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  1. And here in lies the problem on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 1

    'at least not in the sense we are talking about'

    Well, at least not in the sense that 'your' talking about. You see different people have different views:
    my view is that the whole living dead thing is just a pile of shit, I'm no different from a stone when it comes down to the quantum level, so why should I elevate myself above the level of a stone.
    A fundamentalist Jews view is that the God created the earth, we are made in the image of God, you cannot eat or do anything unclean as per Leviticus and Deuteronomy 14 (that means don't eat shell fish, pork and no taking up the bum please).

    Now since most of 'western' culture is based on a mutated fundamentalist Jewish view and I'm not a fundamentalist Jew you would hardly expect me to be talking in the same sense as you.

    Now, I wonder does Bush eat pork and shell fish?

  2. Molecules cannot metabolize, grow, reproduce, or r on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What the fuck is this then.

    What it RNA, and What is DNA what are amino acids.

    They can grow, reproduce, and react with their environment.

    I should imagine that if you had a diamond and some carbon vapour you could make the diamond grow and not turn into graphite, nono-tubes grow and react.

    Don't forget that you've got a lot of viruses and bacteria living off of a corpse too.

    You could even argue that the frabirc of the universe is a living system. (well were part of is I suppose!)

  3. Re:Adult stem cells on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1: Actually I thought killing off the Jews (not that they killed that many though, they mostly ran away) was one of the better ideas of the Nazi party.

    The middle east would be safer, there would be less wankers in the US government. etc...

    2: So kill the embryo, problem solved. The chemestry of a dead body will change too so I'll call it alive.

    Jesus freeks, that's what's wrong with Bush.

  4. shift in software development ? on Torvalds Dubbed Most Influential Executive of 2004 · · Score: 1

    I'd say shift in society.

    P2P, blurred distribution.
    The Internet, blurred countries.
    OpenSource, blurred company definitions.
    Working from home, blurred office space.

    The problem is that there are an hell of a lot of fat cats (and governments) who don't want to see this kind of level playing field (it's not good for business), or maybe don't even realise whats happening.

    Personally I believe that this kind of 'community' working approach is the only way to reduce waste to a sustainable level.

  5. Don't pump water? on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Couldn't you pump something that didn't pick up quite so much shit and have a big head exchange at the top to heat the water.
    That would solve one of the problems.

  6. Sorry all out of sperm. on Buggy Voting Machines · · Score: -1

    Didn't get to read the artical, I had a bit of a late night and won't be upto it for a wihle.

    Anyhow, I think there talking about the /. poll being a good, tried and tested way of taking votes.

  7. What's in a thousand years? on 3D Biometric Facial Recognition Comes To UK · · Score: 1

    England hasn't had a land invasion for a thousand years(ish), America hasn't had a land invasion for a hell of a long time and nor has Australia. I don't see how they can tell us that were constantly under threat.

    The countries that do stand up for the rights of there inhabitents have been invaded by people seen to be opressors (or have been governed by them).

    I think our governments are starting to feel imortal, and trying to make sure they stay that way.

  8. Cool, on Steve Ballmer's $100 PC, Sans Windows · · Score: 1

    in car mp3 player here we come.
    I think the 10what vesion should be good enough to play mp3s.

  9. don't forget on Steve Ballmer's $100 PC, Sans Windows · · Score: 1

    You can use battery backed up sdram for home and do a backup onto your flash device to reduce the number of writes.

  10. Re:ati & nvidia release old specs? on Open Source Graphic Card Project Seeks Experts · · Score: 1

    there are still a lot of low spec embeded cards chipsets. And if nasa need a chipset they'll pick one that's old and tested

  11. Re:This is not Speak n Spell on MS Seeks To Patent Education-Feedback Software · · Score: 1

    I've got some pre December 23, 2003 pior art that must be archived on the internet somewhere.

    The idea was using a tablet to help improve handwriting. The student would write (anything, so unstructured) and the tablet would work out how they were holding the pen and forming the letters.

    This could then be fedback to the student or teacher, or structured exercises could be produced to help correct the specific problems in letter formation and writing.

  12. a cheap way to buy individual tracks ? on UK Music Industry Sees Record Sales · · Score: 1

    ITunes is anything but cheap.
    You don't actually buy a track from ITunes, you buy a license to listen to the track on a single IPod.

    This is because DRM prevents you from making a copy of the track, and when the track is out of copyright DRM prevents you from putting it into the public domain.

    I would estimate the cost of this license to be approximately 1/10 of the cost of buying a track, which would work out at about 10-20cents.

    Now 10Cents would be cheap, so ITunes is at least 10times more expensive than cheep.

  13. Promotion on Failed Win XP Upgrade Wipes Out UK Government Agency · · Score: 1

    The problem is that people get promoted until they can no longer do the job well enough to get promoted any more.
    So your left with a lot of people in jobs they can't do.

  14. Re:Hydrogen is not the answer on Fuel Cell Powered Scooter · · Score: 1

    You did, before prohibition.
    One for the car, and one for me, one for the car and one for me. not the best drink driving campain.

  15. Moonshine. on Fuel Cell Powered Scooter · · Score: 1

    Before prohibition farms used to run on moonshine, it's easy to produce, is green and doesn't have any nasty biproducts.

  16. Re:HUD / glasses on New LCD Flatscreen Concept: A Wedge of Plastic · · Score: 1

    I can have larger projectors head mounted than laptop mounted and the ratio finalsize/projectorsize is far better for head mounts.

    The problem may be one of size and not weight, in which case HUD's could be a lot easier than laptop displays.

  17. Re:Well.. on Intel Helping Asia to Use Linux · · Score: 1

    Well according the there web site it was the first commercial distribution to be compiled with the Intel compiler. spooky.
    Thet've also get some more on Linux in Asia

  18. What came first. on Google Muscles Into Microsoft's Turf · · Score: 1

    The libraries of the OS?

    Now I woudln't call a set of libraries an operating system, and I'm sure that most operating systems re-use libraries that have been written before, so from the point of view of an OS either god created the libraries, or they arn't written from scratch.

  19. Re: impoverishing hundreds on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    'time to think about it and come up with good plans.'

    Well, any plan is better than none, most OSS project fail because, well we've got time to some up with a good plan...

    We already have replacements.
    That is, we already have electric cars: Where does the electricity come from?

    nuclear:
    We have a nuclear facility in the UK that recycles fuel, beacuse there ain't that much about.

    solar:
    Yeh, right, at what logditudes?

    wind power:
    Kill those birds baby, still you won't be able to have a hot coffee in the morning (if there is any coffee that is).

    People are always going to act in their self-interest:

    Like who, Nelson Mandella, Mother teressa? Linus torvals? It may be there 'self interest' but it's a hell of a lot of other peoples too. Just beacuse everyone else appears to be greedy and biggeted to you doesn't mean that you shouldn't set a good example. Selfishness shouldn't be encouraged, since being selfish is the oposite of being social how the hell can it ever be for the good of society.

    books and religions:
    Ok, I'm not at all religious, I think that anyone that is needs there head looking at, maybe there mum forgot to tell them that god came in the same package that brought us the tooth fairy and santa.
    All that I was saying is that there are authentic texts over a thousand years old and the mention exactly the same situations, so it's hard to see how we have 'progressed'

  20. Re:How about a tick. on FireFox Sets the World Ablaze · · Score: 1

    You are about to enter a secure site.... you are about to leave a secure site, you are about to post data to....

    or, yo uhave requested an encrypted page, the site has identified it's self.....
    and the site is...
    https://update.mozilla.org/critical/firefox /2004-1 0-01.html

    yipiee, people still use the browser though.

  21. Re:Most people think.... on Torvalds Dubbed Most Influential Executive of 2004 · · Score: 1

    ok, two points.

    it's a bit of a play on words, If you know something it it the truth, if you 'think' it then it probably isn't.

    If everyone told me that 1+1=3 and yet i know that 1+1=2 I will tell them that 1+1 =2 no matter what they think, so I shall use the aggreed upon meaning of the word Executive no matter what the 24/7 Fox'es think.

  22. Gameplay = Fat? on Game Industry Derided For Mature Content · · Score: 1

    Jesus, you've brought it hook line a sinker.
    1: Working in an office makes you fat, so sue your imployer for not making you do manual labour.
    2: Don't east do much you fat fucks.

  23. Re:CG aint that good. on Using Computers To Weed Out Art Fakes · · Score: 1

    I agree the images were a bit too small, it was hard looking for repeated detail patterns in the chairs, especially with whatever lead upto the sky looking so fake.

    Most of the others were easy,
    too soft, the noise was to continuous, to clean, strange focus and floor.
    v.s. a fluffy chess set (I'd like to see a cg of that though), natural grass with the golf ball, if you look at the nails there's a bit of extra shadow where they meet the wood and haven't been banged in quite straight. No amount of filters would be able to reproduce that kind of natural feel. (preprogrammed noise would though!).

  24. CG aint that good. on Using Computers To Weed Out Art Fakes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try this found in one of the papers.

    If you know what to look for you should get a ten out of ten on your first go, and there is no way you'd be able to apply a 'filter' to get realistic results on the CG images.

    I found the nails, screws images hardest, the others were strightforward, look at the depth of field and the detail on the nail/screw head.

    The bonus round's a little harder, mainly becauase they've picked very CG looking images, not realy a good add for 'realism' in maya.

  25. $5000 / 73" projection TV on Massive Multiplayer Gaming Warehouses On The Way · · Score: 1

    Or you can make one for a tenth the price, with a projector a mirror and a screen.
    It may not be te best projection screen in the world, but it should be just about ok.