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  1. This is how The TRANSFORMERS were created on Latest Animatrix Short Released · · Score: 1

    Isn't this how The Transformers were created. Thier creators, the Quintessons created simple robot servants. The servants were then later modifed to become a work force of both soldier and worker. Later, these machines became sentient and demanded rights. These machines then overthrew their creators and were the masters of their down destiny. The Transformers were not greater or more important than thier creators.

  2. Re:Two words...What about the ceramic?? on AMD: No Grease For You! · · Score: 1

    It's easy getting AS II or III off of the CPU die, but what about getting it off of the wafer. Sometimes, as I try to smooth out the goop to get a thin smooth layer it falls of the edge. I use something my pocket knife to get it off, but still, I might bump it on the ceramic and get some on the sides. I can take the AS off the ceramic wafer, but it leaves a stain that I cannot get off. I use detergent, rubbing alcohol, and nail polish remover. What will get it off?? Maybe WD-40??

  3. Re:PINKO on Darth Vader Sculpture on Washington National Cathedral · · Score: 1

    Ummm, the game's name in PLINKO ! ! ! ! ! You forgot the 'L', and yes, it is my favorite Price-Is-Right game.

  4. Reason why these dictatorship always fail... on Krawtchouk's Mind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It just goes to show you how/why these countries always fails are in BIG trouble. Germany lost the war because they executed all of the smart people. China had thier cultural revolution and sent every smart person to prison where most died. Vietnam had their execution of their smartest people. Same thing with Iraq and Afghanistan, the smart people where smart enough to get the HELL OUT of there. What's left? The stupid people! It shows today. Russia collapsed in a big implosion under it's own weight.

    It's no wonder you didn't see more people walking around with helmets on trying to wipe the drool off of thier faces. HA HA HA!

  5. Now we can make better porn movies! on First HDTV Camcorder · · Score: 1

    I guess the average person can make excellent amateur porn movies.

  6. Another case of "the future is now" on The Rights of GM Humans · · Score: 1

    Yep, just when you think something in sci-fi was not possible, now we are actively talking about it like it was a possibility in reality. I'm sure when the Khan episode of Star Trek, they thought that genetically modified humans were possible, but not in their lifetimes, or hundreds of years from now. Who would have thought that it was possible right around the corner and that we better make some rules about it right now while pandora's box is still closed.

  7. Re:How Would I Move Mount Fuji? USE VBA on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1

    dim objMt as new object
    dim objMtFuji as new MtFuji

    set objMt = objMtFuji
    set objMtFuji = Nothing

  8. I think I'm watching Tivo when I'm someplace else on Rabid TiVo Fanaticism · · Score: 1

    After getting used to Tivo, you will find yourself trying to fast-forward a friends television or the movie screen when you are at the theaters. FUNNY!!!! How many of YOU have done the SAME thing?? HA HA HA!!

  9. Re:Tivo owner... (Even my wife can use it) on Rabid TiVo Fanaticism · · Score: 1

    When I sat my wife down in front of Windows ME for the first time, she was freaked when the first error dialog box showed up. She was even kind of afraid of the mouse. She HATES computers, but is slowly coming around. When our neighbors bought a Tivo, my wife wanted me to take a look at it after visiting them. I was like "Yeah, yeah, I'll go over and see it one of these days." It was a long time later then I went over. WOW! As an UberGeek I was thrown for a loop and flabbergasted. A few weeks later after doing research after research I bought my 30 Hour Tivo from Ebay. My transaction went smooth and "Tivo changed my life". Since then I've upgraded my Tivo hard drive to 80 GB and I'm thinking of getting a second one for the bedroom.

    EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET A TIVO! IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!!

  10. Re:For FREEEDOM! on Rabid TiVo Fanaticism · · Score: 2, Funny

    Take your hands off my Tivo, YOU DIRTY APE !!!

  11. Re:rebates are NOT a total waste of time on Are Rebates Scandalous? · · Score: 1

    WINE?? I hope you're talking about WINE 3.0, the two bucks can go for the CDs it was burnt onto. MD 20/20 is pretty good for cheap LIKA'!

  12. Old news, but.... on "Time-Traveler" Busted For Insider Trading · · Score: 1

    This is OLD news. But I for one believe this guy. All they have to do is go with him to see if him time machine is real. If it is, ask him a few questions and let him go, if not, then take his ass back go jail. Simple as that.

    Or, we could just confiscate his time machine, see how it works and make profit.

    1) Find time machine.
    2) See how it works
    3) ???
    4) Profit !!!

  13. Re:More lies! on Novell to Make Linux Robust and Reliable · · Score: 1

    Lies! Your lie is a lie! Linux is great! Bill Gates will roast in hell and Linux will be great, with the blessing of Allah himself. All free people of the world, including free Iraqis, will be able to enjoy the freedom on Linux! Doe not repeat the lies of the devil Bill Gates!

  14. I LOVE MY PRONTO! on Philips iPronto Does It with Linux · · Score: 1

    I've had my Pronto TSU1000 for about 2 1/2 years now, and I LOVE IT! Sure, there are newer ones with more RAM and Color bitmap screens, but for a few hundred bucks per each device, I wont' be upgrading soon. It works fine. I can connect it to my PC to updates it (which, btw, I really need to do), and I even have a recharge docking station, so I never need to put batteries in.

  15. Re:So how do I fumble for it? on Philips iPronto Does It with Linux · · Score: 1

    Okay Fry...

    girlfriend likely leaning on other shoulder

    If you're watching LOTR, I don't think you'll be cool enough to have a, he he, actual girrrrlfriend, he he. Don't make me laugh. HA HA :D !

  16. !!WARNING!! Welcome to a police state ! on "Super-DMCA" Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    !!WARNING!! Welcome to a police state !

    You DO NOT have the right to:
    - Have a thought all your own. If you have a thought then you probably copyrighted it from someplace else, you owe us a royalty payment
    - Own a book, you can only rent from a pre-approved list authorized from the US Attorney General
    - A fair an impartial jury, you will be tried in a secret military tribunal.
    - Citizenship. Your US citizenship could be stripped from you when we feel like it.
    - Remain silent. We will harrass and tick you off until you tell us what we want to know, including by using sleep deprevation.
    - Privacy. We see, hear, and know everything about you, including what you do in those long showers you take.
    - Liberty. That was nice while it lasted.
    - Freedom. We own you. We give you the thought and feel of freedom, but we control.
    - Democracy. We actually give you an option of who to vote for, but it doesn't matter because we'll still control the politician with super whores.
    - Taxation with representation. We control the horizontal, we control the verticle, we also control the purse. Everytime we use a bomb, we need to replace it. We decide how much we get paid and how much you get to take home.

    Brought to you by the Ameri-Corp, USA. "The big brother that you always feard."

  17. Sliders on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't we take a lesson from television and build a cellphon slider control that creates some sort of wormhole. We can Slide to parallel dimensions.

  18. Re:Warez of course on Building a Town-Wide LAN? · · Score: 1

    Please don't give out the warez newsgroup. It's a secret, shhhhhhhhh!

  19. Re:Besides high-speed pr0n? on Building a Town-Wide LAN? · · Score: 1

    DANG! You took my post idea away. But, you could go to alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica or alt.binaries.multimedia.dvd and download to your heart's content all the video you could ever want/need.

  20. HDTV on Linux Media Jukebox on the Cheap · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about HD signals? I currently have Tivo, but is there another capture card that can take in HDTV?

  21. Re:Picture on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 1

    How much space will it take in my case? Will I have to use that water bong to dissipate heat? How much is it going to cost? Can't I buy the equipment and setup my own bubble cooler? How much $$$$??

  22. Ban snail main and e-mail from Nigeria on AOL Bans Mail From DSL-Hosted Servers · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about banning snail mail and e-mail from Nigeria with all those scams about laundering millions from military generals.

  23. Re:Wow on Tech Jobs Projected to Double by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Tostino's frozen pizza. Cheap and good.

  24. Re:Try this on Sharing MS-Access Databases, Efficiently? · · Score: 1

    I agree on webifying this with ColdFusion (I'm an expert with 8 years of CF experience under my belt), but it look like this guy is trying to get performance working better with the least amount of impact/work. On a previous post I have step by step directions to upgrade the data backend to SQL Server and then convert the front end to an ADP file and hooking it into SQL Server. CF would be excellent, but think of the time needed to re-create every form and business rule.

  25. Now You're talking my cup of soup!! Let's do it! on Sharing MS-Access Databases, Efficiently? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Okay, first thing first. This is running off of SAMBA. You need to upgrade these MDBs to SQL Server (standard). Don't argue, just do it. If your boss doesn't agree just point him to this slashdot posting and he'll get it.

    Next, you have to convert the Access file to an ADP (Access Data Project). When you create an ADP you can tell it to what database to connect to. This is GREAT when calling the 'connection' property, because now you don't have to create a connection to the SQL Server database each and everytime you want to do something. You just do this:

    Dim ADOrst as New ADODB.Recordset
    ADOrst.Open "sql statement", CurrentProject.Connection

    THAT'S IT! The biggest headache will be to convert DAO to ADO. It's worth it. Take a look at this link: http://www.msofficemag.net/features/2000/01/vba200 001sf_f/vba200001sf_f.asp. It will help. There are other sites, use Google, that will show you how you can use your DAO connection code and make it look like ADO, so it gives you time to actually do the manual recoding will keeping your users happy and connected. This is a short-term band-aid. You are still going to have to re-code to ADO, but is not that difficult.

    **BENEFITS OF ADP**: You will have the power to accesss views, stored procedures, tables, as if they were local. I was a bit scared when I couldn't use my queries in access, but I converted them to either views, but 85% of them were converted into stored procedures. They are a lot better, because know I just setup my stored procedures to accept variables, sql server does the grunt work for data crunching, and then my recordsets were returned back very quickly. Here is an example:

    dim rst as new ADODB.recordset
    rst.open "exec proc_stored_procedure_name " & variable1, CurrentProject.Connection
    If Not rst.BOF And Not rst.EOF Then
    rst.MoveFirst
    Do While rst.EOF = False
    {do something with the records}
    Loop
    End If

    You can use your stored procedures over and over again for different parts of the program without having to recreate the wheel everytime. I know you probably use queries or tables as lookup sources for drop-down boxes. Create a View or Stored Procedure and then set the controls "Row Source" property to the view or stored procedure. To do it programatically do this:

    cntrlDropDown.RowSource "proc_storedproc_or_view"

    That's it. You can also pass variables to the stored procedure and return the recordset to your control. In access I had a seperate query for each drop down box for hierarchy data, now I just have one stored procedure and pass it a variable to tell it what listing on the heirarchy I need.

    One major benefit of stored procedures is that they are cached and optimized on SQL Server without having the database having to optimize it every time it runs. It keeps the plan already and saves time there.

    Next, convert DAO to ADO. If you have something like this for DAO:

    Dim db As DAO.Database
    Dim rst as recordset
    Set db = CurrentDb()
    Set rst = db.OpenRecordset("sql statement")

    Then you should change it to this:

    Dim rst As ADODB.RecordSet
    rst.Open "sql statement", CurrentProject.Connection

    If you also have a recordset object, you just need to modify it like above. You can do away with the database object if you use the CurrentProject object. You no longer have to close the database object either since it was never created, but you still need to close the recordset object and set it to nothing, like so:

    rst.close
    Set rst = Nothing

    Everything should still work fine. One more note about using ADO. If you use the AbsolutePosition property, in DAO the value starts with 0 for the first record, in ADO it start with 1 for the first record. I have to learn that the hard way.

    I know ADPs are fairly new,