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  1. Re:Wait until.. on DoS Attacks Persisting, On The Rise · · Score: 1

    Well someone did post 1/2 of corky romano and label it Star Wars Episode II . . .

  2. Re: The way out. on Unix Isn't Dead · · Score: 1

    I could, but it would only lead you to a realm whose architechture is comprised of gates, windows, and insecure explorers.

  3. Re:Why I buy DVDs on DVD Format Changing Movie-making · · Score: 1

    This is a problem I've recently started to conquer in my own life as well. The oldest tapes that are important to me are 21 years old. Sony says:Don't expect your professional- grade tapes to last more than 20 years.

    Cost of a propietary DVD authoring studio with UNIX underpinnings:
    $3200

    Watching my long passed great grandfather hold me as an infant:
    $ Priceless

  4. Re:Benchmarks on Cray's New Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Quake III, but I do know This Is The Ultimate storage solution for my ASCII Art colection.

  5. Re:Buyout on Cinema Tools for Final Cut Pro · · Score: 1

    What is more fascinating : consider this 24P stuff from a bandwidth point of view and think about the recent firewire related news. Native HD is going to require quite a bit more firewire bandwidth than 400mbps. Can 1600mbps firwire be that far behind?

    I thnk this is aimed more at FCP users who don't want to export their Edit Descision List to a Avid format before they make the "final cut." This allows editors to import a 720 x 486 version of their footage, edit it in the familliar FCP interface, and export the EDL to be procesed at a post-production faculity. At least where film is concerned.

  6. Ellison wans it. . . on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it isn't the other way around Tin Robot?

  7. Re:This only works for low frequencies on Making Your Room Quiet · · Score: 1

    Suposedly, expierimental composer John Cage expieienced a sound dampening room at MIT shortly before he died. He supposedly was ale to isolate two kinds of flowing noises, caused by blood rushing throgh his viens/arteries. He died of a stroke shortly therafter. Unfortunately, "this" this is the closest I thing to documentation I have been able to find. My original source was a professor's lecture.

  8. Re:Everyone has forgetten what this is truly about on Declawing Windows: Impossible? · · Score: 1

    Love the art, not the artisit.

  9. Re:What are his motives? on CBDTPA / SSSCA Won't Be Passed This Year, Say Leahy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As a Vermonter, I have heard nothing but good things regarding personal repies to e-mails by my friends and family. The Senator is also known as a savvy web user and his site can be found here. I would like to see his responses to Slashdot's questions also.

  10. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. on How Mac OS X is Changing the Mac Community · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok I'll probly get modded down for this but karma is made for spending, so here goes. Fuzzy Logic I know, bear with me.

    Apple is not perfect. But right now as an "average" computer user (Started on MS-DOS/3.11, Now on a dual Ghz for design/ Art,) Apple is a hell of a lot more appealing than their most visible competitor. I think Bill Gates said it best (in "The Road Ahead") when he said that a corporation (group that wants something) is doomed when the CEO ignores the problems at hand (Think all of us here re: MS). I'm not accusing annyone of ignoring redmond.

    Microsoft makes me mad, and I'm too young, too American (And too entwined with LotR style strategizing) and I don't want to wait 10 years for a guilt free/opensource vision of a usable, stable operating system.

    My[(1$*(.02))]

  11. New ad copy. on iWarez · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Copy an entire CD worth of music in 10 seconds or a $459 office suite in under 3"

  12. Re:Wow... on What if Harry Potter 5 Was an E-Book? · · Score: 1

    Not to troll, but it seems that this wouldn't be too different than Lucas releasing SW EP II only in digtal theaters - which probably would have happend if Phantom hadn't been such a let-down. And of course this would reek of MS.

  13. Re:Oh well on TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Oh well on TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick · · Score: 1
  15. Re:maybe you're confused? on Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy · · Score: 1

    No need to scour the used if the new ones are still available here.

  16. Re:Edible Concrete on Transparent Concrete · · Score: 1

    Not to be confused with the honey, apple and rasin mortar of the passover tradition.

  17. Re:Not bad, for starters on Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy · · Score: 2, Informative

    The g5s are supposedly due for Macworld NY '02. These will be the sawtooth equivalent w/ DDR, 1394b and possibly USB 2.0. The current specs seem more inline with the recent Notebook upgrades/ speed bumps.

  18. My 2 cents. on A Beautiful Mind · · Score: 1

    I whole hearteddly agree. The prose reads like a narrative. I read the first quarter of it last night - and it kept me awake through the night. And though have not dug into the footnotes yet, I'm sure they will be as informative as the description of John's grandparent's wedding in the 1890s.

  19. Re:Let me get this straight... on More on Future X-Box Capabilities · · Score: 1

    this may be a bit off topic but, as I read about MS's current crop of plans that will supposedly take a generatiion to unfold, I can't help but wonder how much of this will be possible once Gates/Ballmer are retired. Gates is 47. He won't be running the company 20 years from now. Can MS function without its fearless leader?

  20. Re:Cool stuff on Sandia Builds Micromechanical 'Device Driver' · · Score: 1

    yes, one can imagine a far more sinister version of the teflon coated cop killer bullets. I suspect this technology will find military adoption all to soon once it's more readibly available..

  21. Re:Unless you consider it a plant on Apple PDA? · · Score: 1

    I think he's on the right track. But the iWalk is definitely not one of the new products. In terms of apple feeding misleading information that's on the right track, I think a handwriting reckognition enabled tablet PC is much closer to the truth - especially when LCD order and consumer electronics rumors are taken into account.

  22. Simulation not the aim? on Life as Video Game Art · · Score: 1

    While the game could have been better simulated, I think they seem to be going more in the style of oh, Jasper Johns flags. ( http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/johns1.gif) Creating variations on a theme; using the games AND the images as signifyers of perhaps societal mixing up of fact and fiction or even how screwed up some of our priorities are. It also is a strategy for reallighning the viewer's relationship to the original image.

  23. Re:The Finns also use cell phones in interesting w on 'Texting' Takes Over The Philippines · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether lagging behind is the appropriate term? I know w/ TV technology (not even HDTV) U.S. Acted as "pioneers," allowing others to leapfrog but in turn "surpass" us. I assume tis the same w/ wireless.

  24. Re:US on 'Texting' Takes Over The Philippines · · Score: 1

    It wasn't long, the general said, before rebels started lobbing text messages at soldiers. He declined to share any examples, but said they tended to be "childish." Sound familliar Signal?

  25. Anther quicktime . . on 'Matrix' Parody: 'Computer Boy' · · Score: 1

    Newvenue.com ( had/ has a Matrix/Starwars/TrumanShow parody. But it will not be mentioned here because it is quicktime and thus flamebait to the old "Closed Quicktime standard v. Open Quicktime Closed Sorenson discussions . . . http://www.newvenue.com/archives/feature30/index.h tml