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  1. Re:seems a very expensive way on World's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Island · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hydrogen is a mobile energy container. Immobile energy containers can be much more efficient. The best thing I can thing of is gravitional energy: pump water to a higher place. Moving up a solid away from the earth is even more efficient, but can't be scaled up nicely. Some sort of huge elevator would be very efficient, but rather small scale.

  2. parallel universes on Spintronics May Lead to Quantum Microchips · · Score: 1

    quantum computing?
    we already have that:
    fork()

  3. Re:Parhelia Shots : Come and get'em here.. on Matrox Parhelia 512 Preview · · Score: 1

    That sink is there to make the thing look cool.

    In fact, this is a pretty hot hardware card.

  4. Re:Information wants to be free on AOL-Time/Warner's PVR to Skip Ad-Skipping · · Score: 1

    For fiction series, it's possible to use a banner ad. Of this could be blocked quite easily, but it would take some effort.

    Also the advertisement blocks could be shortened to 15 seconds, or have a varying length, invalidating the 'skip n seconds' button.

    It's impossible to make a machine that can block all advertising. I repeat that the commercial channels should not complain. They can easily circumvent cirumvention devices.

  5. Re:Information wants to be free on AOL-Time/Warner's PVR to Skip Ad-Skipping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Advertisement blocks can be replaced by advertising during a show. In a show, the actors could wear certain clothing, use certain cars, eat certain foods. The appearance of products in shows could be sponsored by companies. I'm sure this is occuring to a certain extent right now, but it could easily be more, avoiding the need for commericial blocks.

    This type of advertising cannot be filtered (easily), so the stations can stop complaining about people blocking commercials. They have an easy alternative.

  6. Re:I'll buy one... on Sony PCG-U1 · · Score: 1

    Now we know why they make these things smaller all the time.

  7. Noicvre, buiut././/. on Sony PCG-U1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    tjhe kleybpoard ois a vbit as,mall

  8. 256 MB? No way! on Linux Web Browsers Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    While all of the browsers run surprisingly fast on slower CPUs, you need 256MB of RAM for Red Hat 7.2 with the KDE desktop.

    This is nonsense.
    198 MB is enough to work comforably.

  9. Re:Element of Surprise on Nature's Building Blocks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It'll explode!

  10. Element of Surprise on Nature's Building Blocks · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Don't pee on Cesium.

  11. Re:Dangerous Game on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1

    Wrong again.

    The court case was about abuse of their monopoly position. Monopolies _do_ have stricter rules to adhere to: they are not allowed to abuse their power. Companies without monopoly are allowed to abuse this power, since they don't have that power anyway.

    Microsoft has been convicted. This case is about the penalty. Microsoft claims the penalty will hurt them. They say modularizing is too much of an effort and it will give an unfair advantage to their competition.

    But of course that is the entire idea of the demand to modularize.

  12. Re:But you can change the browser on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1
    This will _not_ work.
    And whoever modded this up, is very likely to be harmed by the wonderful e-mail virusses that say:
    If you have the file mshtml.dll in you computer you have been infected, remove it immediately and tell you friens about it.
  13. Re:Dangerous Game on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1
    No, the strategy you suggest, would be to make an OS module and Desktop Environment module. But then a courtcase could result in this:

    MIT CS prof Stuart Madnick, testifying on MS's behalf, was caught out twice when a government attorney asked him to name a Desktop Environment (other than one made by Microsoft) where the browser couldn't be removed.

    And again the correct answer would be: there is no other.
  14. Re:The most popular prof... on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 5, Informative

    Konqueror has many functionalities, all modularized in socalled parts.
    If you want to remove the browser from KDE, you can remove the KHTML part. The rest of the functionality will remain intact.

  15. Re:IE is just a shell on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1

    It's easy.

    see here:
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32008&c id=3450 588

  16. basic scripting on OpenOffice.org Team Releases Version 1.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is even support for Basic in OpenOffice!

    It's pretty good, although the documentation could be better.
    Oh well, just look for examples on the web.

  17. Re:Not many drawbacks on Downsides to the C++ STL? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what #include is for? The whole using keyword seems useless to me. Unless there would be a stopusing.

  18. Re:How far can you lean forward? on Segway Getting Real-Life Tests · · Score: 1

    The two gyroscopes in the bike keep you from falling. But if you really want to fall, you can probably find a way.

  19. Re:Mandrake 8.2 also shipping... on SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, still StarOffice 5.2.
    Source: The SuSE 8.0 Professional box on my desk.

  20. Re:in 2 weeks... on SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping · · Score: 1

    Yes they do. As a matter of fact, the upgrade versions, are simply the complete distro without all the books. So if you can read slashdot, you can probably buy the upgrade version and install it without problems. It's half the price.

    Of course, as a good slashdot reader, you best support this nice distro and buy the full version. ;^)

    Or just buy the SuSE upgrade and buy Mandrake with the money you saved. They can use the money because of their delayed boxed distribution distribution.

  21. Got it! on SuSE 8.0 Now Shipping · · Score: 1

    It just arrived by mail today. I can't wait to try it.

    I'm especially keen on seeing how they added Sun Gridware to the distro.

    The 8.0 has me a bit puzzled: they still compiled everything with gcc 2.95.3.

  22. Re:Kazaa Lite on General Public Realizes KaZaa is Spyware · · Score: 1

    They've been cured quickly. Now it says:

    Warning: Too many connections in /home/virtual/site2/fst/var/www/html/nuke/pnado db/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 106

    Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /home/virtual/site2/fst/var/www/html/nuke/pnado db/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 106
    mysql://kazaalite:@localhost/kazaalite_nuke failed to connectToo many connections

  23. Re:It's a speed demon on Perlbox: A Unix Desktop Written in Perl · · Score: 2, Informative

    The speed should be comparable to JOS (Java Operating System).

  24. Re:Which is what in comparison? on Music 20 Cents a Track in India · · Score: 1

    There's a huge difference between 25 cents here and 25 cents in India.

    Not for the artist and not for the label! For them it's only 25 cents. They won't make more money because the average income in India is low.

    Strange logic.

  25. Re:Free reg. on Words That Speak a Thousand Pictures · · Score: 1

    does not work for me