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  1. Re:What business does a player on Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features · · Score: 1

    Umm, how about a video-chat client? Most of the IM clients have that ability these days. Why you'd want to write one in flash I dunno, but someone might.

  2. Re:Ominous on Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's basically like cookies.

    And you have the option to disable it on a per-site basis. Seems pretty aboveboard to me...

  3. Re:The age-old debate... on IDE, SCSI And Recording Everything · · Score: 1

    Aahh, yes DB-25 was what I meant to say. I was also thinking of BGA (ball grid array). Its late, nevermind...

  4. Re:The age-old debate... on IDE, SCSI And Recording Everything · · Score: 1

    saying "Hey let's use FPGA as a storage device" is like saying "Lets use 25 Pin DIN as a processor."

    Its just a device package (and physical spec. of how to connect it.)

  5. Re:10,000? on Cells From Liposuction Function As Stem Cells? · · Score: 1

    Since when was 100cc == 1 Litre?

    1cm^3 == 1cc

    10cm^3 == 1 litre

    so 1000cc == 1 litre

  6. Re:Sleep and dreams... on Provigil Extends Your Day? · · Score: 1

    "those who got 8 or more hours tended to die a little younger"

    ... Maybe they had sickness / depression / etc. which caused them to sleep longer and also die sooner.

    In that case, sleep would be a symptom rather than a cause.

  7. Re:Aren't they a little late to the party? on First, WinModems. Now, WinWiFi. · · Score: 1

    But why say, "people who buy low-end laptops expect to have poorer battery life. So, lets just compensate for any advances in processor power usage by making it work harder most of the time."

    Isn't it better to think about ways to get the entire system to use less power overall? I mean, I'd definitely like an x86 laptop with the power/weight/battery life ratio of an Apple tiBook without paying an arm and a leg for it.

  8. Re:This isn't necessarily evil... on First, WinModems. Now, WinWiFi. · · Score: 1

    If some linux company pioneered this ...

    ... Then they'd probably publish the full specs and the source for the refrence driveres under the [insert your favorite] license.

    Is MS going to do this? Yeah, right. Therein lies that difference.

  9. Re:Aren't they a little late to the party? on First, WinModems. Now, WinWiFi. · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of users buying new computers are just wasting a mammoth amount of CPU anyway

    Except that one of the largest uses of WiFi is in laptops and most of those are using a "mobile" processor that throttles back to reduce power usage...

  10. Re:Feature bloat ahead on First, WinModems. Now, WinWiFi. · · Score: 1

    Do you know what's inside a apple "airport" basestation? A fairly standard Lucent 802.11b PCMCIA card. I do agree though that their "software" base station is a nice thing to have - even if its little more than a network bridge.

  11. Awesome! on Slashback: Favoritism, Alternacy, Moo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gotta Love it...

  12. Re:This isn't a wireless monitor on Wireless Monitors? · · Score: 1

    But everything else you have to run through Citrix or RDP, whatever...

  13. Re:Obligatory... on Cray's New Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    if you were looking for shared storage for your 1000 node cluster - yeah... You'd need a separate gigabit network just for your storage...

  14. Re:ummm. . . no on Cray's New Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    You think they have a PCI card to connect this to your computer?!?!? (Maybe it's a 64bit 66mhz one, no?)

  15. Respected? on Time Travel · · Score: 1

    Except he has kept silent about his goals for oh all of 20+ years... Only now that he's become "respected", does he go public with this idea. ;)

    That being said, I believe time travel *will* be invented/discovered *some time*, but I'm not holding my breath.

  16. Re:Or how about GoToMyPC on The State of Remote Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I believe that it uses port 80 and since both the "server" and "client" connect out to a central server (the data is encrypted too) is what enables it to get around inbound filtering and NAT issues.

  17. Or how about GoToMyPC on The State of Remote Desktops? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not free but it has windows and Java clients, it gets around firewalls pretty well and aparently has really good compression/speed.
    gotomypc.com

  18. Re:Where are the real physics engines? on 7 Years of 3D Graphics · · Score: 1

    "Physics specalized processors?"

    PS2?

  19. Re:There are a few places you can't -- Not quite on Hitachi Demos Water-Cooled Notebooks · · Score: 1

    My dad has a pair of surplus US airforce boots with the same design - air surround and a little pressure relief valve. Quite Neat.

  20. Re:Aliens and caffine... on Slashdot Ghost Stories? · · Score: 1

    yeah - stop some time and take a closer look at them - a couple dozen high-intensity green LEDs. my town is slowly putting in these everywhere - pretty cool.

  21. Re:Are they looking at normally still settings? on Large-Scale Video Archiving? · · Score: 1

    But maybe it's not a casino as well - maybe it's all of London?!?

    Anyway, talking to these people may be of interest, the Shoah Foundation has an online/nearline video archive containing 15+ years of footage. I'll bet that they would be willing to talk to you about it. (Their CTO is a friend of mine.)

  22. CDR? on New DVD Recorder With 52 hours Of HDD Recording Time · · Score: 1

    it sure looks like the lable edge of the case says "CDR-74" on it...

  23. Re:2.5G /3G on 2.5G Services Start Trial Run In Seattle · · Score: 1

    no, actually it stands for Generation. The reason for the 2 1/2 generation thing is like addresses they already were calling the next stuff 3G and then came out with something in the middle and therefore called it 2.5 generation.

  24. Motherboards w/ lotsa slots. on Motherboards With More Slots Sought · · Score: 1

    Tyan has some good boards with plenty of slots. I have a dual PIII board from them with 1 AGP 6 PCI 1 ISA onboard dual channel Adaptec Ultra2 SCSI, onboard Intel 10/100, and onboard sound (I have it disabled) Killer.

    They also have boards for Athlon: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/athlon.html

  25. Re:This is all standard stuff on Astronomers Revel In Former NSA Site · · Score: 1

    It is, there is a compound down the street from me that used to be Ronald Regan's "Western Whitehouse", basically, secret services, intelligence HQ while he was on his Ranch in Southern California. Now it's a technology incubator. But it has the double walls, white noise, RF shielding, TEMPEST rooms, and one of my clients servers are CoLo'd in what was once the vault. That's a trip, opening the vault to do server maintenance.