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  1. Re:God forbid on Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come · · Score: 1

    What if baby elephants attack and we need to stop them from dropping a rock on us?

  2. Re:Shiny things? on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 1

    What about encasing all the skin panels of the plane in a stasis field. That should work.

    How to join panels inside a stasis field, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.

  3. Re:Kevlar on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Ouzo?

  4. Re:missing the point on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    That's an unnatural disaster.

  5. Re:missing the point on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Back in 2004, after third hurricane of the year in Fla, I found a natural disaster map of the U.S. with types of disasters and probability. Ended up moving to just east of Albuquerque, NM. The only thing mapped to where I'm at is minor chance of volcanism. I think I can live with that.

  6. Re:Idle? on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Put bathtubs over the windows and cover your mattress with wallpaper?

  7. Re:IE on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 1

    Never said unique to Mac; is just a common example that most folks might be familiar with.

    Shows up when you close a document window in a Mac app and the mac stays running. Pisses some folks off.

  8. Re:IE on Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9 · · Score: 1

    That goes back to basic windows application handling. In Windows, each window is basically a running process. Compare this to Mac where an application can run one, multiple or no windows.

  9. Re:Idle? on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Fully reflected on to the item making the impact. It's called Flubber.

  10. Re:Vector vs Raster graphics on 1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    I wrote a vector line drawing app on my Ti 99/4A back in '83. You'd enter a double column of x,y coordinates (start and stop point of line) and it'd then draw it to screen. I did that all in basic when I was 15. Never did get around to figuring out how to view the layout from different angles.

  11. Re:I used one of those on 1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    Bleah! I was a cart-tech and dig-tech for about 6 years. If I never sit at a digitizing table or look at a Nat'l Wetlands Survey map again, that's fine by me!

  12. Re:Firefly sucks on 1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    V is better.

  13. Re:Dials for manipulating 3D objects on 1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    Griffin Technology's PowerMate USB Multimedia Controller.

  14. Re:This is all I've got to say about this. on Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding · · Score: 1

    Folks on the inside know that the house of cards is coming down and are grabbing all that they can while they can?

  15. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Klipschorn. Yeah, they're kinda' expensive, and not the most comfortable of head phones (kinda' heavy) but man, the sound, the SOUND!

  16. Re:Methodology fads on Becoming Agile · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I sucked at the half pipe. So much re-compiling.

  17. Re:Censorship is BAD, m'kay? on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    Don't forget how Carmageddon 2 demonized British drivers. Or was it zombies?

  18. Re:100 Million? on 100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018 · · Score: 1

    I prefer Caesar's work with LoA temps.

  19. Re:This is why I don't send money to Cupertino on Psystar Crushed In Court · · Score: 1

    Weird. I've installed several scsi drives on my Quadra 650. The latest one, a 2 GB model was scavenged from a Compaq Proliant RAID box. I think this one, I just mounted in an external case first, formatted and then dragged and dropped the contents of the older internal drive on to it. I then powered down, installed and fired up. Still working fine, all these years later.

  20. Re:Psystar winning would be terrible for Microsoft on Psystar Crushed In Court · · Score: 1

    MS probably figures XP is more of a threat than Apple.

  21. Re:ego on Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment · · Score: 1

    Sarcastically?

  22. Re:new york times on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 1

    Yup, my iPhone loses signal at my driveway and I don't care. Am through dealing with Verizon and their disabling of phone tech except through their services. Screw them!

  23. Re:The beating heart... on openSUSE 11.2 Released · · Score: 1

    OpenSUSEbsd?

  24. Re:Comments on Your Opinion Counts At CNN — But Should It? · · Score: 1

    Now, if they could tabulate all this input and put up some pretty graphs and allow folks to twit in the questions as well as the answers...

    I'm at the bar and there's this hot chick I can hook up with but my friend says he heard she's a clingy skank. Should I go for it? She has a tat on her forehead and her back's pierced and laced.

  25. Re:ego on Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Jack Thompson as Ronald McDonald would be scary.