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  1. Re:patents and DNA on 50th Anniversary of DNA's Discovery · · Score: 2, Insightful

    hehe, and instead of percieving introns as useless, they could stick little (C) and (TM)'s in there! It could be called, DNA2.0

  2. Re:Income statement... on Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work · · Score: 1

    ah, but they could save money on the heating bills if each country store had enough to keep the place warm :)

    oh, and the converse is true as well -- the would spend more to keep the stores cool in places that it is hot all of the time

  3. Re:The age old question... on SQL Fundamentals · · Score: 1

    Ok, I've never said 'sequel' (like Star Wars ep. 2 is a sequel to ep. 1, both of which are prequils to eps. 4, 5 and 6). It's just S.Q.L. (you don't say issssbnn for ISBN).

    Anyhow .. just my opinions :)

  4. Re:Poincare Conjecture on A (Correct) Poincare Proof!? · · Score: 1

    *cough*plajorism*cough*

  5. Re:Thank You on Stopping NetBIOS Spam? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my school's subnets (all 5 of them) were included in an attack, but computing services hasn't shared the cure ... thanks (although I had it disabled on one computer, totally forgot about it until I got 3 of these spams)

  6. Re:Bush loves the idea! on Laptop Fuel Cells Approved For Air Carriage · · Score: 1

    yeah, just make sure to keep a few boxes of black licorice around ... just incase :)

  7. Re:37? on 37 Operating Systems, 1 PC · · Score: 1

    i don't mean to feed here, but just had to reply because he mentioned GEOS ... which I used on my commodore 64 way back :)

  8. Re:It'll take Engineer in a box 3.0 at least... on Engineer in a Box? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not to continue the Windows analogy, but Engineer-in-a-box 2.0 is codenamed Engineer-in-a-box 1.0 RC2 SP5 ... but only if 'they' get their hands on it ... (let the paranoia begin)

  9. Re:What will happen after the Megapixel race? on 13.8MP Kodak Tops Previously Leaked Canon · · Score: 1, Informative

    can't remember where i was reading it -- but the chemical process used in photoreactive film for 35mm film would take something like 40 - 45 megapixels to duplicate ...

    mind you that's not a reasonable facsimile, that is supposed to be a genuine reproduction of the amount of data in a silver chrystals on the film

    on a side note -- this is a very interesting article all about digital photography and its limits.

  10. Re:it all depends on on Advertising on a Free Wireless Network? · · Score: 0

    another idea that you could do is, show this advertisement to the clerk, get a discount ... e-cupons per se

    but, a downtown wireless network sounds very useful while getting lunch

  11. Re:Difference between MP3z and "Illegal Music" on Making and Detecting Illegal Music · · Score: 0

    50,000 possibile melodies? pfft

    your own link [everything2.com] has a post about the possibile melodies, and it concludes (among other things) that there are quire a few more than 50,000 possibile melodies (and if there were so few, the could be very easily categorized, and music would not appeal to the wide range of people that it does!)

    as the point of this post was the legality, 3 - 4 notes thing ... well, think of many classical music pieces -- subtle but many have portions that are very similar to others (maybe in a different key or octave, but are still very similar) even though their copyrights have unduly run out (anyone can make a recording of "Ode to Joy" of they want -- it's completely legal.

    as for the 'how can anyone write music' -- the possibilities of combinations are not endless, but are so high that to reuse something exactly would likely be intentional.

  12. Re:C: A Dead Language? on A Better Breed of GPS Software? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is this even remotely close to on topic for the 'baby cam, gps' post?

    not to even broach your subject ... but...

    why would any open source user use C#?! It's a language 'create' by micro$oft! and, you need the common runtime library for it anyway

    and don't link your whole post

  13. Re:Goodbye UPN... on Wireless Network or Weird Al? · · Score: 1

    ah, but if you have the broadband, and a decent isp ... you can get those all important eps anyways ... often better-than-broadcast quality (SVCDs for example).