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  1. Re:egads on Build Your Own Model B-52 · · Score: 1
  2. Re:I'm not a game programmer on Trying Your Hand at Level Design? · · Score: 1

    You're not the first person that I've heard say that very same thing.

    Still, there are plenty of people willing to pay $120 to $180 per year if the cost is broken up into 12 monthly subscription fees.

  3. Re:Security cameras... on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is for my own's sake. I trust my children. I don't trust yours.

  4. Re:Security cameras... on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    Oh... I've been there, done that and eventually pulled my oldest out of a public school and then placed him in a private school.

    In his third year at the private school (a Christian school), he was "sexually harassed" by one of the teachers during regular school hours. We filed a report with the police. The teacher was investigated and charged with multiple offenses and ultimately plead guilty, and now is the proud recipient of the permanent "sex offender" award.

  5. Re:Security cameras... on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    When you have children, go assert your "authority" at a public school. Short of removing them and finding another a school, you're virtually powerless to do anything.

    Good luck.

  6. Re:Security cameras... on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    The ability to parent isn't the issue. It's the inability of the school to keep track of their charges and also the sometimes worriesome fact that I didn't raise the other 99% of the children there.

  7. Re:Security cameras... on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    Are you watching your children while they are at school?

  8. Re:Security cameras... on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    Right... did your parents follow you around at school?

  9. Re:Security cameras... on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    Allow it? As a parent, I endorse it.

  10. Have to remember on Take Back Your Time! · · Score: 1

    Prosperity and success aren't the same thing.

  11. Re:It's a matter of timing on Supreme Court Will Hear Pledge of Allegiance Case · · Score: 1

    According to a June 26-27 Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll, 83% of Americans disagree with the decision, while only 12% approve.



    Hmmm... according to a Fox News Opinion Poll. That's nice... According to this study, the Fox News audience isn't exactly well informed.

  12. Re:R-A-I-D?!?! on Anniversary of the First Computer Bug · · Score: 1

    It's not "sword" it's "S" words for 600, Alex. :)

  13. Re:RIAA discovers cure worse than disease on RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics · · Score: 1

    Right... the majority of users by blank CDs for nothing but music.

    Seems difficult to believe, IMHO.

  14. Re:Still don't know what to buy on RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't work for me... I've got an entire pile of CDs that I liked the moment I heard. These are collecting dust.

    The true favorites, the ones that I play decades after the release, are the ones that I had to grow to like.

  15. Looks nice, but... on Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Can it simulate this?

  16. Re:What are your favorite flight sim games? on Junji Hirayama 's Home Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    I also spend a few hours a week flying WWII combat sims, specifically Aces High. In addition, I spend a little time flying FS2K2 simply because it's different. Rather than focus on fighting, with FS I enjoy other challenges, navigation, route-finding, etc.

    The newer versions of FS all have a very nice GPS simulator, but I really try not to use it. Navigation via VOR and/or NDB is much more challenging.

  17. Re:Who cares really... on The State of the Game Console Wars · · Score: 1

    I bet they thought it was impossible to patent one-click shopping too.

  18. Re:Wrong Discussion, Bozo on EFF Coordinates Fight Against DirecTV · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering what privacy rights DirecTV violated in determining that you made a legitimate purchase of legal equipment from a legal vendor.

    Something stinks.

  19. Re:Oh, come on on EFF Coordinates Fight Against DirecTV · · Score: 1

    A nit, yes, but nits need to be picked lest they grow into full-blown flies.



    I think you mean LICE.

  20. Re:Profiteer! on Real Money Inside in MMORPGs? · · Score: 1

    It's a pretty weak argument comparing the sale of virtual stuff with war profiteering.

    LOL

  21. Re:The article is crap on The Myth of Radio Spectrum Interference · · Score: 1

    - Two transmitters in two different places, but with an overlapping range, both broadcast on the same frequency.

    - A receiver is halfway between the two transmitters and so within range of both.



    Hmmm... Haven't you just described GPS?

  22. Re:Interesting thing about radio signals on The Myth of Radio Spectrum Interference · · Score: 1

    hehe... that and stop saying nook yoo ler in the oval office...

  23. Re:Ender's game on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 1

    Software doesn't kill people. People kill people.

  24. Re:I agree but I'll add more on Salon on Gollum's Failed Oscar Nomination · · Score: 1

    FWIW, I think you're half right. They still do compulsories. There just not compulsory figures.

  25. Re:I agree but I'll add more on Salon on Gollum's Failed Oscar Nomination · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, but you're wrong.



    Figure skating gets its name from the Compulsory Figures (also known as School Figures) skaters did in competition up until 1990. When a skater competed in Compulsory Figures, he/she would trace a set pattern on the ice, such as the ever-popular Figure 8. To make matters more difficult, the skater had to skate the Figure using a prescribed part of the blade (such as the forward inside edge of the left skate, but more on that later). After the Figure was completed, judges would get off their fat butts and squat down on the ice to check the tracing and see how close it came to perfection. They took points off if the tracings didn't match the set pattern (if the skater went too far before turning, for example) and if there were additional tracings caused by putting the other foot down or wobbling. As you could probably imagine, Compulsory Figures did not exactly make for compelling television, and they were eliminated in 1990.



    Source: http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/skating/skatin g.html#para1.1