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  1. Re:Fear... on Jet Engine on a Chip · · Score: 1

    It's all fun until someone get sucked into their coat button!

  2. Re:Awesome on Could IM Be The Next Step For Google? · · Score: 1

    He's either harkening back to his childhood days learning how to use a calculator(type 5319009 then turn the calc upside down, ONLY works with a LCD readout of the calculator, not a calc on the computer, Unless you like turning your monitor upside down), or he is still a child and just learned the calculator.

    Then he was wondering why google didnt pick 316006 or 6006

  3. Re:My eyes are filling with tears for the labels.. on Wal-Mart Squeezing Record Labels to Cut CD Prices · · Score: 1

    Yes, The closest Walmart to me is to damn far away!

    Thank you California!

  4. Re:EBags on Advice On Notebook Backpacks? · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) Around $50 2) Functional enough to be used after my trip as a generic backpack 3) Tough enough to survive hauling through airport, yet comfortable enough to endure wearing for hours 4) Enough pockets for my chargers, cables , etc.

    Pick 3, You can never have it all, especially when price is one of the options. Its always to low

    I don't think I would trust any bag that cost $50 to protect my laptop, its one area that i spent a bunch of money and got a nice setup.

  5. Re:Is there a point? on Rehabilitating Damaged Laptops · · Score: 1

    Yeah everything he posted was pretty much common knowledge to me, no display? Hook up an external monitor and use it as a server.

    Join me with a collective, DUH.

    This should be on another forum not one geared toward self proclaimed hardware hackers, because this should be common knowledge.

  6. Re:Apple Section? Why? on RadioShark Is Vaporware No More · · Score: 1

    From the FAQ Section:
    "What file format does radioSHARK use to save recordings?

    The radioSHARK will record both AAC and AIFF files on the Mac. You can select which one you would like in the radioSHARK application."


    I tried to look for a definitive answer but i believe it is a MAC ONLY product at this time, hardware wise you might be able to plug it into a PC but software wise i think they only have a Mac version at the moment. PLEASE correct me if I am wrong, I would like to know if I can use this on my PC.

  7. Re:Still-Robin Hood Tactics. on BMI Reports All-Time Profit High Despite Piracy · · Score: 1

    google somehow seems to believe that a gig of storage would only cost then $7/year, that is 7 songs sold in 1 year to make the cost of that gig of storage of music viable... i think they can hold all the music if they just consulted google on how they did this for g-mail

  8. NO I didnt read the article on Software For Slackers: Lockout · · Score: -1, Troll

    How do you think I got First post?

    Shoot first, read later...

  9. How does one get around it? on Software For Slackers: Lockout · · Score: -1, Troll

    SO when you ABSOLUTELY HAVE to get on line what do you do?

    Can you change the settings or does it lock you out of that too?

  10. Re:The Bottom Line on Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released · · Score: 1

    I know, I was going to buy the X800XT-PE when it became available later this month, but I might as well go out and get the 6800 ultra now, WOOT!

  11. Re:Not so "absurd" on iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser · · Score: 1

    I'd also observe that banning guns, knives and toenail clippers from airplanes has done little to discourage hijacking.

    Please show me a case where a plane has been hijacked in the past few years after the much tighter rules?

    Just because some upstanding looking reporter has been able to get past a security checkpoint manned by someone who could care less what you do as long as they get their money every 2 weeks, doesn't mean that a plane has been hijacked.

  12. Re:Huh? on Commodore - Back In The Hardware Biz At Last? · · Score: 1

    Actually you got it REAL close with this statement

    "Is it something in another language (like vic means 20)"

    should have read,

    "Is it something in another language (VIC minus 20)"

    you see cause it's... funny, OH nevermind

  13. Re:too late... on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Actually T-bird was out before april 1, I get WAY MORE than 1gb of storage, I can have Multiple accounts without violating any TOS, I can Search Pretty easily through the mail, the Spam filter works pretty well for me too

    and best of all... I didnt have to be some blog junkie to get access to this beta

  14. How 'bout this on Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls · · Score: 1

    Do the ENTIRE office ceiling with the camera side.

    Then the bosses can sit at thier desks and scroll around the office looking down on everything.

    Kinda like Dungeon Keeper in real life!!!!
    Just be thankful that they cannot pick you up and feed you to some beasties.

    Or even, why can't I just use this to coat my cubicle walls and use them as my monitor, I'm seeing other uses for this fabric.

    Just hope the trench coat market doesnt get ahold of this, then flashers wont even need to open their coats, just flick the switch and you get a view of whats on the inside, INVISIBLE CLOTHING!!!! hey wait, why not just go nekkid.

  15. Re:Sarbanes Oxley Act on Flashing Back to the Dotcom Era: 24 Hour Dotcom · · Score: 1

    Enjoying Berlin

    A picture is worth a thousand words, but here are a few unless you don't understand. I believe that being in Berlin, they are in Germany. If that is the case then they have no worries about the SEC.

  16. We'll Never see it in the US on 'Cut and Paste' Is Out, 'Pick and Drop' Is In · · Score: 1

    Since they just cancelled sales of the Clie in the US and EU how are we supposed to "pick" a file from my PDA and "Drop" it on my friends Laptop?

    Before you go about saying that this will be used on all sorts of items, not just Sony Clie's, Let me point you to Sony's track record on coming up with innovative new stuff and having it widely adopted. Shall we run down the list?

    Beta
    Minidisc
    Memory Stick
    DVD Camcorder
    I'm sure there are Lots more, Sony makes everything under the sun in thier OWN version of products.

    they seem to be all about innovation, but innovation dies if no one adopts it.

  17. Re:not suprised on No $50 iPod Clone From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You got the hookup? send me a link.

  18. Does it Cache Immediately? on Freecache · · Score: 1

    If i put the page up does Freecache have to wait until Internet Archive caches it? or does it nab a copy of the cache right away...

    if it does then I propose that all posts of smaller sites hence forth should be freecached.

    anyone wanna second it? not that it will do any good.

  19. Re:Now we just need... on Jens Of Sweden MP3 Player With OLED, Ogg · · Score: 0

    I thought that it was Tom's Of Maine

    But they sell toothpaste... HMMMM maybe giving one away with a tube of toothpaste or something.

    Hell knows that everything these days is given out too easily, at my last job they gave out V.P. titles with Boxes of Tide it seemed

  20. yeah.... on Software To Stop Song Trading · · Score: 1

    I'll stick to Usenet

  21. Re:Fat cat on The Blues for LEDs · · Score: 0

    See there is a problem with being Technosexual.

    He has to figure out how to color coordinate those Blue LED's with the rest of his repitoir(sp? m-w.com couldn't figure it out).

  22. Re:Sounds fine to me on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not its completely feasable it was an mp3 server(it might not have been, but it could have been). Here is a breif history of the mp3

    It all started in the mid-1980s, at the Fraunhofer Institut in Erlangen, Germany, which began work on a high quality, low bit-rate audio coding with the help of Dieter Seitzer, a professor at the University of Erlangen. In 1989, Fraunhofer was granted a patent for MP3 in Germany and a few years later it was submitted to the International Standards Organization (ISO), and integrated into the MPEG-1 specification.

    Frauenhofer also developed the first MP3 player in the early 1990s, but it turned out to be a pretty underwhelming application. In 1997, a developer at Advanced Multimedia Products named Tomislav Uzelac created the AMP MP3 Playback Engine, which is regarded as the first prime-time MP3 player. Shortly after the AMP engine hit the Net, a couple of university students, Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev (who more recently created MacAMP), took the Amp engine, added a Windows interface and dubbed it "Winamp." In 1998, when Winamp was offered up as a free music player, the MP3 craze began: Music fiends all over the world started MP3 hubs, offering copyrighted music for free.


    I remember transferring mp3's via ZIP disc's at school and swapping ZIP's full of MP3's and that was the fall of 1996 and MP3's had been around for a while then.

    AAah the good old days of getting them off of usenet, Oh wait... I still do!

  23. Re:What I love about slashdot (Was: Re:Audiophile on Sake Used to Make Wooden Speakers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When most audiophiles speak of Hi-Fi, they are not speaking of the best speakers money can buy at Best Buy, they are speaking to the fact that there are speaker manufacturers out there that sell at places that you drive past all the time but dont know about because, you have to be looking for the type of audio to know that they sell stuff there that you couldn't possibly afford.(not speaking of YOU specifically)

    $550 wont even come close to buying me a center channel let alone a PAIR of low/Highend speakers

    I Personally prefer a good set of ESL's, I just like the sound.

  24. Re:DIY costumes on /., eh? on Make Your Own TRON Costume · · Score: 2, Informative

    WOW the quality of those costumes, Looks like SHIT... The guy in the Borg costume looks like he needs to take a crap, and most of the Predators costume looks like he used a really rough rasp to complete the final sanding on the pieces.

    I didn't bother looking at the grinch or the alien, I figured this person thought that the low lighting situations of trick or treating would be able to mask most of his CRAPPY workmanship. Sorry but I think I'll keep looking before I make anything from that guys site.

    If you want to see quality workmanship and GREAT how to's then check out Studio Creations Definitive How to the site seems to be having html issues at the moment tho.

  25. Re:oy on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    I wish you could have more than +5, I Fell on my ass laughing so hard at that observation, My G/F Couldn't understand the humor in it. But she isn't a geek