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  1. Re:so what? on Will FCC Regulate Internet Phone Calls? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's always the option of cutting BOTH military and social programs. Have you ever considered that?

  2. Re:neuros have had the same features for a while on Rio Karma 20GB Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, from what I've been seeing lately it doesn't look like it's perfect, but I think the fact that they've released a Linux sync program and I can get one for $200 may be enough reason to get one for me. When I really think about it Ogg playback isn't really a big deal to me and the other features are really more interesting. I don't even really need to use the FM broadcast feature since my car has an aux jack.

  3. Re:What on Red Sea Urchins Nearly Immortal · · Score: 1

    I've heard people say that sharks don't get cancer. I always thought that this was probably bullshit but this page seems to have actual evidence that sharks at least have an extraordinarily low rate of cancer.

  4. Re:neuros have had the same features for a while on Rio Karma 20GB Reviewed · · Score: 1

    You can get them for about $200 now. Ogg Vorbis support is in beta and unfortunately it disables MP3 playback. However, they say the stable release will support both. Don't know why they disable MP3 playback except maybe that they want people to test the Vorbis playback as much as possible.

    The Linux sync program has hit 1.0 though.

  5. Re:Over hyped on History Of The King Of Fighters Explored · · Score: 1

    There are lots of moves, but anyone can walk up and start mashing buttons and figure things out. Most of the moves are relatively simple and can be learned through experimentation (Maxi is an exception to this and the difficulty of learning him is yet another reason not to play him). The internet guides are only there to help refine your understanding once you've gotten the hang of a character.

    In Soulcalibur the focus is on predicting and preparing for your opponent's next move while at the same time trying not to let your opponent predict your own move. Practicing sub-second timings is less important than playing against other people and observing how they play.

  6. Re:Over hyped on History Of The King Of Fighters Explored · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll take Soulcalibur any day. Of course, maybe that's just because I could never stomach learning endless combo lists.

  7. Re:so this is basically... on World's Oldest Puzzle Solved · · Score: 1

    Dude, it's four colors not three.

  8. Re:GameCube Deals on Bargain Videogame Tips For Holidays? · · Score: 1

    It's not actually Lovecraft-based but it is without a doubt Lovecraft-inspired.

  9. Re:How about normal CDs? on CD-R Lifespan - Is It The Label? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Parchment can last longer than that if you take proper care of it. You might need to design a special printer to use it. My suggestion would be to have thousands of monks make copies of your data.

  10. This is wonderful news! on Gold Beads Can Fight Cancer, Too · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'll just make bracelets out of gold beads and sell them to cancer patients for 10 times my cost. I'm sure I can convince plenty of people that "nanoscopic" means a quarter of an inch in diameter.

    Hell, I doubt anyone will notice if I just sell them brass beads. I'm going to be rich!

  11. Re:revolution on Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a math student and I hope to write my own textbook some day. Not because I'll get royalties for it, but because I want to make it cheap and fill it with curse words. That's the way text books should be.

  12. Re:Two Points on Dutch Win World Solar Car Challenge · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone thinks that solar power will ever be viable in the UK.

  13. Re:bravo, jongens! on Dutch Win World Solar Car Challenge · · Score: 1

    There used to be formal and informal forms of the second person pronoun in English but now the informal one, "thou," is considered archaic.

    It's still useful to know that "thou" is informal and "you" is formal when reading Shakespeare. For example, Cassius addresses Brutus as "you" when he's talking to him, but after he leaves he uses "thou" to refer to him.

  14. Re:So, the right one? on Ridiculous Game Character Names Exposed · · Score: 1

    The Monkey Kong one seems less plausible to me. How the hell does something go into production without someone who knows what the name is supposed to be looking at it?

    The mistranslation thing seems more reasonable when you cansider that Japan is a country with a knack for mangling foreign languages.

  15. Re:Hrm... on Nintendo Top Japanese Game Charts · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've heard that you can install an NES emulator and a good many games on one of these. There's an emulator here

  16. Re:"how" finite is it? on Man Vs Machine In Chess - Who Is Winning? · · Score: 1

    Large or not, it's still finite. In fact, it's rather pitiful as far as large numbers go. You want to see a really large number? Take a look at the best known upper bound on Graham's number.

  17. Re:Gator and Zuvio on What's Wacky with Google? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    THe text was probably generated something like this

  18. Green on GameSpy's 25 Most Underrated Games · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Reading Gamespy just reminds me that I hate the color green. It's almost as bad as the colors for the logo for the Slashdot games section.

    It reminds me of all of the themes for various things that look like this.

    I've never understood why they chose such a garish color scheme for the X-Box either.

  19. Re:False? on Earthstation5 Responds to Malware Claims · · Score: 1

    I've never actually gotten any fake files on Kazaa. It's probably due to what I listen to, but it is proof that Kazaa can still be useful.

  20. Re:Eric Raymond too on Merrill Lynch Rips Sun · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I stopped caring about his opinion a long time ago.

  21. Re:Prediction on The "Spider Case" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Technically that wouldn't really be during his life.

  22. Re:I don't even care if it's a movie on Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children Revealed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't give a fuck about Aeris.

  23. Re:question on Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbps · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, of course bzip2 isn't ideal. There are better ways to measure the entropy of a text.

    The way Shannon did it was to take the text and show it to a person one character at a time. Before you show the next character you ask the person to guess what it is and record the number of guesses it takes to get it right. When Shannon performed this experiment, he ignored case and punctuation, however, including them would not impact the entropy by much. Using this technique, Shannon obtained an estimate of 1.3 bits per character for the entropy of Jefferson the Virginian by Dumas Malone.

  24. Re:wrong on Bob Barr Weighs In On Trusted Computing Group · · Score: 1

    Yeah right.

  25. Re:Name for the metal on New Metal That's Full of Holes · · Score: 1

    I recall hering that the name adamant means hardest and that originally it referred to something other than diamond. So if we can make a material harder than diamond we can call it adamantium.