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  1. ATi? on Streaming TV Over WiFi to a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    In theory, and assuming Windows usage, ATi's TV Wonder series should be able ot do this, with acompanying software.

    ATi's TV program will encode to WMV (or AVI, or MPEG), and Windows Media Server will let you stream them.

    The actual encoding isn't a necessity, as far as I can tell (as in it doesn't need to be encoded, then watched). In Windows Media Server, it will allow you to pick your input device, and you just choose the ATi TV Wonder. I used the PCI version for some years, and had a USB version that didn't work in WinXP (at all) or Win2K (not correctly anyway).

    I'm sure there are better solutions, which are elss propretary, but this is one available option. I never tried it though. :^)

    -bZj

  2. Re:fearfull!?! empathetic!?! on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    You forgot Clinton under your Shirkers category.

    -bZj

  3. Re:what a crock - this is "science"? on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    Am I misreading your post?

    What I get out of it is "liberals are there to screw you to benefit themselves" and "conservatives are doing what the think will benefit themselves regardless if it screws you."

    -bZj

  4. Re:Prozac nation == right wing nation? on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    Conservative stranglehold? As in the singular Fox News channel? Rupert Murdoch is hardly a stranglehold of anything but terrible 'caught on tape' tv shows.

    And I think anyone who looked over history, especially recent history would say we are sliding left, not right. Think of the most outrageous 'liberal' of 50yrs ago vs. today's super-hippies. Quite a difference.

    -bZj

  5. Re:What kind of brains do they have at Los Alamos? on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    Seriously not meant to flame, but if you're given to "think and re-think" things constantly, you'll never make a decision. Sometimes inaction is worse than taking the 'wrong' action.

    -bZj

  6. Re:why label yourself? on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    Our system forces you to label yourself, via checking the box when you register to vote: [ ] dem; [ ] rep; [ ] green; [ ] etc.

    So someone who chooses to say "I am a liberal" is the example of your objection/'insight', while identifying yourself as 'republican' is as simple as relating what box you happened to check - i.e. thay aren't the same thing.

    -bZj

  7. Re:Hand It Over on Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? · · Score: 1

    Spielberg would fuck it up just as bad - he's in league with the ppl who remake their old movies to be PC and thus crappy. Can't wait to see Indy jones using reverse psychology in place of a whip.

    -bZj

  8. duh - money grubbing wh8re on Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lucas has lost all relation to any art or insight in his sifi adventure. He is solely in the business to make money on crappy movies. So, even tho there wasn't any 7/8/9, he's gonna do it, just b/c he wants to make money of his former insight form ppl who don't car that his new stuff sucks. Lucky for me, I didn't think his old stuff was that great to begin with.

    -bZj

  9. he sucks on Jakob Nielsen Talks About Usability in FOSS · · Score: 1

    I've said it before and I'll continue to say it: How is this 'tard a "usability expert" when his site sucks ass so badly?

    -bZj

  10. Re:Design on Duke University Students Receive iPods · · Score: 1

    Nice work.

    Though, as soon as I heard anything, I closed the tab, so I didn't get a chance to discern the band.

    -bZj

  11. Re:Design on Duke University Students Receive iPods · · Score: 1

    Regardless, that music has to go. Being able to reach my mute button is irrelavant. Forcing me to shut off the good music I'm listening to, so I can avoid the crap on your page is beyond inconsiderate. And, seriously, background music is so 1997. The [possible] fact that you helped make some NASA pages more useable and still choose to screw your own page like this only speaks to you being an ass. Good luck at Douch- er, Duke.

    -bZj

  12. mod up! on Duke University Students Receive iPods · · Score: 1

    Mod this man up.

    That's the most retarded shit I've seen/heard since like 1997.

    -bZj

  13. 8mm on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    8mm was the worst movie ever concieved/produced/presented. Terrible dialog, lame plot, and the beginning of Cage's downfall. Simply horrid, uninsightful, uneventful, and a waste of my $8.

    -bZj

  14. Re:good idea, but still governator. on Open Source in California Government · · Score: 1

    That still doesn't speak to my point, which was that Reps are (supposed to be) about saving the govt's money. Who else saves/makes money along the way is irrelevant.

    -bZj

  15. Re:Will go over like a lead balloon on Open Source in California Government · · Score: 1

    Just to toss some random things out there, re: CA = IT center:
    Berkeley is in CA (BSD)
    Santa Cruz is in CA (SCO)
    IBM is in CA
    Sun is in CA

    All major open source players that could benefit from this.

    -bZj

  16. Re:Voting Machines? on Open Source in California Government · · Score: 1
  17. Re:You are [not quite] right. on Open Source in California Government · · Score: 1

    That's not exactly how a non-profit works. Non-profits are allowed to 'make' money. It just has to be put back into the project. Think of private universities. I went to USC, and their financials are available online (too lazy to go looking again, but they are there). USC pulls in something like $2.5B/year - including funding from govt contracts. Their expenses do not equal $2.5B/yr. The reserves of cash are used for building new... buildings, and for paying into scholarships funds, etc. CA could make money (which is just taxing w/o immediate spending - the actual generation of revenue would only come if they produced something for sale), as long as it eventually goes into paving roads or building schools - at some point. So, saving money now should equal better freeways/public education, shorter DMV lines (HA!), etc., in the long run. Saving money doesn't equate to blowing the remainder in another area just to make the books balance to zero right now. In the short term, it's not a zero-sum game, only in the long term is that supposed to be to true.

    -bZj

  18. Re:good idea, but still governator. on Open Source in California Government · · Score: 1

    As the other guy hinted at, why would Arnold want to give MS money? They don't get taxed in CA. And Reps are (at least supposed to be) about saving money in govt, not spending it - thats the Dems job. :^)

    -bZj

  19. what? on Exploring Linux Desktop Myths · · Score: 1

    I've never heard anyone say that Linux didn't have enough apps. Not enough good games, maybe. But the complaint regarding apps has almost always been centered around having so many apps come with each distro, that a newbie couldn't decide what to use/install.

    -bZj

  20. Mod this man up! on Around The Country Without Gasoline · · Score: 1

    Mod this man up!

    -bZj

  21. normalcy today on Feed · · Score: 1

    Uhh... he's a teenager. That makes him anti-social by definition.

    The fact that his distraction of choice is the Internet vs. say hot rods, is just a modern difference. I was quiet as a teenager, and damned if I was gonna go chat it up with my stepfather when I did get the urge to bounce ideas of someone.

    The fact that his parents are divorced is easily related to him not wanting to communicate with either one. and, the father probably has his own deal, depending on how the relationship with your wife ended.

    In summary: the kid is basically normal. Give him some time before calling in psychotherapists and other idiots who'll just drug him up, or before ripping away his only distraction so he goes Columbine from BadParenting©.

    -bZj

  22. SS on Abbreviating Name on Official Documents? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the point of a SSN that it widdles you down to only a number, b/c names can both be changed, and abbreviated?

    -bZj

  23. Re:but it's the democrats on 1984 Comes To Boston · · Score: 1

    As I said, I only had a cursory glance.

    And I agree.

    -bZj

  24. but it's the democrats on 1984 Comes To Boston · · Score: 0

    Ignore the title, couldn't think of anything appropriate.

    Anyway, I scanned the comments, and didn't see anyone mention the fact that this is the DNC. If it was the RNC, I think there'd be a lot more "the all-powerful republicans don't want to be protested, so they are taking measures to subdue us all!" Again, I just took a cursory scan, so someone may have mentioned political parties' role.

    I'm just sayin'... if it were the other way around.... I mean, the Dems let these laws get through congress too. Don't blame all republicans just b/c they happen to be in power right now.

    -bZj

  25. A: on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No.

    -bZj