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  1. Re:This just in: on China Tightens Rules For Educational BBSs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Oppressive country oppresses.

    But the thing that gets me, when I talk to some people from the PRC, is how strongly many believe it isn't oppressive, it's good for the whole of the country and then they have the temerity to point out all the crap the Bush family, the CIA and the State Dept have done over the years.

    Each side of the argument is so familiar with the transgressions of the other and willing to turn a blind eye to their own.

    Whatchagonnado?

  2. 3D to 2D to 3D on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 2, Insightful
    So we'll be able to see the holographic "chess" match as it was intended...finally....of course too many releases of Star Wars are prone to make original fans want to pull Lucas' arms from his sockets.

    Ok, that'll probably require some re-rendering which I'm sure they have stuff away someplace, but without two camera angles I'm curious how you're supposed to see perspective. Maybe they do it with some re-shading, frame-by-frame, like the colorizing process.

    The thing is, the boogerhead could just re-run all the films, as they are, during the summer and they'd pack theaters anyway.

  3. Re:Is it Safe? on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 1
    "Forget the old days of wearing the red and blue glasses and the eyestrain. All of that is behind us now. These new active glasses that you're wearing and seeing 3-D with are a breakthrough in technology."

    Yeah, until after watching a few of these films you discover your left eye sees things 1/15th of a second in the past.

  4. Re:9 Episodes... on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 1
    Lucas originally promised 9 episodes. his fans are going to make sure he delivers, even if it involves necromancy.

    Revenge of the Return of The Emperor - In 3D - Yow!

    "He'd back, undead and nobody's lovin' it. Welcome to the Underside of the Force!"

  5. Why Stop? on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 5, Funny
    PLEASE GEORGE JUST STOP

    Four words: Jar-Jar in 3D

    "Oh the humanity!"

  6. Is it Safe? on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 4, Funny
    I remember this crushing migraines those blue/red 3D glasses left me with. However this works, I hope they've really tested it. It's all good clean fun, until you realize it screws up your eyes like the Opti-Grab and people sue Lucas, Cameron and the theaters for all they've got.

    "Who is Redo and where is Start?"

  7. Re:Drugs = Biotech? on Juiced · · Score: 1
    Uhm, yeah. Steroids are "biotech". Nice justification for submitting a baseball story review to /.

    null etc. (524767), you ignorant slut. Have you heard of Balco and Victor Conte? They specifically designed doping products to be undetectable by current tests (as of a couple years back) The web of users was around the world, because anyone who wanted and edge and had few scruples would be attracted to engineered dope like flies to honey.

  8. Unless You're Still Under a Rock on Juiced · · Score: 4, Interesting
    These guys have been summoned to speak before an increasingly irritated congress. Selig and the Players Union are likely to achieve what they least want with their watered-down slap-on-the-wrist penalties. In Europe it's called "Sporting Fraud" in many countries and can lead to prison time for a first offense.

    I think that's fair for here, too.

    There's a reason why I no longer follow baseball, do you think they can figure it out without first going through a lot of ass-covering and denial?

  9. Re:Search Engines just Advertising Now? on A Search Engine Manipulator's Tale · · Score: 1
    These days I get bogged down on the sites advertising there services and links to ebay.

    Did you really mean Blog Town?

    I dunno. I would really like a search engine that isn't being used to 'spam' me with services that I really am not looking for. I wouldn't mind the ads so much if clicking them got me to the root of what I was searching for to begin with.

    Maybe Google could offer a subscription service so you don't get the ads they insert, but don't count on it. It would be pretty hard to dodge the ads which present themselves as answers to your search, or other pages which would lead you to sellers.

    "If you liked this post, buy my new book!" - Guy With Questionmarks Tattooed On His Bum

  10. Like Intel pulling an AMD? on Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support · · Score: 1
    Apparently one main goal of ASP.NET2 is XHTML support, which is good for everyone, except IE6 users. Until IE7 ships, Firefox may be the best environment for ASP.NET users.

    Wouldn't it be a h00t if Microsoft came out with IE 7.0 and said it was Firefox compatible ...

    "our thingie is just like their thingie and is better in the Dubious Advantage Benchmark!"

  11. Re:Yahoo! on Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeeeha!

    And this morning on Radio Classics they were playing an old "Our Miss Brooks" where a hill billy jazz band was supposed to be coming by the school and the teachers, student and principal were all practicing their lingo...

    Other to choose from:

    Wull, dog mah cats!

    Corn mah pone!

    Boy howdy

  12. Re:What About Slashdot??!! on Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support · · Score: 1
    So did slashdot fix that bug with Firefox where slashdot wouldn't load up right? That's been happening a ton with Firefox 1.0.1

    Not that I've seen, it still fractures. I think they've left some things open. It seems to vary with the ads.

  13. Re:So Yahoo Supports Standards on Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support · · Score: 5, Funny
    So Yahoo now supports standards.

    ...well they used to support Suffering Based Advertising (X10 Pop-Ups)

    #$*&! i DON'T want yer #&^$*(@ camera, shove it up your $&^$#*

  14. Support from an unlikely source? on Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support · · Score: 3, Informative

    (Heard Wednesday at SDWest) Even ASP.NET 2.0/VS 2005 will have (better) support for Firefox. It sure perked up my ears. What's their plan?

  15. Pratchett Reference.. on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Cancelled · · Score: 1
    "Pi is exactly equal to 3!"

    In Going Postal, Terry describes Bloody Stupid Johnson's approach to Pi being this difficult number just greater than three, so he invents a small field where Pi exists as exactly 3...

  16. Version Numbering... on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Cancelled · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm holding our for Mozilla V 3. 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859

  17. Why...! on Joss Whedon to Write/Direct Wonder Woman · · Score: 1
    What's Hollywood going to do when they've finished making a movie for each super hero?

    Why, do remakes and do them all over again for a gullible new generation!

    why, ah cain rekawl, back win superman dint wear Orbit Jeans an' drink Cosmic Cola

  18. Doh, forgot link on CSS Support Could Be IE7's Weakest Link · · Score: 1
    Have a look at the directions of VS developement here.

    It may or may not be built on a layer of shit, but it does look good in first impression. Quantum better than web develpment was in VS and VS 2003.

  19. No Plan? on CSS Support Could Be IE7's Weakest Link · · Score: 1
    See, that's the problem. It's just like Microsoft to say "We'll wait til later ( point release, such as CSS2.1 or CSS3) before throwing our complete support behind it" I don't understand! You have to plan for the future, no plan after the fact!

    I've been a harsh critic of MS myself over the years, but I'm getting the feeling there's more to it than not having a plan.

    I was just over at SDWest, in Santa Clara, on Wednesday for the only sessions I could tear myself away from the desk for and think this may have more to do with some actual forward thinking.

    I'm not sure how they're implimenting style sheets in ASP.NET 2.0, but man, if you hated developing it in for all the crap you had to do with style sheets, you'll probably be impressed with how much less you have to fsck around with them with the level of style develpment to be present in VS 2005. Beta2 will be out on the 31st and I suggest having a lock at it.

    I really HATED dependency on stylesheets in VS 2003, so I'm familiar with pain. As for IE 7.0, I haven't seen it and could care less. MS actually has WORKED to impreove FIREFOX support in ASP.NET (is it snowing in Hell, yet?)

  20. At Last! on Instant Buildings - Just Add Water · · Score: 1
    This sounds like the building process from the Jetsons. Maybe now we can move on from the trailer homes, manufactured homes and traditional building and move onto "Ziplock Construction Co."

    At last, affordable housing in Santa Cruz!

    Too bad it still has a dirt floor, but hey, it's a hovel.

  21. Re:Not Approved on Ultimate RPG Gaming Table · · Score: 1
    The Israeli army would not approve of your ingenuity.

    Even though someone at one of their universities will probably come out with the best system ever.

    But when the army takes these things and play war games, it's OK, see?

  22. Re:Immediate Impression on Ultimate RPG Gaming Table · · Score: 1
    Wait, I'm sitting in front of a CRT right now! Are there any thinks between HV and cancer?

    I know there's links between HV and radiation. Which bands of gamma rays, etc, I don't know, but newer CRT's are supposed to have better protection than the early models.

    B&W monitors usually were very low, with voltage in the 7-9KV range, while color are higher due to ~35KV range. The front of the CRT usually has some kind of anti-radiation shielding, but behind, where the flyback (HV) transformer is there is usually little shielding.

  23. Re:Floor... on Ultimate RPG Gaming Table · · Score: 1
    Beware of Hoover.

    Worse, Fray. (no, not a fray, but Fray!)

  24. Re:Immediate Impression on Ultimate RPG Gaming Table · · Score: 1
    'but that projector is the backbreaker' How about putting a large old-style monitor under the table, you could play on top of some frosted glass...

    Sure, if you don't mind exposing your bits to the radiation for hours on end.

    I remember a tabletop Pacman at a bar. It was fun, but I was a bit uneasy about sitting so close to the HV stuff, even if it was behind 3/4" of wood.

    I've had cancer and give these things quite a bit of consideration now. I use LCD monitors at work and home.

  25. Floor... on Ultimate RPG Gaming Table · · Score: 5, Funny
    We played on the floor.

    "Your party has left the linoleum plains and come to an area of deep pile shag ..."