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  1. Re:Good old American engineering on Cassini Probe Has Camera Problems · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lets see you send sometihng that size into space, let alone have it actually work at all. If it was actually easy, it would be done.

  2. Re:Cyber-Terrorist Training Tool? on Uplink · · Score: 1

    Yup, next time I see a dragon terroizing my neighborhood, kidnaping princesses, I'll be all trained to take him.

  3. Re:Screenshots on Uplink · · Score: 1

    Yeah, actually. Hated it. But thats only because I played civ2 first, I guess.

  4. Re:Already being sold... on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    Quite wrong. A few macs older macs made as A/V machines, with vidoe in and out, iMacs jsut have their built in screen, and vga out. No TV.

    And never waste your money on the USB vidoe out devices, USB just can;t support tthat data rate.

  5. Plants on Global Warming Mostly Confirmed - On Mars · · Score: 1

    So, in perperation for us eventaully going, there, and exluding tthe actual logistics and amounts, couldn't we lots and lots of plants there to help make O2 for us? what conditions do they have that would prevent plants from growing, and how can we get past that?

  6. Freedom of choice and control on Is Hacking Cars a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but what does that have to do at all with freedom of choice and control?

  7. Re:Already being sold... on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    Which would be what an averkey uses. However, when refering to vidoe out, i mean as in composite or s-video, so it can be useful for hooking up to a tv.

  8. Re:Like the 20th Anniversary Mac? on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    True, since the 20th was around $7k. However, I'd like to point out that if you'd never had a computer thats sound system was designed by Bose, you're really missing out.

  9. Re:What I'd like to see... on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    So you want a TiBook? I mean, other than display size, whats differnt about that than a regular laptop? And until we have folding displays (which would be pretty cool), than you're limited to screen size being what you want to carry around.

  10. Re:TV Show costs... on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    Ignoring the cheap shot of "real computers" (what, you expect Days of Our Lives to take place in a server room?), you'd be amazed how quickly tv shows have the newst hardware on thier sets. I've seen the most recent laptops and iMac version their before I've seen them comp usa apon occasion (not that I buy anything other than cdrs there).

  11. Re:Already being sold... on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    Not video in, but video out is what the imacs need. Considering apple's constant big so be top in education, being able to hook one of these up to a tv and get a power point or quicktime up for the whole class to see would got a ways. Without a pci card slot, your choices are pretty much an AverKey, which work ok, or a usb MyView, which are absolutly horrible. the firewire toys are jsut too expensive for a school. This is what the teachers is the school I volunteer at want, and would actually use. Several version of iBooks have had this, give it to the iMacs.

  12. Re:The cost alone.. on Maine buys 38,600 ibooks for Public Schools · · Score: 1

    "They'll be obsolete in a few years and all that will ever have been done is some fancy document formatting in word and maybe some browsing to cnn.com. "

    And? Once they've hit the point of what we'd consider obsolete, they still make great word proccesors. They're great for using with children with writing difficulties, jsut a step beyond the typing classes my elmentry school gave to them.

  13. Re:Computer Labs on Maine buys 38,600 ibooks for Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Hard to integrate them into daily use when you have go to the lab to use them. Besides, in these days of having to put up temporaries outside of school to make new classrooms, who has space for a computer lab? Or the resources to have a teacher running it full time? You also then have to add in the problem of saving on a pseudo-public computer, or having to set up user accounts and integrating them. Not as easy as it sounds on a mac, and schools can;t rreally afford to have somebody knowledgeable running things. If they could, they'd be qualified to get a job at a place that payes real money. Where I live, elementry schools only get an aide (aka, High school diploma, getting paid about $17k a year). In the surrounding counties, they don't ven have that. Its expected that the teachers will just do it.

  14. Re:Interesting on Dual G4 Mac Cube · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactally right. We got a dual 500 processor card donated to us because the machine was damaged in flood (there was liquified ceiling tile corroding the rest of the motherboard, but the card was high enough to stay out of it). All we had to do was pop it in the slot that had out single processor 400, and off it went, rendering out movie files at extra blazing speed.

  15. Re:Will it melt? on Dual G4 Mac Cube · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is obviously said from a person who's never sat extra close to his iMac because the building's heat is off on weekends. Just because there's not a fan doesn't mean it doesn't get toasty warm.

  16. Re:Dear Website Owner on Apple Cease-And-Desists Stupidity Leak · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actaully, its not quite that easy. Most of the files in the OS are active at any given time, so you can't just delete them. To remove the entire os, you'd have to boot of another drive, or boot of another system ont he same drive drive.

  17. Re:This is newsworthy on Apple Cease-And-Desists Stupidity Leak · · Score: 1

    Thats iTunes, and while it shouldn;t happen ever by accident, I've only run across two people it actually happened to.

  18. Re:Enterprise is fine, so is the score. on Andromeda To Become Less Complex? · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I'll admit TNG was really hit or miss, but when it hit, it hit. I fail to see this reverance for tthe orginal one, probobly since it was in reruns by the time I first remeber seeing it. Its just not that good. DS9, I liked. Not having everybody get along all the time like on the original and TNG really went a long way. Voyager, not so good.

    The new one? I'm not usualy ally sitting in front of the TV on any given night (college student), so I don't plan my schedule around the TV. The 2 episodes I;ve seen were good, but needed the same thing eevery other snew eries needs. Time, to get the actors and writers in sync with the characters.

    New theme song? Major boo. Think they should have stuck with something without words. Harder to get sick of that way.

  19. Re:If a component goes bad on Concept PC 2001 · · Score: 1

    I would hope they use laptop cd drives in these, for compatability's sake.

  20. Re:we have gov't by the corporations, not people on French Government Online-Why Isn't the U.S.? · · Score: 1

    Its that 65% own fault if tthey reture with no money int hhe bank. First, if you have no money, why are you retiring? You have aajob to GET MONEY. Second, if you're not saving any, why not? Try spending les, don't buy so much stuff you don't nee,d spent less on Christmas, don't buy a new car every 3 years, don't buy the house with the 2 extra guest rooms. Living within your means includes saving.

  21. Re:Actually do something and I'll be impressed on Exposing Spammers For All They're Worth · · Score: 1

    And he was resoundly defeated in his Presidential bit, right? If Regan had said "Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no vice ... extremism in the defense of liberty is no virtue," it wouldn't make that any more true either.

  22. Re:I withhold judgement until I PLAY it... on XBox Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, I don't. My associates and I thought that it was pretty sweet.

    Grantd, I was about 12, and it had Super Metroid.

  23. Re:Repair estimates top $30M on Update on SuperK Detector Failure · · Score: 1

    Than what's a thousand million in Britain?

  24. Re:I'm going to hold out for blimp gun platforms on Hellhound Paintball ATV · · Score: 1

    You might want to try using aa cheap raptor or stingray, or drop the velocity down to 200. should reduce the kick a lot.

  25. Re:Big pain in the ass on HP To Kill 3000 System After 30 years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not to sound harsh, but isn't that the kind of thing you should have thought of 10 years ago? They stopped deleoping these ages ago, so an exit should have been looked at at least as a side project.