be able to meet God's original expectations.

  14. Well yea, but to a politician on Would John Kerry Defang the DMCA? · · Score: 1

    everything is "worth examining".

    That does not mean he will examine it, he just says its worth examining, in effect he really said nothing at all.

  15. Re:Brandon Routh? on Superman Set To Fly · · Score: 1

    Actually the pasted material was not from the article page, it was from another movie/actor information site that I prefer which tends to bother to insert pictures, etc.

  16. Re:Brandon Routh? on Superman Set To Fly · · Score: 2, Informative

    Brandon Routh

    Acting Appearances

    Starring Roles
    Undressed (1999) - Wade (Season 3)
    One Life to Live (1968) - Seth Anderson (#1) (05/23/2001-04/17/2002)

    Guest Starring Roles

    Will & Grace - Sebastian - A Gay/December Romance (2004)
    Cold Case - Henry Phillips ('64 - A Time to Hate (2003)
    Gilmore Girls - Jess [as B.J. Routh] - Concert Interruptus (2001)
    Odd Man Out - Connor [as B.J. Routh] - You've Got Female (1999)

    Co Starring Roles

    Oliver Beene - Brian - Dibs (2004)

    Movie/Mini-Series/Special Roles

    Deadly -

  17. Re:Welcome to 2002! on Sharp To Ship New HD-equipped Zaurus In Japan · · Score: 1

    Um my palm tungsten C has built in 802.11b. I think that works well enough to call it wireless capable.

  18. Not surprising on Sharp To Ship New HD-equipped Zaurus In Japan · · Score: 1

    I believe the old developer model would run an ibm hard drive in the cf slot. I never tried it though cause I had my 802.11 cf card in there

  19. Bad Comparison on Java Faster Than C++? · · Score: 1

    The code in the c++ examples is really pretty much the slowest implementation that could have been written. I suspect he used the absolute best java code he could, but used generic c++ code.

  20. Re:only 2 true 64' ranks in the world on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 1

    ouch, that had to hurt

  21. Re:Wireless on Dan Gillmor Reconsiders Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Um this is not off topic, did the person who marked this off topic actually *read the article*

  22. This is new? on A Motherboard That Doesn't Require An OS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My 3 year old toshiba laptop allows you to play audio off the memory card and cdrom with external play/next/last/stop buttons. It only requires a bootup of the os if you want to play dvds. I guess they went a step futher and allowed you to play a dvd, I cannot get to the site now to see :).

  23. Re:Can someone tell me.... on Intel Devises Chip Speed Breakthrough · · Score: 5, Funny

    Um, that might not be wise. If you try to overclock past the speed of light, I think that will cause a rift in the Time/Space Continuum. :P

  24. Re:Hubble:Obsolete :: You:Wrong on NASA to Reconsider Hubble Decision · · Score: 1

    >If $87 billion can be found for Imperial militarism,

    Nah, I think the money we spent giving terrorist harbouring countries hell is what cnn needs in order to have an interesting story now and then :P

  25. Re:Hubble:Obsolete :: You:Wrong on NASA to Reconsider Hubble Decision · · Score: 1

    Sounds like your country should pick up the tab and take over the care of hubble if you guys require the use of it so much. I am personally tired of people bitching and whining after we so called westerners build something and decide to stop maintaining it after years of use (or worse yet we have to finish building something after some other country fails to complete it, um panama canal for instance). Frankly our country is giving out so much of itself, that the citizens are starving on the streets or at least unemployed and getting there. . . take that money and give it to the poor in the USA. If the USA would have stopped holding countries hands years and have stopped bending over and taking it in the ass years ago, we would be much better off.