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  1. Re:Professionally? on Google Maps Now Cover Whole World · · Score: 1

    You mean like this:
    http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm

    or maybe this:
    http://nationalatlas.gov/

    Or is that not enough?
    I know they're not overly professional, but it's still not bad for something free to the public available through an internet browser.

  2. Re:It goes something like this: on Why Don't Companies Release Specs? · · Score: 1

    Can't say I've ever let the certification warning bother me. I get the drivers from the manufacturer. It say's they're good for the operating system. I install them. The work. Seems like some pretty big name hardware vendors don't have them certified too.

  3. Re:It's all about the droids on 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH · · Score: 1

    Nice. Wish I had some mod points for you.

  4. Re:OT: SimCity on Google Map Hack & Chicago Crime Data · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who knows, but I can't wait to be able to check out my land value, my water coverage, my electric coverage, my air polution, all through the handy interface of google maps!

  5. Re:Tragic on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: 1

    So apparently everybody saw the bittorrent and that is why all the theaters were sold out for prime-time showings (and all sold out by Wednesday, mind you) for four days straight?

  6. Re:The Newton Rulzorz on The History of PDAs in Words and Pictures · · Score: 1

    Seems it's more an article about PIMs, not PDAs, maybe he got his acronyms confused.

  7. Re:Hello Mcfly, Suck it up! on How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? · · Score: 1

    Hey, the point of a two-weeks notice is to leave 'on good terms' and if that soon-to-be-ex-boss apparently ruined those chances by not showing the proper courtesy, why should you hold up your end? You don't have anything to lose, leave and get it over with.

    On the other hand though, with how strict the legalities are behind job referals are now, as long as you give your ex-HR head as your contact chances are that they won't do more than confirm that you worked there in said position for said amount of time and left with proper two weeks notice, end of story. Quite a few companies have managed to get into trouble for dishing out anything more negative than that.

  8. Re:Good Timing on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 1
  9. I misread the title on Microsoft Proposes Thumb-Driven Interfaces · · Score: 1

    I started thinking about how cool it would be to just plug your thumb DRIVE into an interface and it would boot off of that. I was fairly dissapointed when I read further.

    I still refuse to by a handheld until they start allowing me to plug my thumbdrive into it. I don't care about all the other crazy media formats, my thumbdrive is universal.

  10. Here's the article you're talking about on Survey Reveals Americans Support Blog Censorship · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/31/193025 9&tid=146

  11. Re:I've figured out dark matter on Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there would be a pattern to the distortion that would hint at that.

  12. Re:I've figured out dark matter on Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy · · Score: 1

    How do you explain the stars and galaxies you can see behind the dark galaxy?

  13. Or... on Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just have a galaxy-cloaking device, they don't want visitors.

  14. Re:Is it really random? on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    Think of it more like the ripples in the matrix when an explosion occurred, although those ripples aren't visible and they don't occur only during that one point in time, but they also travel forward and backward in time. The real question is what force is creating this 'disturbance' in the eggs. They occur when a large-scale event takes place. Maybe these are created by mental stimulation, but I feel that they are more likely to be connected to electrical disturbances. There was something I was looking at (I wish I could remember where) online or on tv talking about measuring changes of something related (like I said, I wish I had a better memory of this) that showed trends reflecting this, but they had become more severe over the past 100 years, most likely due to the increase in media coverage of major events. They cover more and more events as time goes on and more and more people are finding out about them due to the growth in availability of media. This even brings about abilities like those of Nostradamus, was he able to see this energy in order to make his predictions?

  15. Re:Repeat after me... (from mail I sent to friends on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1

    Zoom all the way in before you think they left something out. It looks to be complete.

    Well I can tell you they left out the one-way streets with their directions, those can be very important if you're making driving directions. How unfortunate for those who live in a city full of them!

  16. Re:I don't get it on More Cell Processor Details And First Pictures · · Score: 1

    I thought the deal with Lenovo meant IBM could not produce anymore PCs or laptops.

  17. Hubble v2.0 on Repair Costs for Hubble Are Vexing to Scientists · · Score: 1

    Well what if we used the same design with the few upgrades they've come up with since the original concept?

  18. Re:patents vs spam on Torvalds Joins Anti-Patent Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    But only because they will start patenting their method of getting past spam filters!

  19. Does the question even matter? on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1

    A few points:

    -Most religions will speak out against this.
    -Not everybody would want this due to moral, religous, and personal reasons.
    -Not everybody would be able to afford this (although I'm sure you'd have plenty of time to make payments afterwards!)
    -Even if they got past all of that, whos to say they'd actually live much longer? Instead of dieing at 98 due to natural causes, they die at 120 due to cancer.
    -Who wants to actually ensure they only way they die is by a disease or through somebody's intervension? Most elderly don't mind that their end comes, not just because of the medical problems they have, but because they've lived for quite some time.
    -I'm sure there would be a prime time to opt for the procedure and that would probably be somewhere in the range of 22-38 years of age in which you'd be making a decision that you may not agree with in 100 years.
    -If you had this done at age 28 and you looked 28 for as long as you lived and you were 200 years old, what type of credibility would you have?

    You put all of this together and I doubt many people would actually elect to go through with this.

  20. Buuuut.... on NASA Details Earthquake Effects on the Earth · · Score: 1

    Yea, but you will now live longer!

    2.68 ms*[number of days you have left to live]=[how much time you've gained in your life thanks to the earthquake]

    Not sure how long you have left to live, visit the death clock to find out.

    Apparently I have 49 years left to live, so
    2.68ms*49yrs= 131.32 ms added to my life, yay!

    It's like it took the life from those killed and gave it to everybody else.

  21. Re:Guide to Success on Advice for Returning to School After Long Break? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haha, I checked out the posts to this article because I wondered how many people would be complaining like that. What I was thinking was more along the lines of:

    You took my job, now I can't afford to send my kid to college, but it turns out he/she was put on the waiting list in favor of the software engineers from India that took my job! What will they take next, will I wake up to find one of them sleeping with my wife?

  22. Re:Hiding them? on PCs For A Workshop Environment? · · Score: 1

    Do you mean something like putting the PC in one of these:
    http://www-chimie.u-strasbg.fr/~lcoc/Gloves%20box. gif?

  23. Re:Locking Articles on Observer Gives Wikipedia Glowing Report · · Score: 1

    I do use it quite a bit lately, I guess I don't poke around at it as much as I should, using it more to find information in a pinch (often obscure info at that) and not sticking around to figure the system out.

  24. Re:Locking Articles on Observer Gives Wikipedia Glowing Report · · Score: 1

    Why could they not keep a history of the edits so that, if you choose, you can look back over the edited content and possibly even read comments as to why it was edited (should the editor be nice enough to leave it.)

  25. Re:Christ on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    I beleive that some people, no matter how intelligent, must blindly beleive in a book, and cause the world to suffer because of their desire to prove that it is true.

    I beleive that people have an inner desire to beleive there is something greater than them controlling the universe.

    I beleive people should in fact enjoy this beleif, I just wish they would keep it to themselves and others that choose to beleive in them and stop flaunting the fact that they beleive everybody else is going to hell, because I beleive that if there really was a god he/she/it wouldn't be so cruel, after all, he/she/it is supposed to be better than we/us.