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  1. Re:Sweden digging fiber on 100 Mbps Community Fiber Network: Howto · · Score: 1

    Yes, I aspire to it all the time, unfortunately I live out in the sticks where the best connection I can get is 48kbps. And that's on a raelly good day. Broadband service doesn't come withing 20 miles of my house, and DSL stops before it gets past the suburbs of the Twin Cities. It sucks.

  2. Re:Old Game? on Loki Goes Postal · · Score: 1

    Umm... IIRC Postal was banned throughout the US and maybe other countries as well. After playing it I completely understood why it would be banned.

  3. The worst one is... on File Extensions And Monopolies · · Score: 1
    Ultra Edit, I have NOTHING good to say about this product. It auto-associates anything that has ASCII code (including html, .cpp, .pl, .java, files etc.), and it won't give it back without a fight. Sure, you can manually change the extension back, but if you start it again it will simply switch them back without asking. It just takes a bit longer to load. It's not like it's a good program anyway.

    The problem is that at my work everyone sees to think it's such a great program that Novell always sticks the shortcut on my desktop. Every day I delete it, every day it comes back. Soon I'll be able to permenently remove it from my system as I'm going to be in charge of the Novell servers. Then I shall get my revenge. I'll use VI to edit the "text" of the .exe so it can never harm another soul.
    MUWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

  4. Re:Pentium 5 on Intel Promises A Cool Billion (Transistors) · · Score: 1

    ...proccessor still having trouble with running Quake 3 in 1600x1200 resolution...

  5. Re:Own power supply on Intel Promises A Cool Billion (Transistors) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe just a way of converting the heat back into power for, say the tubine that cools it, or even recylce the power by sticking thermlecouples all over the heatsink and pluging it back into the power supply.
    Doing this might also prevent the otherwise inevitable brownouts caused by more than one person on your block running the Px 20 GHz Proc. (or just blowing circuit breakers by running a vacuum in the house).

  6. Re:PS2 vs DC on Java On Dreamcast Forges On · · Score: 1

    I don't think any of the PS2 graphics are better than the DC. Look at DOA2 and compare. The PS2 doesn't even hold a candle to it!! Heck, the control-structure is even better on the DC. The problem is that I MUST play GT3, so a PS2 is required... sigh...

  7. It's gone too far! on Java On Dreamcast Forges On · · Score: 1

    Can't.. play... Sonic... MUST BROWSE... Inter...net... aaagghh!!! so, how long before I can check my e-mail with my SNES?

  8. Don't Worry on Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Tonight · · Score: 1

    Nature has a way of doing these things...
    Soon, the Ig Nobel prizes won't be needed. That is, once some more Darwin awards are handed out.

  9. Blessid Union of Souls on Yahoo Serious Fights Yahoo! trademark · · Score: 1

    "Hey Leo! She likes me for me!"
    I'm not as much of a fan of pop-rock as I used to be, but I seem to recall that excuse-for-an-actor DiCaprio(TM) Trademarked his name after this song hit the charts a few years back. Of course, I may be wrong.
    Kinda off-topic, but it's not the first time somebody did this.

  10. Well... on Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft == Anti-Terrorist Device? · · Score: 1

    I'm no expert, but I have messed around with burning hydrogen before, and even though it doesn't burn as hot as jet fuel (propane, right?), it does have other problems. Considering that it would be in liquid form in the cells, when/if one broke open, the hydrogen would expand so fast that all the oxygen in the imediate area would be gone. Not to mention a MUCH more forcefull explosion.
    It just seems to me that the initial explosion would put out a greater shockwave and deal more destruction.
    This knowledge comes from my childhood experiance of taking slightly compressed hydrogen/oxygen and using it to propell potateos. It always went farther than anything else I used (propane, gas fumes, ether, etc.). Just my one and two-thirds cents.

  11. New functionality on StarOffice 6.0 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Will 6 have grammerchecking? This is the only beef I ever had with SO. Well, that and I never really enjoyed waiting for the SO desktop to load just so I could start working on one of my documents. Other than that, I love StarOffice.

  12. Here here! on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    Huzah!, horay, AMEN!

  13. Re:Looks like another Sci-Fi wannabe show on Star Trek: Enterprise Premieres Tonight · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but she sucked major patoot. Worf could have rocked her any day. It was the dawn of a new era because they didn't do any more original series-type shows anymore.

  14. Re:USAToday Review on Star Trek: Enterprise Premieres Tonight · · Score: 1

    Be that as it may, but does UPN ever come out with good shows of it's own. I can't remember any off the top of my head (aside from the Star Trek's it produces, IMO they're all great, it's just that Voyager was not nearly as great as, well any of them).
    Still, I'll be recording the show tonight.

  15. Re:Spoken like a true lamer "d00d" on Colleges Work To Block Net in Class · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if they really want to waste thier time, they shouldn't go to class. Odds are, if they get credit for attendence, and all they do is surf, then they probably aren't getting that credit.

  16. Wireless temporary lan. on Colleges Work To Block Net in Class · · Score: 1

    A buddy of mine ordered some transmitter/reciever modules for about 20 bucks each. He hooked them up to on of the ports on his Dell and after a bit of coding we had a wireless chat network in our Assembly code class. It was either that, or sleep.

  17. Re:RPM for the people? on FreeBSD Ports for GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    Okay, before I get flamed for such a wierd number, I didn't even think about doing the math for this. Let's see then. 20*1024*1024/60/60/24/3 =~ 81 days. Close enough...

  18. Re:RPM for the people? on FreeBSD Ports for GNU/Linux · · Score: 1
    Or 200+ years on a 56K modem. Ugh... living in the sticks (or somewhere past them) realy does suck for geeks.

  19. Ladies and Gentlemen on Anticircumvention Laws Seen as Threat to Science · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Behold the technological dark-ages.

    It seems that people are getting too cocky, stubborn, and selfish to allow people to use thier ideas.
    This reminds me a lot of the general patent holders who don't say a word until they are completely sure they can make no more money off of another company.
    Research will be harder and harder to legally perform, and people will not want to do it any more. Technology advances will be a thing of the past. We won't even get to watch movies because we'll have to pay to decrypt them!

    I think it will soon be time to go crawl into a cave with a pizza and a knife.

  20. Marketing Basics on Why Google Rocks And An IPO · · Score: 1

    One of the first things you learn about in marketing and advertisment is that word of mouth is invaluble. I've used Google for a long time (it's my homepage), and I always find what I'm looking for.

  21. Re:Percentage Opposed To Secrets on Poll Says Most Americans Favor Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that a majoraty people who are taking these poles do not understand the ramafications of what they're saying. Even though everone is equal in a vote, I don't think that this should be so in cases like this.
    The pole should read, "Would you like your privacy invaded to feel safer?" I think we would get some different reactions.

  22. Ahh... Memories on Ultima 1 Remade & Reborn · · Score: 1
    I loved Bard's tale! We had it on our old IIGS and it absolutly rocked. I wasn't even 12 years old and I was hooked on RPGs... on the other hand, I never could find the level-up sage guy in the first one.
    I used to have a monk named Fried-Tuck!

  23. Bay of Pigs on A New Kind of War · · Score: 1

    We sent in tons of Cubans to fight for us... That was short-lived. People from other countries don't fight for the US with the same zeal that Americans will... even when fighting for their home. If we want to use their troops, then either we must arm and heavily train them, or we have to do ourselves.

  24. Re:I don't understand the relevance. on Apple Cancels Apple Expo 2001 · · Score: 1

    A lot of people would have to fly from the US to France in order to get to the expo. Many are still in fear that another plane could be hijacked.

  25. Re:Y2K bug disaster on Y2K Bug Blamed For Miscalculated Down Syndrome Risk · · Score: 1

    I believe it said that 150 mothers were correctly diagnosed, while the four weren't (I'm not sure about the 150, if they aborted or not). Out of the four only two came to term, the others were thrown away like so much unwanted garbage. It really does make me feel sick.