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  1. Re:Widespread? on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 1

    Because if it's all BestBuys, well damn, I'd better head down there right now :)

    Right... Because then you could be waiting until the 16th just like everyone else.

  2. Re:What's the Problem? on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 1

    Ask again when every game requires you to install it's own content download and authentication utility.

  3. Re:Lame Design ... so far ... on Hitchhikers Movie Update · · Score: 1

    Yeah? And between you and those people, who is more likely to go see the movie either way?

  4. Re:Time to open it up! on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1

    He probably meant .m4p files, but you probably knew that.

  5. Hah! on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1

    AOL paid $400,000,000 to aquire Nullsoft in the first place.

    You think Winamp could be worth only $10,000 of that?

  6. Blue Sky is doing Robots. Not Pixar. on Teaser Trailer for 'Cars'; Info on 'Polar Express' · · Score: 1

    Blue Sky is the studio that's making Robots. Though you wouldn't know it from their own site or any of the promotional ones.

  7. Re:Hated End Part on Return of the Jedi DVD Detailed Changes · · Score: 1

    It's simple.

    The midichlorians did it.

  8. iPod Photo on Holiday Competition For iPod Dollars · · Score: 1

    If Apple really does have a new 60gb iPod waiting with photo support (http://thinksecret.com/news/0410photoipod.html)

    Um, you could have just used a link to Apple's site, since the iPod Photo was already announced like a week ago.

  9. Re:Errr.... security? on KDE: Breaking the Network Barrier · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but opening an html file from a web server with a text editor doesn't mean that the javascript in the file will do anything other than be displayed in the text editor.

    We're not talking about integrating scripting engines or even anything that would follow links to other sources. Just plain old accessing files in any location with any program as if they were locally stored.

  10. Re:Keychain Access Gripe on NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    You can also just make a new keychain file where you want it, and use that.

  11. Re:Obviously on Microsoft Won't Charge More for Multicore Licenses · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes.

  12. Re:legality on CherryOS Not All It's Cracked Up To Be · · Score: 1

    So, even vaporware needs to include code if it's based on GPL'd software?

  13. Re:The man deserves it on George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award · · Score: 1

    "I think Revenge of the Sith will be the best of the prequels, and will be more than worthwhile."

    Now, if that's not glowing praise for a film, I don't know what is.

  14. Re:In depth technical analysis on 360-Degree 3D Imaging · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, it does work.

    http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/product_stereovis _volumetric.php
    http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/0224/hitac hi.htm

    But in neither of those case can you interact with the image with your hands, because either the image is enclose in a glass sphere or it would be pretty dangerous to try to "interact" with an screen spinning fast enough to create the illusion. And in both of those cases, it's clearly based on multiple images, which 3DSolar claims they don't need.

  15. Re:From the 3Dsolar site... on 360-Degree 3D Imaging · · Score: 1

    Since both this article and their site give practically no information on how they create this effect, it's hard to speculate, but I would guess that if you can look at the object from different angles, it WILL appear 3D, since each eye will be getting a different view of the object.

    At first I thought they were talking about a rotating screen that the image is projected onto, but from their description, it sounds like something else.

  16. Re:Macs aren't particularly expensive anymore on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the main one is that Quartz Extreme doesn't work on many of the machines released just before yours. That has a lot to do with the whole "runs like crap" thing.

    Altivec also helps with OS X, and is only a feature on G4s and up.

  17. Re:Nice, but doomed on GMail Drive Shell Extension · · Score: 5, Funny

    They might have even tolerrated the few Windows users that would actually use it, but now that the Slashdot floodgates are open...

  18. Re:OSX on Mac OS X Running On Xbox · · Score: 2, Informative

    THe main reason this works on the XBox is because it's already possible on x86 desktops using PearPC.

  19. Huh? on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    How were you born at the age of 2?

  20. And that's the problem... on U.S. Offers $50 Download · · Score: 1

    ...because since it's on a plain solid background, you can just cover it up when scanning, and then reproduse it yourself by scanning and copying just one of the yellow 50s.

  21. Re:Account on TiVo Has to Fund Your Local Stadium · · Score: 3, Insightful

    THe point isn't to use it for sites that you frequent. For those, you may as well make an account that won't get disabled by the site or someone else.

    What Bug Me Not is good for is the sites you go to once, and don't want to be bothered with setting up the account just for one story or download. In those cases it is faster, especially if you have the browser extension.

  22. bugmenot.com on TiVo Has to Fund Your Local Stadium · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just to spread the word, there is a site calledBug Me Not that is designed for the specific purpose of supplying usernames/passwords for these types of free registration sites.

    They have Mozilla and IE extensions for easy access, and anyone can add to their database. Tell everyone you know (their motto).

  23. Spoiler warning? on Satellite TV From a Moving Car · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course, Most amusing is all the comments about how TV in cars is for passengers, because as we know, the drivers are too busy talking on their cell phones.

    Seriously, what's the deal with giving away the best part of the article without a spoiler warning?

  24. Not quick enough... on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    Considering that Proxomitron is no longer being developed, it won't be quick to respond to anything.

    From the official site: "I regret to say the Proxomitron web filter is well and truly dead."

  25. Already censored by Disney? on Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pixar's 1986 short film Knick Knack that was played with Finding Nemo and included on the DVD has been modified to remove "adult" content.

    Was this at Disney's request?