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  1. Re:Answer is easy. on Americans Are Seriously Sick · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this also scews the results as Americans are more likly to pretend to be sick to compensate for this.

  2. Re:Extremely Cost-prohibitive to use on First Neutron Pulse from SNS · · Score: 1

    Yea I live in Tally. I'm not completly sure about my answer (took a lot of googling) but I got it from this.
    http://www.facuflorida.com/Newsletters/FACUNewsLet ter7_05.pdf
    Which states (bottom right of page 5)
    "The Universtity has finalized an agreement with the city of Tallahasee regarding electricity rates to the Mag Lab. The bottom line is $18 million for the city, and a lower rate for FSU."

  3. Re:Pokari Sweat on Developers React To 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    So the Wii is intended to balance your body from what? Exactly....

  4. Re:Next Up On Slashdot on Developers React To 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    All of this can be avoided luckily by a massive marketing campain. Nintendo stated that most customers don't know what a PS3 or Xbox360 is. So if they can come into the stores ASKING for a Wii, intead of just asking for a game system. They have won.

    Not that I trust Nintendos marketing department right now.

  5. Re:What a Constructive Mentality! on Developers React To 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    Let the developers (and leaders of developers) proclaim to the world just how stupid this name is so that not only does the public think it's stupid, so do the developers.

    I think thats the point. Nintendo will NOT listen to the fans on this one, because they figure they will get over it. But they might listen to the developers who will say. "I refuse to market a game as 'exclusivly for the Wii'". Nintendo might listen to that and change their name.

  6. Re:Extremely Cost-prohibitive to use on First Neutron Pulse from SNS · · Score: 1

    Umm I'm sure at that usage rate you would get a bulk rate. FSU pays $18 million a year for electricity for its Mag Lab, and that isn't scaring away anyone.

  7. Re:Whilst I understand.... on DARPA Grand Challenge 3 · · Score: 1

    Sorry, what I was trying to say was that we shouldn't expect self driving cars to be able to drive small streets yet. Eventually maybe, but yes, small steps.

  8. Re:Hardly fair... on DARPA Grand Challenge 3 · · Score: 1

    Good point. I was thinking that these cars should have radio communication AND the ability to use/recognize blinkers, etc. But if you assume that all communication you will receive will be minimal (ie drive like everyone might do something unexpected) your overall success in dealing with problems will be greater. Still would love to see an communication system between cars.. Many are the days I've seen a wreck about to happen that the drivers couldn't see and WISHED there was some effective way I could have communicated to them.

  9. Re:Fuck? on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    Hhehe actually it was kids bop 3 (bought it for my kid) itunes had a 30 song album for 19.98 walmart had an 18 song album for 9.44. I can understand them not wanting to sell 30 songs for this price, but they could atleast be clear about it and or offer to let me buy the entire album.. but no.

  10. Re:Still sucks for artists. on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    Well they did charge half the price as well.
    Actually it was Kids Bop 3 (bought it for my kid to burn to a cd for her birthday)
    Walmart had the album listed with 18 songs for 9.44
    itunes has the entire album with 30 songs for 19.98.
    I wanted walmart to give me a refund so I could turn around and buy the entire album from itunes, walmart sayed they were sorry but thats the listing of songs provided to them by the record company, they don't have the other songs. I asked that for other peoples benefits if they could label these "albums" as not the full album so that others won't be tricked. They wouldn't do it.

    Anyways I guess I could call them as you can look up and see this fact for yourself, I wonder if there is an easy way to find other albums they do this to.

  11. Re:Do they have to... on DARPA Grand Challenge 3 · · Score: 1

    Be able to pay Tolls. Umm its called easypass.

  12. Re:Hardly fair... on DARPA Grand Challenge 3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because if your follow the basic rules of the road (and have cameras at all blind spots) these things are easy. What concerns me is that this being a challenge teams won't work together which means that the cars will not have a universal set of rules for communicating, something really essential in autonomous cars.
    (IE a radio network in which cars can say, I'm turning left, or I'm about to change into the left lane) Sure these cars will have blinkers as well, but that hugely ineffective compared to the preformace you get can when the cars can communicate.

  13. Re:Whilst I understand.... on DARPA Grand Challenge 3 · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to bet these streets will be filled with drones or atleast stunt drivers will rollcages. They arn't going to run this experiment on an open street. Atleast I hope not!!

    Either way I wonder if these teams will be allowed to use the existing lane following/adaptive cruise control technology that exist in some of the highend cars (yes I know lane following doesn't exist in the US right now, but the technology does exist)

  14. Re:Whilst I understand.... on DARPA Grand Challenge 3 · · Score: 1

    So you expect a chess playing computer to play calvin ball (ie rule changes spontaniously in the game) Most AI can't handle this, as most self driving cars in the future still won't be able to handle these things. What you will have are cars that self drive only on well marked roads, perferably with GPS indicators of what these roads are. You will be forced to manually drive small narrow roads.

  15. Re:Still sucks for artists. on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 2, Informative

    Umm because Walmart takes out $.24 instead of $.35 duh.

    Either way I once bought an album off walmarts online site and realized that it was missing almost 1/3 of the songs (sure it listed the song before I bought but I didn't realize what was on it till I compared later to itunes). Called and complained they told me to stuff it essentially. Never buying from them again.

  16. Re:I want what comes next on Netflix vs. Blockbuster Revisited · · Score: 1

    3 or 4 dvds a week is still 12-16 a month. renting 12 dvds a month at a brick and mortor would cost you 40 dollars at least.

  17. Re:Location via Google Maps on World's Largest Pyramid Discovered in Bosnia? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Ok I know there are pyramids that sit directly on the equator but +43 seems a bit off the equator...

    I assume your just making a joke conerning any line between two points on earth drawn in both directions will bisect..

  18. Re:Another way to do it on Scientists Make Water Run Uphill · · Score: 1

    Thats why its pointless, a heat source and a tube will make water flow up as well. Big freaken deal :)

  19. Re:Innoculations? on Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    They didn't just replace them. They sold them to the military at half the price :'(
    So what??
    1. This study was eventually invalidated and the link is still up in the air. As a caution they took them off the market.
    2. Mercury has a much larger effect on infant than adults (obviously) a small dose of mercury (there is an extremly small amount in one dose akin to eating a few fish) to an adult should have no effect whatsoever.

  20. Re:Name reminds me of AC's Wi Flag on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 1

    Well then read the links. Either way yes the bug is dependant upon your user ID being small and your user ID is a hashed number based upon your name.

  21. Re:title misleading on Verizon Ruling May Tax Dial-Up Customers · · Score: 1

    But whats sick is Verizon also wants back pay for the year that this company was using the loophole. And Verizons bullshit about "this is entirly the companies fault, not ours".

    Telephone companies are bad about charging outragious fees and expecting people to pony up.. /Where I work we recently expanded into a space that had a lot of old sprint equipment left there by previous tenents we asked sprint to remove it. They did and now want $2K without our approving for such work to be done.

  22. Re:DSL Lines on Verizon Ruling May Tax Dial-Up Customers · · Score: 1

    And you believed them???

  23. Re:such sweet irony on Rockers Sue Sony Over Download Royalties · · Score: 1

    And the only people willing to fund something like that are companies like Sony. Whats funny is all of those funds come out of royalties and not Sonys cut. The artist gets a loan from sony to pay recording cost, advertising, and living like a rockstar money. They are then expected to pay all this back off tiny royalties..

  24. Re:News from CNN on Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    Weird, I swear it had quotes around it when I first read it.. Now it doesn't.. HMM wayback machine has nothing to say on the subject! :)

  25. Re:Igor international? on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 1

    I know they will have mature titles, I'm just saying that I would hate to have to market something a mature as "exclusivly for the Wii"