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  1. Still... on Dolly the Sheep Alive Again · · Score: 1

    Still, she never calls.

  2. Re:Except it isn't 3D... on The Joke Known As 3D TV · · Score: 1

    This will never be in a movie theater. How will that work? 300 people in a room with no chairs (so they can walk around), everybody constantly moving and bumping in to each other to find the best spot. You're on one side and someone on another side laughs - at what? Everyone rushes over there to see. How distracting, like a mosh pit or something. No, I want to sit still in my chair and have the main points displayed to me. I don't want to wonder if the guy 10 feet from me is seeing a different movie. I can see what you are saying about moving your head slightly and seeing parallax change but I'm talking sight head movement. Not 'Real' 3d.

  3. Control on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 1

    You need to have control, and lots of it. Everybody, everything. Have loudspeakers that constantly blast out things like "This is the control room, baby! Let's have some control here!". Hire some dude to stand around with his arms crossed just staring at people. Occasionally he asks "What the heck do you think you are doing, mister?", then nods sternly and wanders off.

  4. Why should I care? on What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA? · · Score: 1

    Since I am not planning on commiting a crime why should I care if they have my DNA? The argument that lab mistakes could result in a false arrest seems silly to me. How could this happen? They computerize the DNA analysis once and them compare the numbers with the new sample. Unless I don't understand the process it seems there is no way for contamination to occur. The only other valid reason if you are planning on commiting a crime. Anything else is just being hysterical.

  5. Re:My GrandFather... on Atomic Veterans Speak Out · · Score: 1

    Same for my father. He was on the closest ship, on the deck, closest to the blast. The Navy's advice? Turn around and close your eyes. They had him go around and pick up water samples with a metal pipe he kept in his shop for months afterwards. Died at 82 of Parkinson's disease. But my third arm never bothers me.

  6. STL on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    In my mind this is one of the problems with the C++ standard template library. It's too hard to do figure out how do do some simple things.

  7. Been going on for a while on AOL Employee Arrested in Spam Scheme · · Score: 1

    I have been a member of CompuServe since before AOL bought them. Never got Spam from anyone. Never got mail from anyone I didn't know. One month after AOL bought CompuServe I started getting spam, and AOL started saying they never sold there customer lists. Someone has been lying for a while.

  8. Dual Boot Raid on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    Suppose one wanted a home machine with Windows XP Pro and some Linux/BSD variant. Are there any software/hardware solutions for that configurations? Does a raid array have to be dedicated to a single OS?

    I am supposed to have raid supported on my motherboard (Highpoint, I believe) but my version is not supported by any Linux version.

  9. Re:Who needs this? on Lockheed's High Altitude Airship · · Score: 1

    You would like it closer, perhaps?

  10. Zeptogram? on Weighing An Attogram · · Score: 3, Funny

    The zeptogram was never as popular as the grouchogram. People only use it because it's better looking.

  11. Re:why such a delay? on Nobel Prize for Medicine For MRI · · Score: 1

    Many physicists consider the prize to be a reward for a significant body of work, and they pick the highlight of the lifetime of work as the reason. Not too many physicists have one than one really 'brilliant' moment.

  12. Oh Yes... on The Star Wars Alphabet Project · · Score: 1

    And now the women will come. Oh yes, the women will come.

  13. Quality will be rewarded in the end on "Quick 'n Dirty" vs. "Correct and Proper"? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I always assume that code that can be easily maintained (which is the assumed outcome of following the process) will be cheaper and more appreciated in the end. It might be better to examine what is happening at the company when you are consistently left without enough time do it the correct way. Of course, if management is composed of morons (Could this actually happen?) you might not be left with any choice.

  14. Z and Math-Phobic clients on Are You Using Z-Notation to Validate Your Software? · · Score: 1

    I looked at Z for a while, but I had a problem with how closely it resembled mathematics. I thought about the momement when I would present a Z specification to a typical client and could not imagine them using it. I would think that they would always go for the text description.
    After all, it's the end user who is supposed to approve what you are doing and the typical user is probably someone who avoided algebra in high-school at all costs. Their eyes would glaze over at any mathematics at all. Only the programmers would use it.

    Of course I supposed that the text could be could be generated from the Z - but how clean would that look?