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  1. And yet no real documentation on 3dfx Drops Video Card Division · · Score: 1

    I trust a company to provide proper support for an infinite ammount of time for linux about as much as I expect pigs to fly.

  2. Wow less choice in video cards real spiffy on 3dfx Drops Video Card Division · · Score: 1

    Boy just can't wait til someone like nvidia reigns supreme and linux support drops to nil. How is that supposed to be a good thing in the least.

  3. A beginning linux book under the OPL? on Linux Beginners Series' Final Installment · · Score: 1

    If more people had these as community efforts they would go far.

  4. Linux is younger than that on Netscape 6 Is Out (Really!) · · Score: 1

    It was originally created in the early 1990s at the earliest.

  5. IE isn't that swell on Netscape 6 Is Out (Really!) · · Score: 1

    I can't say how many times I have had problems with IE handling things properly. Firstly fonts are crippled and have only vague descriptions about their relative size. The Java handling is poor (try to use something like hushmail sometime and you get the idea). Their implimentation of SSL really stinks too with connection drops in the middle of SSL and so on (check sourceforge's page for some examples).

  6. Do the solutions to rubik's cubes apply? on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    There are a number of classical means of solving a rubik's cube in 3 space do the same apply to 4 space as an extention?

  7. What is that? on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    Is that another one of those obscure japanese cartoons that .5% of people actually see in the states? Could someone explain to me what this is supposed to mean?

  8. LSD dosn't allow one to change dimensional sight on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    To the best of my knowledge the only thing that LSD actually does it basically cross a lot of wires in the brain and then shows what you perceive to be reality through that mask. This explains why people think they can "hear" yellow and "taste" music. None of these are based on actually allowing you to see anything different just screwing up your perceptions. The same is true of time. The passage of time is based on our ability as a species to be sentient and self aware. As soon as you change those variables you get a different perception. The only possible test for someone on LSD to actually prove that they could perceive time is a formal laboratory experiment wherein the individual could perdict say a specific event in history and then measure that prediction in some manner.

  9. ESP isn't real no is this the 4th dimension on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    Much research has gone on to deal with these kinds of assertions that people have the ability to perceive new dimensions. All you are seeing is a simple application of the multiprocessing nature of the brain. Your brain and your logic centers were able to pick up on some clue that your were not conciouslly aware of and apply that to the situation. We cannot detect the 4th dimension with our senses because we are limited to what we have avaible in terms of our senses. Time is in motion and we cannot perceive it's movements because it appears to us that it is constant. The only way to measure changes in 4d space is to somehow remove ourselves from 4d motion and be in an inertial frame of reference or apply a Galliean(sp) Transformation to the condition. Now I am not an expert but that seems to be the only reasonable means of doing any real experimentation with 4d space.

  10. Just have the lameness filter applied to the link on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    If it's to any permutation of http://www.goatse.cx or http://goatse.cx then have the lameness filter applied to it. It has no relevence to slashdot and is just troll material and so is hence lame.

  11. Similar to the water boots? on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    I remember back a while that someone developed a pair of boots that were based on magnetic repulsion that allowed the user to walk on water for various distances. However the problem was that if you ever capsized in the boots that you could sink to the bottom of the lake, ocean, pond and suffocate and the boots were too heavy to actually allow for a prompt escape.

  12. Even if they could clone him... on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    It could most likely end in failure. He would have a better chance of being say a computer programmer than a religious leader. It's the same things with people who think that even if anyone could clone Hitler that he would automatically just start where he left off with world conquest. All you get with cloning is just a physical replica and not an intellectual one.

  13. Charm comes in many forms on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    Well this subject on slashdot is really stretching it but there are various means of "convincing" people you are charming or useful. Lieing, cheating, stealing and killing work well for starters. Also gratituous use of constuming, mind control, lethal weapons, and espionage are also alternatives.

  14. Form of hybrid on Quickies, Coast to Coast · · Score: 1

    Maybe I am mistaken but I believe that the Germans were fond of large railway mounted cannons which could have a substantial range. Easyly outclasses a standard howitzer and could cream even a modern tank.

  15. And how exactly does this work in Brazil on Analysis: Reforming Political Technology · · Score: 1

    I have to have a little bit of doubt that the *entire* country of Brazil has something that easy to work with. How precisely is it accomplished?

  16. The extent of Roman Power on On The CopyLeft Of DTDs · · Score: 1

    And that proves what? The level of progress that these pre-Scotts ever got to was probably nowhere close to the level of sophistication that the Romans had. Also to point out that the country of England wasn't founded over a thousand years after they attempted to take the land. They met with stiff restiance (see Hadrian's wall).

  17. They didn't have the bomb back then on CIA Chat Room Violates The Company's Policy · · Score: 1

    Plus they were more or less allied with the soviet union back then, a group not exactly known for their kindness and generosity.

    Yes I do know history and I believe that using the bomb was a necessary political meanuver to prevent from having the soviet union have a massive foothold in southeast Asia.

  18. Countries need secrets on CIA Chat Room Violates The Company's Policy · · Score: 2

    The main problem here is that there is a big difference between national secrets and software secrets and ideas. The concepts of physics are not secrets because they are obvious and necessary in many situations. But if you have step by step discussion on how to make say hyrodgen warheads in a secretive environment it is not very appropriate. A country like China dosn't have those little things we call a sense of ethics concerning the use/abuse of nuclear weapondry. Nations have to keep secrets all the time to defend against the possibly indefensible. It's all about strategy.

  19. Get a headset on Buy Your CDs From Your PCS Phone · · Score: 1

    You can simply free up your hands and your attention with a head set system. That gets around the problem of actually using the cell phone and should please many people. Or get a speaker phone and have it broadcast in the car.

    Personally I think that they want people to have more of a chance of spending foolishly and without regard to what they are getting themselves into.

  20. Prepending my name to AC posts isn't fact on Sun's (un)official response to .NET · · Score: 1

    And I personally disagree with the whole concept of trolling. A dissenting opinion is not a troll.

  21. Actually the GPL on Sun's (un)official response to .NET · · Score: 1

    My posts can be used by anyone at all because I believe in the freedom and it's continued use in the free without restrictions.

  22. The basic idea on Sun's (un)official response to .NET · · Score: 1

    When people buy an application they have the right to use it on their computer. What this BS is trying to do is basically remove you from having access to your applications and your data. A very bad idea indeed.

  23. That if you have an application that is owned... on Sun's (un)official response to .NET · · Score: 1

    by someone else you don't really have any freedom which is what .NET stands for

  24. A little point of philosophy on Analysis: Henhouse buys Fox · · Score: 1

    This is precisely the problem that causes old people to be so out of touch with society in the first place.

    Music has never really been my cup of tea mainly because I don't have adequate disk space anyway and no sound hardware but the same principle applies to other things.

    If you limit yourself to music in the past there is a finite ammount you can listen to but if you look at the *entire* ammount of music out there there will always be new stuff.

  25. Until people won't pay on Analysis: Henhouse buys Fox · · Score: 1

    Pay per use has never been popular look at Divix not many people wanted to pay each time they watched a movie no matter what kind of convience.