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  1. Re:Looks cool ... on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I don't recall Vader's "pod" existing in the first movie.

    Wasn't one. He was just shown regaining control over his spinning TIE fighter and flying off.

  2. Re:I was hoping for a rickroll on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hamill aren't a good actor.

    Wasn't one, maybe. He grew. As far as I'm concerned, his voice acting in the Dini animated Batman is *still* the definitive take on the classic Joker.

  3. Re:Doubtful on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 1

    No, Klaus really was German. Born near Bonn, actually.

  4. Re:IE turns 15... on Internet Explorer Turns 15 · · Score: 1

    Yup; however, IE8 gives you "compatibility mode" for that.

    Yes, they do. And a lot of the time, it doesn't work.

  5. Re:IE turns 15... on Internet Explorer Turns 15 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why would people continue to use IE6?

    In a large number of cases, because its a corporate machine where the corporation has a critical webapp that breaks when you try to run it on anything other than IE6. There's a LOT corporations out there like that.

  6. Re:Uh huh on 'u' — the First Authentic Klingon Opera On Earth · · Score: 1

    Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

  7. Re:Summer - Winter on Data Disasters More Likely To Strike In Summer · · Score: 1

    But they'll spring him soon.

  8. Re:Why sometimes astrophysicists are dumb on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. It makes no statement at all as to what frame of reference is used. Now, if she had said, "it would take *you* 4.5 years to get there," she would have indeed made the mistake you are claiming. But she didn't say that.

  9. Re:All your eggs... on EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game · · Score: 1

    There's no mail service in EvE. If you want object A to move from station B to station C, you're going to have to carry it there, or have another player do it for you. PLEX can only be used when it's in your personal hanger in the station you are currently in. So let's say you have a bunch of PLEX you're going to sell to another player. Other player is in a region far from where your PLEX is and doesn't want to come over there. If you want to sell him your PLEX, you're going to have to haul it to where he is as part of the deal.

  10. Re:Why sometimes astrophysicists are dumb on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nowhere in that statement does she say it is. There's a second quote further on which could be taken together with this to imply, kinda, that she was making the statement from the traveler's perspective, but it's far from clear, and, I also think, "Which is more likely, the physicist doesn't know basic relativity or the reporter botched it and gave quotes out of context?" The question pretty much answers itself.

  11. Re:I submit this possibility on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 1

    Ack! Get out of my head, Styopa! I was thinking of _Inherit the Stars_ the whole time I was posting that reply. Another SF take on this is the Traveller role-playing game, where the so-called "Ancients" used Earth genetic stock (including humans) to seed experiments, sometimes modified, all over the galaxy, resulting in many independent human races scattered everywhere, as well some things more odd (such as the Vargr, derived from Earth canine stock).

  12. Re:Why sometimes astrophysicists are dumb on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, it depends on what frame of reference you're measuring from.

  13. Re:I submit this possibility on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's always been an intriguing thought, but the fact is, the evidence that homo sapiens evolved from native primate species here on Earth is quite clear, and grows clearer with each passing year.

  14. Re:In other news, HP sex Scandal == Push other new on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    Proving P!=NP to distract from a scandal would be amazing. *Claiming* to have proven P!=NP to distract from a scandal, on the other hand, is easy. The paper has not gotten any peer review yet and they're already issuing press releases? Smells fishy.

  15. Re:What? on Building the Zero-Fatality Car · · Score: 1

    SPOILER ALERT

    It was gravity. Specifically, when you orbited too close to a neutron star, the gravity well gradient became so steep that the tidal stresses pulled you apart. The puppeteers paid him off, not because he'd discovered a weakness in the GP hull, but because he used the fact that the puppeteers hadn't figured it out for themselves to deduce that the puppeteers didn't have a ready feel for the concept of tides and that would be because the puppeteer home world, the location of which the puppeteers regard as their most closely held secret, had no moon. The puppeteers paid him off big time not to divulge that clue to their home world's location.

  16. Re:What's so special about a Grandfather clock? on Swinging Robot Excels At Wall-Climbing · · Score: 1

    Well, yes. Other kinds of pendulums would be torsion pendulums, or orbital pendulums, and so on.

  17. Yes, but... on Swinging Robot Excels At Wall-Climbing · · Score: 1

    ...can it spin a web, any size? Or catch crooks, just like flies?

  18. Re:Small but maybe significant differences? on Chess Ratings — Move Over Elo · · Score: 1

    Pointless. Every official ELO rating is (and any rating system that replaces will be) calculated off 50% games as White and 50% games as Black because officially rated games are played in tournaments and matches in which each player is assigned an equal number of games as each. Since every ELO rating has the same White/Black ratio, there is no "bias" from one rating to the next to be corrected for.

  19. Re:I guess... on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    As far as I know there has never been a show that had the actual FBI symbol.

    "The FBI, in color. A Quinn-Martin Production"

  20. Dwarf support for renewables? on Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support For Renewables · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about elf support?

  21. Re:Solution to theft on If You Don't Want Your Car Stolen, Make It Pink · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Is that a screwdriver in your hand or are you just happy to see me?"

  22. The spokesman went on to deny... on Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that Microsoft had told them that if they continued to market Linux PCs, they would, quote, "rip them a new one", unquote.

  23. Re:Curious on PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? · · Score: 1

    What 360 game supports a mouse?

    Final Fantasy XI. Not that you'd want to use it, since the mouse interface in FFXI is horrid.

  24. Re:Not a surprise on PC Gamers Too Good For Consoles Gamers? · · Score: 1

    Its not a surprise because its been done. Twice.

    Three times. Final Fantasy XI keeps PS2, Xbox360 and PC players all on the same servers. Console players have not been WTFpwned the was they were in FPSes, but still have a reputation of being a lower grade, with notable exceptions. Particularly interesting in that the game was originally a PS2 title, and it shows (the game is best played with a game controller, and the mouse controls are hopeless).

  25. Re:Figures on Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, Kodachrome film still exists, albeit all of it has already been developed.

    I severely doubt that. I doubt that even all of it has been exposed. Just because the last roll made has been developed doesn't mean that there aren't earlier rolls still unused.