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  1. Re:Get EyeTV if you have a Mac on Tivo Institutes 1 Year Service Contracts · · Score: 1

    I don't think that makes any difference. Your PowerBook G4 still has a USB port right? That's all you need.

  2. Get EyeTV if you have a Mac on Tivo Institutes 1 Year Service Contracts · · Score: 1

    Sure, the unit is going to cost you about $100 bucks but there are no subscription fees. You get the guide for free from a third party.

  3. Attach some rockets to the Earth! on Cosmic Rays Could Kill Astronauts Visiting Mars · · Score: 1

    That'll get ya all the shielding ya need!

  4. Flashes in the Eyes? on Cosmic Rays Could Kill Astronauts Visiting Mars · · Score: 1

    Didn't Apollo era astronauts claim that cosmic rays caused flashes in their eyes or something to that effect?

  5. Re:I own a Kennedy 9-Track and a very old 7 track on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 1

    How do you keep your Prime computer running? Can you still get parts for that?

  6. Re:If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microso on HP Fires Father of OOP · · Score: 1

    I love that story even though it's fiction though I think it would read more like Feynman if the author had liberally sprinkled some of Feynman's more common sayings such as "that's crazy" or "that's dopey".

  7. Ahhh...the awfulness on Tatooine-like Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    Yes, Nightfall the movie was one giant piece of dung. Even the reviews for it gave it only one star. I have no idea how that film got released. It should've been thrown into the incinerator. You at least had the sense to walk out. I lingered on in the hope that it would getter better.

  8. Sheep pile physics? on Study Shows One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense · · Score: 1

    So does this obey sand pile physics? ;)

  9. Neandertal, still here? on Neanderthal Genome to be Sequenced · · Score: 1
    Some believe we interbred with them and "absorbed" them.
    I can totally believe in something like this because I have seen people who do look a lot like a cross between a human and a neandertal. They also seem to be a bit on the dumb side.

    Now one may think but there don't seem to be any hybrid enclaves. Still, it might be possible that the people I've seen are genetic throwbacks and they had normal human looking parents.

  10. Parent sounds like a Troll on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 3, Informative

    Safari does indeed have tabbed browsing and pop up blocking. Not sure what you mean by ad blocking. Also the case for Orwellian design seems kind of weak to me. If you don't like it then don't buy it.

  11. Already happening on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1
    I recall seeing a show about a city that labeled a really nice neighborhood that had a great view as "blighted" so that they could demolish the homes of the retirees and build "condos".

    They also showed how one guy in Arizona managed to get the city to give him some other guy's property because he wanted to relocate his business to a busier corner.

    These people are scoundrels!

  12. Re:Business Model? on Coming Soon, The Google Translator · · Score: 1

    How about licensing it to the government to aid in the war on terror? I understand that Arabic translators are a scarce resource in the military, CIA, etc.

  13. You Are An EVIL Man! on Spielberg & Lucas Approve Indy 4 Script · · Score: 1
    and should be stopped at all cost!!! ;)

    That line about replacing Ford with Affleck is the funniest thing I've seen in a couple of days.

  14. Re:Ebert's just one of many on Roger Ebert Answers Star Wars Questions · · Score: 1
    convince him that it would be really cool if he made the prequels using ONLY 1978 technology.
    you know...that actually kind of sounds like a cool idea....
  15. Really? on Another Star Wars Prequel? · · Score: 1
    As a side note, I'd really like to see a script from Kevin Smith. Given a free reign (and a ban from using his friends as cast members)he could write the Starwars adventure we all think we remember.
    Why would you think that? When I think of Kevin "great director" doesn't come immediately to mind. Perhaps that guy who did Memento and is currently doing Batman would be a much better choice?
  16. Not hot, but kind of cute. on How Battlestar Galactica Killed TV · · Score: 1

    Being hot isn't everything after all.

  17. Re:George Lucas's wealth on The Star Wars Money Machine · · Score: 1
    "It means he can afford to make a movie that is not well recieved w/o it ending his career. "

    But that's nonsense. He's been able to make any movie that he wanted to make since the 80s since he has vast sums of money.

  18. Gee...Han Solo tried to kill Vader with a blaster on The Feasibility of Star Wars Tech · · Score: 1
    but look at what happened. Vader simply Force'd the blaster out of his hand.

    I imagine if someone did have a grenade then the jedi would simply flick it away with their mind.

  19. Re:Maybe he got it right... on Newest Star Wars Reviews Suprisingly Positive · · Score: 1

    "he never appears on talk shows or gives interviews"
    Wrong. He's been on 60 minutes at least twice.
  20. Chudnovsky Brothers, a cool mathematician on Pi: Less Random Than We Thought · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Check out this old story on the Chudnovsky brothers. They computed PI to billions of digits using their own home brew supercomputer.

    In case, you find that interesting, here is a more recent article on their exploits.

    Capturing the Unicorn

  21. Re:Joel on Software on Comments are More Important than Code · · Score: 1
    "It's harder to read code than to write it."

    Yeah, exactly. That's why every frick'n programmer in the world *thinks* that other people's code is crap. It may be true some of the time but it's not true all of the time.

  22. See Also Bogdanov Affair on Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference · · Score: 1

    Physics may be in the same kind of trouble. A couple of years ago they got suckered by the Bogdanov brothers who got a couple of Ph.Ds based probably on a whole lot of nonsense.

  23. Fermat's Last Theorem: The Proof on The End of Mathematical Proofs by Humans? · · Score: 1
    If you feel up to it, you can read Andrew Wiles' Proof here:

    http://www.bhargav.com/books/Math/Fermats_Last_The orem_WILES.pdf

    I think that the best explanation that I've seen regarding Fermat's famous comment about the margin being too small was that he did indeed think that he had proved it and later realized that he hadn't. The reason for thinking that this is true is that Fermat had a tendency to taunt his mathematical peers with theorems that he challenged them to prove. If he had solved the Last Theorem then undoubtedly he would have taunted some poor mathematician into trying to solve it!

  24. Re:Important point: on Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era · · Score: 1
    "By the way, I work for a bioinformatics company."

    So...does your company produce crappy software or good software?

  25. Re:G4/TechTV on Behind the Scenes At Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Discovery channel is a shadow of its former self. They used to actually show science programs. Now all of their programming is merely Hotrod this or that.